I'm really sad right now…. We just had our last basketball game of the season yesterday, and I feel like a loser cuz I started packing my gym bag with my basketball stuff and my practice jersey for tomorrow... FAAAAIIILLLL. But yeah, a little bit depressed cuz I'm gonna be sitting at home doing nothing after school tomorrow. But FF makes me feel better :)
So as promised, the second chapter of this story. I do warn you, I don't think it's very good, and the ending is a little abrupt, but that's my opinion, so read it and let me know yours!
It's been a year since Zach found me. And since then, I haven't had any tails, so I'm guessing he got my point across. I was leaving for another mission tomorrow, so I was cleaning out my apartment. I never stay somewhere for more than a year, and since I moved here a week after he came, I was about ready to leave.
I had one more thing to get rid of, and that was the couch. I was giving it to a neighbor across the hall, so I moved it to the door where the parents' two sons were going to come and get it. Aside from the various loose change, batteries, and junk where the couch used to be, there was also a spiral-bound notebook that I remembered throwing there after Zach left. I opened it to the first page, and read over the list I had compiled that night:
Memories and milestones from age 5 to present:
A list by Cammie Morgan.
5. How old I was when I found out what my parents real job was. (I thought they were lying)
6. Our house got blown up, and I finally believed that my parents weren't lying.
7. I got my black belt in Karate. (I also climbed Mt. Everest)
8. The first time I successfully used the Jankowski maneuver (you need Level 6 clearance to even HEAR the name.)
9. I discovered my uncanny ability to disappear and blend in. The Chameleon was born. (I snuck away from my parents at a mall after stealing my dad's wallet to go buy a shirt that I REALLY wanted.)
10. I knew how to speak 5 languages.
11. My dad disappeared (I found him)
12. I couldn't have a birthday party because my mom was in Malaysia looking for said father. (That's where they last found documentation of him.)
13. How old I was when I came to Gallagher.
14. My first mission. (That Macey, Bex, and Liz still don't know about.)
15. Fell in love with civilian. HUGE mistake.
16. Secret and thought-to-be-dead terrorist organization targets me. (Still don't exactly know why.)
16. Fell in love with secretive spy boy whose mother is head of said terrorist organization.
17. Ran away to find answers, while hiding from the COC.
18. Changed, emotionally and physically, after defeating COC. Said secretive spy boy found me. And as much as I wanted to kiss him forever and go home, I pushed him away. (IDIOT!)
I smiled as I read that last word. I haven't regretted the choices I've made over the past few years, but reading that makes me rethink. I left my family and former home because I was hurting, and didn't want to subject them to a lifetime of pain. But how is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow, when there's just no figuring out today? Why did I worry about their lifetime, when we don't know if we'll make it through the day?
I laugh as I go through the conversation we had in my head. I was such an idiot. I wasn't doing it to protect them, I was doing it to shield myself from more hurt. I wasn't living a life as a spy, I was living the life of a coward. But no more. With time, everything heals. And even though I'll never be exactly the same, I'm still Cammie. And I'm going back.
I picked up the phone and dialed a familiar number. While it was ringing, I added something else to the list.
19. I go home.
I threw the notebook in a random bag by the phone as I heard someone pick up on the other end.
"Community Impact Assessment Center, how may I direct your call?" A too-cheery voice said.
"Agent Cameron Ann Morgan, 0538124, Director please," I spouted out without even thinking about it.
"One moment," A more official voice said
"Hello?" A familiar voice said.
"Hey, Joe." I replied.
"Cammie? Aren't you getting ready for another FBI mission?"
"Not anymore. I'm coming home. Make sure everyone is at Gallagher, and don't tell them I'm coming." I smiled to myself.
"Okay, but why now?" He asked.
"Because it's taking me this long to find myself again. Just make sure everyone's there." I hung up before he got a chance to reply.
Next I called the airport to cancel my flight and get an earlier one to Richmond, Virginia. I arranged for a car to be waiting for me when I got there. My flight left in two hours, but since my bags were already packed, it wouldn't be a problem. By the time I got to the airport and checked all my baggage, it was boarding time.
When we landed, I arranged to have my bags delivered to Gallagher, and got in my car, a Ferrari Scuderia Spider 16M, definitely my style. I drove from Richmond to Roseville in an hour flat, and pulled into the gates of Gallagher after greeting bubble-gum guard, who looked a little bit surprised to see me.
When I walked in the front doors, I heard my mother talking in the dining hall, and heard her call up the new teachers to introduce themselves. Among the introductions, I picked out Bex, Liz, Grant, and Zach's voices. And when the introductions were over, I made my entrance.
I opened the dining hall doors and everyone turned towards me, and walking in tall and proud, I announced loudly, "And I am Cammie Morgan. And I'm home."
And for the first time ever, I saw Zachary Goode smile.
The quote in this chapter, "How is a person supposed to prepare for what happens tomorrow, when there's just no figuring out today," Is also by Jenny Ham, from another book of hers, 'Shug'.
Let me know what you thought!