SO SORRY! I've been meaning to update, but this whole last week I got a really, really, bad cough (Still not recovered, really. But I'm better). Then a couple days again we left for a trip. I only just got back yesterday, and felt bad then so I went to bed. I'm sick off school today like the whole past week. But right now I'm alone in the house, and my mother left the computer out… So. I've got an hour to write you guys a chapter.
Right, so now the course of what happens in the book stops being so similar. Now you get to read the crazy ideas my mind comes up with. =)
Thank you to everyone who reviewed, by the way. You make me feel so happy.
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Cammie
His nerve! I can't believe his nerve.
And his smirk! I swear, any minute now I am going to punch it off his face.
He is so different than Josh. Josh was sweet and nice. Zach is arrogant and cocky. Josh always saw me. But, Zach…
Zach sees things about me that Josh never did. Like the fact I don't wear a watch.
I was glad to finally dump him with his friends and join mine as we headed toward dinner. At least, we were going to head to dinner when something happened.
A red light began to whirl, and a screaming buzzer that pierce our ears so we could barely hear the cries of the electronic voice that pulsed with the light, "CODE RED. CODE RED. CODE RED."
I quickly shared a glance with Bex.
Really?
We have fifteen boys come to our school, and not seven hours later, someone else strange is arriving?
You've got to be kidding.
"Cammie!" I heard a voice call out. I turned to see Buckingham running toward me. "Your mother needs you and Bex."
"Show a new kid around." I mumbled. Bex pushed me forward and, after quickly saying our good byes to Liz and Macey, and we hurried toward my mother's office.
The newbies from this year were racing after Madam Dabney, no doubt heading to the stables for the afternoon. We passed Mr. Mosckowitz and Mr. Smith pushing a statue of famous Gallagher Girls into closets. As we swept through the room, I glimpsed Gillian's sword sliding into the vault under its case, and was replaced with a creepy looking man, who was supposedly the school's first headmaster.
The school was in a state of utter chaos, even though we had already done this before when Macey came to the school. Bex and I reached the end of the hall of history to find my mother.
She smiled at us. "I need you to give a tour."
I shared a glance with Bex. I had been expecting this.
"Who's coming?" Bex piped up curiously.
"Her name is Alyia, but she prefers Aly, apparently." Mom told us slowly.
"What's wrong?" I asked. The way my mom spoke was as if she was trying to defend the girl from something as she spoke.
My mother hesitated, then sighed. "She's, well… She's mute, I think." Rachel told us.
"You think? Why do you 'think' she is mute?" Bex asked.
"Well, her parents and friends and people have never heard her speak." My mother muttered.
"And just because she doesn't speak to them, doesn't mean she is mute." Bex murmured thoughtfully.
"Exactly." My mom told her.
Me? I was thinking hard. A mute girl? That would suck… and be cool for a spy at the same time. If she was ever caught, she wouldn't be able to tell someone any very secret and important information she might know. That would be nice.
But then again, she wouldn't be able to tell anyone anything. Unless she wrote it down or something. But that wouldn't be much fun to go around writing everything you want to say then showing it to people.
"Right… So where is she?" Bex asked.
My mother signalled to us with her hand and led us out of the room and toward the front door. As I passed through the doorways, I couldn't help but remember the last time I was doing this.
The day I led Macey around the school. She was so different then. One of her covers, no doubt. I can't help but wonder that when I meet this new girl, will it be her or one of her covers?
W stopped just outside, and I watched a limo drive up. The door opened, and I swear Bex had been holding her breath for the last minute for some reason, and out came a shoe that rested on the ground.
You can tell a surprising lot about people from shoes. Like Macey, when she first stepped out of the car. You could see her combat boots. But the new girl… She was wearing sneakers. Not white clear ones either (Macey might have approved if they were new and clean). Filthy, worn and looking close to being ripped. Good as I am about analyzing people, I'm not the person to come to about clothes.
Where's Macey when you need her?
But then she finally came out of the car and looked at us.
She was about… 5'6'? No. Definitely 5'7'. She was left handed, and I could glimpse calluses on that hand as well, so she must use it for everything. She put more weight on her left foot then her right, so she must have sprained it… a few weeks ago? I couldn't tell where she was from, as she didn't speak, but it looked like to me as if she was from up north-east. Tan-ish skin - She certainly wasn't pale – with golden brown hair. She almost looked a bit like Bex.
"She's really cute." Bex whispered to me.
I grinned. "Don't tell me you're going lesbian on me! What ever will Grant say?" I whispered back.
She rolled her eyes and smacked my arm. I winced and started rubbing it. The girl didn't know her own strength.
"Hello and welcome Ms. Esperanza to Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Woman. Bex and Cammie here will show you round, and then they'll take you to my office where I can talk to you about joining." My mother greeted her formally.
'Aly' nodded slightly and moved forward.
Bex was practically bouncing up and down. She grinned at Aly. "Hello! Aly, right? I'm Bex. That's Cammie." She gestured at me.
I smiled slightly at me and she smiled back. She didn't look too outgoing. Almost shy. But she looked strong enough to throw a good punch.
"Right, come with us and we'll show you anything you want to see! Come on!" Bex literately grabbed the girl and dragged her inside. Then she did something no one else could see.
But I saw it.
She opened her mouth. Then closed it.
Like she was going to speak, but stopped herself.
There was something odd about the new girl.
Covert Operations Report
When Operatives Morgan, McHenry, Baxter and Sutton (hereafter referred to as The Operatives) returned to Gallagher Academy for the semester, then were welcome with the knowledge of there was a spy school for boys. Now a new girl has been allowed to join, who is supposedly mute.
The Operatives don't think so.
'Alyia Esperanza' was definitely more than she tried to hide. She had secrets. And the Operatives where going to find out what they were.
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Right, sorry about there being no Zach in that chapter. He'll be in the next one, don't worry!
I'll start working on the next chapter as soon as I can. Hopefully it will be done at out sooner than this on was, sorry.
Please? Review? You'll make me VERY happy! (And you never know, it might make my cough go away)
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The Gallagher Girl