Chapter 3

"So Gallagher Girl, you are stuck with me for yet another session?" Zach says smirking.

"Yeah unfortunately," I say as Zach laughs. We reach the classroom and we are already inside, we both head in taking a seat up the back. "Come on Cammie, I'm not bad. Who's the one picking you up tonight?" Zach asks smirking. I shrug.

"I can always walk" I say a smile spreading across my lips. Zach looks at me seriously and shakes his head. "That's dangerous Cammie bear" Zach says smirking at my nickname. I shake my head.

"Don't call me that Zach, ever." I say seriously as the class starts. Zach looks at me seriously unsure of what to say.

*End of Day*

"Bye guys, see you tonight!" I say waving goodbye to Bex, Macey, Grant, and Nick.

"Bye Cammie, I'll swing by your house at 6, so don't be late" Zach says smirking as he gets into his car. The tree of us, wave him goodbye. When we can no longer see his car the three of us walk together. "Hey Cammie, what really happened at your old school?" Liz asks curiously. I shrug casually. "Things went down wrong with a guy so I wanted a fresh start" I say happy to get that off my chest, even if that wasn't the whole truth.

*Flashback*

"Josh, I'm breaking up with you. It isn't working anymore" I say sighing. Josh looks at me, hurt and anger in his eyes. "You're going to pay for this Cammie" Josh says shoving me into a brick wall, and walking off, I see a tear fall to the ground, he cried over me.

*End of flashback*

Liz and Jonas look at me sadly. "I'm sorry Cammie, this is our stop. See you tonight!" Liz says waving goodbye.

*Flashback*

I was at the end of the year formal. I was dancing with one of my friends, Ben. He's a friend of mine, and was extremely happy to come with me, thank goodness! I see Josh out of the corner of my eye, standing over by the drinks table, I shudder. I look back over at Ben. "I'm going to go grab something to eat" I say smiling. Ben nods, as I head over to the food table. I grab a piece of Pavlova when someone whispers in my ear. "How was your night with Josh like a few weeks back, I heard you were pretty desperate to get in his pants" he says. I look at him shocked. "What? I didn't have sex with him" I say. The guy laughs walking off. A tear slips down my face as I head to the girls toilet. I rush inside the girls toilet when I see on the wall graffiti saying Cameron Morgan is a slut!

*End of flashback*

A tear slips from my eye as I head inside. I wipe the tear from my eye, and I see mum in the kitchen, cooking some Apple Slice. "Cammie! Your home! How was school? Did you make any new friends?" Mum asks bombarding me with questions. I laugh, putting my school bag in the lounge room.

"Yes, I did make some friends, and they're really nice. I'm actually spending the night with them tonight if that's okay?" I ask with puppy dog eyes. Mum smiles.

"Okay, okay. You can go, but you didn't answer my question. How was school?" Mum asks.

"Yeah it was good, I've been invited to the formal, and I'm going with a friend I made today" I say calmly. Mum looks at me questionably. "Formal? Cammie, do you not remember what happened at your last formal?" Mum asks me. I sigh.

"Yes mum, I do. But this schools different. Trust me, the people here really like me" I say smiling.

"And you probably thought that before things went toxic with Josh" Mum says quietly.

"Seriously mum if it goes bad, it's my fault, I just want a fresh start Mum" I say smiling. Mum nods.

"Just be careful Cammie" Mum says as she continues on with cooking. I head up to my room and start studying. When I'm finished, I look at my watch, it was 5:30. I better get ready. I look into my closet and find a dress. It was dark blue, tight against my skin. It was a one shoulder. I put on some make-up and curl my hair. Then I hear the doorbell. I look in the mirror one last time and head downstairs quickly. Mum had already answered the door. "I didn't know you were going to get picked up?" Mum says giving me the we'll-talk-about-this-later-look. I nod heading for the door my shoulder bad in hand. Zach looks at me and smirks. "You don't look too bad Cammie" Zach says. I nod looking down at myself. "You don't look too bad either Goode" I say, he had a white shirt on, and was wearing a tie and jeans. Zach smirks. "We'd better be heading off, it was great to meet you Ms Morgan" Zach says shaking her hand as we both walk out the door.

We both get in the car as I look at Zach worryingly. "What did she say to you?" I ask nervously.

Zach smirks. "Just to be careful" Zach says. I nod, hoping that was all. We drive to a restaurant called Worm Hole. I look at the title strangely. "Weird name I know. But trust me, the food's great" Zach says as we both get out of the car. We head into the restaurant, and it was definitely a gorgeous. There was a waterfall in the corner, and neon lights hang from the ceiling. "Reservation for McHenry" Zach says calmly. The man nods showing us to the table, where Liz, Jonas, Macey and Nick already were. "Hey Cammie! You look gorgeous! Twirl around" Macey says. I twirl around feeling kind of awkward. "Yep, this girl has some style" Macey says smiling. I laugh as I take a seat next to Macey as Zach sits opposite me. "I'll get my girl a drink, do you want coke?" Macey asks. I nod as Macey rushes off. "Looks like you've passed Macey's test" Nick says flashing me a smile. I nod, I was happy. "Guess what guys" Nick says slamming his hands on the table, causing me to flinch.

"Macey asked me to the formal! I thought she never would, but she did. It's going to be great" Nick says. We all smile, I knew that the two of them made a cute pair. "Congratulations man" Zach says giving Nick a high five. Macey takes a seat back at the table passing me my drink.

"So Cammie, do you have a boyfriend back at Westerville?" Macey asks taking a sip of her drink.

"I did" I say not wanting to reveal anything else about it.

"What happened?" Macey asks clearly intrigued. I take a sip of my coke and sigh.

"I don't want to talk about it" I say. Macey looks at me with puppy dog eyes.

"Come on Cammie? What happened?" Macey asks. Zach looks between Macey and I and sighs.

"Macey. Drop it" he says anger in his tone. Macey sighs.

"Sorry Cammie" Macey says taking a sip from her drink in defeat. Bex and Grant come over next, looking beautiful. "Hey Bex and Grant" we chorus as they take seats towards the end of the table.

"Let's choose what to eat guys" Bex says grabbing a menu. I share a menu with Macey and look over the choices. "I reckon I'll have the salt and pepper squid. It's my favourite" I say, it was Josh's least favourite food, but it had become my favourite because of it, and well it tasted good.

"Same here! I love salt and pepper squid" Zach says smirking. I smile brightly.

"That's awesome." I say. I see out of the quarter of my eye Liz, Macey and Bex exchange glances.

"Okay guys lets order" Macey says grabbing out her purse.

"Zach I'll pay for you" I say grabbing out my purse. Zach shakes his head.

"I'll pay Cammie" Zach says. I shake my head getting up.

"I'll pay, I owe you for the ride anyway" I say heading for the bar with Bex.

"After this the guys have to pack their stuff from their places so at Macey's we can have some girl talk" Bex says smiling giving me a nudge. We both order and head back to our seats. We all start talking away when a guy comes up to our table I know the face immediately. Ben.

"Cammie?" Ben says looking at me intently. I give him a wave and smile.

"Ben! How are you? What are you doing here?" I ask. Ben smiles.

"I work here actually, there was no work near Westerville so I thought why not here? And yeah I'm good" Ben says smiling. I nod, it was great to see Ben again, he stood by me when all the rumours were going around. "OMG! Where are my manners? These are my new friends" I say introducing them all. "Did you guys go out?" Macey asks out of the blue. Ben and I both look at each other and laugh. "No Cammie was my date to the formal at the end of the year" Ben says looking at me. Zach looks at me curiously, obviously remembering what I said about my last formal. "And I hear that you guys have a formal coming up? Tina Walters invited me as her date, her dad and my dad are close friends, so I was kind of obliged to go with her, but how about you guys?" Ben asks.

"We are all going. Looking at dresses tomorrow night" Macey says. Ben looks at me a worried look on his face. "So you're going Cammie?" Ben asks. I nod shyly.

"Well I'd better leave you guys to it, call me when you're free Cammie, I miss you at school" Ben says shyly. "How about you can stay over at my place tomorrow night? Mum would love to see you" I say. Ben nods. "I'll be around about 6. See you later guys" Ben says waving as he heads towards the bar.

"So he's from your old school? He's hot" Macey says admiring Ben's ass.

"He won't be interested Macey" I say casually. Macey looks at me curiously.

"Why? He's single ain't he?" Bex asks.

"Yeah he's single" I say casually.

"Then whats the problem?" Macey asks putting on her red lipstick.

"He's in love with me." I say casually. Zach looks at me intrigued.

"Don't you like him or something? I mean he's hot stuff, why wouldn't you go for that?" Macey says looking at the bar towards Ben. I let out a sigh. "It's complicated," I say. The girls look at me, unsure if they should push the topic but Zach gives them death glares.

Our food comes out and I'm kind of glad, we get to get off the topic of Ben and I. I start digging into my meal, and actually finish first. I take a sip of my coke and smile, tonight hadn't been that bad.

"Who's excited for tonight?" Macey says as we all raise our glasses.

"I am" we chorus laughing taking a sip of our drinks. We all finish our meals and head of.

I grab my stuff from Zach's car and hitch a ride with Bex. "Excited for tonight?" Bex asks as we stop at a traffic light. "Yeah, definitely" I say.

"Can I give you a word of advice?" Bex asks. I nod.

"Be careful with Zach" Bex says as we go through the green light, I look at her curiously.

"I know you guys are just friends, but Zach hasn't had the best luck with girls, so can you just be careful?" Bex asks. I nod, I'd never want to hurt one of my friends.

"I'll be careful, I promise. What happened though?" I ask nervously. Bex looks at me and gives me a sad smile. "Tina was his last girlfriend, she used him to try and get Nick to like her. Which of course didn't work as we all know who Nick likes," Bex says letting out a laugh.

"Can I give you some advice?" I ask. Bex looks at me as we park the car.

"Just ask him out" I say giving her a wink as we head inside. We put our bags in Macey's room and all take a seat on the ground cross legged. "Okay Macey, when are you going to ask out Nick?" Bex asks. Macey smiles. "At the formal. Did I make it so obvious that I liked him?" Macey asks lightly blushing we all laugh. "Even I saw that you liked him, it was obvious and I've only been here for a day," I say as we all burst out laughing.

"Hey Cammie, do you know. Like Zach?" Liz asks a blush forming on her face.

"Even if I did like him, I can't do relationships" I say casually. I heard the doorbell ring. The interesting stuff was about to start.

So what did you think? It was extra long, and took me ages to write, hope you guys liked it!

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