Sammie had told Mac about her parents. He was worried about it at first but she convinced him that it was ok. He told her that she wouldn't be allowed to do any missions near her old town and they would have to track her parents.

She asked if they could make sure no one knew about her parents and Mac agreed,

"I think that would be best, but some staff may have to know eventually. Oh, and you cannot speak of the book to anyone"

They were just finishing up their review of the test and finalising some details when Mac's secretary knocked and poked her head through the door, "James is here, sir."

Mac sighed, "James Adams. Send him in once Sammie is gone."
Sammie looked at Mac, "James Adams?"
"Yes, he hasn't handed in his history assignment or done his homework from 3 other classes. You should learn that discipline at CHERUB is tougher than other places. The sooner you learn that, the better. James knows that, but still causes trouble. I guess I'd better deal with him. You can go back up to your room and unpack, dinner is served soon. Welcome to CHERUB, Samantha." Mac shook her hand.

As Sammie left, she thought about what just happened. She was happy that she was a CHERUB but it that wasn't what was bothering her. James Adams. James. Adams. It couldn't possibly be... There would be more than one... As Sammie left, she looked at the James waiting outside. He looked nervous, running his fingers through his blond hair, his wide blue eyes looking right back at Sammie. She just started as she walked and only started watching where she was going once Mac's secretary said, "Welcome to CHERUB, Sammie."

Getting into the lift to go back up to her room, Sammie was in a daze. No. It Can't be. No. Was all she could think of. She snapped out of it as the elevator stopped on the third floor to pick up more passengers. She had forgotten which floor her room was on. She was about to get out of the lift when she bumped into Kerry.

"Oh, sorry!" Sammie said trying to focus on what she was doing. The lift doors closed before she could get out.

"It's ok," Kerry said, but then noticed her orange shirt, "I can't talk to you yet"

"Yeah you can, I'm staying here. I was just going up to my room to get changed, but I forgot which one is mine"

"I can show you, it's only three up from mine"

"Thanks... Kerry, right?"

"Yeah. Kerry Chang. Nice to properly meet you, Samantha...?" Sammie just stared at her

"Samantha Jennings. But I'm good with just Sammie."

"Ok. Sammie," Kerry smiled, "And I hope there are no hard feelings about the fight? You were better than most other recruits I've tested, it took two attempts to pin you." The lift stopped and they walked out.

"No, course not. I'm used to it. It is, I mean was, like that with my gymnastics. During trainings we're all great friends then during a competition we're opponents, enemies and when you finish, you're friends again."

Kerry smiled, "That's exactly right, do you want me to help you unpack? I just have to put my books back in my room"

"Sure, I have a whole heap of questions"

Kerry laughed and started unlocking her door, "I can answer a whole heap of questions. Welcome to my room" She opened the door and saw a room exactly the same as hers, but with more of Kerry's stuff.

"It's not very exciting, but it's home," Kerry said as put down her bag of books and grabbed a bottle of water out of her mini-fridge.

"I like it" Sammie declared. Kerry seemed nice. James Adams, Kerry Chang. This is weird. "First question, what are the shirt colours? Are there only orange, blue, grey, navy, black and white? Or are there others?"

"That's all of them," Kerry said as she locked her room back up.

"What about gold?"

"Oh, there's gold and silver, but only one person's ever had one, a silver." Kerry said as she opened Sammie's door.

"What do they mean?"

"Silver is for people who only go through an express 1 month basic training and gold is for people who don't have to do any basic training. They're for when people are needed on mission's desperately but they don't actually use those colours anymore. How did you find out about them?" Kerry sat on her Sammie's bed.

Sammie thought about everything Kerry said, "So gold shirts don't have to do basic training?"
Kerry nodded.

Sammie let out a squeal, "I'm a gold shirt!"

"Bull. They don't use them anymore"

"No. No. I am!" She opened up her closet and pulled out a gold shirt, "Look"

Kerry's mouth was wide open, "That is so unfair. I had to go through twice." She came over and took it out of Sammie's hands, "This is so cool."

Sammie noticed her clothes had all been returned, the bag of them was sitting near the end of her bed. They had all been washed and she pulled out her favourite pair of jeans. She took off the pants she was wearing and pulled the jeans on.

Kerry was still admiring the shirt, "Guess James isn't the only lucky one here anymore"
That reminded Sammie. "Kerry, are you by any chance going out with a guy called James Adams?"

Kerry handed her back the shirt, "You have to put it on. Yeah, James went through basic training with me. How did you know?"
Sammie took her orange shirt off and put her gold one on. She didn't care if Kerry saw her in her underwear, "Wait, does James have a little sister called Lauren?"

Kerry nodded and Sammie's eyes widened.

"Does he have two best friends called Kyle and Bruce?"

Kerry nodded again, "How did you know?"
James, Kerry, Kyle, Bruce, Lauren. No way. It's all REAL. Sammie then remembered she couldn't tell anyone about the books, "I heard some people talking about it before. And James was outside Mac's office. He got busted for his history assignment or something"

Kerry laughed, "That's him. Everyone is going to be SO jealous."
Sammie stepped into the bathroom, leaving the door open so Kerry could still talk to her, and started doing her hair in the mirror. It was a lot nicer now that she had washed it.

After not having a good conversation with anyone for three months, Sammie was glad she would get some attention, "We have to go down to dinner now or we're going to be late"

"No. We should be late. Everyone will be sitting at the table by then." Kerry couldn't stop laughing, "Wait till they see you. Callum and Connor are going to go mad."