A/N

Yea, Yea, Yea. I'm a liar. I said I would update quickly. I'm sorry.

Anyway this chapter will set up for the next one… Where I plan for all of your questions to be answered! You get closer and closer to the answers as you read!

Check the end of the chapter for details!

I never do this but I am obviously not Ally Carter. Who by the way had the amazing mind to come up with something like this. Officially Disclaimed.

Chapter 9

Flames of Confusion

Rain now pattered against the window? How had that beautiful day end in such a mess?

Bex was tossing and turning. Yes it was getting on my nerves but I wasn't sleeping either. I guess that's what happens when you see someone who looks a lot like Winter kissing your dad. (Which you may or may not have way too many questions about and how badly it affects your gag trigger)

"Cammie?" Bex called through the dark. "Hum?" I mumbled. "Does it bother you? The fact that your dad has a relationship with someone you don't even know?"

I shot up in bed. "Of course it does! Why would it not? It seems like these days I don't even know him!" I said.

Bex sat up as well and turned on her bedside light. Immediately the bugs in the room flew to the light.

"It doesn't make sense." She muttered to herself. "What doesn't make sense?" I asked. Bex waved away my question. I glared at her.

"Let's just try and sleep." She said laying back down and turned off the light.

She may have slept but I didn't. My mind was too busy. The image of my dad replayed in my mind. Everything was jumbled and confused. I groaned in my head.

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Bex and I walked own stairs the next morning to find my dad at the table with Winter. Bex sent me a look/ "Good morning girls." My dad said smiling at us.

"Who's that dad?" I asked warily. Winter turned but only to show a face that was much more older than Winters. About my Dads age.

Bex's mouth dropped open and her eyes went big. "This is Ariabelle Hays. I think you go to school with her daughter? Winter? Is that her name Airabelle?" My dad said.

"Yea. I know who Winter is." I said icily. Bex was looking at the ground.

"And it a pleasure to meet both of you girls." Winter's mom said.

My dad went on talking as if he didn't remember that her daughter was the one Zach cheated on me with. He didn't remember?

"I work with Ariabelle here. She's the head manger of our company." Bex sat down next to me at the bar muttering something.

"I hope you two don't mind but we have been called into work later today so we are going to head out early." "but Dad… you said…"

"I know what I said." My dad waved me off.

"Ariabelle is going to hitch a ride with us. We'll drop you two off and then we have to run over to the office." He said getting as well as Winter's mom.

He shoo-ed us upstairs. "Go pack. We leave in 20."

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"Now we know who he was with then." Bex said throwing her bathroom supplies in her bag. I shuddered folding my pajamas neatly in my bag.

"Now just why was she here? And with him?" she muttered to herself. She was starting to worry me with all the muttering. I didn't say anything but studies her as she checked something on her phone.

She was on it for basically the whole car ride. Typing and listening to music. I looked out the window and read my book while trying to ignore the playful (and flirtatious) banter from my dad and Winter's mom.

He had forgotten. He had forgotten. I groaned mentally. Where was my life going these days!

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It was storming by the time we got home. "Maybe it was good thing we came home early. The trip would have been busted it we had all this rain up at the lake." Dad said carrying in his bag. Winter's mom looked around out house with a disapproving eye.

"I should bring my maid Mary here. She will do wonders to your home." My dad laughed.

"That is why we have kids isn't it?" he said wrapping his arm around my shoulders. I gave him a look and so did Bex.

"just kidding." He said leading Winter's mom to his office. As the door closed Bex motioned for me to follow her.

"Do you think Jessica will mind?" we heard. Bex's eyes went wide again. How many times today. She reached for her phone and started recording what we could hear.

"Yes. But if we have too we will."

"Do what?" I mouthed.

"you gave the tranquilizers right? The team won't go down without a fight and they have backup. Either we gas them to sleep or go crazy with tranquilizers."

Bex did a lot of tapping on her phone and when I tried to look she pulled away. "I can't let you look at this." She mouthed. I glared at her.

We heard footsteps coming towards the door. "Rebecca? Cameron? Are you out there?" My dad called. We scampered away just as the door opened.

"Nothing. They are upstairs. We're good." Winter's mom said.

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I was about to open my locker when I noticed Bex talking to Flynn. I couldn't hear what they were saying but Bex had a folder and she handed both the folder and her phone she had been using that weekend over to him.

Flynn carefully stuffed the folder and phone in his back pack. I failed to noticed that Winter was near by watching the transaction.

But later that day, Bex and Zach came running up to me. "Cammie come with us now" Bex said.

"What? Why?"

"Come on! Your questions will be answered in due time!' Zach said taking my arm and pulling me out of the school. Only then did I realize how quiet the school was. Nobody was there.

They pulled me out of the school just as… There was a huge boom form the inside of the school. And it dissolved in to flames.

A/N

Yea, Yea, Yea. Not much. I know my dad is kicking me off the laptop now. Ba Humbug.

So after Chapter 10 you will probably have a lot of questions. That is why you will all =send me questions in Reviews and I will create a special story just for you questions! BUT NOT UNTILL AFTER CHAPTER 10!

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