Chapter 7

Sam's POV

I continued walking with Jake until about four thirty.

"Oh, crap, I have to go meet my teacher at the Ruby slippers exhibit," he said. Yes! Amateur.

I batted my eyelashes. "Could I walk with you? I'm going to the Julia Child exhibit right by there."

"Well," he said, thinking about it. I impulsively grabbed him and kissed him. We started making out right there in the middle of the mall. After a few minutes, I pulled away. I began walking away. "Where are you going?"

"The Julia Child exhibit," I said innocently.

A pause. "Can I walk you there?" I grinned without turning around. Success.

"I suppose," I said with a sigh. He ran up behind me and out his arm around my waist. "So, what school do you go to?"

"Roseville high school," I answered. "We're here on a field trip. What about you?"

"Blackthorne Institute. We're also on a field trip," Jake answered. "Here's your stop. I hope you have a nice trip." I almost laughed at how lame it was.

"Okay. Bye," I said. I kissed his cheek. He walked away towards the Ruby slippers exhibit. I followed closely behind and snuck in behind my mom. I tapped her on the shoulder and she turned and grinned.

"Mr. Goode, I made it. No tail," Jake said confidently.

"Are you sure?" Zach asked as I walked forward.

I smiled. "Hey, Jake. My name's actually Sam." He walked towards me slowly and grabbed me. Next thing I knew, Jake was kissing me.

He pulled away after a little and said, "Good to know, Sam. Mr. Goode, I'll be at the bus." Jake winked at me and walked away.

Cammie's POV

Shortly after Jake stunned as all, all of us Gallagher girls piled back in the van. All the girls were whispering about the cute boys they met.

"So, you all liked the nice boys from Blackthorne?" I asked. They nodded. "That's good because this semester the Blackthorne boys will be at the Gallagher Academy for an exchange." They all squealed and started talking about how awesome it would be to have boys at the school.

Shortly after we arrived at the school, the boys showed up. My mom and Joe led them to their rooms to wait for the announcement at dinner. I walked back to my office to do some last minute plans for class tomorrow.

"Well, they're allowed to walk around now that everyone knows," Macey said. I saw that all of them were in my office.

"Why are you all in my office?" I asked.

Bex shrugged. "We figured we should probably check with you about the plans for tomorrow."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Jonas butted in. "Tomorrow is a town day for the students and we're supposed to watch them. We figured we'd do something as a group."

I blushed. "Oh, I don't know what you guys are doing but I'm busy. You guys can go on, like, a group date or something."

Nick grinned and Macey glared. "Gross. But why are you busy?"

"Seriously? So disappointed in your spy skills. Notice things, ladies," I said in my best impression of Joe Solomon.

They laughed but Liz asked, "No, seriously, why are you busy?"

Zach answered for me, glaring. "She has her date with Josh."

"Ooh, the civilian, right?" Nick asked.

"The one who broke up Cammie and Zach's kiss? Oh, he was pissed that night-" Grant began but dragged off noticing everyone's expressions.

Bri glared at Zach but then turned to me. "So, you lied?"

"Well-" I began.

"No. You're a liar. I thought we were friends," Bri practically screamed.

"Yeah. I was trying to be your friend. Friends protect friends from things they don't need to know," I snapped.

Bri laughed bitterly. "I didn't need to know or you didn't want me to know? You just wanted to steal him back."

"Trust me, I have no interest in Zachary Goode." Zach looked hurt.

"Oh, really?"

"Yes really."

"Then why'd you lie?"

"Because the thought of me being friends with him made you incredibly jealous. I might not be his girlfriend anymore, but I still want him to have a nice life and you seem to make him happy. I didn't want to make this a difficult semester for any of us."

"So, you wanted things to be easy?"

"Yes. Now you'll bother us whenever I have to work with him. That's all I plan to do with him. Work. You have nothing to be upset about."

"Oh, so you think you're so great that I must be jealous of you?"

I rolled my eyes. "Of course not. I just can tell you're jealous."

Her eyes filled with rage. "I'm not jealous! I just can see you trying to make a move on my fiancé!"

"Bri, calm down," Zach said calmly.

"No! You lied to me! How can I trust you? I want to know everything about your relationship with this skanky bitch."

Zach opened his mouth, but I cut him off. "What do you want to know? That his first kiss ever was with me up in that grand hall? Or that we fought together for years to take down a terrorist organization? That when we were undercover I ended up pressed against him in a collapsible bed or that we made out outside of Blackthorne before a life threatening mission? That he asked me to run away with him but I said no and ran away alone only to come back with no memory and no friends except him? That he was the only one I had in the darkest time of my life? That on my graduation day he dumped me? Oh, wait. You want relationship details. Tomorrow in town, remember I walked those streets with him on countless dates and that I was the first girl he ever said I love you to underneath the gazebo in town. And when you go to sleep tonight in the same bed with him, remember the night he told me he loved me we went back to the room you're staying in now and we took each other's virginities."

Everyone had a different expression on their face. Bri was enraged, Nick was shocked, Jonas was uncomfortable, Liz was embarassed, Grant looked slightly pleased at Bri's reaction, Macey was impressed, and Bex was proud. But one expression I'll never forget. The look of complete and utter despair on Zachary Goode's face. All I could do was run away.