A/N: Thank you for your reviews. Most of you seem to like rebellious Cammie so I think I'm going to keep her for a little longer! ;)

Previously:

I watched in shock as Zach stormed out of the hall… but the shock didn't last long and soon all I felt was annoyance. How dare he call me self-centred?!

Just then, Mr Solomon walked in. "Well Cammie, your mother is ready to see you now, are you ready?"

"Been ready for five years" I joked as I walked to my mom's office, ready to face the music.

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When I walked into my mom's office the one thing I was determined not to do was cry. Except, if I did cry it would be in anger, and not sadness.

"Hi… Cammie" I froze in the corridor as I heard my mom's voice. Just to repeat that, I was in the corridor. At least ten metres away from the door to her office. I glanced towards Mr Solomon who was walking beside me for an explanation but he avoided my gaze.

The first thing I noticed about my mom when I entered the door was how pretty she was. The next thing I noticed was the fake smile plastered over her face masking the disappointment. I instantly felt the anger burning my stomach.

"It's… good to see you again" My mom came over to hug me, but I think the expression on my face and the way I backed away from her was warning enough to stay away.

"I'm sorry we have to meet like this after all this time…" She began to say.

"Yeah, five years is a fairly long time"

"I know… but there is a good reason…" My mom continued rather shakily now, probably realising that dumping your child in a boarding school for five years and expecting her to forgive you just doesn't happen.

"You know, what annoys me Rachel…" My mom winced at the way I used her first name. "It's the way you have the ability to actually look like your disappointed in me, when you're the one that dumped me at that crap boarding school for five years!"

"I know the circumstances weren't great, but I promise you Cammie there were really good reasons…"

"Well I'm waiting" I flounced over to the sofa and sat down, crossing my arms against my chest expectantly.

"Well, there's always been a secret I haven't been able to tell you Cammie…" She waited for me to interrupt again, but I didn't, I'd never been listening so hard in all my life. "I got offered a job at this school, an exceptional job, but this school has some… dangerous elements to it"

"Oh really" I scoffed.

"Yes… Your dad is involved in this profession too…"

"I hate him" I raged. "I hate you both for doing this to me"

I noticed tears forming in my mom's eyes. "Just… just please let me explain, this place wasn't just a normal job, I'm not just a headmistress…"

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about… about this…" My mom took a deep breath as she pressed a button hidden under a picture of me and her at Disney Land when I was eleven.

All I could do was gape as the picture changed to one of her and my dad dressed in harnesses descending down a cliff. I saw a picture on the wall change to a poster advertising invisible ink.

"What? I don't…" I began to say, but my mom shushed me.

I continued to gape in disbelief as the whole room began to shift around; the fireplace was replaced with some kind of chemistry set, the papers on my mom's desk titled 'Way to improve school funding' caught on fire and were burned to cinders. A filing cabinet labelled 'Gallagher Academy admission papers' was replaced with the label 'Gallagher Academy alumni: TOP SECRET – VIEWING WITHOUT AUTHORISATION WILL RESULT IN DEATH'. I felt sick. All I could do was stare and watch with more horror than I'd ever felt in my life.

"I know this is a huge shock for you Cammie, but this isn't just a school for teenage girls, this is a school for spies, here at the Gallagher Academy…"

"I don't want to hear it!" I yelled. "You're a freak! Is this some kind of sick joke?! I hate you!"

When I was finally able to feel my legs I stormed straight out of the office.

"We should go after her… we should…" I heard my mom say.

"No, just give her some time to get her head around it, she won't do anything stupid" I heard Mr Solomon say. I snorted. What idiots, I was getting out of here. Now.

I went straight into my room when the three girls I'd met earlier were all sat on Macey's bed. They didn't even glance up as I came in.

I stalked straight over to my bed and threw all my things into my suitcases. It wasn't until I'd gone into the bathroom to pick up my toothbrush I heard Macey giggle and say "I think she knows now"

"Of course she knows, they reversed the code red… Macey, we should be nicer to her, don't you remember how hard you found it to settle in here?"

"Well that was just a cover, Cammie doesn't have a cover, she's just a spoilt brat"

I stormed out of the bathroom and chucked my toothbrush into my bag.

"I'm leaving" I said as I picked up my bag. Macey and Bex didn't even bother to look up, but Liz glanced at me. I felt a pang of guilt over how I'd treated her earlier.

"Cammie, I know it's a shock for you, but you'll get used to it" she said gently.

"Like hell I will!" I replied. "This place is a school for freaks"

"Bye then" Macey said rudely. "Don't let us keep you"

"Oh, don't worry, I won't!" I raged, but caught a glimpse of the rain pelting down outside… and was that thunder I could hear? Suddenly I wanted nothing more than to sleep, but I was Cammie, I never went back on what I said I would do, so I grabbed my bags and lugged them angrily out of the room, slamming the door behind me. My first thought was, I'd done it! I'd shown those idiots just who was boss. My second thought was, now what?

I traipsed through the castle for a while looking for doors, when I finally found one, it was locked. I kicked it angrily. How stupid would I look going back to the room? The girls would all laugh at me.

I stormed back down the corridor feeling sorry for myself. I wandered around the corridors for a little while, venturing down the darkest ones, looking for something interesting and not finding anything. That was until I stumbled across an old tapestry. The first thing I noticed about it was Macey's name.

"So that's why she's such a stuck up cow" I thought. I punched it, instantly regretting it as my knuckles collided with the stone wall behind it.

"Damn it!" I muttered as I rubbed my bruised knuckles, and then I noticed the tiniest of cracks had appeared in the stone. "That's strange" I thought. I knew the school was old but surely it would take more than a sixteen year old girl to cause the wall to crack. I pushed again on the tapestry and felt it shift beneath my weight. I gaped as the stone began to crumble away beneath my hands and I was eventually standing facing a hole in the wall. I didn't hesitate; I went straight through it, clutching my bags to my chest. I felt along the earthy walls of the passageway, shivering in the dark. It felt like hours until I could finally feel the wind brushing against my face and I exited the passageway. I strained my eyes to try to try to make out where I was but all I could see was endless fields; I must have been in the grounds.

I began to walk, not having a clue about where I was going… and it was beginning to sink in that I didn't actually have anywhere to go. But I couldn't turn back now. After ten minutes I couldn't fight my shivering anymore, and the rain continued to pelt down, soaking me through to the skin. I was drenched. I was freezing. I might have even gone far enough to say that I would have actually rather been at the Gallagher Academy rather than traipsing through fields with hyperthermia. The shivering was worse now. There was not one dry part of my body, my hair was stuck to my face, the wind kept forcing me to stagger backwards and the cold was biting through my skin. It finally dawned on me… I couldn't walk any further. I sank down onto the ground. I finally realised how helpless the situation was. I was possibly about a mile away from the school and no one knew where I was. I was an idiot.

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