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Zach's POV:
"Nick knows"
That was all I could think of. I waited until Cammie had fully fallen asleep and looked at Mr. Solomon. He looked at me and nodded, "Go."
I ran out of the room where Cammie was and raced up to my room, hopefully all of them would be up there. Classes should be over.
I ran up the stairs and walked into the room.
Jonas and Grant were sitting down doing homework but looked up at me when I walked in.
Grant smiled, "How is she?"
I smiled back at them, "She's awake."
Jonas smiled too, "So then why are you up here?"
My smiled disappeared. "I need to talk to Nick, where's Nick?"
Jonas shrugged and Grant suggested he might be in the P&E barn. So I walked out of the room, back down the stairs and went to look for Nick.
Nowhere. He wasn't in the P&E barn, the dining hall or any of the classrooms. Where the hell could he be?
Nick's POV:
As soon as I had any news that Cammie was awake I knew I needed to hide, Cammie must have told him there was no way she didn't. I don't think Zach would be quite so nice though, he'd probably knock me out for days when he knew.
Zach's POV:
When I couldn't find him I went back to my room. Grant and Jonas were still sitting where they were when I had left them.
"Did you find him?" Jonas asked.
I grunted, "No."
"Hmm" said Grant. "Anyways why are you looking for him?"
I sighed, "Cammie told me told me to look for him. She woke up and looked at me and whispered "Nick knows" after that I ran out of the room and came here."
"What does Nick know?" Jonas asked.
"I honestly have no clue. I think he knows something about why Cammie is in the hospital."
Grant nodded at me. "Well if Cammie told you that Nick is most likely hiding from you."
That was a crazy notion. "Why would Nick hide from me?"
Grant chuckled. "Have you took a good look at yourself in the mirror lately? Dude you are like the toughest guy at the school and plus you are madly in love with Cammie. He knows you would do anything for her so if he had anything to do with hurting, well lets just say I'd be hiding too."
"Huh" I say and I lay down on my bed still watching Grant and Jonas.
Grant and Jonas both look at each other.
"Well dude are you going to punch him or talk to him?" Jonas asks.
I sit there thinking. If he did anything to Cammie I will surely punch him but I need to know what he did first.
"Can you guys come with me?"
They both nod.
"Good because I do need to speak with him, but I think that if I go alone and he did anything to her I will surely punch the living hell out of him."
They laugh and we enjoy the rest of the night just talking, we decided that in the morning we would go and find him plus I had loads of homework to catch up on because I had been with Cammie.
Joe Solomon's POV:
When Cammie woke up I was so filled with relief that I started crying. I could tell that Zach was so happy to see her awake to. I don't quite know what either of us would have done if she had not woken up soon.
Zach left quite a bit ago but I decided I should stay here for awhile longer or at least until she wakes up again.
I walked out into the lobby just waiting for Cammie to wake up and there were bouquets and bouquets of flowers. I walked up to one of them and it said To Cammie From The Blackthorn Boys. I smiled Cammie would surely love it. All the bouquets were just like the first and I decided to bring them all in.
When Cammie woke up again the first thing she saw was colour, loads and loads of it. There was hundreds and hundreds of flowers.
I looked over at her and she was smiling, "Are all these for me?"
I laughed, "Yes."
She smiled bigger. "Joe will you bring some of them and put them on the table next to me?"
I nodded and picked out some of the nicest ones I saw. Bright vivid colors of purple and blue and even white.
When I put them next to her bedside she pulled out a single white rose from the pile and held it up to her nose.
She then held it out to me, "Joe it smells so beautiful."
She smiled at me and then her eyes rolled back into her head.
Luckily the nurse had picked that moment to walk in because she saw it and immediately started helping Cammie. I was so shocked I just stood there until I was ushered out, I brought the flower though. In my pocket I had a device to check for poison and held it up to the flower. Sure enough there was poison in it, not enough to do much damage but to Cammie's already broken body it could do a lot.
I sighed to myself this was the second time in one week that something bad had happened to Cammie. I know I shouldn't blame it on myself but it is hard not to. I was the one who brought all the flowers into her room and then when she asked for some I brought her the one that had poison in it. Maybe many of them had poison in them but still I had given her one that had poison in it.
I sighed, poor Cammie.
There was no use sitting in the doctors office so i decided I needed to go and tell Zachary. He would probably be angry but there was not much to do this time.
I walked up to his room and knocked.
No one answer, "Guys open this door right now!" I yelled.
Sure enough within ten seconds the door was opened.
"Sorry sir we didn't realize it was you. Are you doing a room check?" yawned Grant.
I almost laughed, "No boys I'm not. I need to talk to all of you."
Grant opened the door up all the way and I walked in.
All three of them were now sitting on one of the beds and I took a bed across from them.
"Where is Nick" I asked.
Jonas and Grant shrugged and Zach got an angry look on his face, maybe they got in a fight.
Anyways I thought to myself I couldn't delay telling Zach any longer.
"I'm sure Zach told you Cammie was awake and doing better"
Jonas and Grant nodded.
"Well boys something has compromised this situation."
Zach got pale.
"As I am sure all of you know she received many many flowers. Well I thought it would be nice if when Cammie woke up she could see all the flowers"
They all nodded again.
"Well boys one of those flowers had poison in it. It was not enough to hurt her much but it knocked her out again."
Zach stood up. "How. How could this happen? Mr, Solomon how did you let this happen to her?"
Zach had angry tears running down his face and I was on the verge of crying myself.
"Zach I am so so sorry."
Both of us were now crying.
"She picked up one of the flowers that had poison in it."
Zach nodded but looked extremely sad. He then looked up at us, "I am going to go on a walk."
I watched him leave and turned to look at Jonas, "Find them."
He nodded and immediately started typing.
I turned to Grant then, "I need you to find Nick. I don't know how but somehow he is involved in this so find him and bring him back to me."
He nodded. "Guys I am going to talk to Zach. Report back here if you find anything."
They both nodded at me again and I set off.
It only took me a little while to find Zach. As soon as he left I knew exactly where he was going, he was in Cammie's room.
I walked inside and Zach was sitting against the bed talking to himself and crying. This was the first time I had ever seen Zach so truly upset.
I went in and sat across from Zach.
It took him awhile and then he started talking, "How could this even happen?"
I didn't answer and Zach continued to cry.
After a while he stopped and I walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder, "It is gonna be alright, everything is going to be alright."
He nodded and we walked out. He was walking back up to his room and I followed. I needed to know if Grant or Jonas had found anything.
We walked into the room and Jonas was typing on his computer and Grant was standing over something on the floor. I walked closer to him and saw that it was Nick.
Zach must have seen too because he turned his head away and went and sat on his bed with his head in his hands.
I walked over to Nick and he looked at me.
He was shaking his head, "I'm so sorry sir."
I pulled a chair from the desk closeby and sat on it.
"Nick you want to tell what is going on?"
He kept shaking his head, "I'm so sorry."
Zach walked over and so did Jonas, Grant was still next to Nick.
Grant looked at him, "Dude you need to tell us what you know."
He kept shaking his head.
"Nick I promise I'm not mad, I'm way over mad I just want to protect Cammie, I will not hurt you no matter what you say." Zach said.
He looked up at us, "You promise you won't be super mad?"
I nodded and so did the others.
Nick began, "Back when we were in Roseville, I met someone. He had something against Cammie and I didn't and I still don't know what it is. Well he belongs to the Circle and he asked me if I wanted to join, I said yes."
He looked up at us expecting us to be mad or angry but we were all silent, he continued.
"I said yes, but that meant first I had to pass the tests. Most of them were pretty easy in doing small things. This one though was different, it was to do something to someone who I love as family. I am not the only one who is trying to join the circle, I did not hurt Cammie but I assume whoever did is someone like me."
He paused again and Grant asked, "How did Cammie know about you?"
"When we were in Roseville I had talked to Cammie about this. At first I had just been asking who her friend was but then she quickly figured out what he was planning. The guy who I believe did this is Josh, Cammie and him used to date but I don't know what happened."
Zach got a strange look on his face when Nick talked of Josh but quickly covered it.
Jonas still looked quisitive, "Why did you want to join the circle Nick?"
Nick sighed, "All of you were and always have been doing little missions together while the rest of us are stuck at school not doing anything. You know how many times I have been sitting in this room alone wondering where you guys are and what fun you are all having? I wanted that. So when this boy Josh came and talked to me about the Circle and going on missions I decided that is what I wanted. I know now that it was not a good choice at all but what are you going to do."
Grant's POV:
Mr. Solomon had heard enough and walked out of the room, he said he was going on a walk.
Zach and I decided that we had a few more questions for Nick though.
"So Nick" Zach began, "If you didn't poison Cammie who did?"
Nick shrugged, "My guess is that there are at least twenty or so other guys in our class who want to join the Circle and all of them most likely do not realize how bad the group really is."
Zach nodded.
"If I had to take a guess though there are five or so boys that I have seen who watch us carefully and sometimes follow us. They try to act casual but I think they want something."
"Why are you still trying to become part of the Circle?" Jonas asked.
Nick laughed and Zach answered grimly, "You do not just leave a terrorist group"
Jonas "Hmmmed" and the room fell quiet. All of us were tired and it had been a long day.
"I have one more question" Zach said.
Nick nodded.
"Is she going to be alright?"
Nick thought about it. "I think eventually. You know as well as I do that someone is always going to be after her but for the next couple of years we just need to keep a close eye on her and hopefully we can protect her."
Zach nodded.
"It's going to be alright Zach. I'm going to get into the circle and we are going to bring them down."
Zach smiled a weak smile, "I'm going to go and check on her."
We nodded and he walked out.
All of us got up and laid on our beds, we were all so tired.
"Guys I'm sorry." Nick said.
Jonas just nodded, "Dude it's alright Cammie is going to be fine and no one is mad at you."
He sighed, "I still feel awful though. I knew that someone was going to hurt her and I didn't tell you and I was pretty sure that night I knew she had been poisoned but I didn't tell you."
"It's alright, she is going to be okay and we are gonna stop them."
He nodded and slowly we all fell asleep.
Cammie's POV:
I slowly opened my eyes and I saw someone. My vision was blurry because I was so tired but there was definitely someone there. I shifted slightly and whoever it was looked at me and then walked out of the room, I wonder who it was.
I don't have much time to wonder though because Zach walks in shortly after.
"Hey" he smiles at me.
"Hey."
"Your awake."
I smile at him, "Ya I am."
He walks over to where I am laying on the bed and I scoot over so he can sit next to me, he does but slowly making sure he is not going to hurt me and grabs my hand.
"I am so sorry this happened to you."
I shrug, something was bound to happen eventually.
"Cammie I promise I am not going to let something like this happen to you again." He is almost on the verge of tears."
"Zach it is alright, look at me I am okay."
"Ya but what happens if you aren't okay, I would never be able to forgive myself."
"Yes but I am okay."
He sighed, "I don't want anyone to hurt you."
"Well I don't either, but it's what we are, it's inevitable."
I looked up and him and he still looked sad, I leaned in and gently pressed my lips against his. It was just a little kiss but I could tell it made him happy.
He looked at me and smiled, he put his hand behind his head and pulled my face to his and kissed me. His lips were soft and delicate which was almost strange but they molded perfectly with mine. I put my one hand into his hair and we continued kissing.
He pulled away from me and we both caught our breath.
"Are we still on for our date Tomorrow?"
I smiled, "Ya but I don't think they are going to let me out of this room."
"You just leave that to me" he said smirking.
I leaned in and gave him a quick little peck, "Thank you Zach."
He nodded and he sat back against the bed playing with my hand.
"Good Night Gallagher Girl."
"Night Blackthorn Boy."
And with that I fell asleep next to the boy who I was so completely crazy about.
