Hey all! :) so...umm...sorry about the long wait! *Me running to hide hoping you don't find me and making me eat pie crust* Who likes pie crust? cause you can have mine! I hate that stuff! Any who here is the next chapter! YAY oh sorry about that really LONG authors note that is like a paragraph Oh and i want to say THANK YOU! Thank you thank you thank you! To all who reviewed ! I was jumping up and down with joy! Ok maybe not, but it was very close, so one last time thank you...thankyou... :P so Happy New Year! enjoy this chapter! i might have spelled some words wrong...and writin some at school, but only when i didn't have a class!

Chapter 4~ Notice Things Already!

Alex POV

"Welcome to Blackthorn ladies." Joe said as we flew towards what looked like a castle. (A/N Blackthorn has the same cover as Gallagher! You know annoying rich kids, but they are actually spies. Oh and Alex and Dylan are twins! They are both juniors! Oh and if I say anything about bacon or use fang as a verb I got that from Daughters of Night who is an amazing author of Maximum Ride stories….. you should read them if you like Maximum ride….I just want to say that and that I am sometimes random so if I say something like ohmygoodnessapplepie that came from my imagination…..*slap to my face* "get on with the fangin ((when I say fangin I'm not thinking of a curs word I'm thinking of a character in a story)) story" Alex says "ok…ok….noooo! not the bacon…." Sorry I should stop….but I forgot to say something. Ok so do you remember Nate and Mackenzie well they are half siblings. They have to same mother. Nate's mother or so everyone thought died they found out the truth on one of their missions. Mackenzie then went to live with Nate when she left her family, but that is a story for another time. Joe is both of theirs' godfather…ok now on to the story for cereal.) The girls were staring out the window. This was their first time at Blackthorn, so this was expected of them. You see if you hacked the Blackthorn files it would look like it was a mental instituted, but that was their cover for those who shouldn't know about Blackthorn. So this was not what they were expecting to see. It was an older castle than the one at Gallagher, this means more passage ways! It actually looked like it was in a fairy tale. Even though I've been here before, the scenery took my breath away! The sun was setting when we arrived; I cannot explain to you how marvelous it was. So if you are having a hard time picturing a fairy tale castle, look it up on the internet.

Joe showed us to our room and told us to be quite, and not to leave our room. For none of the boys knew we were here aside from all of the teaches and my brother. He also said to meet him down at the front door at 8 o'clock sharp, and with that he left. The boys were eating when we got there, so the chef had brought us some food. We ate and talked and well nothing interesting happened until Cam said we should play truth or dare, yes you did read that right Cammie want to play truth or dare. Wow I think the world is coming to an end. I would fill you in on our game, but it was lame…until Cam went into the backroom to take a shower and get ready for bed.

"Truth or dare" Macey said addressing me.

"Dare" I was sure that it would be something like dyeing my hair or something harmless, but what she said took us all by surprise.

"I dare you to tell us about your family and your old friends." She said in a bored tone of voice. As soon as she said that my face paled and I took in a sharp breath. Bex was the first one to see my face.

"Ohmygoodnessapplepie! You don't have to tell us if you don't want to." She said moving over to me and giving me a hug. I've only known her for a day and I already love her like she was my sister. There are only two friends I put above her, and that is because I've know them forever, and we have been through too much together not to love them, but that is a story for another time. So back to me filling in this three stranger whom I feel like I can trust them with my life. Ok stop rambling on and on and on and on…..um….don't look now but there is a ninja with a cake behind you…..

"Yeah you don't have to" Liz said in a sky voice.

"I didn't mean for you to be uncomfortable or anything" Macey said.

"It's alright guys. I feel like I should tell you three. For some reason I feel like I will need to trust you with my like sometime in the future, but not so much Cam if you know what I mean." I said. They all nodded their head as if they felt the same way which they probably did. "Well I don't think I should tell you my parents' names, but I can tell you that my Mom's brother is very famous here and my Dad's brother is famous and Gallagher and Blackthorn. I have a twin brother who is here, some say we look alike but I don't see it. I mean I am way more attractive than he could ever dream of. Anyway my parents and uncles and some family friends taught us everything we know. One of those family friends turned out to be bad, and was after my family. They had three daughters one stayed with them and turned to the dark side, one was put up for adoption when she was young, and the other my bestestest friend in the world. Her half-brother who we didn't know they were related until five years ago! Any who my bestestest guy friend, her half-brother," I felt my face get a little warm talking about Nate. Macey must have noticed, because she gave me a funny look, but it was gone in a flash. By this point in my story tears were forming in my eyes and were about to fall, but being a Solomon I was able to fold them in. "him and his family along with my friend went missing a little while back. And my parents also became MIA a few days ago, so that is why I can here." I concluded with a sigh. Thankfully I didn't start to cry. There was a peaceful quite that followed my story while the all grasped what I said.

"Did you hear that?" Bex asked, after a few (58) second of stillness, she had on the striates face ever "That was the sound of the caterpillars." She said amateur of a factly. Cue all of us looking at her like she was a crazed lady, and then laughter. Man did I love that girl! Cam walked out of the bathroom and looked at us like we were mental.

"I'm going to bed, since we have to wake up early." Cam said getting into her bed. Really if she thought waking up at 7 in the morning was early than she didn't know a thing. We were going to bed at 8:23:43. I turned on the fan and crawled into bed. No one else took a shower before bed, I mean isn't that wasting water? We all will take a shower in the morning…

After 2mins and 23seconds…24…25….Cam fell asleep as soon as she did Liz got up and came over to me and gave me a hug. "I'm soo sorry!" She said before she got up and went to sleep. A few seconds later Macey got up and did the same things Liz did but said she was sorry about asking.

I thought they were all asleep, and was about to leave when out of nowhere Bex came up to me giving me a hug "Doll it isn't fair that you have to go through this. I thought Cam had it hard when her Dad went MIA, but to have both of your parents MIA and your bestestest friends. Man I feel like we are going to be better friends than Cam and me are. Is it just me or is she acting like a brat? I'm so glad you are here to show her up!"

"Bex you know that you are a better spy than she is right?" I asked making sure that she knew that she was an amazing spy.

"Well, yeah, but I can't show her up or I might lose her."

"If you will lose a friend for being yourself than you shouldn't be friends with her." I said walking out of the room by going through a secret passage way. I couldn't go through the door, for the boys could be walking around, because it is only 8:48:38. Their curfew is 10:30. I walked for a little ways until I got to the place where I was meeting Joe. I opened the door, and reached out. I grabbed Joe, and covered his mouth and pulled him into the passageway.

"You there could have been a boy walking down that hallway at that time." Joe said brushing off his pants.

"Yeah there could have been, and if there was they wouldn't have noticed anything. These Blackthorn boys and Gallagher girls that you teach really don't pay attention do they?" I replied walking on. I was leading Joe to the tower where we were going to meet my brother and Uncle Mike. This tower was actually my Dad's, Uncle Joe's, Uncle Mike's, and Mathew Morgan's room when they went to school here. After five minutes of not talking Joe finally broke it when he said "Alex you do know there is a faster way to get there right?"

"Yeah well this is the way Mom took me, and I don't feel like getting lost like we did last time trying to get to the kitchen." After I said this Joe let out a sigh. I knew we would be there in two minutes max. Right when we were at the door Joe's phone rang. I smirked it would be Uncle Mike asking where we were. I opened the door right when Joe answered the phone.

(Bold Joe, Italicized Mike)

Hello?

Where the banana pie are you two!?

We are almost there. Don't worry. Alex took the long way.

Well you had better be here soon, or one of the students are bond to find you!

Just chill out a little Mike.

I won't "chill out" until I see that you two are safe! "Oh hello Alex! How are you?" (While they were talking I was giving my twin a hug. We were trying on to laugh at Uncle Mike. I finally went over and gave him a hug) Where are you Joe….He put the phone down. "How long"

"As soon as you called." I said laughing a little. I fell back on to my Dad's bed. I was laying there for a while, when I reached over to the wall a pressed on the brick that was out of place and a small opening showed. I put my hand in there and pulled out my Dad's lucky pistol. That made the tears fall immediately. Dylan came over and gave me a hug. By then we all were crying. I got up and went to the couch everyone else fallowed and we all hugged each other. This is how our sod fest went.

It was 9:23:23 when we stopped. "See on the track. Bright and early!" Dylan yelled to me when he left. I smiled a little. We would get up around 6 and run every day, for an hour, or so. We did this before they left, and we aren't going to stop. I started to leave when Joe caught me.

"Remember to look simple until we go to town. Your Uncle and I have a reputation here, so don't mess it up for us. At least not until dinner." He said adding on the last part as if it was an afterthought. I laughed they knew me to well.

"Cake" I said. When I was younger instead of saying "ok" I would say "cake", so yes I still do it. I don't think you would want to hear about my sleep, so I won't tell you I'll just skip to morning.

I woke up to the sun shining in the window. I looked at the clock, and read that it was 5:56:32. Crap! I jumped up and got dressed in my running short and a lose T-shirt. I was walking out the door, when I heard someone clear their throat. I turned around slowly. "I think you might want a hair tie." Said Bex. She was in running shorts and a lose T-shirt. She looked like she was ready to run.

"Thanks. So did you see me running yesterday?" I said walking/running out of our room.

"Yep." She said popping the "p". "I thought you could use a running partner."

"That would be cool. Back home me and my brother would do this every day. We got up and went for a run at 6. We had to wear shorts and T-shirts, even in the winter. My Dad said they did this when he went to Blackthorn, but they stopped." I said. It was a crisp day outside. There was a little bit of frost on the ground, but there was not a cloud in sight. Up a head I saw my brother and who looked like Grant Newman. "Is that Grant up there?" Bex asked in a hushed voice.

"I think so. Hey when it is almost time to head back do you want to race them?" I said with a tad bit of amusement in my voice. Bex smirked and nodded. The run was long, and nothing happened until we had five miles left. I gave a small nod to Bex, and we took off. We caught up to the boys. Once they saw us they knew a race was in order. When Grant saw two girls he slew down just a little. That was all we needed to get ahead of them. It was evenly matched. Dylan and I were neck and neck to the every end, and right behind us Bex and Grant were neck and neck.

Once we finally got to the end of the track we were all breathing fairly hard. Dylan and I gave each other fist bumps, while Bex and Grant hugged each other. "Al this is…" Dyl (One of the nick names I gave him when I was young and only a few people can call him that)

"Grant pleased to meet you." I finished for him. "And this is…"

"Bex, nice to meet you." Dylan said. We looked at each other and started to laugh. After a second I grabbed Bex's arm and ran.

We went to our room and got ready for the day. I don't think you would like it if I told you about the first part of our day. NOTHING happened! It was like no one noticed that there were five girls in a school for boys. Oh wait they didn't! Only Logan, Jonas, and Zach saw that we weren't guys, well other than my brother and Grant, but they already knew we were here. Nothing happened until Joe walked into our Covpos class and said to meet him at the van in 20min and that we need to be dress in normal clothes. And with that he walked away.

Macey let out a shriek and grabbed Cam while Bex grabbed me. Oh no this can't be good. I thought letting out a sigh. This made some of the boys look at us like we were crazy until they saw that we weren't guy, and that we were girls in an all boys' school. You should have seen the looks on their faces. It was like watching a fair dance to So Easy by Phillip Phillips, what never seen that? I'm sorry… it is amazing! I won't tell you about us getting ready to leave besides that it was TORCHER! And that is putting it lightly. (Winky face) But let me tell you we looked good!

Liz had on pink skinny jeans, pink high tops, and a pink sweater over a brown cammie. She had her hair in a messy bun. Cam had on a short short black skirt, and a low cut lacey black quarter sleeved shirt over a blood red cammie. She had on five in" red heals, and her hair was straight. (she picked out her outfit) Macey was wearing skin tight black jeans, a lose t-shirt that had I 3 NY in blood red letter, she had a black cammie under. She had on black flats and ore her hair in a side French braid. Bex had on a purple dress that went to her mid thighs. She had on black lace leggings and a black belt that went around her waist. She had her hair in a messy bun, and had black flats on. Now on to me. Macey put me into denim shorts that went to my mid thighs, (they were the type that had holes in them already) and a purple and black plaid quarter sleeved jacket thing I had on a black cammie under it. I had black flip-flops; it took me a while to get Macey to allow me to have them. Bex put light curls in my hair. And with that we were ready to leave!

We were not the last people to get to the van! Well maybe because we got there with ten minutes until we had to leave. Take that boys! Ha. Yeah the force of the bacon is on my side today! We waited until they finally came. Oh and did they notice us then. Drool was coming out of this one random persons mouth, when I walked by, I was walking over to Dylan and Grant. I closed his mouth "You're going to catch flies" I told him when I closed his mouth. Some people. He was probably looking at Bex, she was fallowing me, but too bad for him she was taken.

When the van pulled up I saw that there was one window that was less tinted than the other, I looked at Dylan, and gave him a slight nod toward the van. I walked up to the van and walked in no one followed me so when I saw Abby I gave her a pat on the head. Yep that is what I do. As I walked on I heard Abby laugh. I let Dylan sit next to the window pretending that we did not know each other. Joe told everyone to get on the bus. Joe explains what the mission is "Ladies and Gentleman, your mission will be to compromise 11 tails. They have been trained by the best." When he said that Abby, Dylan, and I all started to laugh, until Joe gave us a hard look. "As I was saying there will be two bonus tails that you can find, but let me tell you they are good. Very good." And with that he sat down.

After a while of driving we pulled up to a stoplight, I looked out of the window, along with Dylan, and we saw two people on motorcycles. We did not give them much thought. Until we saw that they were following us. Dylan gave me a knowing look, and I gave him my do-not-say-a-word-or-I-will-kill-you look. I must say it is very effective.

Once we arrived Joe explains what the mission is "Ladies and Gentleman, your mission will be to compromise 11 tails. They have been trained by the best." When he said that Abby, Dylan, and I all started to laugh, until Joe gave us a hard look. "As I was saying there will be two bonus tails that you can find, but let me tell you they are good. Very good." While he was talking we were looking out of the window at the two motorcyclists. There was a girl who had on black shin tight jeans and knee high black boots. She had on a brown leather jacket with a pink lacey shirt under. The boy who was with her had dark baggyish jeans and vans. He had on a black leather jacket with a blue shirt under, and you could see that he worked out while actually that they both worked out. They had just pulled up and were waiting for us to get off of the van. Joe started to pass out comm units, when Dylan said "Uncle Joe we found them."

I slapped him on the arm, "Dyl you're going to give us and them away!" I slapped him on the head.

"Man for a girl you sure can hit hard" Was Dylan's smart remark. That earned him another slap to the head.

"Do you not remember Hungary?" I asked in a hurt tone of voice. Joe just stood there laughing at us like we were the crazy ones. "What!? Never seen a girl hit someone before?" I asked very annoyed with these people. I mean for cereal they still have not seen Abby! Every one walked out of the van and saw the two people who were on the motorcycles; they were talking of their helmets and walking over to a bench to sit down. All of the guys were watching the girl's every move; I could tell that Dylan was not pleased about this. All the girls, oh these are the girls that are tailing us they are the rest of the junior class, were watching the guy's every move. This was going to be easy.

After the other walked off Dylan and I walked over to them and said at the same time "Long time no see." They jumped up and gave us a hug. Ok you might be wondering who these people are well it is very simple Zeze and Nate! Oh I mean Kneize and Nate our bestestest friends in the world.

"OK what gave them away?" Joe asked

"They're our bestestest friends in the whole world! What didn't give them away?" Dylan said still hugging Zeze. They kind of have a thing go on. Me and Nate? You might be asking. What NO! It's not like he has prefect everything! Especially his eyes…No you don't like him Ally! Joe laughed at what Dylan said. But it is true! So with that we started the mission, by going to a coffee shop.

Don't hate me! It is not very good, or is it? I don't know! So i hope you all had a good day at school! if you started today...i would have wrote more, but i got tired and i told my friend i would update today...grrrr i can't spell to save my life! the next chapter will make some of you hate me more than you already do...go drink some chocolate milk! Please tell me what you thought of it! Tell me how i can fix it or if you like it the way it is! You can do that by reviewing or PMing me either one works! So if you have a second or two please spend it wisely...i have cookies...(Winky face)...i'm joking i don't have cookies...i wish i did...it may take me longer to update, since school started and my math class promises 1 1/2hrs to 2 hrs of homework each and very day...ok maybe not every night but almost! have a good day :)

~Saphira~