Chapter 4

Zach POV

Another boring day at Blackthorne. It's no fun without Cammie. She was fun to tease and she was really hot. I miss her, a lot. Not that I was ever going to admit that. It was breakfast time at Blackthorne. Grant was sitting next to me,

"When will we see the Gallagher girls again? I really want to see Bex,"

I rolled my eyes. Grant was always saying that. Jonas saw me rolling my eyes and laughed.

"What?" asked Grant

"Nothing," I replied.

"Whatever," said Grant, not interested anymore

Dr. Steve walked up to the podium. He cleared his throat for the morning announcement. I didn't bother to listen. My mind wandered off. I was thinking about Cammie and her school. Wondering what they were doing now.

Cammie POV

I felt someone squeezing my throat, trying to close my airways. I kicked and punched. I didn't connect to anything, only air. After a few seconds I finally hit something hard. I felt the hands around my throat loosen. That was all I needed. I flipped that person over. I pulled off the bag from my head. I slapped a napotine patch to the guy lying next to me.

I was in Dr. Fibs room. I heard a loud bang come from the room next door, Mr. Smith's room. I ran in there. I found Bex face to face with four black guys. I jumped on one of them. Bex punched another.

"Cammie! Behind you."

I saw a guy charging at me. I threw a book at him. Hm, looks like COW does come in handy sometimes. I then heard a scream next to me. I saw the guy throw Bex into the wall, half way across the room. That must hurt. Anger was boiling inside of me. Rage was coming out. The guy was slowly coming towards me. I didn't give him a chance to strike me. I round house kicked his ass to the other side of the universe. I tied all of the guys up. Taped their mouths shut!

I ran over to Bex. I grabbed her hand. Her eyes flickered open and close.

"Bex? Bex!"

"Cammie?" she seemed dazed

"Yeah. Come on,"

She got up. Wincing she gripped her side. Ow, she must have some broken ribs. We ran down the halls. We met up with Liz and Anna. They said they were down the hall, tracking the bad guys. They were in Madame Dabney's room, trying to escape. Macey was there, stopping them.

We ran over and helped her. But these people weren't amateurs. They knew what was going on. One of them pulled out a gun and started to shoot at us. We dodged evenly. They put up a good fight, but not good enough. By the time they were knocked out, I had a swollen lip, probably some fractured ribs, a twisted ankle, and a throbbing arm. Bex, Liz, and Macey weren't in good condition either. Anna was running to get help. We half ran half limped to my mom's office. She was tied up and had a black eye. We untied her. She gave us strict directions to hop into a helicopter and call Blackthorne and the CIA.

She grabbed a bag from under her desk.

"I knew this would happen some day, so girls go to Blackthorne and contact the CIA right away. Take this bag with you. It has weapons and everything you need in case anything happens. Anna I want you to go help the 7th graders evacuate."

She ran out of the room. "Cammie, if anything happens, remember I always love you." I hugged my mom hard. Tears were running down my face. I didn't want to lose my mom. "I love you Cammie. Now go!"

"I love you too, Mom."

We ran to the helicopter, waiting outside of our school. Some of the bad guys were coming our way. We fought them off, barely. Once we were inside the helicopter, we realized there was no pilot. Looks like we'll be flying ourselves.

"Hey, guys," said Liz, "Do any of you know where Blackthorne is?"

That's when it dawned on us, none of us knew where Blackthorne was.