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CHAPTER 11

ZACH'S POV

"Just let me have a go at him!"

I kept screaming these words to my friends. They didn't want me to beat the crap out of... ALEX! That bastard! He kidnapped Cammie! Oh when I seriously see him, I would really kill him! He's only lucky that I didn't see him YET.

"Zach, dude! Look, just calm down, okay?" Jonas told me. Then he muttered to himself, thinking that I wouldn't hear him, "I know I shouldn't have told him it was Alex."

"Seriously, Jonas? Are you freaking serious? If you didn't tell me, I probably would have been freaking out here already!"

"You already are freaking out, so what's the point in arguing?"

"Why you-"my shouting was cut off until I realized what Jonas said.

"What I meant to say was how right you are Jonas."

"Oh stop being such a gentleman. It doesn't work on you."

I gasped dramatically while putting a hand above my heart, "How hurtful!"

"Zachary Goode, I swear if you don't shut up this instant, I would strangle you to death! And don't you dare talk like that again. You sound gay!" Bex shouted at me.

I scowled at her direction and when I was positive she wasn't looking at me anymore, I gave her the finger.

"Bex! Bex! Bex! Bex! Bex! Zach just-"I cut Liz off with a death glare.

"Hey, don't you dare give my girl that look." Jonas told me with a stern look on his face. And that look practically screams "If-you-dare-look-at-her-that-way-again-I-could-kill-you-with-my-stylus."

"Okay, okay, I'll stop. So what do we do now? When are we going to save Cammie? Where is she? Come on! Answer me!" I demanded.

"I swear, Goode, if you really don't shut that huge hole in your face, I will seriously kill you." Bex threatened me again.

"You do know that you would get an answer if you even bother helping us, right Zach?" Macey told me.

"Yeah, Macey's right. All you do is pace around the room while all of us here work so hard to locate Cammie." Liz said.

"Well, sorry." I really wasn't sorry. "When I pace around the room, I get really good ideas."

"Oh is that so? So, since you've been doing that for the past 2 hours, will you tell us your 'really good idea'?" Macey demanded.

"Are you challenging me? I guess you are. So my really good idea is..." I trailed off to add the suspense.

"You don't have, do you?" Bex asked.

I sighed in defeat, "Yes, I don't have one." I fell face first on Jonas' bed. GAH. I'm really frustrated right now. "I suck." They probably didn't hear me because my voice was muffled due to the fact that I fell face first on the bed. I did tell you that already, but I wanted to again. Much to my dismay, they heard me.

"Yes, you suck big time." they chorused.

I sat up on the bed because I couldn't breathe anymore then I told them sarcastically, "You really are such good friends."

"Wow, even Zach is sarcastic! You and Cammie are really meant to be. If you two talk to each other, we probably wouldn't know if you two are even telling each other the truth." Liz said.

As soon as those words were said, I couldn't help but feel really sad. She got kidnapped because of my stupid question. I shouldn't have fought with her over that statement!

I desperately wanted to tell Cammie these words, "Look up into the galaxy tonight. The stars illuminate the love we make. If love is blind, why do I see you so clearly now?" (A/N: These lines are from Alex Goot's "Pretty Eyes". I don't own this song or anything!) Then after I told her those words, she would blush, her really cute blush that never fails to make me smile whenever I see it.

"Jonas Scott, Elizabeth Sutton, Rebecca Baxter, Macey McHenry, and Zachary Goode, please proceed to the headmistress' office immediately."

We all looked at one another and there were a lot of questions running through our minds. Our faces were all the same. It was a mixture of panic, shock and a bit of relief. Relief, because maybe Headmistress Morgan could help us, unless she knew about what happened to her daughter, and that's where panic and shock come in.

"Well, we can't let Headmistress Morgan wait for us. Come on you guys." Macey told us.

We all went out of Jonas' suite. He wasn't alone in that suite, if you're wondering. He shares it with Alex. And it just so happens that Alex and Grant are 'mysteriously' missing. Why put quotation marks over the word mysteriously, you ask. Well, their disappearance answers our suspicions. It is obvious that both of them went to the Circle's lair.

As soon as we were in front of Rachel Morgan's office, (please don't tell Headmistress Morgan that I just called her Rachel) we heard an ear shattering scream. Jonas and I didn't waste any more time knocking on the door that wasn't about to be answered so we broke down the door (oops, sorry Mrs. Morgan) and we saw Headmistress Morgan breaking down into tears while she was being hugged by Mr. Solomon.

"Kids, I have bad news." Mr. Solomon told us in a monotone voice.

I gulped and asked him, "What is it, Sir?"

I stared at his eyes and I saw that it was also filled with tears, "We just received a note from Cindy. They're going to kill Cammie unless..."

I was so shocked to hear this. Wait, Mr. Solomon wasn't finished talking. "Unless what?"

"We give her her son."

"Wait, give her son? He's here? So if he's here, let's give this dude to her! Cammie can't die. She just can't." I was on the verge of crying but as a strong man, I won't cry.

"Can I just guess who Cindy's son is? I bet it's Alex." Bex said.

"You're right. Alex is Cindy's son. But she has another son in here. And he is what she calls her 'Second-In-Command'." Headmistress Morgan told us. At this point, she stopped crying but I could see in her eyes that she was really hurting inside.

"Then let's give this 'Second-In-Command' to her!" I demanded.

She looked at me with pity. Wait, why pity? Then, I realized why she was looking at me that way.

"I'm her son, am I?" I asked her in a low voice.

"Yes, Zach. You are Cindy's son." she told me.

"I can't be her son. My mom's name isn't Cindy. It's Stephanie. Cindy isn't my mom."

"Stephanie is Cindy's older sister who took care of you when Cindy was being a neglectful mother to you. The mother you know right now is your Aunt. And I'm sorry to tell you that, she's dead. Cindy killed her when she was about to go here and tell you everything. I'm so sorry, Zach."

At this point, I didn't care about being a strong man. I didn't stop the tears that dropped from my eyes. My mother, or aunt, is dead. And my real mother killed her. My real, neglectful and evil mother killed her.

"Hey! Let go of me!"

Those words snapped me out of my internal turmoil. I turned to see four huge men capture my friends and then they injected each of them a drug and they immediately went limp.

My eyes widened at what I just witnessed and Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Solomon didn't even do anything to stop those guys from drugging my friends.

"Why the hell didn't you stop them?" I shouted at them. I don't care if they're teachers but they didn't even bother protecting them!

"Don't waste your energy, Zachary," an unfamiliar voice told me.

I turned to see a blonde haired woman wearing business clothes.

"Who are you and how do you know my name?" I asked this mysterious woman.

"I, Zachary, am your real mother."

"Wha- You- Wha- You're Ci-Ci-Cindy?" I stuttered.

"Very good, Zachary!"

"Stop calling me that!"

"We'll talk later, son. Right now, I have to take care of some... business." I didn't like the way she said the last word.

She reached to grab something inside her coat and I realized it was a tranquilizer dart gun. Suddenly, she aimed the gun to Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Solomon. She didn't hesitate shooting them and they both landed at the ground immediately.

"Why did you do that?" I asked her.

"Your friends and teachers aren't hurt. They're just not going to remember anything when they wake up. You," she pointed to one of the huge guys, "grab my son and let's go."

When huge guy number one was making his way towards me, I thought of hurting him when Cindy called out, "Don't you dare fight. But, if ever you still do it, he'll just drug you like what he did to your friends. On second thought, Carl, drug him."

As I was about to defend myself, I felt a little stab on my right arm and I saw that he injected me already. And in a matter of seconds, I was engulfed in total darkness.

Ooohhhh. Cliff hanger. O.o hihi sorry! :)) Oh yeah. I edited some pictures to make up the cast of this story. Please check out my profile and the link to the pictures is in my description thingy. :D So be sure to check them out and tell me what you think! :D