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I leant down and helped the figure in black up. I raised an eyebrow, "Liz?"
"Oh my god, Cammie, is that you?" Liz screamed. I just nodded my head in a daze.
"But that must mean..." I trailed off and looked round at the other two, "Macey, Bex?" The girls pulled of their masks and ran over to hug me.
I heard someone clear their throat and looked over Bex's shoulder. It was Zach:
"Hey, Cammie, mind letting us know why you're so friendly with the three girls that just tried to kill us?" Jeesh, why do boys have to overreact to everything? I just rolled my eyes and said (as if it was the simplest thing in the world); "They're my best friends."
All four of the boys looked shocked - like literally mouths hanging wide open shocked. We each walked over to one of the boys and closed their mouths for them, then we said in unison: "Wouldn't want you catching flies now would we?" We all laughed at how in sync we were.
When the laughter stopped it was just awkward. I mean technically I did run away from Gallagher withouttelling them that I was leaving or where I was going but the girls' expressions turned from `excited to see me' to `we are so going to kill you for running away'. I only looked at them innocently.
The awkwardness stopped when Joe walked around the corner and casually guided (or herded might be a better word) towards Dr. Steve's office. I just ignored him as best I could.
"Take a seat ladies and gentlemen," Since there was only a couch and two chairs I stayed standing as well as Zach.
"I'm afraid that you girls being here is causing quite a stir back at Gallagher, do you mind me asking why you are here?"
Bex spoke up confidently: "To fetch Cammie of course!" Dr Steve glanced at me and I quickly shook my head but only he saw it.
"I'm afraid that that is not possible Ms Baxter, you see Cameron here is now a student at Blackthorne so it would be silly for her to go back to Gallagher."
The girls looked stunned but quickly turned to me and started yelling, the boys all winced but I tuned them out and stared at them as if they were boring me. Then I stood up and smoothed down my jacket.
"I can't come back – I'm sorry. I just... I just need to be alone for a while." I knew the girls would stay and that they wouldn't leave without me and it was sort of what I was hoping for but I did need to be alone to think about what was happening. That's another down side of being a spy, everyone expects you to always know what to say and do, when in reality you're just as clueless as everybody else.
No one followed me when I left Dr. Steve's office. I walked around the school aimlessly until I got bored and decided to head back to my room. I flopped down on my bed and closed my eyes. It was only about 10 O'clock in the evening but I was exhausted. I fell into another deep sleep, but unlike the first one I had at Blackthorne, it was riddled the terrors from my past that no one would ever want to relive.
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