Soon we were on their trail again. "Anna, we have followed the subject out of the mall." I spoke into my comms unit. I waited for a reply. "Where are you now?" Anna's voice sounded in my ear. I stopped by a sign post. Crap. This was Josh's street. Macey and Liz stared at the sign post in shock and worry. "What if we see him?" I asked Macey, the worry sounding in my voice. I must have tempted fate because at that moment Josh rounded the corner with a group of his friends.
They were the boys that had cornered Anna in the pharmacy. A wave of fury washed over me. The group of boys were laughing and joking- their lives were so normal yet my life had changed so much in such a short period of time.
The group stopped when they saw us. Josh squinted as if to see us clearer then his eyes widened. "Hey, I recognise you." A very tall guy with broad shoulders pointed at Macey, "You're one of those Gallagher snobs!" He laughed. The whole group laughed except Josh.
"You're Cammie's friends, aren't you?" Josh asked even though he knew it wasn't a question. I nodded slowly. "Where is she? Is she with you?" this time I shook my head, "No, she's not with us." I said simply. He was with DeeDee so why would he want to see Cammie? I shot a confused look at him and he seemed to understand my confusion, "I really need to talk to her. DeeDee and I split up." He explained. Lauren flipped her curly, brown hair signalling that if we didn't get a move on then we would lose the trail. "I'm sorry that you broke up with DeeDee but Cammie's not here and we really have to go." I told the boy. He looked heartbroken. "Oh, could you tell her that I need to talk to her though?" my heart twisted at his words "No, sorry, she's not here. She's gone." I turned from the heartbroken boy and his bully friends and continued following the subjects.
By now, the boys were fully aware that they were being followed by us so they picked up the pace. Their pace increased and increased until we were sprinting after them. How Lauren managed to run that fast in heels that high is a mystery to me but we kept going. Since we knew the area so well, we had the upper hand. We chased them right into the other group. "Nice work guys!" I congratulated my classmates and tied the boys up.
We had the boys tied to chairs in an empty warehouse, we had the disc, and all we needed now was the password. The question was how to get the information out of them. Well, I had my mind made up but Liz reminded me that there are other ways to get them to tell other than beating the living shit out of them (though, in my opinion, the other ways aren't half as effective). Finally, the others saw sense and let me use force. I chose my victim and grinned.
After the third hard slap, Lauren pushed me out of the way. She did something that I really didn't expect! She pushed me out of the way and snogged him! I couldn't believe it! She grabbed his face and kissed him! "Er...Lauren..." I began but she just held a finger up to silence me and continued kissing him. We were all in shock, even Macey's jaw had dropped to the ground.
"Now will you tell me the code?" she whispered against his lips, both of them gasping for air. "N-no." The poor boy stammered. I felt sorry for him, I really did; he was obviously struggling to keep his lips sealed, quite literally, with a girl like Lauren kissing him. "Oh dear." Lauren pouted and resumed the kissing. It was clear she knew what she was doing. She moved from his lips to his neck and a small moan escaped the boy's free lips.
"Nine, four, six, zero, two, seven. No spaces." He whispered, the two other boys groaned in defeat. "I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear that." Lauren teased him. When he refused to speak again she bit his ear. "Ow! It's nine, four, six, zero, two, seven!" He repeated much louder and gave his friends an apologetic look. "Thank you." Lauren smiled sweetly at him and patted his head like a dog. It was quite cruel but I had to admire the girl.
"We're in." Liz announced.. She opened a document and read aloud for everyone to hear. "Well done girls, these are your..." she trailed off and her jaw dropped. What? These are our what? I ran to Liz and leant over her shoulder to get a better look at the computer screen. "These are your new classmates." She finished the sentence.