Cammie POV

So sooner or later, Zach is going to do something. It's going to be hard for him to pull something- remember, I'm a spy?

Today, Bex, Liz, Macey, and I were going to the indoor pool. Everybody was going to Roseville today, so we decided to relax. I'm wondering where Zach, Grant, and Jonas will end up going?

We headed down to the pool, each in a bikini. Since we're spies, we're in shape, so we have the bodies for bikinis. They were each simple, tied around the neck. We each padded down the hallway in our flip flops, laughing, talking to each other, carrying our towels. I had a feeling something was going to happen, and as usual, Zach usually has something to do with it…

I put my finger to my lips, and motioned for my friends to come forward. We could hear splashes through the door. I swung it open, and there getting out of the pool, soaking wet, was Zach. Grant and Jonas were also getting out, but my eyes were only for Zach. And that's when I put together his plan.

His plan wasn't like ours, the plan where you look/do something hott/sexy. No, his plan was to look hott in his swimming trunks which were so short they could be a speedo, but to look like that, and talk to a bunch of Gallagher girls. Oh, so he was trying to make me jealous.

Well, two can play that game, pretty boy. We all had cover-ups on, so lets just see what he thinks when we take them off- or more specifically, I take it off.

My friends and I crossed to the other side of the pool, and put down our towels, took of our flip flops, sunglasses, and then I turned so I was facing Zach, and a large portion of Blackthorne Boys (there were only a few Gallagher Girls left here, between 10 and 20, and most of the Blackthorne Boys stayed because they didn't want to shop).

I slowly took off my cover-up, and heard Macey say, "His eyes are bugging out, Cam." When I finally pulled it off, I locked eyes with him for a moment, and then shifted my eyes to the group of girls flirting with him. Apparently, they didn't realize he was using them, or the fact that he was mine. I internally shrugged, if he wanted to play, then let the games begin.

I took my hair out of its ponytail, allowing it to flow in waves down my back. A noticed a group of Blackthorne boys make their way over to my best friends and I. I smirked at him, he started to frown. I sat down on my lounge chair and allowed myself to be looked at as a prize. It was all for a worthwhile cause- the game.

I heard laughter from the other side of the pool and I opened my eyes through my tinted sunglasses. It was the idiotic girls sitting next to Zach. Ugh. I got up and walked over to the hot tub where Bex was. I was now twenty feet away from the lounge chair, and yet these boys were still following me. I took of my sunglasses and whipped them at my lounge chair out of anger. They landed perfectly, unharmed on my chair. To an outside person, they would have thought I had just forgotten to take them off. I climbed in next to Bex.

She had her eyes closed, and her head tilted back. She didn't see what happened but she knew- she was a spy.

"Angry much, Cam?" she asked, suppressing a smile.

"Oh and your not worried about all the girls surrounding Grant?" I asked, sarcastically. Her eyes suddenly popped open.

"Oh it's on." Was all she said. That's when I noticed Pervy Dan coming our way.

"Gotta go." I said quickly and got out, I was all wet now. I stalked off to my lounge chair and started drying myself off. I felt Dan's presence behind me.

"Hey, Gorgeous. Has your ankle healed yet?" he asked in a snide voice. I turned around and glared at him.

"Leave me alone you pervert." I retorted. He came up behind me and grabbed my towel. I saw Zach eyeing us suspiciously.

"What are you doing?" I spat.

He took the towel and started to try to dry my leg which was propped up on the lounge chair. I pulled away.

"Oh come on, sweetie. You know you want it."

"I already told you. I don't want it from you." I said, sneering.

"What do you see in him anyway?" he looked at Zach, who was debating coming over. I could see the look of conflict on his face. I mouthed 'help me' and he got up to come over. Pervy Dan saw this and turned to me. He roughly pulled me off the lounge chair and dragged me to the edge of the pool.

"Come on darling." He started running his fingers up and down my sides. I slapped them away.

"Don't touch me." I said through clenched teeth. "I will never want you. Got that?" I said. He turned me around harshly, holding my hands against my chest. He slipped his fingers down the side of my panties, stroking the side of my hip.

"Let go of her." Said Zach. I turned my head to see him standing a couple feet away, ready to pounce.

He began stroking me harshly.

"Stop touching me there you pervert!" I took the chance to twist out of his grip, but he grabbed my wrist and pulled me back.

He pulled me roughly against him, like he had in the library, and started grinding me. That's when Zach completely lost it.

He grabbed Dan and pulled me away from him. He flipped Dan backwards onto the hard tile floor. Dan kicked Zach's shin, and Zach grunted and went down. Dan got on top of Zach and was trying to punch him; Zach kept dodging the punches though. I was angry and hurled myself at Dan, and we went tumbling and rolling into the pool.

He tried to hold me down in the water, and I was clawing at him. He kept me down for so long I didn't hear Zach jump in the water. He yanked Dan away from me, and wrapped his arms around my waist. He pulled me above water, and when we got to the top I was gasping, coughing, and panting all at once. He pulled me out of the water and onto the side of the pool.

We both collapsed on our backs out of exhaustion.

"Let go of me!" I heard Pervy Dan yell. I looked up briefly to see Bex strangling Dan, and Grant pulling her off of him.

I turned to look at the boy next to me, my savior, Zachary Goode. He was breathing deeply, looking at me. He rolled onto his side.

"Are you okay? I thought he learned his lesson the last time." He said.

I nodded, "I'm fine. You saved me from him." I said smiling.

"Did he…touch you?" he asked reluctantly, looking away.

"No. The pervert kept telling me I wanted it." Strangely Zach smiled.

"I heard, you told him you did- just not from him." He rolled so he was leaning over me.

"Then who do you want it from?" he asked, pretending to look serious.

I looked up into his beautiful eyes, the eyes of my true love, and said, "I want it from you, and only you."

"Good." He said and got up, he held his hand down for me to grab. I groaned.

"What?" he asked innocently.

"Must you do that to me? You make me want to scream."

"I'll take that as a compliment, Gallagher Girl." He bent down and lifted me up by my waist. "But you know we'll both burst if I made my move."

"How about I make mine?" I said, and catching him off guard I shoved him into the pool and jumped in after him. I noticed that everyone had cleared the pool except for a few random kids- Bex was gone, probably chasing Pervy Dan somewhere for sexually assaulting me, and Grant was probably chasing her trying to stop her from committing a murder and getting kicked out of Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women.

I guessed Macey had gone back to the room and Liz and Jonas probably went somewhere together to talk and kiss.

Zach came up for air, "Oh it's on, Gallagher Girl." He dunked me, and came under after me. Even though there was chlorine in the pool, I was trained to resist the stinging pain in my eyes.

Underwater- we briefly looked into each other's eyes, and then it was like a movie, we kissed underwater. Eventually we had to come up for air though.

We played in the water for a while, I would swim away, and he would have to catch me.

Eventually we ended up in the hot tub, talking. Our bodies were side by side, pressed against each other.

I turned to look at him,

"Zach?"

He turned to look at me, "Yes?"

I bit my lip, "I've never really been able to show myself to people since my dad died. It's hard for me to express what I'm feeling." His expression softened.

"But, I wanted to tell you, that…I think…I love you." I said, then I did a dangerous thing, I looked into his eyes.

"I've wanted to tell you for so long, Cammie. I love you too." Then he kissed me, and this kiss had a meaning behind it.

I had finally told Zach to his face that I loved him, and he had told me that he loved me too.

I just can't express how I feel about Zach. He's amazing. How could he possibly love somebody like me? How could I be so lucky?

I didn't realize that the game could bring us closer together, but it did. Not only was it fun, but all the events led up to this point.

The game had to be the best I had played in a while, and it had been more exciting than any CoveOp's test ever taken. More exciting than sneaking out to see Josh, or last year's test in saving the Alumni Disk, or any mission.

This had been a mission-in a way- a mission of the heart.

Please review and tell me what you thought! A possible sequel, but I need ideas on what it would be about. I'm thinking about writing another story in the Gallagher Girls category. :)