Thanks for all the reviews I got last chapter, I love it! Sorry it takes me longer to post chapters than my last story.

This chapter is Dedicated to : Anya Martinez. Her review for chapter 8 was possibly the nicest review I've ever gotten. It made me sooo happy.

Chapter 9

Zach woke up from a night with little sleep; at the most he got five hours of sleep. He was kept up all night by his mind constantly thinking about Kaylee and Cammie. The two girls in his life that were important to him. Kaylee had broken up with him, but he still felt attached to her. Zach still liked her, but was crushed by her decision to break up. He was grateful he had Cammie by his side though. Cammie was always reliable and honest. She supported him. He sighed getting out of bed and stretched while glancing over to his mirror. Slowly walking to the mirror he starred at the two completely opposite corners. Kaylee's corner and Cammie's corner.

Zach got ready for the day and headed off to school. Walking through the hallways Zach noticed every one staring at him. He adjusted his baseball cap and kept walking to his locker. He saw a few girls standing by his first period classroom whispering. One glanced up at him as he walked by. She had puppy dog brown eyes and long honey colored hair. He nodded at her and she gasped turning back to her friends.

"I heard Kaylee broke up with him last night at the dance." He overheard one girl in the bunch whisper.

Another then agreed, "I did too! I heard it was because she wasn't over Jacob, you know her ex-boyfriend from last year. They were really serious last year."

Zach kept his gaze forward and stopped by his locker, twisting the dial with a little too much force. The door snapped open and he shoved his books into his backpack. Looking up he saw Liz and Jonas walking slowly through the hallway toward him. Both were blushing and looking at each other from the corner of their eyes. He even smiled at the sight of both Liz and Jonas's hands brushing together softly. When they approached Liz looked up and gave him an awkward small smile. They stopped walking.

"Hey there Zach." Liz said quietly. She was with Kaylee when she was busy talking with Jacob, leaving Zach alone. She had to listen to the two discuss whether they were over each other from last year or not. She felt bad that Kaylee broke up with Zach, he didn't deserve that.

"Hey Liz. Jonas." Zach answered.

"How are you doing man I heard about last night?" Jonas put his hand on Zach's shoulder.

"I'm doing alright. I'm not happy about what happened, but I'm dealing with it. I had Cammie with me last night, and we hung out. She took my mind off things, it was really helpful."

"That's good. I'm glad Cam was there with you last night Zach. I'm sorry about Kaylee."

"Thanks Liz."

She gave him a quick squeeze on the shoulder and her and Jonas left. He then went straight to his first period classroom.

Cammie's day at school was pretty boring. She hadn't seen Zach all day, and she wasn't even sure if he came to school today. Of course she wouldn't blame him for not coming to school since he was probably still recovering from his breakup. Even though last night he seemed alright when he was hanging out with her. On the other hand, Cammie saw Kaylee in between classes. Which, unfortunately, resulted in an awkward encounter. Kaylee knew Zach's best friend was Cammie so at lunch Kaylee decided to approach her.

Cammie saw Kaylee walking towards her.

"Hello Cammie." She gave a fake smile, but looked really uncomfortable.

"Hi Kaylee. How are you doing?"

"Just fine. Thank you. So did you hear about Zach and I breaking up?"

"Yeah I did. I'm sorry it didn't work out." I'm not sorry at all!

"Yeah, but at least he has…you." Kaylee swallowed and Cammie raised her eyebrow. "Zach has you as a good friend. Your there for him, which is good."

"So do you still have feelings for him?"

Kaylee threw her head back slightly and laughed, "Who wouldn't like him, he's gorgeous. But on a serious note, yes, I do still have feelings for him. I care about him, but I think it's better if I had sometime to myself without serious dating."

"I understand."

"Take care of him Cam." Kaylee smiled and nudged her arm before walking away.

Well that was awkward. Kaylee may have ditched Zach, but I'm going to be there for him. Just like she said, I'm there for him, which is good!

After the little encounter Cammie grabbed her backpack and headed to Spanish.

Zach had a different lunchtime from Cammie unfortunately. He ate a half an hour early while she had study hall. He sat at the lunch table with Dylan Thompson, Grant, and Jonas. Sadly Kaylee had the same lunch. This was the first day out of the whole school year that he didn't have Kaylee in the seat next to him at the table. It was a little weird sitting with the guys and their girls but no Kaylee. Of course it was probably even weirder for Cammie. She didn't have any of her close friends at her lunch, but she made friends easily and ate with some girls that were in dance team.

"Zach." Jonas said, but Zach was busy thinking. "Zach..."

Grant shot his head up from his tray of food. "Zach! You're going to want to pay attention to us!"

Dylan starting laughing. Liz and Bex who were sitting next to Jonas and Grant tensed up.

Finally Grant picked up a roll from his tray and chucked it at Zach, hitting him in the side of the face. That got his attention.

"What was that for!"

Dylan answered while still laughing, "Dude, your ex-girlfriend is heading this way. She looks pretty determined."

He turned in his seat slightly and took a quick glance behind him. Kaylee was strutting towards Zach with her eyes focused on him. He turned back around immediately. Crap.

"Hi Zach." She put her hand on his shoulder. Her touch made his skin tingle.

"Hey Kaylee."

She grimaced slightly, "Umm, could I talk to you for a minute?"

Zach got up from his seat and followed her away from his table where his friends sat.

"What did you want to talk about?"

"I just wanted to apologize about last night. I'm sorry, but you know now that I just need some time by myself without a serious relationship."

He nodded his head, "You explained that last night."

"I know I just wanted…"

"Wanted?"

"I wanted to let you know that I'd still like to be friendly to each other. I don't want us to be the awkward ex's that never talk."

"That's fine with me."

Kaylee's eyes grew wide and her jaw dropped. "Its fine with you if we are the ex's that never talk!"

Her reaction made him even laugh, "No I met its fine that we still talk…once in awhile."

Relief spread across her face right away and she let out a breath. "Okay that's good! I'll see you later."

"Bye." Zach returned to his seat.

When he sat back down Jonas gave him a questioning look, "What was that all about?"

"Oh she wanted to tell me that she wanted us to still talk and stuff even though we are broken up. She wanted us to be "friendly.""

Bex rolled her eyes and Grant stopped in the middle of chewing which made him look really stupid with food hanging out of mouth. Bex quickly shut his mouth with her hand.

"Well it sure looks like she's friendly with Jacob over there." Dylan said. He jerked his head to the right side of the cafeteria. Zach looked over to see Kaylee sitting on Jacob's lap while playing with his hand that was wrapped around her shoulder. It was hard for him to see Kaylee already hanging on Jacob and being close to him. He refused to think of her as a slut, but seriously? One day and she's close with the ex-boyfriend from last year? Zach couldn't stand being in the same room with Kaylee acting that way. He dumped his tray and flew out the doors toward the hallways. In the hall he went over to his locker and rested his forehead on the cold metal door.

Cammie. I need to go talk to Cammie. She's in class though. Oh well, this is important. I need to talk to her and cool down.

He rushed to the classroom where Cammie's homeroom had study hall. He opened the door and was stopped by all the stares from the kids sitting at desks. They all had books in their hand, but the second he came in, all attention was on him. Cammie's teacher spoke to him, "Is there something you need Mr. Goode?"

Oh shoot. Why in the world did I interrupt class just to talk to Cammie?

Zach had no idea what he was going to say to the teacher to get Cammie out of class.

"Ummm.. Well yeah. I need to talk to Cammie."

"Mr. Goode please tell me why I would let you take a student out of my class just because a young boy says he needs to "Talk to her"?"

His smart ass remark would be "Because this is study hall. It's not even a class, all you do is read or work on homework." But of course he knew that would make the teacher even madder. He had to result to lying and telling some made up story.

"Because I'm heading home since I'm sick. I always give Cammie a ride home from school everyday and with me heading home she won't have a ride. I needed to ask her if she was able to sign out in the office and just head home early because I won't be able to come back in a few hours to pick her up."

Out of the corner of his eyes he could see Cammie looking confused but quickly realizing he was making up a story for the teacher. Her study hall teacher narrowed his eyes and Zach, and hesitated, but finally he gave in.

"Alright Miss. Morgan I guess you've got no choice but to head home. Be sure to sign out in the office." He handed Cammie a pink slip of paper and she took it while giving Zach a look.

She picked up her backpack, but Zach took it from her to carry it.

Once both signed out in the office and were walking to the parking lot she finally spoke.

"What in the world are you doing taking me out of school Zach?"

She didn't look mad. In fact she looked amused. She was smiling yet looking confused with her arms crossed and her eyebrows raised.

"I saw Kaylee in the cafeteria. She was sitting on Jacob's lap and flirting with him. I left and on instinct I guess I headed to you…"

"Ooohh, I see."

"Yeah. I thought talking to you would help me cool down."

Cammie smiled, "I've got a good idea on how to cool you down!"

"What would that be?"

"Follow me." Cammie got in her car and looked at him expecting him to get in the passenger seat.

"If we are driving somewhere how will my car get home?"

"Shoot that's right. Take your car and follow me."

After driving for about five minutes Cammie stopped and both got out of their cars.

"Uhhh Cam why are we at my house?" She just smirked.

"Get your swimming trunks Goode. We are going swimming! It will definitely cool you down!"

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