Zach POV

I stood in the woods, surrounded by everyone else.

I held my hand in my back pocket and took a deep breath.

"Guys, I have a way for us to get in." They all turned expectantly to me.

I pulled the sleek, laminated card with the Circle symbol and the metal strip on the back out of my pocket.

"Is that," Macey gasped.

I nodded…ashamed in a way.

"My mom gave me one when I was ten. She used to take me to work with her whenever she felt like it," I sighed, "I'm glad I kept it." "This could be the only way we can get to Cammie," Bex said and smiled at me, "we're glad you kept it too Zach."

"So how are we going to get it?"

I was about to answer when I heard the sound of ATV's coming at us.

"Hide!"

We all dashed in separate ways.

I scrambled behind a tree and stared.

Through the woods came four ATV's.

"Zach what is it," Liz came through my comms unit.

"ATV's….four of them. The riders…," I frowned and stared at license plates before lowering my voice, "are Circle members." "You need those bikes Zach," Jonas said, his voice almost as low as mine.

"I know."

The bikes were getting closer.

I turned, stirring the leaves a little bit, and signaled to Macey. She raised her eyebrows at me and then picked up a rock. I turned my hands in a circular motion and she nodded and then got Bex and Grant's attention.

Soon enough we had four rocks all jagged and the size on softballs in our hands.

"On my count," I whispered. "One…two…three." The ATV's came into view.

"Now!"

I threw my rock as hard as I could at the farthest ATV. The rock wedged itself in between the wheel and the cover and sent the ATV flying. It flipped over, crushing the rider and throwing them off.

"What the-!"

Macey and Bex's rock hit the other two ATV's exactly like mine.

Grant misjudged his throw and hit the rider instead sending the ATV crashing into the tree closest to it.

All four riders were out cold.

"Good job guys," I hugged Macey and Bex and gave Grant a high five.

"How are we going to get into the base if only you have a card," Bex asked, climbing onto her ATV.

"My mom always said bring some friends," I smirked, climbing onto mine, "she never meant to stop her."

[{Twenty Minutes Later}]

In twenty minutes exactly we were at the Circle's base entrance.

"Cards," the gate guard asked, eyeing my friends and I.

I flipped up the visor on the helmet I "borrowed" from the rider of this ATV and handed him the card.

"Here's mine."

He checked it, scanned it, and then stared up at me in surprise.

"Goode?"

"In the flesh," I smirked.

"Where are their cards," he jerked his head in Bex, Macey, and Grant's direction.

"They're with me," I glared at him.

My mother was the leader of this base…there was no way he was going question me.

"Go right ahead…sir."

Oh I was liking this.

We took off and eventually parked in the lot.

"That went easier than I expected," Macey said, fixing her perfectly smooth hair. "The fun hasn't happened yet Miss Perfect," Grant said, grinning.

"Come on," I started walking towards the back door.

"How do you expect to get in here," Bex asked, shaking the door handle roughly. "Give me a second," I studied the wall. "Zach there's no way in," she slapped the door.

"Yes…there is."

I pressed my hand into the one block on the wall with an indent in it.

The entire wall disappeared and I turned to smirk at my friends.

"Am I amazing or what?"

"Stop gloating and let's go save Cammie."

Cammie POV

I clawed silently at the floor, the pain too excruciating for me to handle.

"She's still got some fight in her," the lady laughed mirthlessly.

"No wonder the Goode boy likes her, she's just like Catherine," the guy added.

"Again with comparing me to Catherine," I wanted to scream, but I was still unable to talk.

The man kicked me as hard as he could in my stomach and my body reacted by concaving. Blood trickled from my nose and mouth and I could barely breathe. My vision was blacking out by the second.

"How pitiful. I wonder what Matthew would say about her," the woman cooed.

A flash of anger spread through me and I spit a mouthful of blood in her direction.

"Okay, that's how you want to play huh?"

She stood up and pressed her ear.

"Catherine, she's ready for you."

The door opened and Catherine walked in.

Her hair was straightened and her make-up was done perfectly. She had on a tight black dress with a low cut down the middle. If she were near anyone else, she would have looked beautiful and completely stunning.

To me she was just the devil in disguise.

She sneered at me and I was filled with hate immediately.

"Make it quick Catherine," the man smiled and touched her jaw, "you don't want to get any blood on that pretty dress of yours."

She lashed out and slapped the man across the face.

His head snapped to the side and he let out a string of cuss words.

"Leave me," she demanded.

As the woman passed she placed something metal into Catherine's hand. "I'm going to get ready for the party. If I were you, I'd make it fast."

It was over…it was all over.

"I really thought Zach would come for you Cammie. I honestly did," she circled around me slowly; "I guess he doesn't care about you as much as we thought."

As if my dying was painful enough.

"We could wait, just to see if my son will come up. Unfortunately I have somewhere to be so we can't." She clicked the safety off and aimed the gun at me." I would say I'm sorry Cammie but I'm not."

I shut my eyes and held my breath.

"I love you Zach," I thought.

Suddenly the door flew open, slamming into the wall.

There stood Zach, his hair disheveled and his eyes flashing.

Behind him were Macey, Bex, and Grant, all looking livid.

"Zach," I forced out.

His eyes looked at me and his resolve almost crumbled, but he stood up straight and glared.

His mother turned to him in surprise.

"Oh trust me mother," he raised his hand which held a gun identical to his mother's, "you will be."