Chapter 8

I'd headed back home and Zach had headed back to school. Mum wasn't home luckily so I just head back to my place and just head to my room, and fall asleep instantly. I wake up and notice that its night time, I check my clock and see that its 8:30. I yawn getting out of bed quickly to grab something to drink, I grab a coke out of the fridge and find mum watching T.V in the lounge room.

"Hey sweetie, how was school?" Mum asks. I shrug.

"It was okay, we didn't do much" I say taking a sip of my coke. Mum smiles warmly.

"Okay then, I invited Ben's dad to come over tonight, apparently he needs to talk to you" Mum says tapping her foot up against the coffee table. The doorbell rings and I just laugh.

"Right on cue" I say heading over to the door. I open it and smile at Ben's dad Mr Hargraves.

"Cammie!" Mr Hargraves says wrapping his arms around me in a hug. I smile warmly.

"Mr Hargraves, great to see you" I say smiling. Mr Hargraves just shakes his head.

"Call me Darren Cammie, can we have some privacy Rachel? I need to talk to Cammie" Darren says. Mum smiles warmly. "Of course, I'm going to bed anyway night Cam" Mum says kissing my forehead and heading off to her room down the corridor. I look over at Darren as we both walk over to the couch, taking a seat. "Cammie, it's about Ben, I'm worried about him" Darren says playing with his fingers. I nod sadly. "He tried to kill himself Cammie, we had to rush him to hospital" Darren says sadly. All these thoughts rush through my head in that thirty seconds, Ben tried to kill himself. I'm left speechless. "Yeah it's hard to believe, he's such a strong boy, I just wanted you to I don't know help him or something, I don't want to lose my son" Darren says as his eyes fill with tears.

I wrap my arm around him as he puts his head on my shoulder. "I'll try my best Darren, don't you worry, I can't lose him either" I say, Darren smiles.

"Okay, thanks Cammie, I'll see you later" Darren says shaking my hand and walking out the door. I head back to my bedroom putting on my PJ's and get into bed, I didn't even want to think about Ben, I just wanted to go to sleep to forget about it.

I wake up that morning to the sound of Mum beeping the horn of her car, as she had obviously left for work. Mum worked as a real estate agent back over at Westerville, as Westerville was a max of 15 minutes away from Roseville she didn't need to switch jobs, which was great because she absolutely loved her job, especially the people she worked with. I get up and all I could think of were Darren's words he'd almost died, no he'd almost killed himself. I get out of bed, my mood was ruined, no way was I going to school like this.

Zach POV

I walked to school today for once; well I only did because my car broke down but whatever. I couldn't pick Cammie or Liz up, so I'd texted them saying I couldn't carpool. I head into the school and see sitting there were the whole group except Cam. The bell rings, geez I was late. Where was Cammie? I run up to catch up to the group. "Hey guys where's Cammie?" I ask. The girls shrug.

"No idea" they chorus.

"Just text her" Bex says slowing down for me. The gang stops.

"Zach, we know you really care for Cammie, but she's probably sick" Nick says slowing down

"You didn't see her yesterday! She was crying, I took her to my place and she wouldn't tell me what was wrong, then she ran off and when I caught up to her she was full on sobbing, so yeah I am worried about her" I say angrily. The girls look at me, sympathetic looks on their faces.

"Zach, we'd tell you if we could. Cammie told us not to, we're sorry Zach" Liz says quietly. Zach smiles sadly. "I'm just really worried about her" I say sighing as I head into my class with Grant.

Cammie POV

I'd stayed at the house for four hours now; my phone had about a billion texts from Zach on it. I'd been wanting to text Ben all day today, but seeing as he was mostly at school I didn't want to worry him. I throw my ball against the wall again catching it easily; I was so bored. I feel my phone go off in my pocket again. Zach. Ugh. I open up the message and look at it I'm not talking to you anymore until you tell me whats wrong-Z. Tears stream down my face as I reply the tears falling onto my phone. Zach, please don't do this, its ten times more complicated than you think-C

I press send and wipe the tears from my face and head to the kitchen to grab a drink of water. I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket again and sigh. I open it up and sigh even louder.

Next message if it isn't telling me whats wrong, I'm not talking to you anymore-Z

I hear the doorbell go, and I head for the door, opening it, and seeing Bex standing there, with the girls in toe. I see Macey holding an esky in her hand and Liz was holding a stack of movies.

"The girls are here to help!" Macey says plonking the esky on the bench as Liz puts the dvds on the coffee table. "Crisis at the moment" I say. The girls look at me intrigued.

"Look at these" I say passing Macey my phone as Liz and Bex look over her shoulder

"Zachary is so dead, wait a second" Macey says pulling her phone out.

"I'll put it on speaker" Macey says as she calls Zach. I sigh; this was not going to go down well.

"Macey, where are you guys? We can't find you at school" Zach says. Macey just rolls her eyes.

"That's because we decided to go see Cammie to go see whats bloody wrong with her!" Macey says angrily. I hear Zach sigh in the background. "How can you just blackmail Cammie Zach? How can you do that? Your own bloody best friend! Can't you bloody understand that she doesn't want to tell you?" Bex says taking the phone off Macey. I just stand there unsure of what to say or do.

"Okay, okay I get it. Can you just tell Cammie I'm sorry, and that I'm just really worried about her?" Zach asks. I grab the phone off Bex and sigh. "Zach its fine, I'm sorry too" I say.

"Okay well I'd better go, I've got to head to my next class. But I'll come by straight after school" Zach says as I hang up the phone. The girls just look at me and sigh.

"Okay seriously Cammie, why won't you tell Zach?" Macey asks as we all take a seat on the couch. I sigh loudly. "Because I think I'm falling in love with Zach, and I don't want him to see how weak I am, and how well, what if he believes it? Believes that I'm really a slut?" I say.

"Cammie, its Zach, he'll take your side okay?" Bex says. I nod sadly. When would I ever have the guts to tell Zach?

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