A/N: Not too happy with chapter either… But I'm telling you now, the next chapter is SO much better. There is a lot of action and Zammie coming up… especially action!

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Previously:

"We… wrote to Dillon"

I pushed Zach away from me frantically. "You idiot!" I yelled. "How could you?!"

"No, Cammie you don't understand! He wrote back to us!" I watched in horror as Zach got out a slip of paper from his pocket.

"Get that away from me Zach" I backed away immediately as I saw Dillon's scrawled handwriting that covered the page.

"No, Cammie, you need to read it! It's…"

"No!" I yelled, continuing to back away. "No, Zach, rip it up into a thousand pieces, I never want to read a letter from him again, never! Just get it away from me!"

And then I ran. And for once I was thankful that Zach wasn't following me.

()()()()

"I didn't realise Cammie had told anyone"

I clamped my hands over my ears as Zach sat down beside me in the secret passageway and read me the letter, whether I wanted to hear it or not. I was tired of running.

"Stop Zach" I muttered.

"And I didn't realise her best friend's dad was the senator…" Zach continued to read the letter out despite my cries of protest. "Just please don't report me, I'll do anything, I'll even leave Cammie alone, just PLEASE don't tell anyone, I couldn't bear for my parents to know what happened… what I did. I will never contact Cammie again, I will never see her again, if you just leave me alone and don't tell anyone else what happened between me and Cammie"

I was speechless; I blinked at Zach in surprise, the words still sinking in.

I stood up shakily so I was facing Zach. Zach's hands began combing through my hair as he grinned.

"Zach!" I finally gasped, and collapsed into him sobbing uncontrollably.

"I know; it's all over now Cammie" Zach whispered into my ear as he supported about half of my body weight.

"No Zach… it can't be over… it can't" I whimpered.

"I promise you Cammie, you won't hear from him again, I promise" Zach was gripping me tightly as if he thought I was going to faint.

"You look so pale… are you okay?" He asked worriedly.

I nodded. "I'm better than okay Zach… I'm… perfect" I shivered in the cold of the alleyway and Zach shrugged off his jacket and wrapped it around me. I hadn't known the word perfect could exist in my life before… but with Zach here my life couldn't be described as anything else.

I slept in Zach's room that night, and actually slept without any nightmares.

()()()()

"Cammie we have to talk…"

"Macey don't tell me anything bad" I begged her as I got changed for P&E. I was in the happiest mood. Bex and Liz who'd been angry I wouldn't tell them what was wrong had even forgiven me, everything with Zach was perfect.

"No Cammie, this can't wait" Macey glanced around the room to check Liz and Bex had left.

I sighed and sat down on the bed. "What is it Macey?"

She got out a piece of paper from her pocket and gave it to me. I frowned, and then my eyes widened. "Where did you get this?" I stammered.

Macey shifted around guilty. "I was looking through your things so I could borrow your CoveOps book… then I found… this…"

I opened it up and sighed. "Macey, I know it was bad of me to write to Zach's mom, but I did the right thing"

"No" Macey shook her head. "You didn't"

I rolled my eyes. "Macey, I could tell Zach was missing his mom so I just wrote a letter asking her to meet up with me, no biggie"

Macey grabbed my wrist.

"You did what?" Macey asked alarmingly. "Please tell me you didn't meet her"

I snatched my wrist away angrily. "It's none of your business"

"Where did you meet her? When?" Macey asked in despair.

"Yesterday… In Roseville, I went through the secret passageway" Macey buried her head in her hands. "Jeez Macey, what's your problem? She was really nice, she told me she missed Zach too, she promised me she would meet me again and meet Zach"

"You're an idiot Cammie" Macey groaned.

"I was being nice Macey! I wanted to do something nice for Zach; I could tell how much he missed his mom!"

"Why can't you just concentrate on your own problems Cammie?!" Macey yelled.

I felt my eyes prick with tears.

"I'm sorry…" Macey sighed. "It's just… I can't believe you've done this…"

"God Macey, you're acting like I've committed a crime or something" I moaned, grabbing my bag.

"There are things you don't know about Catherine" Macey's words stopped me in my tracks.

"No Macey" I argued. "I think it's you who doesn't understand. She was so nice, so much nicer than my mom that's for sure"

Macey let out a humorous laugh. "Did you forget that your mom is trying to keep you safe Cammie?"

"Oh yeah, spare me the lecture Macey, I've been told a million times by my mom about staying in the castle, about not talking to strangers… I mean I'm not five!"

"I can't believe you Cammie!" Macey yelled. "You're mom has good reason to keep you safe!"

"Oh like what?" I rolled my eyes. "Like not taking candy from strangers?"

Macey shook her head and sunk further into the bed.

"What are you not telling me Macey?" I suddenly asked.

"There are things you don't know about Catherine" Macey mumbled. "There are things you don't know about Zach…"

I sunk onto my bed.

"Maybe I should be the one to explain those things" Zach's cold voice came from the doorway.

"Zach" I breathed. "How long have you been standing there?"

"A while" Zach replied, he wouldn't look at me.

"I wanted to keep it a secret" I sighed.

"And why would you possibly want to do that?" Zach still wouldn't look at me.

"Because I know how much you wanted to meet you mom again" I whispered, hoping the words would be true if I said them out loud, because I was starting to question everything I'd ever thought.

Zach shook his head. And that was when I knew. Everything I'd first thought was wrong.

"Zach tell me what I've done wrong"

His eyes finally met mine and I saw the pain in them.

"You could have been killed"

I frowned. "But it's your mom Zach"

"Exactly" his eyes left mine again.

"Will someone just tell me what's going on?!" I asked in exasperation.

"Sure" Zach started walking away as he said numbly. "I've been lying to you all this time, my mom's trying to kill you"

I stood still, until I realised my perfect boyfriend was about to leave me.

"Zach!" I rushed up to him.

He turned to face me, a painful expression on his face as he simply said "Just stay away from my mom"

"That's all you can say?" I whispered.

Zach looked into my eyes as he said "And stay away from me too, otherwise it's your funeral"

"You want me to stay away from you?" I asked in alarm.

Zach nodded dully.

"So… So… you're dumping me?" I whispered.

Zach rolled his eyes in frustration. "Cammie, I'm not 'dumping' you, I'm telling you to stay away from me, don't talk to my mom again, and stay in the castle"

I backed away as if Zach was suddenly contagious.

"This isn't the real world Cammie, this is the spy world, and the sooner you understand that, the better"

He turned away from me and walked away. Zach walked away.

"No, Zach!" I yelled out.

"Cammie just leave it" Macey placed a hand on my shoulder which I shrugged off.

"Zach, wait!"

And then I ran after the boy who'd just left me. The only person I could trust, the only person I could talk to, and the only person who had loved me… he'd left me.

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