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I scanned my surroundings. I saw Eva Alverez getting her nails painted, of course. We had been instructed to act just as if it were a normal day in the town, but I don't think Mr. Solomon meant going that far. I felt the warmth of my hot coffee heating up my hands. It was freezing out, since it was a few days before winter break, and it had been snowing that morning, so it was quite beautiful. Liz was not team captain. Mr. Solomon realized that it would make it a piece of cake for Zach, so go figure, he chose Macey. I already knew that a girl named Katherine had been tagged and 'hypnotized', but I wasn't sure to which team. Zach, as usually sadly, was doing amazing. I had not seen him once since we started. But Macey was doing just as good.
I slowly did a 360 and started heading to the sandwich shop. What? I was hungry, spying is hard. Just then, I saw a girl named Lisa. I knew she had been tagged and added to Macey's team. Lisa was good, but not as good as some of us. I saw her reading a book at the book shop not twenty feet from me. I slowly headed to the ice cream parlor, even though it was too cold for ice cream. As I was walking through the door, I noticed something on my shoulder. It was neon orange.
Crap.
I knew orange was Zach's team. How did he…? I didn't even… Dang, he's good. One sticker down, I just have to keep my other four. I saw Macey for a split second across the street. I watched as she secretly slapped a green sticker on Tina. Poor Tina, she won't last very long. Bex walked into drug store.
"Lizzy's out, Zach's team. Poor thing. She's kinda bad at this game." She said, sitting at the bar.
"Yah, I know." I was eyeing her, not knowing if she was still in the game herself. If she wasn't she could tag me at any second. It was like zombie tag, if any of you have every played. Once your tagged, you become it too, until everyone but one is it. I doubted that Bex had been tagged out, she's the best I know. I got up from my place at the bar and started to head out to the door when Bex said,
"I know you're still in. So just FYI I am going to beat your ass in this, Cam." She smiled and watched me walk out. No, she wasn't. There were 25 of us playing, counting the captains. So once the game was finished, there would be more on one team then the other, and the last person standing. The team captain with the most people and the last person win.
I watched Liz tag a girl by bumping into her. It was a predictable move, but this is Liz, so she gets points for trying. I looked around again. I saw a flash of a dark brown jacket that I would know anywhere. I knew I would be his main target, considering I'm his girlfriend and all, so I had avoided him at all costs. But now he was determined to tag me. I ducked into the movie theater and tried to lose him. As I watched him walking from behind a display, I slowly made my way through the other exit. Once I was out and into the square, I know he would be out in about five seconds. And I was pretty legit. In one minute thirty-six seconds, Zach was out of the theater, and stalking me. I tried to shake him, but he always seemed to be right behind me. Damn, I had to lose him. But then, I saw him with another person. Specifically a girl. Specifically Bex. She came out of the burger place with fries in he hands, laughing and giggling at him. My jaw smacked the concrete below me. Woah, what? What the…? I thought, and started to panic. But I realized what they were doing.
Bex had purposefully been tagged out to either Zach or Macey's team-it really didn't matter-so they could get me. My best friends were teaming up against me. Typical. While I was thinking all this Bex had come within speaking distance.
"Excuse me? Can you, um, maybe take a picture of us?" She was all smily and shy when she said this. Who the heck is this girl on front of me? Zach was right behind her and also smiling. I had to avoid taking the picture.
"Actually, I'm really late for a movie date. I'm really sorry." I said, with a face to match the phrase-hurried and anxious. I saw both their faces drop. Zach chimed in,
"Just one really quickly? It would mean a lot." He locked eyes with me and actually winked. I did a fast glance at the theater, to seem more convincing. Zach knew I just came out of there, but we were supposed to act like we didn't know each other.
"I am so sorry. But this date means a lot to my boyfriend and he will kill me if I am any later." I started to slowly walk in that direction, then started to pick up my pace. "I'm sure someone else will take one. There are lots of people around!" I called over my shoulder.
I was grabbing a straw for my drink when a girl named Jenna Brocker was standing not a foot away from my. I could tell she was tagged out, if she wasn't she wouldn't be standing next to me. Shoot. I knew it was too late. I let her get too close, but honestly I didn't even notice her. She reached over me to grab a mustard packet and I knew I was screwed.
"Sorry." Jenna muttered . Then she walked away with her hot dog. I looked at my thigh and saw the green sticker. Macey. great. I was one and one. Three stickers still, which was not bad for playing for about two hours. From what I saw, over two-thirds of the class had been tagged out. Which meant the game would be over pretty soon. People were getting impatient, I could tell. Taking more chances, not playing it as safe.
"Attention," I heard Mr. Solomon through my comms unit. "There are only three remaining students tagged in. You know who you are. Be careful." Wow, final three. Not bad. I wondered who were the other two. Not Bex, or Liz. Eva Alverez was tagged out and so was Emily Sampson, Kim Lee, and that girl Jenna Brocker. Across the way I saw Tina Walters. She was walking away from two girls. She hurried and avoided everybody on her way to the chinese food place. That means she was still in. How the heck was Tina still in? I mean not to be a jerk, but really? Okay so it was Tina, Me, and one other. I saw Zach again, but he was too far away to do any damage. I watched Tina walk into the chinese place and not five minutes later, walk right back out and quickly to base. I then saw good old Zach come out of the restaurant right after her. Cool. Just me and someone else. I had two stickers left.
"Magazine?" A girl asked me. She held a seventeen magazine out towards me. Clearly she didn't want to actually give me the magazine.
"No, but thank you." I said, and walked away. I noticed the orange sticker on my back. Dang it! That girl had not even flinched when the other person had come up behind me, who I didn't hear at all. She had done it right, and I gave her points for that. One sticker left. I had to make it last just a little longer.
When I was walking in the middle of the square-so I wouldn't get cornered-I saw a boy looking at me. I shook him off. I was reading a book, well not really, but acting like I was. The boy came and stood near me. I briefly glanced at him, then looked back to the book. I noticed he wouldn't stop looking at me, and wanted to talk to me. So I, being the nice person that I was, looked at him and smiled.
"Hey." he said, cooly.
"Hi." I responded. I realized he was actually quite cute. He had messy dark blonde hair hat was covered partly with a beanie. He was wearing a dark leather jacket and navy skinny jeans. And I must admit, his smile was pretty heart melting.
"What'cha reading'?" He asked my, addressing my book. I didn't even really know what I was supposed to be reading, I didn't even look.
"'13 reasons why'. I just picked it up from the book store. It's pretty good, but sad too." I answered. Wow, that was a lot of information that I did not even need to say at all. He nodded.
"Oh yah, my sister read that. She liked it too." I looked back at the book. "I'm Tyler, by the way." He said, reaching out to shake my hand.
"April. Nice to meet you." I reached my glove covered hand to shake his. But before I could take my hand back, Tyler pulled me into him. And before I knew what was happening, my lips were smashed into his. WTH IS GOING ON? I screamed inside my head. He put his cold hands on either side of my face, and didn't want me to pull away. But I admit, I didn't try as hard as I could have. Crap, I was kissing him back, why was I doing that? No, stop. Why couldn't I stop? In the middle of the surprise kiss, I felt a light tap on my back and a whisper in my ear.
"Remember, you do have a boyfriend, Cameron." Macey whispered to me right before she stuck a sticker on me back. I pulled away and looked, shocked faced, at Tyler, who nodded at Macey. He smiled at me and said,
"It was a pleasure meeting you, April. But I have to go." And he walked away. I lost. I lost because this random boy kissed me. Are. You. Freakin'. Kidding. Me. I heard Mr. Solomon again through my comms.
"Congrats to the winner, Courtney Bauer. You may all come to home base now. We will tally up the scores and determine the winning team leader." What? Seriously, Courtney? I slowly made my way back to home base. There had to be something against what Macey did. Something, anything for that matter. When I got back, I saw Zach eyeing me. But that was not what I was worried about.
"Mr. Solomon," I asked, "Is it illegal to use people outside of the Gallagher Academy?" I glanced at Macey, who was quite content with herself.
"Not in this game. In some cases yes, but not today." After he tallied up the sudents, he announced the winner between the team leaders. "The winning team captain it…Macey McHenry. Congratulations. Now we will return to the mansion and you will return to your normal schedule.
We all drove back in the van and went to lunch. Turns out Bex had purposefully gone to Zach's team. Why was I not surprised. We all talked about the game, and I made Macey tell me how she had convinced 'Tyler' to make out with so they could record it. He said yes, and she tagged me out to her team. I was so close. Well, there's always next time, and spies don't stop after round one. Trust me.
