Chapter 5

My weekend went by pretty boring after that. Nothing interesting happened until that Tuesday morning when I was called into a meeting in the teachers' lounge.

Joe stood up. "We have a very important announcement. We plan to have another exchange with Blackthorne."

"So what does that mean for the school?" Bex asked.

"And when will they be here?" Macey asked.

"They'll be here this Friday along with a few spies who participated in the last exchange to give them guidance while they're here," Joe said.

"What exactly does that mean?" Liz asked.

Joe answered, "Well, last time the boys were here they had an advisor to be in charge and help with classes." Dr. Steve. I hated him so much. "This time around four young men who the boys know will come with and assist in teaching."

I raised an eyebrow, dreading the answer to my question. "Who are they?"

"Jonas Anderson will be assisting Liz." Liz's face filled joy. I grinned at her. "Grant Newman will be with Bex." Bex looked almost as excited as Liz. She'd seen him once or twice since high school, but they never really could talk. "Nick Cross will be helping Macey." Macey rolled her eyes. Nick was a year older than us and he used to try to flirt with her, but Macey being Macey, she rejected him. Now that her and Preston had broken up, I'm pretty sure she might change her mind. "And Zachary Goode will be helping-" Bri looked so excited. "Cammie." Her face instantly fell. This was lovely. Mother and secret father standing in front of their daughter and her classmates. Someone could easily notice.

"What does them helping us entail?" I asked, very upset that I had to work calmly and rationally with Zachary Goode.

This time, Mom answered. "They'll help write lesson plans, participate in lectures and discussions, and specifically in your case, Cammie, he will help plan missions and accompany you to help monitor the students. I nodded. Yay. That was sarcastic, by the way. "Those four boys will be here after lunch, in your offices so as to not alert the girls. They can't be seen by anyone that isn't faculty. These three days are meant to work on lesson plans for the first few days. I'll give you an hour to spend with greetings and reunions." That comment was primarily directed towards Liz and Bri. "Now get to your classes."

The whole morning I felt like I was trudging through the mud. Just slowing dragging my feet through the day, dreading the minute I walked down to my office to see Zachary Goode. On my way out of the lunch room, Sam stopped me.

"What's going on, Mom?" She asked.

I stared at her with fake confusion. "What do you mean?"

"I know you. I know that you're upset right now but I don't know why," Sam answered.

"I'm perfectly fine," I replied. "Now I have a meeting to go to." I tried to walk around her but she stopped me.

Sam rolled her eyes. "Yeah, nice try. You're not. You might be busy but I'm getting the full story later." I nodded and walked off. I should've kept talking to her to stall, but I knew I had to face him.

I got in the elevator to the Sublevels and went to Sublevel 1, I walked towards my office and threw open my door, and then I saw something that shattered my heart all over again. Bri and Zach making out on my desk chair. I coughed. I liked Bri so far but the face she made at me made me hate her a little. For about three seconds, she looked incredibly smug. Zach at least had the decency to be embarassed about me seeing them.

"Sorry, Cam. You know how it is," Bri said. I did. I knew what it was like to get caught up in the moment with Zach. In her case, it ended a little better.

"Hi... Cammie," Zach said. I could sense how uncomfortable he was calling me Cammie. I was always Gallagher Girl and the fact he didn't call me that just hurt me even more. I wanted to go cry and eat ice cream and pretend none of this was happening. I might say him, but this encounter showed I'm clearly still head over heels for Zachary Goode.

I smiled. "Hi, Zach."

Bri grinned. "So, Zach, Cammie told me you were friends in high school. What did you guys do? What made you friends?"

I decided to be honest. "Truthfully, I hated Zach for a big portion of the semester. I started thinking of him as a friend when he helped me during a CoveOps mission. The beginning of my sophomore year, I snuck out into town to go on dates with a civilian. The CIA found out so I had to stop. I ran into him in town when I was stuck being mission partners with Zach and he pretended to be my boyfriend to scare Josh away."

"Josh?" Bri asked. I nodded. Wait! Crap! Now she was going to make a scene. "Is that the guy you're going on a date with this Friday?" Zach's eyes filled with rage. Good.

"He is. I'm really excited. I don't really have to lie to him anymore and we had a really good relationship. The only reason we broke up was the whole 'I go to a school for spies' thing. Now I can tell him I'm a teacher and it's totally true," I replied.

Zach glared at me and made sure Bri wasn't looking at him. "You're actually going out with him?"

"Saturday night. He's picking me up by the gates," I said with a grin. Finally. Zach felt the sting of rejection.

"That's so awesome! We need to find you something hot," Bri said excitedly.

I grinned. "Don't worry. Macey already has it picked out."

Zach chuckled. "Of course she does." I laughed with him and we both stopped abruptly. I blushed and he nervously ran his hand through his hair. Bri looked uncomfortable. "We should probably start working on our lesson plan. I'll talk to you later, Bri." I almost laughed at her face. She was so pissed.

She grabbed Zach and pulled him in for a forceful kiss, marking her territory. "Bye, Zachy." As she walked out, I burst out laughing.

"Seriously? Zachy? Are you a dog?" I asked.

Zach laughed with me. "She must be really uncomfortable with us. What kind of name is Zachy?" We were laughing so hard until we made eye contact and resumed our usual stoic expressions. "Um, back to work."

Brianna's POV

I liked Cammie. I really did. She was so sweet to me and she was friends with my fiancé. That was a pro and a con. A gorgeous, single girl friends with Zach. She's so pretty and nice and she has a history with Zach. I knew it was bad, but I had to show her he was mine.

I quick beat Cammie down to her office and before Zach could say hello, I jumped on him. I started kissing him and about a minute after, Cammie walked in with the saddest expression on her face. Her and Zach might have been friends, but she clearly liked him. Who wouldn't though?

Zach was eyeing Cammie and l knew I had to get him to stop thinking about her. I brought up her and Josh. Zach also looked very upset about her new relationship. Zach and Cammie must have been more than friends. They probably liked each other and never got together. I reluctantly left them alone, trying to plan more ways to tear them apart.

Cammie's POV

Zach and I awkwardly discussed lesson plans until he sighed. "We're not doing this."

"Doing what?" I asked, innocently, knowing full well what he was talking about.

Zach glared. "You know. This whole awkward thing. I was a jerk to you in high school and it's one of my biggest regrets. I was completely in love with you." Keyword: was. "For the first two years away from you, I couldn't think about anything else. They even kicked me off the mission and put me on a new one, hoping a change of scenery would fix things. I can't even imagine what I did to you. You didn't deserve that. Graduation day is supposed to be a fun and happy day and I destroyed yours. Can we move past this?" Not exactly. I can never move past it because our daughter is upstairs at lunch and will be down here in an hour for class.

"To be completely honest, Zach, you have no idea what I've been through since graduation. I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive you," I said. His face fell. "But I'm going to try. I'm going to try and put this behind me because I know it's for the best." The best for Sam.

"Cammie, I really appreciate that. I'm going to make this up to you somehow," Zach said. He should be worried about making it up to Sam, not me.

I rolled my eyes. "Whatever. I have to go get some more Evapopaper for the mission Friday. I'll meet you down here in about twenty minutes." Zach nodded and grabbed a book off my desk. I walked to my mom's office.

Sam's POV

Clearly, my mom was really upset. She was unaware, but I knew a secret passageway to her office to watch her. When I got there, I looked through the window and saw an unfamiliar man on her desk chair. He had a picture of her and Aunt Bex and was staring at Mom longingly. Sketchy.

I snuck in without him seeing and grabbed him. I quick stuck a Napotine patch on him and he collapsed in my arms. I dropped him in the chair and tied him up with rope in my mom's desk.

He woke up and said, "Who are you?" I glared the signature Morgan glare. He was clearly woozy when he said, "Cammie?"

"No and I'm asking the questions," I snapped. "Who are you? I have every right to be here."

"Don't worry. I'm able to be here, too. I'm an alumni," the man said.

I rolled my eyes. "From an all girls' school?"

"Rule number one of spying: All rules are okay to be broken," he said.

Mom walked in. "What are you telling her?"

"Who is he?" I asked, very confused.

Mom replied, "You don't always get the answers to important questions. Something I learned the hard way from him." Thanks, Mom. Be more cryptic.

"Who is this?" He asked.

Mom sighed, looking extremely uncomfortable. "Zachary Goode, meet Samantha Morgan, my daughter." I think his jaw hit the floor and his eyes shot out of their sockets.

"Your daughter?" Zach asked.

Mom nodded. "Do you have a problem with that?"

"No, not at all," he quickly answered. "Just a little shocked. You look a lot a like."

"Thanks. My mom is gorgeous," I said. She rolled her eyes. My mom didn't think she was pretty but she looked like a model.

Zach smirked at my mom. "I'm aware." She blushed the deepest red I've ever seen her blush. It was kind of adorable.

"Sweetie, me and Zach have some business to attend to," Mom said.

I raised an eyebrow. "What kind of business?"

"CIA business. His fiancé, Ms. Evans, wants to see him soon so we need to get back to work," Mom answered, hinting there was nothing going on. "I'll see you later." I walked up the stairs, trying to solve the puzzle that was my mother and Zachary Goode's relationship. How was he an alumni and what was the weird flirting going on with them? And if they were so close, why was he engaged to Ms. Evans?

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