Did you read the MUST READ... page? Hmmm? 33 Days, 11 hours, 5 minutes, 5...4...3...2...1..

It was late at night when we finally got back to the hotel. In fact, it was so late that no one was anywhere to be seen. Abby ushered us up the stairs to her room. Bex and Macey were holding Zach up as we walked through the hotel. Anna held open the doors while Abby cleared the way. Eva and Tina brought up the rear making sure we weren't followed.

We finally made it up to Abby's room after 6 minutes and 34 seconds of corner clearing and evasive maneuvers (well, as evasive as we could be with a 150 pound, semi-conscious, teenage boy spy in training who cared only about getting me safe. So it wasn't easy) to evade any tail we might or might not have had. Bex and Macey settled Zach down on the love seat in the room while everyone else but Macey and Bex stood standing.

"We're going to go get our equipment." Bex said, heading for the door.

"Hurry and be careful." Abby warned.

"We'll be back in 3." Macey held up three fingers and winked before she ran out of the room after Bex.

I slowly lowered myself down to the floor next to Zach's head. He was now conscious enough to hold his own icepack to his head. I felt him run his fingers through my hair. I smiled. But it wasn't romantic. At all. Because :

1. I hadn't showered in many days and I couldn't even begin to imagine what a smelled like, not to mention what the state of my hair felt like after not being washed in a few days.

2. I had seen Zach in a Tux before. I've seen him covered in sweat at the P&E barn. But I've never seen him that brutally beat up, until then. And as all things that happen to me, because of my highly trained mind, I can't forget.

3. I just happened to be sitting in front of three of my sisters who had never seen me and Zach "in love", and my favorite, and only, Aunt (who happens to have my mom on speed dial).

So it wasn't very romantic.

Bex and Macey burst through the door with piles of paper, electronics, and other things in each of their arms. Anna got up and closed the door behind them and locked it.

"Anyone see you?" Abby asked.

"No." Bex set the equipment on the coffee table.

"So what happened while we were gone? How did you find us?" I asked my sisters and my Aunt.

"Well, you went out for your date with Zach, who was actually Will pretending to be Zach on the 4th. But you didn't come home that night. Neither of you did. So the next day, the 5th, we weren't panicking as much as the 6th when no one had seen you. Tomorrow," Macey looked at her watch. "Well, today, is the closing ceremonies."

"You were gone for six days." Bex finished.

"We were looking for you. Everywhere." Tina said. The others nodded.

"We searched the places we had been, and even the places we hadn't." Eva added.

"I called you mother." Abby spoke up. "I told her you and Zach were both gone. She sounded worried. But she assumed what we had: That you had run away with Zach. Again." Zach laughed.

"That does sound like fun, running away with Cammie and all, but I'd rather have her here. Where there are more than my eyes on her, than out there where it's just me. " Zach propped himself up on his elbows.

"But how did you find us?" I asked once more. Bex had been over in the corner, hooking up a laptop. I heard the start up tune and then saw Liz's face.

"Oh Cammie!' her voice rang through the speakers. "And Zach! Ya'll are alright! I was so worried!" Liz gushed.

"She's how we found you." Bex brought Liz (or, well, her head) over to the coffee table.

"I was here, monitoring the tap feed after class one day. I had heard from Headmistress Morgan that you and Zach were missing. I looked through the feed and found a critical point in the tape. The last normal information was the part about their Operation Switch." I nodded for Liz to move on.

"Well, then the feed got all wonky."

"Like, wonky wonky? Or Willy Wonky wonky?" Zach gurgled. He still must not have been that coherent.

"Ignore him. He's the wonky one." Bex dismissed Zach's comment with a wave of her hand.

"What do you mean, Liz?" I asked.

"They started saying things in a code. Like:

WInce THey. GIft RLs.

COmmunication MEans.

"It went on and on. Meaningless words. I knew it had to be a code. I ran it through the databases while I was in class. I came back to zero results. The code was too simple to have to use a code breaker. I sat there and figured it out in minutes. " Liz smiled a triumphant smile. "Then I sent the information the Bex and Macey and they took it from there."

"With the decoded feed, we were able to find the address and get you out of there." Bex finished. She looked at me with a concerned face. "What's wrong?"

The gears in my mind were reeling. It all seemed to easy. I couldn't get out, but they could get in to rescue me. And why had they changed to a code on the comms. My brain started to hurt. I could tell the effects of the caffeine patch were wearing down. My brain, apparently, does not have a liking for coffee. I held my head in my hands.

"I hate coffee." I muttered. The girls laughed and Abby smiled.

"I think we should all get some sleep." Abby finally said. She stood and brushed her hands on her pants. "You can go, a few at a time, to get your stuff from your rooms. I'm going to go first and grab Zach's stuff. Since he obviously isn't ready to get up yet."

We looked at Zach, who was sitting on the couch, passed out snoring. Abby left the room.

"Anybody got a marker?" Tina asked. We giggled. Moments later Abby came back and Tina, Eva and Anna left.

"You stay here Cam." Bex told me. "Macey and I'll get your stuff." I was to exhausted to argue. When the others got back, Bex and Macey left. And within 15 minutes, I was happily showered and falling asleep on the floor between all of my sisters. Nothing bad was going to happen here.

Right?

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