A/N: Awww I love it when you guys review it makes me feel all happy inside then I go "Man I should really write faster then maybe I'll get more reviews"
Chapter 18
"I can't believe they sent us to our room." I said as we entered Macey and Bex's room.
"Who do they think they are?" Bex said angrily.
"Peace Bex," Macey said soothingly "they're probably just planning for tomorrow and wanted us out of the way."
"Oh." Bex said walking to the bathroom.
I looked at Macey. "Really?" I mouthed.
She shrugged.
We heard a dinging noise come from the room that Liz and I shared.
"What the heck was that?" I wondered aloud.
"The phones." Liz whispered wide eyed.
"I thought we left those in here!" I exclaimed.
"I took them into our room to charge." Liz explained as she ran over to the bathroom door.
"When the heck did you do that?" I asked joining her.
"Almost right after we put the cases on it, when Jonas and I left and you and Zach were trying to get Grant and Bex out of here. We just ran in there really fast. I can't believe we actually beat you downstairs." She said disbelieving.
"BEX!" I yelled through the door. "WE NEED TO GET THROUGH!"
"I'M KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING!" She yelled back.
"DID YOU NOT HEAR OUR PHONES GO OFF? CODE BLUE!" Liz yelled as well.
"HURRY UP BEX!" Macey yelled soon after.
"MACEY? YOU TOO? I'VE BEEN BETRAYED. JUST GO AROUND!" She responded
"WE CAN'T, THE BOYS WON'T LET US OUT OF OUR ROOM." I made up on the spot.
"DID YOU ACTUALLY TRY?"
"OF COURSE!" Macey said, adding on to the lie "WE REALLY NEED TO GET THROUGH SO COULD YOU HURRY?"
"HOW ABOUT YOU JUST RUN THROUGH AND I'LL COVER MYSELF?" She said sarcastically.
"OKAY." Liz yelled back as she began working on the lock.
"WOAH! LIZ I WAS KIDDING!"
"TOO LATE, SHE'S ALMOST GOT THE LOCK OPEN." Macey said with an amused look on her face.
Liz had the door open seconds and I turned my head but couldn't avoid seeing Bex holding up a towel to cover her entire body and the toilet.
"We need to have a talk on boundaries." Bex murmured under her breath.
Macey rolled her eyes as we made for the door. "Don't act like you have bursted in on us seconds after the shower turns off. You've seen more of me than ever wanted you to Baxter."
"It's not my fault you take so bloody long in the bathroom!" We heard Bex cry from the bathroom. Liz and I had both reached our phones, racing to see who had received a text.
"Mine!" Liz and I yelled at the same time. We looked at each other confused.
"When did you receive it?" I asked.
"Two minutes ago." She replied just as curious. "You?"
"Same."
"Wait, are you telling me that your phones went off at the exact same time?" Macey said disbelieving.
"I think so." Liz said slowly.
"No way that's coincidence. I wonder if Bex and I got texts. I think mine's on vibrate." Macey mused as she crossed back through the bathroom.
"Bloody-Macey!" Bex's shout came.
"Oh move on Bex." Macey said as she crossed back swiftly to our room with phones in hand.
"So?" I asked.
"We both got text too. Same time." She replied checking hers and Bex's phones.
"BEX! YOU GOT A TEXT FROM GRANT!" Liz called.
"WHAT?" She exclaimed and seconds later we heard the toilet flush and the water run. She swiftly joined us and yanked her phone out of Macey's hand.
"All it says is 'Hey'" She said disappointed.
"That's all mine has too." Liz added.
"Mine has a period." I added in.
"Preston put a comma." Macey said disgusted at his poor grammar.
"Well, we aren't going to figure anything out if we don't reply." I said settling myself on my bed and unlocking my phone to reply.
The other girls soon joined me and we all quickly sent our replies. Under Macey's direction we all replied with a simple, 'Hey' not a period more.
"Remind me why we're doing this again." I said as we waited for replies.
"Got anything else better in mind?" Macey said turning her phone around in her hands.
"Jab pencils into our legs?" Bex suggested.
"Trick out our phones." Liz added.
"Build a fort?" I mused.
"Actually, that would be kind of fun." Macey said popping up. "I've never built a fort before."
"I don't think I have either." Bex added.
"Seriously? Okay, that settles it, we're building a fort." Liz said grabbing a notebook from under the bed. "I have the perfect formula for this. This is going to be the best fort in existence. Go get the sheets and blankets from the other room."
We crossed dutifully to the other room and swiftly stripped the bed. We dropped them in a pile on the floor and stood there waiting for more instruction.
Liz eyed the pile woefully. "Are there more blankets in the closets?" She asked. I nodded. "Beautiful, grab those and strip this bed as well. I'll be done with the plans pretty soon. This shouldn't be too hard. Oh, we need tape, clothespins, safety pins, or anything you can think of that might help."
Five minutes later, we had all the supplies rounded up and were ready to start building. Liz redid her ponytail and began instructing us.
"Bex, Cam, grab the top sheet and safety pin it to the other one. Safety pin it to the fitted ones as well so it will cover the whole room. Macey, help me safety pin these light blankets together. We'll attach them to the others in a second."
We worked quickly and semi-quietly. Bex and I yelped whenever we stuck ourselves with the safety pins, which was more often than I would like to admit. Macey and Liz were done way before us. After seeing the pathetic amount we had done, Liz reassigned us to gathering pillows and bringing the mattress in from the other room. It took us almost five minutes because we wanted to move the mattress without disrupting anything else. After bringing it across the bathroom it became clear that the height difference between the two beds was going to cause a problem and that the two bed frames wouldn't fit next to each other.
So began the next leg of our journey. First Liz had us take the other mattress off the bed frame and carry it to Macey and Bex's room, then she had us take the bedside tables to the other room as well, then we moved the dresser into the closet, carefully maneuvering around the dresses. Despite our care, Macey ordered us to take all the new purchases from today into the bathroom, and to hang all four outfits out to hand and 'breathe' with the shoes still packed carefully in their boxes under the corresponding outfit. Then Macey had us organize everything else we had bought that day in the bathroom so it would be ready for the next day according to who was going to use it.
By the time we were done with that, Liz and Macey had finished hanging the ceiling and walls of the fort. The mattress' were flat on the floor but they weren't done yet. They apparently needed new sheets to go on them, as well as new blankets and more pillows. Where they planned to get this, I didn't know. It seemed I wasn't going to find out however, because Bex and I were ordered to go and find christmas lights. When we asked where we were supposed to find them, we were ignored.
"I guess we could go check the garage. Or see if my mom has any idea." I suggested. Bex shrugged and we moved to exit from her and Macey's room.
"Oh, you need to make the boys look with you." Macey said as she readjusted the hanging of one of the sheets.
"Why?" Bex asked. We were not given an answer.
"Just go! And take your time!" Liz added, helping Macey with aforementioned sheet.
Bex and I made eye contact before heaving a sigh and moving to leave the room. As soon as we entered the hallway, all four boys popped out of their respective rooms. Zach and Jonas further down the hall, across from me and Liz, then Preston and Grant from across from Bex and Macey's room.
"You four are grounded what are you doing out of your room?" Jonas asked faux crossly.
"We need christmas lights and we need your help to find them." Bex said bluntly.
"Why?" Grant asked.
"Well because you're taller than us so you can reach into the high places-" Jonas cut her off.
"I assume he meant why do you need christmas lights."
"We honestly don't really know...we were sent to find them, and here we are...trying to find them…" I said.
"What does it have to do with us?" Zach asked.
Bex started to answer in a very annoyed voice "Well if you don't want to help us I guess we could just-" All the boys at once tried to cut her off. I guess they didn't want to make us mad again.
"No, no, no, we'll help." Grant said the loudest.
"Where are Mace and Liz?" Preston asked.
"They're getting ready for bed." I answered. Not entirely a lie.
"Why didn't you guys text us back?" Jonas asked, seemingly against his will.
I looked at Bex and she shrugged. "We didn't hear our phones go off." She answered quickly and we began to bounce down the stairs.
The followed quickly, mumbling under the breath. Something about girls and... I couldn't make out the last part.
"So where do you think they would be?" Zach asked jumping off the last stair right next to me.
"Garage maybe." I said automatically.
"There isn't a garage." Bex said.
"Right. Closets then. Bex and I will look upstairs, you four look down here. You can check my mom's room too. I think there's an office around here somewhere too. I'm sure we can find some." I instructed and we took off running.
The boys heaved a sigh before splitting up to look for christmas lights. As soon as Bex and I reached the upstairs we caught a glimpse of Macey and Liz disappearing into our room with an unknown object. The door shut behind them and I looked at Bex. She made eye contact with me, she didn't move so it was my call. I shrugged and we opened the closet in between the two rooms the boys shared. We dug through boxes and looked on the shelf. Nothing there. We looked around once to see if there were anymore closets that we may have missed not seeing anything. Suddenly Bex nudged my arm.
"Look up there." She said gesturing to a hatch in the ceiling.
"Well that looks promising." I said as I walked towards it.
"Cam…" Bex warned.
"Oh come on Bex, we're in a beach house in Florida, nothing dangerous is going to be up there. Except for maybe spiders." I said an exasperated look on my face.
"Right. Sorry, habit." She said as she stood next to me under the hatch.
"Boost me up?" I asked as I pulled my hair from my face.
"Yeah." She cupped her hands and I put my foot into in and she launched me upwards.
I grabbed the handle of the hatch and yanked it down. No ladder fell meaning it was going to be more fun to get up.
"Going up." I mumbled as Bex lifted me just a tad higher. I grabbed the ledge and hoisted myself in. There in the corner was a pile of christmas lights.
"Bingo!" I called down to Bex.
"I prefer catchphrase." She responded cheekily. I rolled my eyes and chuckled before making my way carefully across the beams.
As I neared the lights I heard Zach's voice float up from below. "Hey guys, we couldn't find anything down- wait where's Cammie."
"Why do I get a feeling he's not going to like the answer?" Jonas asked before Bex could answer.
"She's getting lights." Bex answered confidently.
"Where?" Grant asked.
"Where do you think?" I heard Bex answer, I could picture her pointing up to where I was. I scooped up the lights and spun on one of the beams.
"Cam?" Zach called.
In response I threw the lights across the space and through the hole. I heard a grunt and then laughter. Judging by Bex's hoots Zach was standing underneath the opening and was hit by the lights. I giggled myself.
"Hey guys, what's going on?" I heard Macey's voice faintly ask. She must've come from hers and Bex's room.
"Cammie is up in the ceiling." Preston answered. "And she just hit Zach with lights."
I took advantage of the situation to look around up there. There were a lot of boxes so I picked one and began pawing through it.
"She is not up in the ceiling." Bex clarified. "She's just in the cool little attic."
"Hey Cam!" Liz's voice came louder than the rest.
"Yeah?" I called back.
"Are you coming down anytime soon?" She asked.
"Eh...Maybe." I answered moving on to a different box. "There's lots of cool stuff up here."
"Great, wanna let us know what kind of stuff?" Macey asked.
"Lots of stuff...pictures, journals, holiday decorations, etc." I called down. I looked across the space to see if there was anything interesting. "There's also a very old, very gorgeous wedding dress." I said as I crossed towards the vintage dress. It had a garment bag over it, a clear old one that actually did a pretty good job of keeping dust and such off.
"Oooo, I wanna see!" Bex said. "Gimme a hand." She ordered someone, probably Grant.
Seconds later her head popped up and I crossed over to give her a hand up.
"I wanna see too." Liz said almost jumping up and down with excitement.
"Ditto." Macey said stepping up close behind Liz. Grant heaved a sigh and lifted Liz up to where Bex and I could grab her and we pulled her up then set her down carefully before helping Macey up.
I raised an eyebrow at the boys, asking if they were going to join us.
"Oh what the hay, come on Jonas." Grant said reaching over for his friend. Jonas' eyebrows shot up but he didn't disagree. Grant and Zach lifted him up, then Preston, then Grant boosted Zach up and Zach reached down and lifted Grant up one arm braced on the beam nearest the entrance.
I looked at Bex and raised my eyebrow and looked twice quickly at Zach and Grant, which is the equivalent of me saying 'would you look at that, they're so buff' and she widened her eyes appreciatively meaning she agreed and thought we were dang lucky to witness it. Not that we would ever let them know that we thought that.
"Wow...would you look at the detail on this dress." Macey said appreciatively and Bex and I snapped back to reality and whirled around to examine the dress with them. The boys wandered to each corner of the attic, looking for something manly.
"Are we going to risk taking the sleeve off?" I asked as Bex and I crossed to the dress.
"Absolutely." Macey said and we began to oh so carefully remove the garment bag.
"Wow." I said speechless as we gazed at the stunning gown in front of us.
The dress was old, very old Liz estimated the early 1900's and it was stunning. It had beading all along the neckline and was a pale white, yellowing with age. It had sheer sleeves with webbing threads along the sleeves. It hung straight and had beading at the bottom of the neckline and some many other details that I can't even begin to describe.
"Where on earth do you find a dress like this?" Bex breathed.
"Look at the veil." Liz added fingering the very lightly beaded piece of webbed fabric. It matched the dress perfectly and even had the same style about it.
"Wow…" We all breathed together.
"Hey, check it out, old comics." Grant said from to our left.
"This place is so cool." Bex determined as we gathered around the boys.
"Dude, Marvel is the best." Jonas said reaching for the comic.
"Pfft, DC is way better." Preston tried to argue and we all just stopped to stare at him. He backed down quickly. "But you know, Marvel is cool too."
"We should probably go back down." Zach said as the guys flipped through the comic.
"Yeah…" Jonas said absentmindedly. He shook his head once. "Yeah, you four are still grounded." He flipped the comic shut and carefully set it in a box. "Come along." He walked for the exit.
The girls and I carefully replaced the garment bag on the dress then shuffled towards the exit.
"Liz down first." Grant said as he and Zach reached for her arms to pass her down to Jonas and Preston.
Liz was lowered to the ground, then Macey.
"Alright Bex." Grant said reaching for her. Bex and I stepped out of reach.
"We can get down on our own thank you." I said spiritedly. The boys exchanged a look then shrugged and jumped down. Literally jumped.
"Do we look like that?" Bex asked me.
"Nah, when we do it, it looks cute." I said shaking my head at them. Or rather where they were.
"Okay, I'm going down first." Bex said as she made for the hole.
"You gonna catch me if I do something insane?" I asked quietly before she jumped down.
She winked at me and dropped down.
I waited an acceptable amount of time before following her by crossing to the hole. I sat down on the edge and fell backwards, my legs keeping from falling on my head. I grabbed onto the ledge with my hands and flipped backwards, I reached to the side and swung the hatch shut which took some skill then I landed in a crouch a few inches from Bex. We made eye contact and she cheered and gave me a high five.
"Whoop Whoop Cam! That was epic!" Bex said congratulating me.
"Thank you, thank you." I said with a mock bow as Liz and Macey giggled.
"Well, we better get back to our room." Macey said picking up the lights and crossing to her door, the rest of us following.
"So what were the for?" Jonas asked.
"What?" Macey asked turning back.
"The christmas lights." He said gesturing.
"Oh...well...you'll find out eventually I'm sure." Macey said grinning evilly.
The boys rolled their eyes and we went into our room.
"Text us back!" Grant called as we closed the door.
Macey shut the door and leaned up against it and wiped a hand across her forehead, as if wiping away sweat. Her expression read 'That was close.'
"So are you going to tell us why we had to go get christmas lights? And why we had to take the boys with us?" I asked as we began walking to the other room.
"Well, the christmas lights were for decoration and you needed to take the boys so we could steal their pillows." Macey said, leading the way.
"We've got everything else set up, we just need to do the christmas lights." Liz explained as we entered the room.
It looked incredible. The fort hung low enough that the room seemed smaller but it didn't hang so low that we couldn't stand up straight. They had laid the mattresses on the floor covered with fresh sheets and blankets. All of our pillows were on it arranged nicely with the boys pillows there as well. Everything was hung artistically and it looked really cool.
"Please tell me you took a picture of this." I said moving to help hang the lights.
"We will as soon as the lights are up." Macey said.
With all four of us helping, the lights went up fairly quickly, and when we turned them on and turned the lights off, it illuminated the space so it looked magical.
"Wow…" We breathed as we took it all in.
"Get a picture." I said breathlessly. It really looked so much cooler than I had thought.
"Liz you're a genius." Bex said.
"I know." Liz replied with a smirk.
Macey picked up her phone and snapped a quick picture.
"This is going to be so fun." She said with a smile.
"But first we have to text the boys back. I get the feeling that if we don't they're gonna come barging in here and no one wants that." Liz said.
"Right." I heaved a sigh and picked up my phone.
One new message from Zach. I opened it and read;'So...what are you girls up to?'
I replied a quick 'Nothing much, you guys?' and hit send before dropping my phone back on the floor and leaving to find my deck of cards. I had a hankering for a good old fashioned round of Scum.
"You guys wanna play Scum?" I called as I went to get the cards.
"Yes!" Liz's reply came.
"No!" Came Bex's quick answer.
"Yes!" Came Macey's.
I suspected as much. Macey and Liz ruled Scum, Bex and I weren't so great but I was feeling lucky. See, Scum is based on cutthroat American Capitalism, Macey had that born in her blood and Liz is a genius while Bex and I...well...let's just say we would be much better if there was the actual cutting of throats.
"Let's do it, Bex you start out as Pres." Macey instructed and I ran back into the room to see them already arranged in the proper seating order.
"Cam, you're Manager." Macey said pointing to the space between herself and Bex. I guess she was Worker and Liz, for the time being, Scum.
"Deal them cards Scum." Bex said with a redneck accent.
And so it began. Liz dealt the cards then passed her two highest to Bex. Macey passed me her highest and I handed her one card I didn't want to replace the one she gave me and Bex handed Liz her two unwanted cards.
Bex made the first move, she made it low by putting down a 2. I placed a five on the pile, Macey a six, Liz an eight and the game continued. A bare five minutes later Lizzie laid down the last of her cards and claimed the President's place. Macey ran out of cards next by playing four jacks and it was left to Bex and me. After some heart stopping moments I finally put down my last card making me worker. Bex scowled at her rotten luck.
"Clear the board Scum." Liz said with a smirk. And the next round began. As we played we chatted.
"So, anybody having a very interesting conversation with their male figure?" Macey asked picking up her phone, checking it, tapping a reply and dropping it once more."
"I think Grant fell asleep." Bex said frowning at her cards.
"Jonas and I are talking about what we're going to do with the phones." Liz said absentmindedly, almost out of cards once more.
"My phones over there." I said furrowing my brow at the cards I had left. "Pass." I said referencing to the game.
"So you honestly don't know what kind of conversation you'd be having." Macey asked skeptically.
"Absolutely none." I said frowning at Liz as she placed the rest of her cards down. She had both Jokers.
"Clear the board Scum." She said picking up her phone and sent her fingers flying.
"What were you and Grant talking about Bex?" I asked.
"I was trying to get him to tell me what we were doing tomorrow." Bex said straightening the cards.
"How was that working out for you?" Macey asked with a small smirk.
"Not very well. I think I almost cracked him when he stopped replying."
"One of the boys probably realized what he was doing and took his phone." I said with a smile.
Liz laughed. "According to Jonas, that's exactly what happened. He's wrestling Zach for it back now."
We laughed along with her.
"Oh Cam, Zach's complaining about you not texting him back, and I'm not supposed to tell you." Macey said as her phone buzzed beside her.
The next game started.
"Well, I'm sure I'll reply eventually." I said as I gathered my cards in front of me.
"He's not being very patient according to Jonas, he's being 'whiney'." Liz said putting air quotes around whiney.
"Wow I can honestly say I never picture Zach Goode whining." I said with a glance at Liz.
"He may have over exaggerated a little." Liz said frowning at her cards.
"So what do we know about what we're doing tomorrow?" I asked switching topics.
"We can assume we're all doing different things, except for maybe Cam and Bex. We don't know when we have to be ready by or even when they plan on leaving so that makes things difficult." Macey said as she picked up her phone and sent a text. Probably asking Preston about tomorrow.
"Well I think we all need to make sure we have our phones on us tomorrow so we can call or text in case of an emergency." Bex said thinking ahead for once.
"It's slowly driving me mad that I don't know what we're doing tomorrow." I said as I stared absentmindedly at my cards, only half listening to their conversation.
"It's alright Cam, let's talk about something else for a while." Macey said comfortingly.
"Like what? OH I know, like how over protective Zach was acting tonight." Bex said quickly.
"Yeah, what was up with that?" I asked snapping to attention.
"I thought Cam was going to bite his head off." Liz said seriously.
"I thought Macey was going to kill him." Bex said with a chuckle. I laughed a little at that thought.
"I thought it was cute...for about ten seconds then it was just irritating." Macey said.
"Does anyone have any ideas as to why?" I asked shaking my head.
"Because he's in loooooove with you!" Bex said cheesily.
I threw a pillow at her. "Does anyone else have an idea?"
"I kind of think Bex is right…" Liz said sheepishly. "Clear the board scum." She had won again.
"By all accounts it doesn't really make any sense, I think maybe he's just finally cracked. Why do boys feel the need to be overprotective?" I sighed.
"At times it was a little funny. Like when he really thought we were going to choke. Pfft, as if." Bex said with a shake of her head.
"I think it's in their genetic code." Macey said.
"It might be...I'll look into it." Liz said.
"I wonder what the rest of the girls are up to...We really need to find a better way of communicating over the summers." Bex said switching topics.
"I bet Tina is helping her mom come up with some ridiculous rumors for her column." I said with a smile.
"I bet Kim is spending a lot of time with her dad." Liz remarked.
"What are you going to do with your family this summer Liz?" Macey asked.
"Probably going to spend time with my sisters...swimming, barbecues, studying, arguing and the like. Sometimes it's hard to remember they can't fight back and I'm not allowed to show my training on them." Liz answered. "What are your plans Bex?"
"Missions with my parents. Lots of training if I can get it. I hope my parents will make a lot of their home-made food. Sometimes I get really tired of American food." She said with an eye roll. "What are you and Cammie going to with your family Mace?"
"Spend time avoiding my parents. Shopping. A bunch of random things. I want to give Cammie highlights. Probably a lot of boring parties for politicians." Macey answered vaguely.
"Obviously we'll be skyping you often as well."
"Colored highlights would go with the new look I have planned for Cammie." Bex said
"Cammie's getting a new look? Does Cammie know?" Liz asked surprised.
"Indeed she does, she even agreed to it. As a matter of fact, it was her idea." I said referring to myself in the third person.
Macey threw her phone to the ground "Why didn't anyone tell me?" She said very annoyed, an intense look in her eye."
"Did I forget to tell you? Whoops." Bex said not sounding very sorry.
"Well obviously I have to start planning out this new look." Macey said reaching for her phone once more.
"Don't bother, I've already got it planned." Bex said in a sing song voice.
Macey gave her the stink eye. "And why was I not consulted?" She took great pride in being the clothing expert in our group, the only clothing expert in our group.
"Because I knew you would agree with me, it's a great idea." Bex said slowly.
"What did you have in mind?" Macey asked dangerously.
"Edgy chic, similar to what I have now." Bex said innocently and quickly.
Macey thought it over for a moment then nodded slowly, and Bex heaved a silent sigh of relief.
"So are we all going to get new looks?" Liz asked.
"We should, it would be loads of fun." Bex exclaimed quickly.
"Definitely." Liz agreed.
"That's it, we're all going to get new looks." Macey said and she banged her hand on the ground like a gavel.
"This is going to be epic, clear the board scum." Liz said as I placed the last of my cards down and yet another game was over.
"I'm done playing this game." Bex said throwing the cards down.
"You just hate it because you always lose." I said throwing my cards in the pile, because honestly I was rather sick of losing as well.
"You lose as often as I do!" Bex exclaimed loudly.
"Well, that's beside the point." I said obviously.
"Well what should we do now?" Macey asked.
"We could always take more pictures. Dumb ones." I said
"Pictures are always dangerous though." Bex put in. "Food?"
"Just had a ton." Liz said. "Work on codes and ciphers?"
"Mega-boring." Macey said. "Make up prep for tomorrow?"
"No way…" Bex said. "I got it, it's time for The Challenge."
"Yes!" I shouted in agreement.
"Let's do it." Macey said jumping up.
"How about not." Liz said quietly.
"Come on Lizzie, be a sport." Bex said stretching a little.
I joined her in her stretches and Macey did as well. "It will be very fun." I said in a little kid's voice.
"I always lose." Liz complained.
"That doesn't mean it's not fun." Macey said.
"No more talking, let's do this." Bex said clapping her hands together.
Let me explain The Challenge, for all of you who don't know. It is how we prepare for P&E tests, and it's perhaps one of the hardest things I've ever done. It's tons of simple physical exercises over and over and over again until you literally collapse from physical exhaustion. Great fun, and great pain all at one time. Me and Bex love to do it, Macey's starting to like it, but poor little Liz would rather skip the pain and just collapse at the thought of it.
"You don't have to do it if you don't want to Liz, you can work on something else if you'd like." I said generously.
"I might just work on our phones... Jonas and I have got some great ideas that are going to take a while to put into place." Liz said quietly.
"Go ahead, as long as you write down how many reps we do." Bex said as we lined up against the wall.
"Can do." I started to ask her a question, but she answered before I could even voice them. "Your previous record is 50 reps of each."
"I think you may have just read my mind." I said seriously.
Liz smiled at me and we began.
Now, I honestly wish I could tell you how many reps we did of sit ups, push ups, squats, various painful stretches, and even how long we spent trying to hold each other up in the air but honestly it's all kind of a blur. All I remember is about two and half hours later the three of us were collapsing to the ground in exhaustion and Liz was congratulating us. My muscles felt like jelly and I didn't want to move. Like at all. So, before I dropped to the floor, I picked up my phone and dragged Macey and Bex onto the mattress beside Liz and collapsed next to them, the four of us in a pile.
After regaining feeling in my hands, I opened my phone to look at the text from Zach. The one I had avoided most of the night.
The message wasn't long. It read 'we're just working out some of the plans for tomorrow.'
I quickly tapped out a reply. 'Is that so? When do we get to know the details of this, oh so incredible plan?' I sent it and received a reply almost immediately.
'Tomorrow(:' He said. The conversation continued.
'How about right now instead?(;' I said hoping to glean some information out of him.
'All I can tell you is that you're going to love it.' He replied confidently.
'You sure about that Blackthorne Boy?' I said teasingly.
'Definitely. Now get some sleep Gallagher Girl, we've got a long day ahead of us tomorrow(;' And I knew no matter how many texts I sent, that was the last I was going to hear of Zach for the night.
I glanced at the time and winced. It was rather late. I looked over at Macey and Bex and saw them as they fought sleep.
"Let's get to sleep." I said as I pushed myself painfully up to go and plug my phone in.
"I can plug your phone in for you Cam, I need to upload the new software on it anyway." Liz said reaching for my phone.
"Thanks." I replied as I rolled over and pulled a blanket towards me.
Macey groaned. "We need to change."
Vaguely I recollected that we were still in our shopping clothes, which meant everyone but Bex was in a skirt. I groaned.
Bex, Macey, and I pushed ourselves off the mattresses and slowly made our way to the other room. We swiftly changed into black spandex and tank tops to help us fight the heat and stumbled back into the bathroom. We brushed our teeth and removed make up very quickly and impatiently.
"Does anyone have that muscle relief stuff?" Bex mumbled around her tooth brush.
She was talking about the cream that we got from the pharmacy for sore muscles that sucks. Liz modified it so that it would actually work for a while.
"I have some in the other room." I said moving to go get it.
"So do I, we're gonna need both tubes." Macey said.
We gathered up the two tubes and slathered it all over the parts of us that were the most sore. It smelled minty and left your skin rather moisturized. As soon as our muscles were blessedly numb, we made our way to the room we planned to sleep in.
Liz had moved to one side of the mattresses and so the three of us collapsed on top of each other and laid there, idly trying not to die.
"G'night guys." I mumbled as I pulled a blanket over me.
"G'night." They all replied sleepily.
The last thing I thought about before falling asleep was how the pillow I laid on smelled like Zach.
