Chapter 17
Bex's pov:
"Our girls are growing up," Macey sighed.
All of us were dreading that they were getting older. "My mother wants Lizzie to consider taking Dr. Fibs job in Research and Development," Cammie told us.
"Yeah, Liz you should take the job. Our kids need someone to look over them, but Liz shook her head, "I'm taking a job right after our kids leave for school. Sam will stay with someone around here."
I laughed, "Are you guys noticing that the girl who was never cut-out to be a spy is considering job offers right now?"
She rolled her eyes, "They need to train because I found something earlier. I don't think we're free of the circle and neither are our kids," Macey told us. "Our worries aren't over."
I have plans to write the stories of the Gallagher Girls: Next generation. I think it would be a lot more fun. : )
"What do you mean?" I said, there was a coldness in my voice when I spoke to her.
"The CIA has chatter that the circle has a new list, the big bad wolves are back guys and our kids are going to be caught in the cross-fire," Macey said. "They're going to need to be ready."
Macey's pov:
I pulled my daughter into my arms and hugged her, this was the first time I had ever been truly afraid for my daughter. She hadn't been introduced to the spy world and now... she was going to have to be ready for it or there were going to be consequences.
"Mom, what were you and their moms talking about?" Rosy asked me.
"Oh, Rosy, nothing at all," It was a lie. A lie that I was willing to tell and make myself believe more than anything but I knew that I couldn't make myself forget the things that I knew or didn't want to know.
"Can you tell me a story?" She yawned.
"Once upon a time there was a spy school and one of the spies fell and love with a normal boy on a mission. She loved him but she had to hide her identity from him so that everyone was safe so she gave him a fake name and told him she was home-schooled and had a cat named Suzie. The school found out and he did too so they forced him to drink tea that would make him forget everything he knew about her. She was heart broken and she missed him but she lived to spy another day. One day I'll tell you about that spy and her friends more. Because her story is great and she is the best spy ever," I told her.
"You talk about them like they're real," Rosy said softly.
"Who knows, maybe they are."
Liz's pov:
"Mom, where are you going?" Sam asked when she came out of her bedroom.
Sam had begun to notice that whenever I left during the night I was always wearing black and beat up black boots that I seemed to always wear on the event of my midnight rendezvous. "I have to go to work sweetheart. Go back to bed. Your daddy will drive you to school tomorrow."
"Why don't you let me ride the bus anymore?" Sam said. She looked so innocent in that little night gown of hers.
"We want to spend more time with you," I told her.
It wasn't a total lie. We did want to spend more time with her, to make sure that she got home safely every day. But Sam couldn't understand that yet.
"You can spend time with me in the morning before I get on the bus and after I get off. I have friends on there and sometimes when i don't have my homework done I use that time," she told me.
"Then get your homework done before you go to school," I snapped. "Good night Samantha."
I turned to go, but then I felt a tiny body grab me and give me a hug, "Love you, mom."
Cammie's pov:
I watched Jaci come out the door of her bedroom, "Mom, next year am I going to the Gallagher Academy?" she asked.
I nodded.
"But what makes me an exceptional woman? It's the Gallagher Academy for exceptional young women and I am not exceptional," she told me.
"Trust me, Jacqueline you are a Gallagher Girl," I said softly. "Jacqueline?"
"Yes?" Her eyes were questioning as she looked up at me.
"Can you keep a secret?"
OKAY GUYS.
SO I HEARD THAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TIME THAT WE ALL THOUGHT THAT CAMMIE AND ZACH WERE DEAD SO HEAR IT IS...
Then...
Cammie's pov:
The fire blazed over us, burning us and nothing could stop it, then it hit the 0 and the bomb...
Did nothing.
Zach gasped in surprise and I felt his lips on my ear and the breath coming in and out of his mouth. "Come on Gallagher Girl," He cried, pulling me up in his arms and toward the window that we'd gone through before.
There was no escape, the window was shattered all over the floor and wood from the wall and the ceiling was all over the ground and my voice broke as I whispered, "What do we do?"
"This way," he lead me down the halls lined with flames and smoke. I coughed loudly as we ran through the flames and he lead me to a slim crevice in the wall and forced me to crawl through, toward the light, freedom of the fire. By now everyone would be gone and it would be just the two of us, fighting to survive.
"Cam..." He coughed. And he pulled away from me, my heart stopped and I cried out his name. "Zach!"
I pulled him as quickly as I could from the floor where flames were trailing after us. I pulled his body that was going limp on the floor into the small shifting hallway and I slipped us through a slender hole in the wall and we were free.