I know that most of you are mad at me right now for not updating in four months but I have a good excuse. You see I'm a very forgetful person with story ideas so when I got the idea for this chapter I wrote it down immediately at school(I was at school when I got it). I was going to type it up that afternoon but I lost the paper and couldn't remember a single thing about the chapter, only that I liked what I wrote down. Then I finally found the paper somewhere around the end of the school year but then my mom wanted me to go to the pool with her to watch the kids and when I came back I couldn't remember where I put the paper. And then my laptop broke but the good thing is my dad works with computers at work and they always give him free computers so I got one fast and then I FINALLY found the paper! So here it is and I hope you like it and forgive me! Oh yea, also I dedicate goon number 4 to RoSeThAtIsWhItE and if you want a goon then just ask me.

Chapter 8

It took him exactly 5 minutes to get here and when he did it was in a black van. I smiled, relieved he was here, while everybody else -including mom- looked at the car in confusion and curiosity, trying to see through the tinted windows but they couldn't. I walked up to the door and opened it up slightly so I could see him but nobody else could.

"I'm impressed you took exactly 5 minutes to get here." I stated casually, "But do you really have to wear a black overcoat, fedora, gloves, and sunglasses so nobody could see you?" I asked and he smiled sadly.

"I think only certain people should see who I am." He stated.

"K then come on we have some plans to make." I answered, opening the door wide enough so he could climb out. He put on an expressionless mask before he climbed out of the car. I closed the door and walked beside him. I saw his face light up when he saw mom but a quarter of a second later his face turned expressionless so nobody else seemed to notice. After acouple of seconds we finally made it to the group and stopped in front of them.

"So this is the old friend you were talking about?" Mr. Solomon asked and though nobody noticed I could see that dad was surprised that Mr. Solomon was here.

"Yea." I stated. He held out his hand for dad to shake and dad did though it was hesitant, and I bet he was nervous since Mr. Solomon was his best friend after all but it was the polite thing to do so they wouldn't be suspicious of him.

"Joe Solomon and you are?" He asked hoping to find out.

"He'll introduce himself in a second but first he wants to talk to some specific people right now which are…" I stated and everyone looked at me, "Mom, Mr. Solomon, Zach, Bex, Liz, Macey, and Jonas." I stated and he nodded. They looked suspicious of him but nodded since they sensed that I trusted him and I did, I mean he is my dad after all.

"Ok would you like to talk in my office?" Mom asked and dad nodded. Mom turned around and walked toward to office with us following after her.

Well that's the chapter! JUST KIDDING! I wrote that in capitals just incase someone stopped reading or something because it's happened a lot. I was going to end it right here but I knew since I haven't updated in like four months I had to make this chapter longer then I thought it would be. So here's the rest of the chapter!

When we finally got in the office we closed the door and I was so glad that this room had soundproof walls since we didn't want anybody listening in. Dad and I stood by the door not wanting to be the center of attention but it was a wasted effort because everyone stared at us when they sat down and mom gestured for us to move to the middle of the room. We sighed, stood up straight, and went to the place where she told us to stand. No one spoke as everyone stared at us and it was making me uncomfortable so I spoke.

"So…what do you want to know?" I asked awkwardly and suddenly everyone except for mom, Mr. Solomon, dad, and Liz started yelling at me.

"ONE AT A TIME!" I yelled over them and they all quieted down, glaring at me though.

"Liz?" I asked since she was the only one of them that didn't yell at me.

"So…you and Cammie are…" She trailed off, not knowing how to put it.

"Siblings? Yes." The tension in the room grew, "Twins in fact." I added.

"But Cammie never told us that she had a twin and neither did you." Zach stated and I nodded in agreement.

"We didn't, but that's because we didn't know that we were related," I stated, "Well until a couple weeks ago of course," I added at their glares. I chuckled, remembering what they thought, "And you thought we were dating…" The girls blushed at that, looking down at the ground, while Jonas and Zach looked anywhere but at me. Then I remembered the serious and got back on top, "Anyway, so Cammie's been kidnapped and we have to get her back, does anybody know how to or have any ideas?" I asked but nobody raised their hands, "Come on guys, anything?" I asked desperately but nobody answered me. I looked at everybody's face and they were all clueless but when I got to Zach's I stopped. His face, unlike everyone else, was full of sadness and guilt and I knew it was not for blaming me and Cammie for 'cheating'(well we're not actually dating Bex and Zach no matter how much we want to) on them so I decided to confront him about it.

"Zach?" I asked and he looked up, "Do you know how to save Cammie?" I asked everyone looked at him for an answer. He looked around at everyone's expressions and sighed.

"Yes, I do." He admitted and we all perked up at that.

"Then why didn't you say so?" Macey exclaimed while Zach just looked at the ground.

"What's wrong Zach?" Liz asked.

"I can find out where she is and I can get her out...but I don't think you will trust me anymore when you see how I can." Zach admitted, "But I'll do it to save Cammie." He said, standing up, "Mrs. Morgan can I use your computer?"

"Sure." She stated, standing up from her desk so he could sit down. He turned on the computer and we all crowded around the desk to see what he was doing. He was on the internet and was typing in a website and clicked enter. When it was finished loading, a site titled C.O.C with a picture of Ioseph Cavan under it with a red background and the Circle of Cavan symbol outlining it.

"Zach? How do you know about this website?" She asked, "Only the level seven or up C.I.A., MI6, and every other corporation knows about this website." She stated, completely confused as were all of us, "Zach no matter how hard you try you won't be able to hack this website, level 16's have tried and have failed numerous times." She stated and everyone -except for dad and Mr. Solomon- were shocked at that but Zach just sighed sadly.

"You'll see." He stated vaguely. He went to the top of the page where it showed a bunch of hyperlink symbols and he clicked on one that looked lie two c's backwards and intertwining vertically into each other with two dots on the left side. It opened up and went to a log in thing and Mrs. Morgan looked shocked.

"Zach how did you know which one it was?" She asked, "The C.I.A has tried it a million times but it's like it changes every five minutes and the rest of the links delete everything on you computer and completely break it, as in it can't be replaced at all so we can't deduce, only guess, and no one has so far except for one person who got lucky but as soon as he clicked accept after typing something in, his computer shut down and broke as well." She explained at our confused looks and we all looked down at Zach at this who shifted uncomfortably at our gazes.

"Like I said before, you'll see." He repeated. He typed the letters and numbers 0xs7x9ytqq5ubefore clicking enter. I expected it to keep him out but it didn't, It just went to the next page where it said voice identification. Zach leaned towards the mic and said in a clear and emotionless voice, "Zachary Goode." The computer seemed to think if it was the right voice and after a couple seconds it cleared and read voice matched, welcome Zachary Goode in the middle of the screen and we were all shocked.

"D-dude, you're part of the C.O.C!" Jonas exclaimed and everyone immediately became defensive.

"Yes, I am." He admitted. We were about to attack him(with questions of course, we wouldn't hurt him without all the answers unless we had to since he is our best friend) when someone suddenly said, "Wait." We turned round to see dad deep in thought.

"What?" Mom asked defensively -probably thinking him and Zach were in cahoots or something- but surprisingly he ignored her.

"Goode...you're Cassandra's boy, aren't you?" He wondered and Zach tensed at that but nodded a couple seconds later, "That explains it then." He stated, chuckling. I had enough of all these secrets and things I didn't know so without thinking I blurted out.

"Cassandra? Who are you talking about? Why are you laughing? What's going on dad!" I exclaimed and immediately gasped, covering my mouth, at me revealing her was dad. Everyone froze right as I said dad and looked at me and him.

"Dad? What do you mean dad? Is this you're adopted father or something?" Macey asked and I was about to shake my head and explain but someone beat me to it.

"No..." Mom started and everyone looked at her but she was just staring at dad with tears in her eyes, "I would know that voice anywhere...Chris?" she asked in a wavering voice and everyone was shocked at that. Dad looked at me and I nodded yes. He sighed and took off his hat, jacket, and sunglasses to revealed the same brown hair and blue eyes as Cammie and I. Everyone gasped at that and the next thing I knew Mom had run across the room and hugged dad tightly crying into his chest and he soothed her, kissing her and apologizing again and again that he left while she repeated that she thought he had been dead. After a couple minutes mom calmed down and pulled away, wiping her tears away and kissed dad. Suddenly I heard the return of typing that had stopped right as I had said dad and I turned around to see Zach back on the computer, searching through the website.

I walked over to him and leaned against the desk while everybody else exchanged pleasantries with dad. Zach sensed me behind him but didn't stop typing and turned around like I knew he would do because that's just Zach when he's determined, after all he's told me millions of times before I found out that Cammie is my twin sister that he loves her and would do anything for her even give up his own life for her and I smiled, he truly has fallen hard for her and I wouldn't want anybody else to date and be with my sister. I decided to speak and asked him some questions.

"So you're part of the circle?" I asked casually and he nodded.

"How high are you in it?" I wondered and he froze before starting to type again.

"Second in command." He stated vaguely and I was confused.

"Wait, do you mean of one part, rank, groups, or the whole thing?" I pushed and he sighed defeatedly.

"The whole thing." He answered truthfully and I stared at him in shock.

"Really?" I asked, making sure, and he nodded, "Who's number 1?" I wondered but before he could answer me dad did.

"Cassandra Goode, Zach's mom is." He answered and everyone was shocked while Zach just sighed and went back to the computer. Bex seemed to shake out of her state of shock and glare at Zach but if Zach noticed he certainly didn't show it.

"So you're momma's little boy huh? Going to follow in her footstep? Be a horrible, conniving, and heartless murderer like her? You probably do but I bet you don't care because it's probably been your dream your whole life to be just like her, the ultimate killing and heartless copy of her! And since the Circle has been after Cammie for the past while you probably only were honey potting her, using her to get close and betray her in the end!" Bex accused and the most unexpected thing happened, Zach abruptly stopped his typing and whipped around his face full of sadness, pain, and fury, his eyes full of tears. Everyone was shocked because we all -even dad- knew that Zach wasn't one for emotions or tears and right now his whole face and eyes were full of emotions while his eyes also had tears in them. He started to speak and you could here all his emotions in his wavering, cold, and painful voice on every word.

"All my life I've been looked at like that. I'd walk through a C.I.A. base or a C.O.C. base and people would look at me and start talking saying, 'Oh look you see that boy right there, he's the son of Cassandra Goode, he's a complete momma's boy and will follow in his mother's footsteps to being the leader of the C.O.C., he will be a cold-hearted, mean, selfish, assassin like her and he will be one of the worlds top ten most wanted criminals .her!' People at the C.I.A. would point to me and say things like, 'Oh don't trust that boy, his mother's Cassandra Goode, the leader of the Circle. No matter how many people trust him and think that he's not going to be like his mother don't believe it because he will be, just you see!'" He ranted, tears streaming down his face, "All my life I've been accused of that, just because of what my mother did and who she was but do you know something?" Bex didn't answer him because she was shocked into submission at what he was saying but he didn't seem to care as he continued his rant.

"I'.! And I never will be! Just because she's my mother doesn't me I'm going to follow in her footstep. Just because she raised me doesn't mean I am going to be just like her. I'm not that kind of kid and I don't want to be that kind of kid anyway. But no matter how many people I told that to it just got worse and worse as I grew up, especially when I joined Blackthorne because everybody thought that I was on my way to be my mother's little assassin, her own protege, but you know what? I don't want to be an assassin like her, I just want to be my own person! And the only reason I agreed to go to Blackthorne was because I wanted to be a spy, not a assassin, and definitely not a killer like her! Don't get me wrong I mean I love my mother and everything but that doesn't mean that I love what she's done in her life, all the people she's killed, and problems she started." He took a deep shaky breath before continuing in the same tone as before.

"I don't want to be like her ever, and I have tried all my life not to but people seem to think it's just all fake and that I'm just tricking people but I'm not! I mean how would you like if people compared you to your parent and expected the same exact thing from you?" He asked but continued on, not waiting for an answer, "And lastly I would never ever honey pot Cammie or use her because I really do love her I mean I would give my life to save her a hundred times and would never hesitate or think twice to!" He yelled and everyone -except for Jonas and I since he had already told us how much he loved Cammie- was completely mystified at that, not noticing he loved her that much, "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to continue searching for Cammie so we can get her out of there before my mom gets what she wants from her." He finished.

He turned around, sat down at the desk and started to type again while we just stared at him, completely baffled by his confession. We all looked at each other and came to an understanding, everything Zach said was the complete truth and we can definitely trust him, even with our life. A couple minutes Zach stopped typing and exclaimed, "YES! I found her." He added at our confused looks. We all glanced at each other before rushing to the computer.

"Where is she?" Macey asked. There was a map on the screen and Zach pointed to a little red dot on the screen.

"She's in Boulder, Colorado." He answered.

"So what's the plan Zach?" Mom asked and he grinned.

"Here the plan." He started and explained the plan to us and I grinned at the end of it thinking, oh this is going to be good.

Well that's the chapter I hope you liked it I really tried my best on this chapter since I haven't updated for like 4 months that's why it's longer then I was originally going to make it. I'll write the next chapter as soon as I can!