Chapter 20

I got up.

"I, um... got to go to the bathroom." I said and ran out the room. I heard Bex yelling at Zach, a long string for cuss words, really bad words. I ran into my room closed the door, stuffed my head in a pillow and cried. I cried, maybe as hard or even more than when I found out about my dad passing away. How could Zach do this to me? Was I just a game to him? I heard footsteps coming up the stairs, and Iknew it was Zach. I dug my head further (if that was even possible without killing myself) into the pillow.

"Gallagher Girl." I cried even harder at the name.

"Cammie." He sat on my bed, and tried to gently pull me up. I held onto the bed tightly. He tried harder to get me up, but again I resisted him. But his strength was no match for me. On the third try, he pulled me up and looked at my face. He used his thumb and wiped the tears, making more come from m eyes.

"Cammie," he whispered.

"Please Zach, go away." I said brokenheartedly.

"Cammie, its true there's nothing I like about you, or anything I love about you, because love to too weak of a word to describe my feelings towards you," Zach said.

"There's no word in the world to describe my love for you. You're the only thing I really have. And I may say I love you, but it's so much more than that, you're so much more than that." I looked at him for the first time, and I saw so much love in his eyes.

"Really?"

"Really Gallagher Girl." He gave me a shy smile, making him look so cute and innocent. He pulled me into his chest.

"I'm so sorry Cammie, I never meant for you to cry." He pulled me tighter.

"I'm so sorry." He repeated into my hair. I felt tired from all that crying, so I closed my eyes, and rested against Zach's chest.

I woke up to the sun shine. I looked out the window (not the one facing Zach) and saw the sun. The sun! It'd been so cloudy the past few days, and the day school starts after winter break, it gets sunny! I sat up.

"Cammie, time to get ready for school." my mom called.

"Okay Mom." I called. I stretched and saw a piece of paper on my desk.

Cammie,

I'm really sorry. I felt terrible for making you cry. :( Do you think you could ever forgive me? Also, if you want, I can give you a ride to school. :)

-Zach

P.S. I miss you already.

I read the note and smiled. Zach really did feel bad for making me cry. And even after he said those nice things, he still feels bad. How did I get so lucky? I looked at the clock and saw that it was 7:30. Great I had about 30 minutes to get ready. I took a shower (thankfully the blinds were closed this time) and changed into a Macey approved outfit (I hope, I really don't want to change in a school bathroom), and added some make-up. I got my backpack and I went down stairs.

"Well, doesn't someone look fancy!" My mom said, handing me a burnt pop-tart.

"You burnt the pop-tart, really mom?" I joked with her. We both knew she couldn't cook, even if her life depended on it. She put her hands up in surrender.

"Oh and here Cammie!" She said, handing me a piece of paper. I turned it over to see a picture of Zach and me sleeping on the couch together, with Zach's arm around me.

"I took it at Christmas." She said, answering my unasked question. So that's what the flash was.

"And I would've taken another one this morning, but Zach had to leave to get ready for school." I nodded my head, but then snapped it up when the meaning of her words hit me.

"Zach was here?"

"Yep, he left probably five minutes before you woke up."

"So, we fell asleep together?" My cheeks got red saying that. My mom laughed and nodded her head.

"You two were so close to each other, and when Zach had to go, he had a hard time untangling himself from you. Soon I had to come help him." My cheeks got redder. How many times had my mom interfered in Zach's and my relationship? Then I smiled remembering that Zach had written 'I miss you already.' I put the pop-tart on the counter top and grabbed a granola bar, and headed out the door.

"Bye mom!" I yelled.

"Bye honey! Have a good day!" She called out. When I got outside the first thing I saw was Zach leaning against his car, smirking. I went over to him and silently held the picture of us sleeping towards him. He looked at it and chuckled. Then he looked at me.

"I'm guessing you're not mad at me?" He asked. This time I chuckled.

"Zach, you're the only person who would think that. I mean come on, sure you made me cry, but you said the kindest thing that has ever been said to me, and then you get worried that I might still be mad at you! You're like a very complicated math problem, you know that?" Zach's smirk got wider.

"I do it just for you!" He said. I playfully slapped him on the chest, but he caught my hand, pulled me to him, and crushed his lips to mine. The kiss was too short for my liking, even if it's lasted a minute or two.

"I'm glad it's all goode in the hood!" I looked at him funnily.

"Zach who says that anymore?"

"Me."

"Ugh, you're impossible!" He laughed and opened the car door for me.

"After you, madam." He got into the car after I did, and started to drive towards the school.

"Okay, maybe Macey was right, you are bipolar!" I joked.

"And why's that, ma'lady?"

"You get all... Zachy on me, and then act like a gentle man and open the car door and put on the horrible fake accent."

"Maybe I am a gentle man, and Zachy really?"

"Well that's the only way to describe your behavior. I mean, it's sort of hard to describe a new species of animal. But it really is a privilege to see a monkey and a pig, which a creature called a Zach, in its natural habitat." Zach laughed, the opposite reaction of what I was hoping for.

"Is it possible for you to get mad?" I asked Zach after awhile. Zach shrugged his shoulders.

"Is it?" He asked.

"I don't know! I'm asking you!"

"Why?"

"I've never seen you mad."

"Why?"

"I just haven't."

"Why?"

"Zach stop with the whys!"

"Why."

"It's annoying me." Wrong thing to say.

"Why?" I was about to throw something at Zach, but didn't because he was driving.

"We're here!" I exclaimed, getting tired of Zach's why's.

"Why?"

"Ugh!"

And cue the aww's!

Love,

A Runner At Heart

P.S. DEDICATION TIME!

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