"Are you kidding me?" Macey's shriek was heard the entire downstairs lobby of our hotel. It was very fancy, and she was playing the role of a rich billionaire perfectly.
I decided it was time to intervene before the poor young girl at the front desk started crying. "Ari, calm down, we'll call mum and dad, and everything will work itself out." I remembered that Tiffany had a slight accent, and then I steered Macey away from the desk and handed her to Zach.
"I'm so, so sorry." I apologized to the girl at the desk, "Her husband hasn't arrived yet and were all just a little frantic." The girl just nodded and handed over two room keys.
I took them, "Merci" and walked over to Zach and Macey. We all walked over to the elevators. Macey's rich, snobby act dissolved as we stepped inside the lift.
"The other operatives will be here tomorrow, but I think we should do a little background checking on the leaders of the group." Zach said as the doors opened and we unlocked the hotel door.
"Wow." I breathed out. The room was gorgeous. Very high-tech, stainless steel, black and white. There were huge windows surrounding the living room and bed room. We could see all of Paris from our hotel.
"No kidding." Zach said. Apparently when the CIA said they were giving us a big budget they weren't kidding.
It was already2 o' clock in our time, but with the time difference between Paris and Chicago it was technically 9 o'clock at night. Regardless of it only being 2 o' clock in my time zone, I was exhausted. My trip from L.A. to Chicago had left me drained, and then with this time change, I was going to fall asleep on my feet.
But then I remembered what had happened on the plane. Macy had already gone to her hotel room- she was rooming with one of Zach's friends, Nick, so I called Zach over. I wanted to tell him about what happened on the plane.
I propped my head up in my hands and explained what had happened in those few seconds with the man. Zach looked alarmed, but I knew he was thinking the same thing I was. We were going to have to defeat two enemies instead of one.
"Okay. We know that they know who you are and what you look like, so we are going to have to be really careful. And along with the fact that were supposed to be that couple this means that were going to be watching for two enemies, and we can't change our appearances." Everything Zach said was the truth but it drained me to hear how challenging this was.
"Alright, well then, let's try and get some background knowledge on this terrorist group, and then we'll work from there."
I nodded and said I was just going to change out of my fancy outfit. I walked into the bedroom and grabbed a change of clothes. My Gallagher sweatshirt, some black shorts, and a pair of bright pink fluffy socks.
When I walked back out into the living room, Zach was already sitting sprawled out on the couch, his laptop sitting on his lap, his fingers moving swiftly across the board. I sat on the opposite side of the large couch and flipped open my own laptop, opening up a program (made by Liz) that allowed me to check all of the CIA, MI6, and NASA databases. Many of the people from the terrorist group were in the databases.
Zach and I silently dug through databases and files, searching up past references of the terrorist group- who were named I.A.N. My eyes started to drop when we hit 11 o'clock, and I was holding up my head with one hand, and scrolling with the other.
I found myself falling asleep and waking up several times before Zach leaned over to me and whispered, "Gallagher Girl, why don't you go to bed? It's late anyway."
"Gallagher Girl? How do you know that's where I went to school?" I said, my voice was droopy with sleep, my letters were slurred.
Zach chuckled and pointed to my sweatshirt, "It says it right there."
"Oh." I was too tired to blush at my obvious and totally un-spy-like mistake.
"Come on, you should get some sleep, you look exhausted." Zach pulled me to my feet and walked with me to the bedroom.
It was only until I was already settled under the blankets that I wondered where Zach was going to sleep. "Zach? Wait. Where are you going to sleep?"
"I'll sleep on the couch, it's perfectly fine." He started to walk out of the room again.
"No, that's stupid. Come on, you can sleep in the bed." I said.
"I wouldn't want to make you uncomfortable. I'm fine on the couch."
"No, you're not. Come here. It's cold anyway." Zach walked back over to the bed. He took off his shoes and laid on top of the covers, next to me. We were both stiff for a few moments, until I turned on my side and closed my eyes. I felt Zach shift, and then I heard the steady breathing of someone who was asleep and I slept soundly.
The large windows in the bedroom made it impossibly bright. It felt too early for me to be awake, didn't I just go to sleep? I noticed that Zach wasn't beside me on the bed anymore, and I also noticed that there were two voices talking in the other room.
Macey showed up in the room only a few seconds later, proclaiming that it was time to get up and that I had to get ready to go pick up Bex, Liz, and two people named Nick and Jonas. She dragged me from bed and sat me in a chair before she began to "make me look pretty".
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