Okay, so I haven't done this yet, but I'm only doing the disclaimer ONCE.

I do not own any characters or places from the Gallagher Girls series.

However; the plot, "Sarah", and little Matthew, and any other new character that may come up- all mine.

So now I shall give you Chapter 4.

. No, you don't get to know who "Sarah" is JUST yet :P

Chapter 4

"So how long til your friends get here d'ya think?"

"Hmmm," Cam hummed as she thought, "I'd give it a little less than 3 minutes."

"HA! I bet they're so focused on figuring out where you are they don't notice we're on the couch."

"You don't know these girls like I do. They've been highly trained to notice anything and everything."

"But from how much you talk about them I could know them. And I say it takes them about a minute to notice."

"Loser gets 3am Matt feeding for..."

"Let's raise the stakes to a week"

"Sure of yourself huh?"

"Bring it on girlie"

The two girls shook hands on it, and sat back in silence. After another minute, they heard the unmistakable "Oopsy Daisy!" of Elizabeth Sutton. "Sarah" leaned back to watch the television as Macey, Bex, and Liz walked into the room and made a bee line to the kitchen.

"Well, that may have been a bust, but we can still try and find her."

Cam gaped at her friends who were oblivious to the two girls on their couch.

"She said she'd be coming back," said Liz as she dug in the fridge. Macey and Bex peering over her shoulder, "I refuse to believe she's not."

"Cam's run before Liz," began Bex, "I wouldn't be surprised if she decided to run aga- hold on a minute!" Bex whirled around to face the couch to see Cam and a strange girl. She quickly smacked Macey's shoulder, who turned, gaped, and hit Liz who jolted forward. "OUCH! Wha-" Liz, who had turned to yell at her friend paused and stared.

Cam sheepishly waved and "Sarah" said, "57 seconds. I win."

"UH! You said a minute."

"I Said about a minute, and we established back in November that about was within three units in either direction of the stated amount. One minute is 60 seconds- 60 seconds minus fifty-seven is three. I. Win."

Cam groaned. Then turned to her friends, "I am so disappointed. You guys should have seen us as soon as you came in, and seriously? NO security measures? I mean come on did we learn nothing at Gallagher?"

The three girls blinked at their friend, after an excruciating ninety seconds Liz broke into a huge grin and screeched, "CAMMIE!" she then bounded through her apartment and threw herself on Cam. Cam smiled and hugged the girl back; chuckling she replied, "Good to see you Liz."

After hugging her shortest friend Cam looked up at her other two old roommates, "Hi," she said sheepishly.

"What in the bloody hell happened Cam?"

"It's a long and exciting story of action and drama that will have to wait until everyone who we requested in the audio message be present has arrived." Sarah said in a bored tone from the couch.

"Cam who is this? An we thought that request was just for the message."

"You can call me 'Sarah' for now. My identity will be revealed later, and don't try tricking me because I can lie like no ones business. As for the video you're correct. However I don't know about Cam but I don't feel like going through the story more than once. So, we wait."

"And what do we do until then?" Bex asked in a cold voice.

All of the girls looked at each other in question before Macey broke the silence, "Well we dont have any hair damage to undo...so I guess we catch you up on our lives."

"That's easy, we've spent the past year looking for her!" Bex growled.

"Yes," began a bored Macey, "And Grant finally asked you out, Zach and Townsend started getting along a lot better, Jonas and Liz have been having a wonderful flirtationship."

"And you Mace?" Cammie asked.

"Nothing new, Mom came up with a new cosmetic and I went on a mission in Kabul two months ago."

"I take it went well?"

Macey shrugged, "Can't complain"

"Sarah" glanced at the clock, and turned to Cam, "C, time?"

Cammie turned and looked where her new friend was looking, "Oh crap."

"I got it." she said as the other three looked on confused.

Cammie sighed, "Go ahead and bring him out here. We can stagger the shock." both Liz and Bex gave her skeptical looks as "Sarah" chuckled and headed back to get little Matthew. When she returned the three girls gasped. And surrounded the small bundle in the stranger's arms. Liz was the first to speak, "Cam, is he...?"

"Mine." smiling softly she broke up the group and gently took the baby from "Sarah". Matthew smiled as Cam turned him to see each of the girls. "Guys, this is Matthew Joseph Goode. Matthew these are your aunts Bex, Macey, and Liz."

All three looked at Cam before looking back at the baby then Liz spoke, "If his last name is Goode then it has to be Zach's, which means..."

"YOU WERE PREGNANT WHEN YOU WENT ON THAT MISSION?!" Macey finished.

Cam winced and nodded Bex held up a hand and glared at her bet friend, "Please tell me you found out AFTER you escaped?" At Cams guilty look her friends gave a collective groan and each broke into a different speech about how stupid of a decision that was.

Having enough of the lectures "Sarah" intervened, "Okay! So what? She made a decision to go where she was needed, it should have been a cut-and-dry mission, but things happened, and she and I now know what, but we can't dive into that now so we're just gonna skip over that and go on to you three getting to know the runt."

Liz gave her an incredulous glare to which "Sarah" rolled her eyes.

"When's his birthday?" Macey asked changing the subject.

"September fifteenth." Cam replied automatically, "five pounds-two ounces, thirteen inches long, hair: brown, eyes: green."

"He's so small for six months old." noted Bex.

"He was two months early; his due date was November nineteenth..." Cam trailed off sadly.

"Oh Cam," Liz whispered placing a hand on her shoulder.

Cam shook it off and smiled, "It's okay. I have you guys, Mom, Joe, Aunt Abby, 'Sarah', hopefully Zach, and this little one." she said.

"Ohhhhh," the girls said collectively. "So he doesn't know..."

"Would he have let me go on that mission if he did?"

None of them answered- they all knew the answer. At length "Sarah" spoke up "So what's for dinner?"

"Well, we were gonna go out, but now I think we're gonna wing it. Liz and I don't have enough for seven people," Macey said walking over to the little kitchenette.

"There's only five of us," Cam said confused.

"Oh your mom and Mr. Solomon are coming."

"OH! Well that's sooner than I was expecting to see them but it works."

Just then Cam heard the comforting laughter of her mother from down the hall, and "Sarah" chuckled before saying, "Well I hope your mom is ready to be a grandma."

A/N: So there's that. Let me know what you think!