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CHAPTER 8

Cammie POV

We walked into the living room, with Zach's arm firmly around my waist. I held my head high and walked in. Bex and Macey both smiled at me but I could see that they looked worried. Grant and Nick looked up as we walked in and tried to act that nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Everyone knew about Venice now. And I was glad. Because I had finally set free a secret which had been pulling me closer and closer to the ground, weighing me down. And now I felt as free as a balloon. I smiled.

"So, guys, what are we doing today?" Nick asked looking across the room. I eased into a seat at the table and watched as everyone else did the same, Zach sat next to me, holding my hand gently.

"Well, we have 2 days until the opera," Zach started, his eyes deep in thought, "so realistically we only really need one day to plan and so forth and the other can just be… anything," he finished with a shrug.

"Let's plan today," Macey said as she pulled her hair into a ponytail (I saw Nick watching with a glazed expression), "tomorrow can be day off or something, besides, the weather's supposed to be good tomorrow, so we can go out." Macey shot a look to Nick and the guys and they swallowed. Me and Bex just laughed.

"Okay," I said with a grin, "let's start."

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"Okay people, this is the plan," Zach started, as he looked at the sheet of paper which we had been discussing for the last 3 hours, "at 7.30 pm Friday we leave here, expected arrival at Opera House: 7.45 pm."

"7.45 pm we check in and get ready," Macey continued, "8.00 pm, Opera starts."

"Arrival time stated for and by Serie Mulana is 8.30 pm," Nick then continued as he eyed the sheet of paper in Zach's hand, "the Subject hands the note over and leaves approximately at 8.45 pm." I watched everyone at the table, their eyes bright and posture straight. They were excited. They were ready. I was ready.

" We have half an hour before the stated arrive of the second party, who is unknown at the current time but we will identify him with the coded message, 'well aren't the birds flying high tonight?'" Bex said with a glint in her eye.

"The half an hour is crucial as we need to copy and save the information while also making a replica with false information on it," Grant tapped the table as he spoke. Suddenly I realised something.

"Wait," I said just as Zach opened his mouth. Everyone looked at me.

"Do we know how to replicate the message?" I asked, not sure of the answer. There was silence at the table. Then Bex, Macey and I grinned at each other.

"Don't worry boys," Macey said with a smile, "we know the perfect person for the job," we smiled at each other thinking of a very small, blonde girl we knew very well.

"So do we," Nick said with a 'duh' tone, "we have the best person for the job." Macey narrowed her eyes at Nick.

"Your person can in no situation be better than ours," Macey looked annoyed.

"Oh don't worry, our person is the best in the business," Nick replied staring Macey in the eye.

"No," Macey started but I cut her off.

"They both can come," I said with a shrug, "it would look less suspicious if they looked like a couple rather than coming by themselves while all of us have partners," I said this with conviction but I also wanted to know who they thought could be better than our own Liz Sutton. Not likely. Everyone shrugged and agreed. They looked at me expectantly.

"Okay, so after we replicate it, we hand it over to the second party. He leaves at approximately 8.30 pm. And then we leave." I finished off, leaning back in my chair.

Macey leapt up, and grabbed the phone.

"Hey Liz," we heard her say, "yeah I'm good. Anyway, Liz, you wanna come to Venice?"

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