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Hello again! Thank you for reading my story so far! So many people have read it that it has made me so happy! Thank you to everyone who reviewed, I love hearing feedback of what you think. Once again as I said in the last chapter I should be updating hopefully at least once a week. I will try my best because you guys deserve it! I know this chapter was a couple days more than a week, but I made it extra long and hopefully the rest of the chapters will also be nice and long too! Thank you again and Enjoy!
Cammie POV:
The rest of the day passed by fairly quickly after Joe's class, Zach led me to my classes, I sat through them, and there were no more surprises. Zach was keeping his distance though, and he was not smirking. It was very strange but I decided to go along with it. He looked like he was trying to figure something out. He probably wants to know how I know Joe, but I think I won't tell him or anyone just yet.
When the school day ended I texted my mom I was going to Macey's house. She probably won't even open it though, since we have moved to Roseville she has been spending all her time with her boyfriend since they have just been "reunited."
When I get to Macey's house err mansion I should say I could tell they were all waiting for me. I knocked on the door and Macey opened it almost immediately after.
"Hey" said Macey.
"Hi, oh hey Liz, Bex." I say smiling.
They both say hi back and Macey tells me to follow her, so I do.
We walked for a couple minutes through hallways and many many rooms till we get to hers. And of course it's huge and girly. It looked amazing but extremely expensive. I followed them in and we all took a seat on her bed where they all sat there looking at me and smiling.
"Why are you guys staring at me?"
"Oh common tell us about Zach already!" says Macey while Liz and Bex both eagerly nod their heads wanting to know.
"Okay fine, but there isn't much to tell."
They all look at each other and shrug so I continue…. "After you two left (I say pointing to Liz and Bex) Macey gave me a little pep talk and then we both left for class. I started walking down the hallway and I turn. Guess who I walk right into?"
They all look at me excitedly wanting to know.
"Zach."
"Oh" –Liz
"My"-Bex
"God"- Macey
"I know! And he fell right on top of me! And then he becomes himself again, the cocky Zach and says, "So looking for me?" And I had no clue what to say I kinda just stood there, so he keeps talking. He even made up a nickname for me!"
"What is it?" asks Liz.
I quietly mumble, "Gallagher Girl."
"Why Gallagher Girl?" Bex asks.
"Because it is where I grew up, and the town I used to live in before I moved here."
"But how does he know that?" Macey asks.
I look up at them and say, "I have honestly no clue."
The rest of the night we talked about school and their crushes. Liz has a crush on some guy she met in her computer and sciences classes. His name is Jonas and is definitely the nerd type. Macey likes a guy named Nick who is in all her classes and Bex likes Grant who is also in all her classes. All three of the guys are friends with Zach too and on the football team with him.
I stayed over at Macey's till about ten when I decided I needed to go home and get some sleep. While we had been talking we had done our homework so when I got home I could go home and have a relaxing night.
When I got home I saw the kitchen lights on so I got out of my car (Cammie is in her junior year of high school and is old enough to drive.) and I go into the kitchen. My mom and Joe were sitting there talking.
"Hey kiddo."
"Hi mom, Joe."
Joe smiles, "It's nice to see you Cammie, how'd you enjoy my class?"
"It was alright" I say trying not to sound mean.
He just laughs, "Don't worry the first class is always boring, trust me you'll enjoy the rest."
I smile and am about to leave and go up to my room but first I have to ask Joe something, "Why is everyone so scared of you?"
He thinks about the question for a while, "I think most of them just haven't had a chance to get to know me like you and they have also gotten on my bad side."
I nod and am about to leave again when my mom stops me.
"Wait, you have to tell me about your new friends!"
"Mom I'll tell you in the morning." I say then I walk up the stairs to my room and fall straight asleep.
I have always been an early riser so I am not surprised to see the clock says 5:30 on it when I wake up so I just decide to get up and go on a jog and explore the neighborhood. I start jogging down tons of different blocks looking at all the different houses. As I am jogging I find a little park so I decide to go and sit down on one of the benches and watch the sunrise.
Zach POV:
I wake up early every morning and go jogging. Normally since I live in a pretty nice neighborhood no one is up. Today though I was jogging and a few blocks away from my favorite park I see a girl jogging so I decide to go and follow her. When she stops at the park and sits down on a bench I realize it is Cammie, I smile to myself and go over and say hi to her.
"Beautiful isn't it?"
"Ya" she replies.
Well at least she doesn't seem to wierded out I'm here, so I sit down next to her and we watch the sunrise.
We sit there in silence for about ten or so minutes, then she stands up and starts stretching but first she looks up at me and smiles so I smile back.
"Why are you up this early?" I ask.
She just shrugs, "I've always been a morning person."
"Me too, but it seems like no one else in the neighborhood is one."
We both laugh and I smile and her one more time before standing up and getting ready to leave.
"Hey Zach do you know of a good coffee place?"
"Ya, I'll take you there." I say smirking.
Cammie POV:
It took about ten minutes to get to the coffee shop. We were both jogging pretty past, Zach in the front and me slightly behind him because I was following him.
When we get there he orders us two coffees and tells me to sit down. He waits for them and then walks over and passes me my coffee and I take a sip.
"First off thanks and secondly this is like the best coffee ever!"
He just laughs, "I know, best coffee in all of Roseville."
"How would you know it's the best?" I ask smirking at him.
"I've tried every coffee place there is."
I laugh and now it's his turn to smirk.
We sit there for awhile drinking our coffees when I finally look down at my watch.
"Shoot it's almost seven I need to get going."
"I'll come with you."
"But you don't know where I live."
"Then I guess I'll find out soon." He says and winks at me before he gets up and throws away both of our coffee cups.
I figure no matter what he'll follow me so when he comes outside again I stand up and say, "Race ya to the park."
He looks like he's about to reply but before he can I start sprinting away from him and in the direction of the park.
We are both running insanely fast so when I see the park after only a couple of minutes of running I am not at all surprised.
I make it there first and collapse on the grass. Zach gets there about ten seconds after and collapses next to me.
"Sheesh you can run fast." He says in between breaths.
We sit there for about five minutes catching our breaths before I stand up, "Are you coming or not?"
He quickly gets up after me and we start jogging again. When we get to my house I stop in front of it and he stops too. Then he looks up at my house and starts laughing, "See ya later neighbor."
Before I have a chance to reply Zach walks to the house next door and goes inside.
Of course Zach would live next door, I mean where else would he live? (Note the sarcasm there.)
After a minute I go inside and go up to my room, before taking a shower and getting ready I text the girls: "Guess who I just so happened to meet this morning on my run, get coffee with, and who just so happens to live next door?"
After I'm done getting ready I check my phone and see there are a couple new messages.
Bex: "Are you serious?"
Liz: "Wow Cam."
Macey: "You better tell us everything later!"
I laugh and text them all back telling them that I'll meet them at school and tell them.
On my way out of the door my mom stops me.
"Cammie you never told me about your new friends!"
"Mom I'm going to be late for school, I promise I'll tell you later."
"Okay, and when you get home you can help me make cookies or something so we can take something over to our neighbors for dinner."
"Okay. Wait which neighbors?"
"The Goode family, I was talking to Mrs. Goode yesterday and she has a son your age."
"I know. I met him."
"Oh how wonderful! I'll see you later; have a great day at school!"
As I walk out of the house I cannot believe it, so many things are running through my head. Zach not only lives next door but I have to go to dinner at his house tonight!
(In case you are wondering Cammie walks to school. Their house is in the middle of a big neighborhood and there is a school nearby that everyone goes to. Hence why she also went on the run and stopped at the park.)
As I walk through the school gates I can see my friends waiting for me on the steps. They start waving at me and I run over to them.
"Hey guys."
"Oh my god spill!" says Bex.
So then I tell them all about this morning, how when I was running Zach found me and sat down on the bench next to me and watched the sunrise with me, how we got coffee and how it just so happens that he lives next door to me. Then I tell them about how since he lives next door and we are neighbors and that I have to go to dinner at his house tonight. When I finish they all stand there staring at me opened mouthed.
"Wow" was all each of them could manage to say.
"I know, now what do I do?"
They all look at each other and smile.
"I think you like him." Bex says.
Liz agrees with her, "Definitely and you have to go to dinner at his house."
Then Macey adds, "You are going to dinner at his house and I am going to come over and help you get ready!"
"Ooooo I wanna come too" both Bex and Liz say.
"Fine you guys can come over, but first can you help me survive the day?"
"I think you got it, here he comes." says Bex.
They all walk away and mouth "Good Luck" and then Zach walks over.
"Hey Gallagher Girl."
I smile, "Hey."
"Do you want me to take you to class?"
I nod and he grabs my hand sending electricity into me and we walk hand and hand into the school.
Everyone is yelling things to Zach as we walk in like "Oooo Zach's got a girl" and "Can't you leave some for us Zach?" He just keeps walking and smiles at me so I smile back at him and feel genuinely happy.
When we get to class we sit down next to each other and do the same for all our classes. The day goes by fairly quickly and before I know it it is lunch time.
At lunch time I go sit down nest to Bex, Liz, and Macey.
When I sit down they all look at me and giggle, "So is it true?" asks Liz.
"Is what true?" I ask.
But before I can answer Tina the annoying and popular cheerleader comes over and starts talking to me a million miles an hour. I have absolutely no clue what she is saying.
After like five minutes Zach, Grant, Jonas, and Nick walk over and sit at our table but not before Zach goes up to Tina and says, "Buzz off Walters."
I smile when Zach sits down next to me and Macey raises her eyebrows and through her eyes starts talking to me, "He's so into you!"
In response I just glare at her.
Grant goes and sits next to Bex, Nick next to Macey, and Jonas next to Liz.
Liz and Jonas start nerd talking and we all tune them out.
Macey, Bex and I just talk with our eyes about the boys, and the boys keep talking about Mr. Solomon about how mean he is as he is on lunch duty today and is walking around the tables.
Mr. Solomon walks by our table and the boys stop talking. He walks by me and taps me on the shoulder, "Cammie can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure."
Everyone in the whole room stops to stare as they watch me follow Mr. Solomon out of the lunch room.
"Hey Cammie I'm so glad I caught you."
"Sure thing, what do you need?"
"Well I want to take you and your mom somewhere special as a "Welcome to Roseville" dinner."
"That sounds really cool. How about Saturday?"
"Sounds like a date!"
I laugh and we start walking towards my table again. Before I sit down he hugs me. "I'll tell my mom tonight."
"Okay, thanks!" and then he walks away.
As I sit back down at the table I realize something, when Mr. Solomon hugged me we were in front of the whole school and everyone was watching us! As I think about this I can feel my cheeks getting really red, I mean the whole school hates him and I just hugged him!
Macey is the first one to talk after I sit back down, "What in the world was that?"
I keep blushing and whisper, "Nothing."
All the girls decide to drop the topic but have a look in their eye saying "YOU ARE SO TELLING US LATER!"
They guys keep quiet the rest of lunch looking kinda scared while Bex, Liz, Macey and I talk about school.
When the lunch bell rings we all split up and go our separate ways to class, but of course Zach follows me.
After I get my books and we are almost all the way to class he grabs my wrist, spins me around, and looks me in the eye, "Cammie what is going on between you and Mr. Solomon?"
I look down for a while and I know I am blushing. I look back up and whisper to him, "Zach I promise I will tell you tonight. Okay? Just not here."
He stands there for a minute thinking and then finally says, "Okay."
Then he grabs my hand we continue to walk to class.
The last part of the day goes by slowly as I am thinking about telling Zach about how I know Mr. Solomon. The only reason I don't really want to tell anyone about him is because then I know I am going to have to tell them about my dad, my old school and why we moved to Roseville in the first place. When the bell does ring I quickly hope out of me seat and start walking towards the exit.
As I'm walking out of the school Zach runs up from behind me and starts walking with me.
"Can I give you a ride home?"
I smile, "Yes." I mean we are neighbors he can drive me home.
Then for the third time today he grabs my hand sending another bolt of electricity into me.
We walk to his car and he has a red mustang. I love cars! So I put my book bag into the passenger seat and walk around eyeing the car.
Zach stands there laughing at me as I am looking at his car. "See something you like Gallagher Girl?"
I laugh, "My dad used to have a car just like this."
He smiles, "Get in."
I get into his car and I can feel the whole school staring at us. It is a quick drive and Zach drives really fast and he is blaring the radio and singing.
Of course Katy Perry "Teenage Dream" comes on and he starts singing.
I laugh so hard I start crying. When he pulls up in his driveway he turns the radio off and sits there and watches me laughing extremely hard for about five minutes.
When I finally stops all he says is, "Wow I didn't think I was that bad." And he fakes looking like I hurt him.
"Haha so funny" and I stick my tongue out.
He chuckles, "I'll see you tonight Gallagher Girl."
"Ya, see ya later." And I get out of his car and before walking inside I wave at him.
Once I'm inside I realize I never told Bex, Liz, and Macey my address so I quickly text them and go look for my mom.
"Mom?"
"Hey kiddo I'm in the kitchen."
I walk in to the kitchen and see she has the ingredients out for making chocolate chip cookies so I start mixing all the ingredients together.
"How was school?"
"Really good, and Mr. Solomon is taking us to dinner on Saturday night."
She smiles and I can tell she is finally happy again even though she misses dad. "That's great so tell me about your friends."
"Okay so Bex, Liz, and Macey are like my three really good friends. Macey is extremely rich, boy crazy and popular, Bex is athletic, British, and extremely kind, and is Liz sorta shy but extremely smart, like genius smart."
My mom smiles, "They sound great. Have you hung out with that boy from next door at all?"
I smile and blush a little, "Ya he is really nice, he drove me home from school today and he also has been showing me around the school. He has a couple friends too who seem really nice and they all ate lunch with us today. Oh and I forgot to tell you Bex, Liz, and Macey are coming over in a couple minutes to hang out for awhile."
"Okay, will you guys finish up the cookies?"
"Yes." And right when I say that the doorbell rings.
"Hey guys welcome to my humble home."
We all laugh and I tell them to follow me to the kitchen. As I tell them about Zach we bake. By the time we are done we have made chocolate chip cookies, brownies and both a chocolate and a vanilla cake.
When I finish talking we all look at our handy work and laugh. It was almost time to go to Zach's so I cut up both cakes and gave them each about half a cake to take home. Luckily the subject of Mr. Solomon never came up. I know one day they will want to know though, but I really don't want to tell anyone just yet. I figure I will have to tell Zach tonight, once I see how he reacts then I will tell my friends about him, my past, and my dad.
We all quickly say goodbye and I run upstairs to go change. I had a lot of fun with them, they are so much different than my old friends which is definitely a good thing.
After looking through my clothes I finally decide on a pair of red short shorts and a see through lace tank top, and I put a white tank top on underneath. Then I put on white sandals, a red watch and pull my hair out of my ponytail.
( . this is basically her outfit except the American flag bandeau, or this is kinda what I was imagining so ya there ya go J)
I can hear my mom yelling for me to come downstairs so I quickly run downstairs.
I'm carrying the brownies and my mom is carrying the cookies as we walk next door. I knock on the door and we wait a couple seconds before the door is opened by a smirking Zach, "Hello Gallagher Girl."
Hey so please review and tell me what you think! Hope you enjoyed. In the next chapter will Cammie's past finally come out? What about the mysterious Zach, what is he hiding?
