Chapter 27: Remembering

Josh's POV

"Spies?"

"Josh, there are things that you know about, but they have been hidden from you." Rachel said, walking to sit behind her desk. "Things that you will learn about again tonight."

Suddenly anger at being in the dark washes over me and I am suddenly shouting.

"What the hell is going on?" I shout, all my tolerance gone. "I was supposed to be hanging out with my friends tonight when all of a sudden Cammie races through my father's shop. She looked scared so I thought I would follow her to see if she was ok. Then she was being attacked and then the guy turned on me."

"Josh…" Liz tries to interrupt but I kept going.

"And then you guys show up!" I yell, rational thoughts are telling me to stop and listen but the anger is hindering my ability to think straight. "A guy my age has a gun and you all just act so calm! As if you knew this was coming and that it was something that happens to you guys everyday! Who the hell are you people?"

"Josh!" Liz yells, her face angry, she pushed me onto the couch behind me.

"WHAT!" I bellow.

"If you had just calmed down for a second Headmistress Morgan could have already been telling you all this!" She yells back, the anger didn't seem to suit her. "For god sake we don't have time for you to be yelling and screaming!"

"I'm sorry," I mumble, suddenly ashamed at my outburst.

Before Liz could say anything else, Rachel walked over towards the couch I was sitting on and sat beside me.

"Josh when you first met Cammie," She said, "you were told that she was a home schooled girl with a cat named Suzie. Is that correct?"

"Yes." I answer, embarrassed that I could have possibly believed that story.

"Well then you found out that she attended this school." She went on, "Do you remember how you found that out?"

"No, I just remember her saying that it couldn't happen anymore because she didn't want to lie to me anymore." I say, thinking back to when this all took place. "After that my memory is all fuzzy."

"Well after that you witnessed Cammie being, or so you believed, kidnapped." Rachel said. "You decided that you had to follow her and help her. But what you witnessed and then burst in on was her end of year test."

"Test?" I murmured, fuzzy details working their way through my head.

"Josh, after the girls completed their test, you came back here with them." She continued like I never said anything. "Once you arrived you learned a few things."

She paused for a minute and moved behind her desk again.

"Josh, my name is Rachel Morgan," She said, formerly introducing herself. "I am Cammie's mother but I am also the headmistress of this school. The girls who attend this school are played off as rich, snobby girls but that is in fact false. This is only a cover to keep civilians from knowing our secret. This is, and always has been, a school for training future spies."