Chapter 5

Cammie and Macey, half an hour later, returned to their friends who were walking through the small street shops. The girls were busy admiring the jewelry while the boys stood behind them looking bored, except Grant. He actually looked interested in the silver charm bracelet Bex was looking at. Everyone in their group knew he was paying attention to her shopping since her birthday is coming up, and he needs gift ideas. Poor men never have an idea of what to get girls. Macey noticed Kaylee and Zach standing off to the side talking quietly and waiting. She took this as her chance to get Cammie talking to Zach. Macey grabbed Cam's arm and tugged her over to Kaylee and Zach. Cammie tried to resist the pulling, but ended up only tripping on a few rocks and holes on the ground.

"Hey guys!"

"Hey Macey." Kaylee smiled, but it was a calm smile. Everyone today had been hyper and excited, and yet Kaylee always seemed calm and shy. Maybe she was a little uncomfortable spending the day with Liz's group that she wasn't the closest of friends with.

"So what do you want to do once everyone else is done shopping?" Macey probably wanted to go see new shiny sports cars in the convention center in the middle of the fair grounds.

"Well I was actually planning on going home in a few minutes. I promised my parents I'd be home in time to pack my suitcase, I'm heading to California for a leadership class with a couple other kids."

"Leadership class?" Cammie questioned.

"Yes a leadership class."

"Oohh. Cool."

Zach interrupted the awkward conversation, "I think a leadership class sounds cool, I mean it would give you something to put on a college resume. They love those things." Kaylee looked very pleased with his comment.

"Oh my gosh! Zach you should come with me to the leadership class. You don't have to register you just show up!"

Cammie's arm was still connected with Macey's and she constricted her arm making Macey wince. Macey gave her a side-glance with sympathetic eyes.

"Oh. Well I don't know my parents probably want me home to prepare for school next week…and stuff." Cammie didn't know about the others but she could tell he was lying right away.

"That's alright. I understand." Kaylee reached over and put her arm around his waist. Zach then put his arm around her shoulder. Of course she understands, Cammie thought.

Five minutes later Kaylee left the fair. Liz left too since Kaylee was her ride. Cammie was giving Macey a ride home, Bex and Grant were leaving in a few minutes to go out to dinner together, and Jonas had invited Zach over to his house to spend the night so they could get to know each other a little better.

"Well guys this was fun, but its time for me and Grant to run, we've got a dinner reservation we don't want to lose!" Bex hugged all her girlfriends and they left.

Macey strolled over to Jonas and placed her elbow on his shoulder. "Its just us four now." Cammie looked at Macey, Jonas, and Zach. "What would you like to do, we have about 25 minutes before we should head home."

Jonas perked up, "I'll go see those sports cars in the convention center." Macey jumped up and down squealing.

"I'm so going with you! Cam what are you going to do?"

"I don't know. I think I'll just wander around and look around."

"I'm going to do the same." Zach said.

"Alrighty kids see you later then!"

Cammie walked down the familiar streets of the fair and stopped to look at the different booths full of different games to play. Most of the time no one ever won the games, but it was still fun to watch. She watched a small girl with short blonde hair yelping at her father to help her throw the ball at the pins. Her dad laughed and came over to his daughter picking her up and setting her on the counter. He grabbed the back of hand and showed her the motion to throw the ball. She tried by herself and hit three pins. She clapped her hands together when the man working there gave her a small pink elephant. The father and daughter walked away and returned to the mother. The little girl gave her mom the pink elephant to hold and Cammie saw the mom was already holding the small stuffed animal Zach had given a small girl earlier that afternoon. While now the girl has two prizes. She laughed quietly and walked to the basketball hoops. When she approached the hoops there was the usual crowd of boys standing around the single shooter. There were also benches with girls sitting there looking tired. She assumed the girls were sitting there waiting for their boyfriends to hurry up. Cammie was tempted to try her luck with shooting. She joined the line and after a few minutes of watching the shooters from her spot in line she thought she knew what they were doing wrong. Every single one of the guys was focusing on whether their shooting looked cool and completely forgetting about their form! She knew from many years of playing that you needed to keep your elbow tucked in instead of letting it jab out to the side at an angle.

At her turn, she took her first shot, and missed, but was close. On her second shot the ball hit the side backboard and then bounced on the rim, but the rim ruined it. The ball immediately bounced off to the side when it hit the rim. She was about to take her third and final shot. She had her arm extended and was about to shoot when a hand appeared out of nowhere and blocked her shot.

"What the heck!" She spun around looking for the hand that stopped her. It was Zach's hand though.

His eyes were wide and he smirked at her while putting his hands in the air in surrender. "Relax I was only going to give you a small tip before you used your last shot." Her shoulders relaxed.

"Okay go ahead."

Zach stepped forward and took her shoulders. He moved her to the right side a tiny bit so she wasn't standing directly in front of the hoop.

"Your right handed right?"

"Yep."

"Alright. Well my tip to you after you've moved to the side a tiny bit is to focus on the net that is right below the rim. You're going to want the ball to hit the middle of the back board and not the side so the ball avoids the rim."

"Alright. I can aim there." Zach took a step back and Cammie shot. The ball hit the middle of the backboard instead of the side and bounced off in a straight line falling through the net avoiding the rim. She made the basket.

"Whoa! Cool I made it in!" She jumped up and down and Zach started clapping along with the other guys who were watching.

The man handed her a pink daisy pillow. She giggled and took it. After leaving the basketball hoops she looked around for Zach. She found him sitting on one of the benches off to the side, and decided to join him. Sitting down next to him he looked up and smiled when he noticed the pink daisy pillow in her hand.

"Good job."

"Thanks for the tip." She nudged his arm, but he seemed to not notice it.

"So did you play basketball before?" He asked.

"Yeah I did for about five years."

"That's pretty cool."

Cammie laughed and leaned back against the bench, "Believe it or not I used to be really athletic. I was a tomboy." That caused Zach to raise his eyebrow at her.

"Really? I wouldn't have thought you were the athletic type." Right after he said this his head popped up. "I mean you could be athletic. I don't really know you so you could be. I just assumed…"

His explanation made Cam laugh even more, "Don't worry about it I get that comment all the time. So what sports do you play?"

"Are you ASSUMING I play sports?" He mocked.

"I know you play sports."

"How?"

"I saw you make the basket earlier this afternoon."

"Oh dang that ruins my fun. Now I can't bug you about assuming things like I just did."

As the two continued making small talk both their phones going off interrupted them. Macey was calling Cammie and Jonas was calling Zach telling them to meet at the cars, they were ready to go.

"I guess I'll see you at school on Monday then." Cammie nodded her head.

"Yeah, I'll see you Monday Zach."

"See ya."

"Bye." Cammie walked to her car and spotted Macey waiting to be driven home.

A/N Hope you liked the chapter. I'm warning you you'll have to be patient for your Zammie because I have a full plan for their relationship and it proves they are two very complicated people.