Disclaimer: I don't own the Gallagher Girls Ally Carter does.

"May I have your attention please?" I looked up from my conversation with my friends to see my mom at the podium. It was breakfast time and everyone

was laughing and chatting in Russian (our assigned language for meals that day). The girls had been teasing me about being out all night with Zach but we had just been sleeping. Anyways mom was at the podium which usually meant something shocking was about to happen, but this time I was prepared. I knew exactly what was going down. She was about to welcome the boys.

"Now girls we have some special guests who are going to be staying with us for a while now I'm sure most of you recognize some of them from the exchange and one from last year but I'm sure all of you will do your very best to make them comfortable. And with that in mind, I would like to welcome Zachary Goode, Grant Newman, Jonas Anderson and Ryan Callaway (AN: I changed Nick to Ryan sorry!)to the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women!" She exclaimed, and with that the doors burst open and the boys walked in. A lot of girls froze and stared, others tried to secretly check their appearances but we just rolled our eyes and when back to eating.

"Honestly, I can understand the 7th and 8th graders, they werent here for the exchange but there are girls in our class acting like they've never seen boys before." Macey said with an eyeroll. I smiled and shrugged as Zach slid in beside me with a plate of food. He kissed my cheek and then started shovelling food into his mouth like it was about to run away. Bex gave him a discusted look.

"Bloody hell Zach do you have to do that at the breakfast table? C&A hasn't helped you at all." I laughed but Zach glared at her. I noticed the other guys standing there awkwardly so I grinned at them and decided it was time for introductions.

"Hey guys. Grant, Jonas it's good to see you again. But you, I've never met. Ryan is it?" He nodded and smiled smugly at me.

"Yeah, and you must be Cammie. When Zach was still at Blackthorne he never shut up about you." I laughed as Zach tried to punch Ryan. It was sweet knowing that he talked to his friends about me. I shook Ryans hand and gave both Jonas and Grant a hug (even though I'd really only spoken to either of them once or twice) and that was that. They slid into seats around us, Liz and Jonas had started a conversation about high tech stuff that we had a little bit of a difficulty following but the rest of us were just talking about random stuff. Bex and Grant were flirting with eachother and everytime they said something flirty Mace and I rolled our eyes. And then Grant started using cheesy pick up lines. Lord help us all.

"So Bex, do you believe in love at first sight or should I walk by again?" Zach groaned, I face palmed and Macey gave Grant a look. Bex was blushing but she slugged him in the arm anyways. This didn't seem to faze him though because he turned to Ryan, wiggled his eyebrows and said in a faux-seductive voice,

"So, come here often?" I burst out laughing at the look on Ryans face as he tried to punch Grant from across a table and I could hear Macey snort and mumble something about Bex having competition. I was still giggling 5 minutes later when we all headed off for COW first period. Mr. Smith told us to take our seats so I grabbed a seat between Zach and Macey (she's all caught up now) and with that our lesson started. Our first day went well until 6th period.

It happened in History of Espionage. Professor Buckingham was lecturing us, I was taking notes along with everyone else and ignoring Zachs hand on my knee when all of a sudden I wasn't there anymore. I was in a jail cell and on the other side of the bars was 4 men. 2 were just standing there with evil looks on their faces but it was the 2 in the middle I cared about. One was holding a gun to other ones head, he was sitting in a chair with his hands and legs bound but that's not why I was screaming my head off.

It was my dad

The other man, the one holding the gun gave me a glare.

"Tell me right now!" He roared. At that point I would've told him anything at all but I wasn't in control of my own mouth.

"I don't know!" I cried back. A yell, a bang, a scream and it was over. My father was laying dead on the floor on a pool of blood and just as agony ripped through me I blacked out, just barely noticing someone in the distance yelling my name.

I woke up in the infirmary. I knew even before I opened my eyes. It smelled of antiseptic and the bed underneath me wasn't very comfortable. I let my eyes flutter open and I saw 4 people. My mom, Zach, Bex and Dr. Hawk. Bex was sitting in the window seat (like the one in Mr. Solomons' room), mom and Dr. Hawk were talking quietly by the door and Zach was sitting in a chair beside me.

"Zach?" I whispered, looking at him. His forehead had been creased with worry but when I spoke he instantly looked me, moved closer and gave me a smile.

"Hey Gallagher Girl. You guys, she's up." Everyone shifted their attention to me. Bex rushed to my side, as did my mom. Dr. Hawk hung back a little bit with her stoic expression in place. Ignoring my mom and Bexs' questions (Are you ok? Do you need anything?) I turned to Zach.

"What happened?" He gave me a weird look but shook it off and grabbed my hand.

"Uhm, in class your expression went blank and then you just started screaming. I was trying to calm you down along with the girls and Professor Buckingham but you would't stop and it was like you couldn't see us but then you just went limp so we brought you here. Cam, Dr. Hawk thought you might've had a flashback. Do you remember anything?" I thought for a minute, closed my eyes and went back to class. Zachs hand, my pen moving across a page, Professor Buckinghams voice in my ears and then... I gasped and knew I must've gone pale. Mom spoke in an alarmed voice.

"Cammie? Sweetie are you ok?" She had her arms around my shoulders and was shaking me slightly but I didn't care because all I could think about was,

"Dad."

"Are you sure you'll be ok?" Zach asked me for the millionth time. After I explained everything to Dr. Hawk and my mom they both left the infirmary, Dr. Hawk to update her file on me and I think my mom because she didn't want me to see her cry. Bex had hugged me and left to find Macey and Liz for damage control because I had flipped out in front of our entire senior class (not good!) which just left me and Zach. We'd gone back to room, layed down on my bed and I had cried into his shoulder for a long time until I was just whimpering and hiccuping. I couldn't get the images out of my head.

Zach had been good with it. He'd hugged me and kissed my forehead and stroked my hair and whispered reassurances to me, offering any sort of comfort he could think of and, though I was grateful for it I needed some time to think by myself so when he mentioned going to update Solomon I encouraged him to do just that but he was hesitant about leaving me alone scared I would break down with out him, which was exactly what I was planning to do. Not that he needed to know that. He was sweet and I loved that he wanted to be there for me but I needed to grieve by myself for a while. So after he left, I curled up by myself on my bed and cried a little more.

Half an hour later I had gotten up, cleaned myself up and the ache in my chest had gone from agonizing to just a dull pain. I had a migraine from crying but I had convinced myself that I would be fine. So with that in mind I went to find my best friends and boyfriend.

Sorry I took a while! This is a pretty good chapter though don't you think? I liked writing this one for some reason. So we're getting a little more in depth with Cams memories which are very upsetting for everyone and I'll get into it a little more with the other BBs later too :) so I want your opinion, am I really really out of character or am I just slightly out of character? I really want you guys to review and tell me what you think ok? Love ya XOXO

PS, if you guys havent you should check out the blog on Ally Carters website. there are excerpts from GG5 :))