Author's Note: Sorry, I didn't actually mean to update in 2012...Anywhoo... Life caught up to me once again fanfictioners... Life sucks , right? So here's another chapter with a recap(: Your welcome. Oh and by the way , this chapter is actually longer than some of the other ones( mostly recent), so you can have a field day with that. NEWS: This story is probably ending soon. Therefore, there could be two endings. One that gets you a sequel and one that doesn't. If I get at least ten reviews saying you want a sequel I may do one. If I get no reviews involving a sequel then I will figure that you hate my lack of updating , which is understandable, and don't want another story like this from me OR you didn't read this part . Which is fine , cause it will be copied and put to the bottom. Kay? Bye! Love ya'
Recap (Because it has been a while and some of my lovely readers asked for it): Cammie came back from her "vacation" with a person named Lance. Lance turned out to be scum, and was working for the Circle with some girl named Lisa Pepperman. It then turned out that they were not who they said they were (of course) .The gang then met Jacob Delaney, aka Jake. Soon it was discovered that they all needed to go to France and Germany to finish what had been started. On the way there the girls thought Cammie had "cheated" on Zach with either friend, Riley or Brandon. The rest of the gang eventually found out that Brandon had died and Riley was just her friend(which made sense, because he IS gay…). They captured a Circle member at "Lance's" house in France, and gave them the information that a certain mission, involving Cammie dearest, was not authorized. They were waiting on Riley's "okay" to head over to Germany when Bex, Liz, and Macey started having doubts and relationship strains. The boys had an argument over Taylor Lautner's hair in Twilight. Then they all decided to brush up on their skills some more, so they wanted to go to the Mall. Jake practically admitted that Derek and Riley, who are currently working in the Circle's base in Germany, sent Jake to check on Cammie and the gang. Bex, Liz, and Macey have found out that the boys go to a school for assassins…
Riley just showed up in the parking lot of the mall, where they were supposed to do a spying "game."
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Cammie POV
I looked at my friend. He had gotten taller and stronger since I had last seen him. His red hair hung on his forehead in natural curls, nothing Justin Bieber-like. The bright blue eyes reflected his smile. His fingers still looked nimble, as if they had the designer's touch. Which makes sense, because the twenty-one year old was good with clothing.
"Riley, you know I love you, but what are you doing here?" I cocked my hip to the side with a knowing look at Riley. He has always been like an overprotective brother to me, much like Grant and Jonas.
"You know I can't keep a secret from you, but really we should go get your friends from the mall and go back to the house, so we can discuss things."
"We just got here! Cammie, tell your friend we just got here. We just got here!" Grant ranted. Then some unidentified male came walking out of the mall while carrying a very furious Bex , with Macy and Liz following them. The girls did not seem happy…
"Who is that?" Jonas asked. The man was getting closer to us. Zach finally looked up, and Riley turned around to look at him.
"Derek?" Zach questioned.
"Derek! You found the girls." Riley clapped his hands. I must have had a confused look on my face because Zach got closer.
"I know him from Solomon. He was helping us bring the Circle down." He whispered to me. I nodded my head in understanding. Random people just decide to show up now in my life, of course.
"Unhand me, you bumbling bit of baboon! I will rumble you to the death!" Bex shouted. The aforementioned Derek's face was priceless when she said baboon.
"Is she serious?" Derek looked at us, as if expecting us to say she is joking.
"Hey Bri'ish Bombshell, how are you?" Grant asked in a terrible British accent. This earned him a firm stop on the foot. He then crouched over in pain. "She's dead serious, whoever you are. Good lord, Bex! That really hurt."
"Good." Bex replied while looking at her nails, as if they were ever in need of a manicure. I looked down at mine, and they were of course, average.
"She's a feisty one; I'll tell you that." Derek shook his head and proceeded to let Bex go. This earned him a good whack in the face.
"You were right, Cam! I do love her." Riley agreed with me. I nodded my head.
"You know these idiots?" Bex asked.
"Well, I know Riley, and Riley seems to know Derek, who got you three out of the mall." Riley and Derek seemed to have nodded in agreement. Jake looked up at Macey with somewhat regretful eyes. She did not seem to notice, unless she hid it well.
"So, Riley, why are we going back to the house again?" Zach gave me a pointed look. Grant and Jonas seemed to be interested as well. The girls seemed confused.
"Because there are some things we need to discuss."
"Such as?" I wanted to know why we had to go back to the house. Something smelled fishy around here, and it was not Bex's faux alligator shoes.
"Uhm, sorry to interrupt this little pow-wow going on here, but could someone care to explain what is going on?" Macey looked at Riley and I.
"I'm Riley, Cam's friend, nice to meet you, Ms. McHenry, and those are some adorable shoes." Riley pointed at Macey's new Gucci heels that she happened to be very fond of, score one for Riley.
"Flattery will get you nowhere darling." Macey crossed her arms and put her perfectly pierced nose in the air. Score two goes to Macey.
"Oh, but it's gotten me on a nickname bases, now hasn't it?" Riley raised his eyebrows at her. Riley wins.
"We'll see." Macey said in a huff as she made a beeline for the car. Riley turned to look at the rest of us.
"Come on now, we haven't got all day!" Riley got into his Honda, and Derek followed suit.
We all pulled up to the house. I was ready to start asking questions, but the perimeter had to be secure first. After everyone got out the cars, I tossed Riley and Derek the keys to the house with some evapopaper instructions.
"Grant and Jonas you check the North side of the house, Liz and Bex check the South side, Macey and Zach check the East, Jake and I will check the West." I was about to walk away with Jake when Zach pulled my arm for a quick talk.
"What are you thinking, Cam?" Zach looked around, as if someone would intrude on our conversation. I had pondered how to answer that, eventually I decided to tell him the truth.
"That I can multitask." I replied simply, Jake and Macey were both giving me a look, so I gave them a nod to wait for us.
"You can't fix someone else's relationship, Gallagher Girl, it doesn't work that way." He looked me in my eyes, as if he were searching for something. There are those eyes that make me melt, again. I swallowed.
"Well I can damn sure try, can't I? Or is that off limits too?" I swear my voice cracked right there, but I had to let it go like a leaf in the wind didn't I?
"I'm not saying it's off limits; I'm saying that you may get yourself into something deeper than you bargained for." He had smirked, before and after he said that. God, I needed to go secure the area, now, before it was too late.
"Can we continue this inside?" I looked up at him.
"Sure." He turned away and walked over to Macey. I went towards Jake.
"What was that all about?" He asked as we started to scan the area.
"Nothing, just relationship stuff." I replied, actually not wanting to answer him.
"You two in murky waters again?" Why was he asking me this question? This might be on the brink of getting too personal.
"I don't know." I wanted to steer the conversation onto his relationship.
"It's always something with you two." Somehow, he became stuck on my relationship. I looked low, while he looked high. I thought carefully about my words before I replied.
"I suppose so, but that's what keeps it interesting sometimes." I could feel his stare at my back, but I just kept on.
"So are you in the same boat as Mace and I?" He finally looked away. I could finally breathe. Something was off about him, and not just today.
"You two are broken up, Zach and I are together." I looked at the ground for footprints. Sadly, there was none. There goes my chance to escape this conversation entirely.
"Do you love him?" I spun around to look at him. I knew the answer; Zach knew the answer, but why would Jake of all people want to know?
"What is with the sudden questions about Zach and me?" He looked me in the eye and stepped closer. I swear I just wanted this to end, and not on this note.
"I don't know." There was a deafening silence after that. I tried to process the next series of events, but I could not seem to.
"You could've run away with him then you know." Jake whispers in my ear. I nod, because of the huge lump in my throat, but it was not the tingly kind, it was the bad kind. It left me feeling hallow.
"You know about that." It technically should have been a question, but it was more a statement, because it was obvious that he knew.
"Yeah, I do. I get why you didn't; he shouldn't have asked you in the first place." He stepped ahead of me and kept sending glances my way.
"Why would you say something like that?" This was ridiculous! How could he just waltz in here and talk about my relationship as if it was tartar sauce?
"Because if he knew you as well as I did, he would know you have to do stuff by yourself." This boy was treading on thin ice over the fiery pits of hatred. I got really close to him, and I could tell my face must have been a flaming red from a mixture of embarrassment and anger.
"I don't know what you think you know about me, but you don't know squat about Zach and me. If I were you I would keep my nose where it belongs, or else someone may be forced to rip it off your face." Nothing could have prepared me for what happened next.
30 minutes later-
I stormed into the house, fuming at Jake. He followed close behind. Riley and Derek sat on the couch.
"You had no right to say what you said and do what you did, Jake! I do not care who told you what. Stay out of my way." I ran up the stairs into my room, emotionally exhausted. I heard the others come in.
"I hope no one minds my asking, but what the hell just happened?" Grant asked.
"It seems as if Jake said something to Cammie…what else happened I have no clue about." Riley said.
"Jake, you and me, upstairs, in five minutes." Derek commanded. I heard footsteps that must have been Jake's, because Derek said, "I am truly sorry everyone, he is technically my responsibility."
"Better yours than mine." Macey muttered.
"So, when are we going to put personal issues aside and have this meeting?" Riley asked. I rolled my eyes; Riley was so straightforward.
"I think the real question is: who is going to talk to Cammie?" Zach questioned. I groaned. I do not feel like talking with him or with Macey now. I tuned out of their conversation and went to lie down on the bed.
I heard the door creek open and I was met with a pair of brown shoes.
"Jonas?" I inquired. It wasn't often that Jonas and I had conversations by ourselves. Don't get me wrong, he was nice and everything, but we just didn't talk often.
"What's wrong, Cammie?" I sighed. Why had they sent Jonas up? Maybe as a way to tell how angry I was? Whatever. Forget it, Cammie.
"Jonas, Jake is such an ass." I finally replied. Jonas sat down next to me on the floor in front of the bed.
"And?" He looked at me, knowing, somehow, that there was more. The kid is a genius.
"I wish he wasn't here." I admitted. I mean, come on. The extra baggage is enough. It is obvious he didn't want to be here, so he didn't have to be here.
"Do you wish he wasn't here or do you wish what happened didn't happen?" God, this was really starting to bug me; we are sidestepping around the real conversation he wants to have.
"It wouldn't have happened if he weren't here!" Truth is, I don't want to have the conversation he wants to have. I don't want to know, or reflect on what happened. I just know that I want this to be completely finished.
"Exactly what did happen, Cam?" He looked at me expectantly.
Jake POV
"Jake, why in the world would you say something like that to Cammie, You know she is sensitive to those kinds of things!" Here goes Derek, always trying to tell others what to do with their pathetic lives. I had started packing to get out of this place; it became too much for me too fast.
"Sorry, Derek, but someone had to tell her, or else it would become too late!" He is trying to lecture me? Wow, you know in all of the years I spent as a kid, I always wanted my dad to lecture me… Oh, well. Too late for that, I suppose.
"Too late for what?" He stepped closer to me. I could smell his cologne. The scent I had spent years wanting and an eternity hating.
"For the truth to be told that's what!" He asks these questions as if he didn't know. He knew. He had to know.
"Jake, we have gone over this; the truth isn't always what is best for people." Of course, we have gone over it. Of course, we have spent hours having this same exact conversation. Of course, he thinks it's about him leaving us. Of course. I turned around to face him.
"Just because I'm angry at you for walking out on my mom and me doesn't mean…"
"I didn't walk out on you, Jake! I didn't want you and your mother caught up in this mess!" He decides to cut me off… priceless.
"Well look how great that turned out to be? Are you proud of me now? Your son that you ran away from is here and you still don't want him to be! Well, it's fine; I'm gone." I knew he didn't want me here; he just didn't have the guts to say it himself. I continued packing.
"I didn't run away from you! I didn't even know you existed until…" He is lying.
"Until what, huh? Until Matthew Morgan killed my mother because of you? Or until I became embedded into the Circle?" Quickly, I spun around. More lies. More and more lies just pour out of his lying, sorry ass mouth.
"You can't blame me for that and you damn sure can't blame Cammie!" If he put the sort of effort into being a real father that he does into lying, I might actually like him.
"You send me on a mission to protect the daughter of a man that killed my only parent, and you expect me not to blame it on something? You are seriously messed up!" He looked torn and yet he didn't look sorry for his bastardizing.
"Jake, can't you see that you are on the same road as me?" He stretched out his arms and pleaded. It's funny that he is still trying to "get through" to me.
"Like father, like son, eh?" I headed towards the door again. This time was different. He didn't try and stop me. At least until he talked again.
"Is it wrong for me to want you to be different and stop being so blocked out from the world? Is it that wrong?" He was angry again. But it was a different kind of angry. Almost an agonizing kind of angry.
"No, what you are trying to do is completely reasonable, but it is too late for that." I turned my head back to look at him.
"I swear sometimes it feels like you want to kill people for a living." Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. But it is for me to find out.
"Whatever pays the bills, right?" I held my bag over my shoulder and started heading toward the door.
"For an assassin, you have some serious emotions issues, kid." I stopped as those words flew out of his mouth, and turned around.
"Thanks pop. I learn from the best." Knowing it would be the last time I saw any of them, I fled.
Author's Note: Sorry, I didn't actually mean to update in 2012...Anywhoo... Life caught up to me once again fanfictioners... Life sucks , right? So here's another chapter with a recap(: Your welcome. Oh and by the way , this chapter is actually longer than some of the other ones( mostly recent), so you can have a field day with that. NEWS: This story is probably ending soon. Therefore, there could be two endings. One that gets you a sequel and one that doesn't. If I get at least ten reviews saying you want a sequel I may do one. If I get no reviews involving a sequel then I will figure that you hate my lack of updating , which is understandable, and don't want another story like this from me OR you didn't read this part . Which is fine , cause it will be copied and put to the bottom. Kay? Bye! Love ya'