A/N: Sorry it took so long. Review? Please? Oh, and if I post a new story, will you read it?
Chapter 22
We sat on the beach for hours. We watched the guys surf, chatted, sang along to the music that came from the speakers, all the while Macey and Bex fought to keep me off my feet. The boys stayed out in the ocean, fighting to show their dominance, Solomon barely keeping them under control. Mom was out there for a while but eventually she gave up and joined us on shore.
After a couple of hours on the beach, it became clear that the boys had no intention of coming in any time soon. So after careful deliberation we decided that we would roast hot dogs over the fire for dinner and then spend a night under the stars.
"Hey Mom, can we see if some of our friends want to come over and surf tonight?" Macey asked. "They're locals and we met them when we ran down to the pier the other day. They seem really nice."
"Sure you can, how many are there?" She asked.
"Three." Macey answered.
"I may regret asking this but are they male or female?" Mom asked with a knowing glint in her eye.
"They're guys." Macey answered innocently enough.
"You girls are going to Solomon a heart attack with the number of guys you seem to make friends with." My mom said shaking their heads. "I think you should check to see that they're okay with it before you invite these boys over." There was no question who 'they' were.
We made careful eye contact before nodding slowly. A condition quickly surfaced in my mind.
"IF they do say it's okay that they come over, can I surf? I'll keep it wrapped and such and I wont walk on it but I want to go out on the water with them. I won't even stand I'll just stay on my knees." I begged.
Mom studied me carefully, glancing at my ankle then at my face to see if I was being honest. I quickly clasped my hands together and put on my puppy dog face, the girls putting themselves in the same position around me. She watched us all before reluctantly nodding.
"YES!" We all exclaimed simultaneously. I must've really gotten on the girls nerves with my constant trying to escape. Bex cheered, then threw me over her shoulder for a victory lap. We ran around the beach with Macey and Liz squealing and cheering us all the way. It appears that we attracted the attention of the boys out in the surf because soon after they were meeting us on shore, Grant in the lead.
"What's going on? Are you guys okay?" Grant asked as the stepped off their boards and ran to where Bex still had me over her shoulder.
"Mom's gonna let me surf!" I exclaimed trying to see over my shoulder.
"Seriously?" He exclaimed. "Sweet!" He pulled me off of Bex's shoulder and spun me around before throwing me over his shoulder and pulling me into a piggy back ride.
We ran out to meet Zach and the others in the shallows, Macey and the girls following behind us.
"Hey guys guess what?" Grant called out to the slowly approaching guys.
"What?" Zach called back before Jonas could start guessing.
"Mom's gonna let Cam surf!" Grant called Back and the guys cheered. Well, our guys cheered.
They swam quickly back to shore and Zach wasted no time taking me from Grant and pulling me to him. I slid from Grants back to Zachs and pressed a kiss to his cheek.
"Well, this small mercy is conditional. Cam can only surf if you guys agree to something." Liz explained as we stood with our feet in the water.
"What is it?" Preston asked.
"Well...a few days ago when we were down on the pier after the whole...bathroom incident we met these guys on the beach, the guys we were with when you first saw us. We were fast friends and we wanted to hang out with them tonight and so Mom said if you guys agreed to have them over then Cam could surf." Bex explained.
"So what do you think? Please say yes, I can't take anymore of Cam's complaining." Macey added.
"Please. She keeps trying to run away and it's getting harder to hold her down." Liz finished with flare.
Zach laughed and gestured me forward to give him a kiss and I obliged.
"I'm okay with these guys coming. I think." Grant said giving me a smile. "Anything to get Cam in the water with me."
"I'm down." Preston said wrapping an arm around Macey. She reached on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek.
"I...suppose." Zach said squeezing my thigh. I kissed his neck.
"Tell me more about these guys." Jonas said turning to Liz.
"Liz doesn't know them, it was just us three. There's three of them, Sam, Xavier, and Sawyer. They're locals and live down by the pier." Macey explained.
"I think I know those guys." Cole, the one with the cheekbones, put into the conversation.
"I know that we know those guys, they're a blast." Karter added.
"I don't think I know you…" I said with a smile in their direction.
"Right, Cam this is Cole, Karter, Peter, and Will." Zach said pointing to each of them in turn as if I didn't know their names. He knew that I knew. "Guys this is my girlfriend Cammie."
"Hey." Peter nodded.
"Nice to meet you." Karter added politely.
"What's up." Will said with a grin.
"I'm definitely Cole." Cole said goofily and I smiled.
I wrapped my arms tighter around Zach and he squeezed my legs reassuringly.
"It's nice to meet you guys."
"So Jonas, are you cool with these guys coming?" Liz asked tugging the hand that hung around her shoulder.
"Yeah I guess." He said pecking her cheek.
You know now that I studied these guys better up close they were really nothing compared to our guys. We were crazy, they were probably attractive by public school standards but our Blackthorne boys were so much better.
"Awesome! Macey are you gonna call them?" Bex asked giving her a meaningful look. She wanted to talk.
"Yeah sure, will you guys come with me to find my phone?" She asked looking at all of us.
"Yeah definitely, come on Zach fork over Cammie." Bex said coming to pull me from Zachs back.
Zach pouted and tried to hold on to me. I gave half a fight to make it seem like I really didn't want to go when I was curious to hear what Bex had to say. Eventually Bex got me off of Zach and we started off towards the house, Bex supporting me.
"Hey Cammie, are you okay?" Peter asked.
"Yeah, sprained my ankle earlier so I'm trying not to walk on it. I'm fine though." I said reassuringly, I smiled back at the group for good measure.
"You want me to carry you in Cam?" Zach asked kindly.
"I got her, thanks." Bex said as we walked up the beach.
"You guys keep surfing we'll be back soon." Liz called and they only hesitated a moment before returning to the waves.
"Alright Bex this had better be big." Macey said as soon as we made it out of earshot.
"Now is the perfect time to see what the guys kept tripping over!" Bex pointed out. "Cammie can get the pictures from her Mom, Mace can call the guys, and Liz can help me find out why they kept tripping. It's been bugging me all day."
"Seriously?" Macey asked disbelieving. "Fine. I'd be lying if I said it hasn't been bugging me too."
We finally crossed through the door and split up. Bex deposited me on the couch with my phone and she and Liz ran up the stairs. Macey pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialed the number she no doubt memorized the second she heard it. I sat and felt useless until Mom appeared.
"Mom!" I called as she appeared from her room down the hall.
"Cammie!" She replied without missing a step.
"Will you send me those pictures that you've been taking of me and the girls the past week or so?" I asked kindly.
"Will you send them to yourself while I get stuff out for dinner?" She asked tossing me her phone.
"What's the password?" I asked. I knew there would be one.
"The family code." She said as she pulled open the fridge.
See most people would hear that and think that she meant that our family has this secret code that's really cool and spy like and really impressive but what she really meant that her password was the phrase 'thefamilycode' it's a fairly clever trick. I quickly opened her phone and selected the pictures she had taken to send to myself.
There were quite a few, there were the ones she took last night of me and the girls getting ready and a really pretty one of us all holding our dresses. Then there were some other pictures like one of us standing in the bathroom with the shoes on the counter in front of us, our arms around each other. That was from the day we went shopping. There was one of us sitting on the couch when we were watching our movies, and one of us playing cards with the guys. There was even one of all us all on the plane. I sent them all to myself then opened my messages to wait for them to be received.
"What the…?" I mumbled under my breath.
"Something wrong Cam?" Mom asked from the kitchen.
"When did Zach get into my phone?" I asked myself.
"What did Zach do to your phone?" Mom questioned as she came to look over my shoulder.
"He changed the contact names. Only his and the guys' but I have no idea when he did it." I explained. Zach's name was now 'Pookie bear' like the name I put on his case and subsequently Grant's name was now 'Gumdrop'. Jonas and Preston's were pretty obvious Jonas was 'Bookmark' which I found slightly amusing. Preston's was 'Uncle Sam' which was also slightly amusing.
"Hey Macey!" I called hoping that she was off the phone. Luck was on my side because she responded quickly.
"What's up?" She asked coming to sit by me on the couch.
"Did the guys change your contact names?" I asked showing her my phone.
"No, they're still the Mr. Men things. How did Zach get into your phone?" She questioned. "No one would be able to guess your password. It would take even Liz and Jonas like five minutes to get into."
"I have no idea. He might have seen me put it in or maybe I left it unlocked when we were playing the food games or...something. Anyway it doesn't matter now but he changed my contact names." I mused. "Did the guys say they could come?"
"Yeah they'll be here in a few minutes and they won't mention the other night." She said scrolling through the pictures I got from Mom, sending them to herself.
"Sweet! Let's go outside, I wanna surf." I said trying to climb to my feet but Macey didn't hesitate to pull me back down.
"We're waiting for Sam and the guys to get here then we can all go out and surf together." Macey said double checking her own phone to make sure they didn't change her contacts.
"Hey guys!" Bex's voice called from the stairs as she and Liz ran down.
"What'd you guys find?" I asked as the reached the couch and plopped down.
"Absolutely nothing. The only thing that that might make sense is the change in carpet. There's a little tear but I don't see how they could all hit it." Liz said confused.
"I have no clue what it is. We'll have to work it out of them." Bex added.
"Girls do you want to make s'mores tonight?" Mom asked from the kitchen.
"Ask the guys, we don't care." Liz answered for us.
"Well then it looks like we're having s'mores tonight. Solomon will convince them no matter what they want." Mom said pulling out the graham crackers and marshmallows.
"Solomon has a sweet tooth?" I murmured to Liz.
"Apparently...we need to remember that." Liz replied.
"Are the guys coming tonight Mace?" Bex asked as she placed her phone on the table next to Macey's and mine.
"Yeah, they'll be here in a few minutes. I hope they hurry, I get the feeling Cam's about to start up again." Macey answered eying me warily.
"Oh relax, I'll be fine. Mom do we have another ace bandage? We're gonna need it if I'm gonna wear this surfing." I called to the kitchen.
"Yeah, we have quite a few. We'll be fine." She replied absentmindedly. "Girls, we might have to head back to Gallagher." She said out of the blue.
"What?"
"Why?"
"Did something happen?"
"Is everyone okay?"
Our voices overlapped each other, full of concern for our sisters and our school.
"It's not a sure thing, and if we do it won't be for another week or so. Nothing to worry about yet, but I need you girls to be prepared if I suddenly need to go. Promise you won't think too much on it? I'll let you know more when I can, but until then I need you girls to act like professionals on this." She reassured us.
"We promise we'll be good." I said speaking for all of us. "We won't bring it up to the guys either."
"Good. I need to hear it from the rest of you as well." Mom said watching us all carefully.
"I promise." Passed through the lips of Bex, Liz, and Macey without a hint of doing otherwise. We wouldn't tell the guys anyway, we didn't want to freak them out and we liked knowing things they didn't.
"I think I hear a car coming." I said suddenly, trying to jump to my feet.
"Whoa there buckaroo." Bex said catching me before I got too far. She slipped her arm under mine to support me as we limped to the door.
"Cam was right, a car has appeared!" Bex announced as we watched a black truck pull into the driveway, surf boards in the back.
"Exciting." Macey said running up to the door with us, Liz hot on her heels.
"Does this car hold the guys you met at the beach?" Mom asked as she came to stand behind us.
"Um...yes it appears so." Macey said as Sawyer, Sam, and Xavier stepped out of the car.
"Let's go say hi!" I said as I pulled the door open.
"Slowly Cammie, slowly." Bex said helping me cross the porch to the stairs.
"Hey Sawyer!" I called as he reached the steps.
"Hey Cammie! What the heck did you do to your foot?" He asked as he noticed the bandage.
"I sprained my ankle, nothing too bad." I reassured him.
"You're still gonna surf with us right?" Sam asked as he pulled the boards from the back of the car.
"Heck yes!" I exclaimed with fervor.
"Good, I would hate it if I only had Sawyer to out surf." Xavier said cheekily.
"Is this your mom?" Sawyer asked pointing to the woman who was indeed my mother.
"Yeah, guys this is my mom Mrs. Morgan. Mom this is Sawyer, Sam, and Xavier." I said introducing the guys one at a time.
"You can call me Rachel." Mom said as she shook each of their hands. "You guys can go ahead and go out back, we have some other people out back surfing and they'll be glad for the company."
"Thanks, we will." Sawyer said. "Here Cam, I'll give you a hand." He came around to my other side and helped Bex support me as I hobbled outside.
"Hey Xavier, give me a hand with these boards." Sam instructed as he tried to juggle three surf boards.
"Yeah sure." He went to lend Sam a hand while the rest of us went outside.
"Okay, Bex and I still have our boards down on the beach so we just need to grab boards for Mace and Cam." Liz said as we went past the pool.
"Whoa Macey can actually surf?" Sawyer exclaimed quietly.
We laughed but quickly assured him that Macey was an incredible surfer. We grabbed boards as quickly as we could and went down to shore. I deposited my sunglasses on the towel just as Macey joined us with Sam and Xavier right behind her.
"You ready to get out in the water Cam?" Macey asked teasingly.
"So freaking ready." I said anxiously. Liz handed me a board and we started for the water.
"Hold on a second. Just need to clarify some things, you know not to bring up the party right? Not to anyone, not a thing from it?" I asked the guys.
"Yeah, we got it. Any particular reason?" Xavier asked.
"We kind of snuck out to go to that party, no one knew we were there. We'd like to keep it that way, especially from our boyfriends." Macey explained.
"Ah, gotcha. Yeah, don't worry we can keep a secret." Sam said reassuringly.
"Come on Cam, let's get out there. These guys don't believe that you and Liz can really surf better than they can." Sawyer said pulling Liz and I to the surf.
Liz gasped. "How dare they doubt us, we are incredible surfers."
"Seriously! Let's show 'em." Liz and I ran out into the surf, for once no one shouted out after me that I needed to stay off my ankle.
I kind of wish that they had, my ankle was killing me but there was no way I was going to sit on the beach with everyone else out there. We hit the water running and as soon as we could we began to swim out farther into the water. We pulled up next to where Zach, Grant, and Jonas were waiting for a wave with the others right behind us.
"Hey! Where are the other guys?" I asked Zach as I pulled up behind him.
"Cam! They're out proving that they're manly men." Jonas said as Zach hopped from his board to mine.
Zach pressed his lips to mine and cradled my face with his hands. I kissed back eagerly and pulled myself closer to him.
"I'm glad you're out here." He whispered to me.
"Me too." I replied.
"Are these the guys you were telling us about?" Grant asked eying Sam, Sawyer, and Xavier.
"Yeah, this is Sam, Sawyer, and Xavier." Macey said pointing to each guy in turn. "Guys, this is Grant, Bex's boyfriend, Jonas, Liz's boyfriend, and Zach, Cammie's boyfriend."
"Sup." Grant intoned.
"Hey." Jonas said with a nod.
"Hi." Zach said carefully watching the three newcomers. Sawyer recoiled a little bit when Zach's gaze met his, seeming just a bit scared.
I laughed just a little bit when I noticed his reaction and leaned into Zach. "Be nice." I whispered in his ear.
"I am." He replied softly.
"Zach, bro your board's drifting away." Grant pointed out. Zach heaved a sigh before diving off my board to go grab his own.
He caught it swiftly and paddled back to where he sat and when he returned Preston had joined us.
"Hey Preston." Zach said shaking his wet hair. "Have you met the new guys yet?"
"Yeah we were just introduced. The neighbors had to go home just now, something came up so its just the...eleven of us now." Preston said doing the mental math in his head.
"Can we go surf now? Cam's about to explode." Liz said anxiously. She didn't wait for an answer as she took off for the waves.
"Or is it Liz that is about to explode?" Sawyer joked.
I laughed a little bit but followed Liz out after the waves that were approaching.
"Be careful on your ankle Cam!" Zach called out after us.
The next couple hours were pure bliss, mixed with less pain than I thought. Liz and I out surfed Sam and Xavier easily while Sawyer managed to keep up with us rather well. Zach and Jonas somehow managed to keep up with me and Liz who were practically in a trance. Macey, Bex, Grant, Preston, and Sam went to shore after only a few more waves to go play volleyball and not long after Xavier went to join them. Just like the party a few nights before, I felt like I could've stayed in the water forever. I hardly noticed the sun lowering in the sky and when we heard Grant's whistle calling us back to the shore, I didn't want to go.
We took one last wave, riding it all the way back to the shore. As soon as we reached the beach, Zach pulled me off my feet once more and stuck me on his back. He carefully picked up the boards and carried both me and the surf boards up the beach.
"Whoa dude, want a hand there? I can take one of the boards if you want." Sawyer said as he noticed Zach's load.
Grant saved Zach from making a rude retort when he came to take the boards from him.
"It's alright, I got 'em." Grant said pulling the boards under his own arm.
"Thanks." Zach said hoisting me a little higher onto his back.
I wrapped my arms around Zach's neck letting my hands hang just a little lower than they were hanging before. I rested my chin on his shoulder as we hiked up to the fire pit where Mom and Solomon had set up the stuff for hot dogs and s'mores.
Zach deposited me on a chair and went to go grab food but I pulled him back to me. He spun to kneel by the chair he put me, a question in his eyes. In response I simply pulled his mouth to mine and kissed him in thanks.
"You're the best Blackthorne Boy." I whispered to him quietly.
A small twinkle filled his eye as he responded. "It's all for you Gallagher Girl."
I laughed quietly. "You're so lucky the others didn't hear that." I said with a smile.
He chuckled then went to go get food. Macey appeared next to me with two hot dogs on sticks, one for me and one for her. She handed me one stick and we stuck them right into the flame, although perhaps a little more cautiously than Grant whose hot dog was already on fire.
"So, how are you enjoying your limited freedom?" Macey asked.
"I'm enjoying it immensely. How are Preston and Grant handling Sam and Xavier?" I replied.
"Very well. I'm very proud of them. I think after the thing with the other guys earlier, they're a bit more secure." She answered. "I'm going to have to do some deep moisturizing on our hair, this salt water is literally killing our hair. I'll see what I can come up with for tonight. No way are we spending the whole day out tomorrow with hair like this."
"Well, we do have a reputation to uphold." I agreed teasingly.
"I hear that sarcasm." Macey replied with a small smile. "You're lucky I like you."
"Aww come on Mace, you know you love me." I said bumping her with my elbow. She grinned in response. We pulled our hot dogs off the fire and stuck them in buns. I knew that I should eat but I wasn't feeling hungry so I just stuck it on the plate Macey had set by our feet.
"So I have a question." Sawyer said as he went me and Macey. "Cam and this Zach guy, are they like, serious?" He asked Liz curiously.
"Very." Zach said as he brushed past Sawyer and Liz and came to sit by me and Macey. After glancing at the chair he plopped down on the ground by my feet.
I made eye contact with Macey and tried hard not to laugh. She looked cautiously over at Liz and Sawyer and said 'he's bright red' in sign language. It became very hard not to laugh.
Liz however, did laugh. "Yeah, Zach and Cam are pretty serious. About as serious as the rest of us are in our relationships which is pretty darn serious." She explained.
"Why, were you hoping for a chance?" Preston asked from the other end of the table.
"Nah, I just wanted to get a feel for the situation. I have a girl of my own, but Cam seemed pretty into this guy so I wanted to make sure he was into as she was." Sawyer explained.
I looked over at Zach, small question in my eyes. He knew what I was asking. It wasn't a question I really thought I needed to ask, but while it was out in the open...might as well. There were a million ways to answer, a hundred languages, but the one he chose was the one I was looking for. The perfect one. He cupped my face in his hands and kissed me.
Every kiss with Zach was perfect, I don't know how he managed it but they all felt the same and they all managed to make me dizzy, I never wanted them to stop. I quickly cradled his face, keeping his mouth on mine and his hands drifted from my face to my waist, his thumbs rubbing circles on my bare skin. That seemed to be a favorite of his.
"Alright Zach, alright we get it. You and Cammie are into each other, now knock it off before I lose my appetite." Preston said as he took a seat by Macey's feet.
That in no way deterred us from our activities. He tried to pull away, maybe for my sake but when I held him there he just jumped right back in. Macey and Preston groaned and went to throw something at us, probably grapes, but Zach knocked them away before they could hit us. One of Zach's hands dropped from my waist to my leg and Macey yelled for Bex to come and help her pull me off of Zach.
They never got the chance. Solomon cleared his throat and said "Mr. Goode." and we both quickly pulled away. As soon as Solomon's attention was elsewhere I snuck a look at Zach and we both smiled.
"So Cammie, now that you're done making out with Zach, do you wanna tell me why you aren't eating?" Macey asked gesturing to the uneaten hot dog.
"I'm not very hungry." I said honestly.
"I'm calling Bull, you've been in the water for hours. There's no way you aren't hungry, I know you." Bex called from across the fire. "Here, eat these." She said tossing me a little stem of grapes. I caught them effortlessly and stuck one in my mouth.
"Okay, maybe I'm a liar." I said as I realized how hungry I was. I stuffed the grapes in my mouth, the hot dog soon followed.
"Hey Grant." Zach called to his best friend.
"Yeah bro." Grant replied eating nearly half a hot dog in one bite.
"When did you start calling everybody 'bro'?" Zach asked.
"I dunno. Like, yesterday or whenever it was we surfed last. It puts me in this mood where I feel like a stereotypical surfer dude and I need to say stuff like 'bro' and 'hang loose'. Surfer stuff." Grant answered. "Is that really what you wanted to ask me?"
"No, I wanted to see if you could catch this in your mouth from there." Zach said holding up a grape.
"Um heck yes, throw it." Grant replied setting his mound of food on the ground.
Zach obliged and while everyone else was occupied, I took the opportunity to get up and get food. Even amongst friends I was the chameleon and they weren't watching so it was fairly simple to get a plate full of grapes, watermelon, and strawberries. Fruit sounded insanely good.
I returned to my seat just in time to see Grant catch his third grape.
"Hey Bex!" I called holding up a grape of my own.
"Fire away!" She called and I threw it her way. It landed perfectly in her mouth and she held up a grape to throw back in my direction.
"Hey Liz," Macey said brandishing a grape from my plate.
"Hold on a sec." Liz said taking a sip of water. "Okay go." She ordered and Macey threw it. It landed perfectly in her mouth and Liz prepared to throw one to Macey.
"Jo-Bro." Preston said tossing a grape in his direction. Jonas caught on quickly and caught it skillfully. He went to toss one back to Preston and then we were all throwing grapes to each other, even my mom and Solomon.
"Dude this is so intense." Sam said watching us throw an unending stream of fruit to each other.
"Switch!" I called to my girls and I started throwing things to Liz, and her to me with Bex and Macey throwing to each other.
"Holy Crap!" Xavier exclaimed.
"Liz, you and me." Preston called to Liz and they switched. I was now throwing and catching with Jonas.
"Hey Bex, throw to me." Zach called and they switched as well.
"Cammie." Solomon said almost whispering and without missing beat Jonas and I switched.
"This is humanly impossible." Sawyer said quietly and that one phrase was what got us to stop our impromptu training session.
We all suppressed our laughs and chewed as quickly as we could so we could explain. Luckily for all of us Mom finished first.
"Sorry about that boys, a little family tradition that we bring wherever we go. We tend to have quite a bit of practice." Mom explained as we kept chewing.
We all nodded in agreement, the girls and I laughing, then the guys nodded as if they understood.
"So guys, are we getting back in the water when we're done here?" Bex asked as she threw her now empty grape stem into the fire.
"I think we should, but it might be dark. We could get in the pool." Liz suggested.
"We might have to sneak Cammie in then." Grant whispered not very quietly.
"I think they'll let her in." Macey said as she glanced at Mom and Solomon.
"If not, we'll just pull her in and then refuse to let her out." Zach said as he leaned against my leg. He wrapped his arms around my calf and nuzzled against my knee.
"I'm definitely okay with that." I said as I ran my hands through Zach's hair.
"Good because I don't think they were planning on giving you a choice." Macey joked leaning back in her chair.
Mom and Solomon gathered up all the food and such and carried it all into the house, momentarily leaving us alone.
"So Sawyer, you seem to know Cam pretty well. At least, you seem to have taken a gotten pretty good read on her personality." Zach said innocently but I knew he was taking advantage of the lack of adults. Immediately all the girls were subtly on alert.
"Uh, yeah I guess so...I guess I'm just good at reading people." Sawyer answered uncertainly.
Zach laughed a little, then gave Grant a look. Grant then took over the affront, the guys were definitely suspicious.
"Yeah I guess Xavier must be good at it too, he and Bex seemed to have quite a bit to talk about." Grant said lightly.
"Sam and Mace got along well too, crazy how it seems like you guys have spent hours and hours together." Preston added.
The civilians shifted uncomfortably in their seats.
"Yeah...crazy." Sawyer said slowly.
I knew exactly what the boys were doing, it was a simple tactic one of the first you learned. You see, most people respond well to confidence. If you act like you know more than you do, if you act like already know the answer they're more likely to tell you what you want to know if only to save their own skin. Attitude is everything.
As I glanced at our boys I saw them glaring the three civilians down, it would have been scary if I didn't know them so well. I quickly looked at the other girls to see if they had noticed, luckily they had but I knew for a fact the civilians wouldn't last much longer the question was who was going to crack first.
Xavier cracked first.
"Well, we did spend quite a bit of time with them the other night." Xavier hurriedly got out. He sighed in relief when Grant looked away.
"And what exactly were you guys doing the other night?" Preston asked casually as he leaned towards Sam ever so slightly. I glanced at Macey wondering if she was going to do anything about it or let it play its course.
Sam caved quickly. "There was this party on the beach nothing too exciting, not even a party really just a small gathering of friends." He said in a rush, as if getting the words out faster was going to keep Preston from killing him.
"Oh a party how exciting…" Preston drawled turning his glare towards Macey, she returned it quickly after a few seconds of staring at each other they just turned away deciding to discuss it later.
"And what, may I ask, happened at this party?" Zach asked, seemingly casual but I could hear the dangerous undertones in his voice.
Sawyer shrugged. "Normal stuff, we weren't there for very long. It was just like Sam said it was just a small gathering of friends."
"How kind of you, to take three new girls under your wing." Zach said, sickly sweet. No one bothered to correct him on the number of girls.
"Well they were from out of town and they seemed to be looking for an adventure." Sawyer replied quite stupidly. "Of course we didn't know about you at the time." He amended quickly.
"Well we are quite the adventure, aren't we Cam?" Zach said turning to look at me. Oh we would be having quite the conversation later.
"The best one I've had so far." I said sweetly trying to calm him. From the look on his face it didn't work very well so I did the only other thing I could think of, I caressed his cheek and leaned forward to kiss him. It wouldn't make it so he wasn't mad at me but it would make me feel better. I didn't want him mad at me.
"Okay, enough of this. Let's get back in the water." Liz said coming to our rescue.
The sun had started to set when we finally went to go back out to the water. We hurried to climb to our feet and Zach pulled me onto his back, small smile on his face. He would wait to hear the story before he made judgement which I was grateful for. We had started making our way to the water when Mom noticed our movements.
"Hang on a second, where do you guys think you're going?" Mom called as we tried to escape notice.
"We were going to go and surf some more." Jonas said carefully.
"Oh no you aren't, it's getting dark and I do not want to lose anyone in that water. You can swim in the pool but no one's going back into the ocean." Mom said brandishing her headmistresses finger.
"Yes ma'am." We all answered, even Sam and the guys.
We changed course quickly and jumped into the pool. We swam around aimlessly for a while, splashing each other, racing from one end to another, laughing and having a good time. After about over an hour of these ridiculous games and wearing ourselves out completely, Xavier had a fabulous idea.
"Okay, as much fun as this is, I'm completely a prune we should all get out of the water. What do you guys say to a little sand castle building contest?" He cocked an eyebrow and the deal was sealed. We never could resist a challenge.
"Oh, you're so on." Bex accepted.
"It's getting dark out, the sun's practically down." I pointed out.
"It'll make it more fun, a little extra challenge." Zach rebutted.
How are we gonna play this?" Bex asked as we headed for the beach.
"Guys against girls?" Macey suggested.
"Well then we have an unfair advantage." Preston argued.
"Oh please, you guys will need the edge." Liz defended.
"If you're sure...Rules?" Sam put in.
"Only an hour to build, everyone has to participate, you must stay within your designated space." I suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Sawyer agreed.
"Alrighty then, I'll go draw some squares in the sand you guys go find buckets or shovels or something." Bex directed the group of boys.
"Where are we supposed to find that?" Zach called after her.
"Side of the house?" I suggested when Bex didn't reply.
"I'll go check." Jonas said as he wandered off to search.
Moments later the spaces were cleared and the buckets and shovels had been discovered. We split the up the supplies evenly and grabbed a timer. We lined up on the edge of the beach and got ready to run on the count of three.
"One...Two...Three!" Xavier called out and we all ran.
Okay well, everyone else ran I just sort of hobbled. By the time I reached where the girls were set up, they were already working. Macey and Bex were digging a hole to access the wet sand while Liz was undoubtedly working out the dimensions of the castle in her mind.
Seeing as there really wasn't much for me to do yet, I sat down next to Liz and waited for instructions. I glanced over to look at the boys progress and saw that they weren't much farther along than we were.
"Oh, Cammie there you are." Liz said noticing my presence.
I smiled at her. "Hi Liz. What do you want me to do?" I asked her.
"Well, at the moment there's not a whole lot you can do. When Macey and Bex finish with the hole you can pass wet sand over but you aren't allowed to stand so the severely limits what you can help with. Do you want to come up with the designs we sculpt on the castle?" She asked.
"Sure, you know I'm not very artistic though right?" I clarified.
She snorted "Please Cam, you say that like the rest of us are."
"True." I said with a smile.
She gave me a smile then went to see how Bex and Macey were doing on the hole. I decided to stick with simple designs, something we could all do. I drew some swirls and little seashell type patterns into the sand to see what they looked like. Well, they weren't very good but they would do.
When I finished with that, Liz called me over to help pull wet sand out to build. Now one of the hardest parts of building a sand castle was keeping the sand wet enough. A lot of people think that if you get the sand too wet it will ruin the castle but the water turns the sand into some wonderful kind of cement so it's actually a smart idea to have a lot of water. I sat down right on the edge of the hole so I could take handfuls of dripping water out of the hole to hand to my friends.
"Okay is anyone else getting completely drenched in sand?" Macey asked from the middle of our assembly line.
"I think I have more mud than skin on me." I replied.
"Is it supposed to itch this much?" Bex put in jokingly.
"We're definitely all going to need a shower after this." Liz agreed "On the bright side, we're almost done with the base."
"How high are we going to make this thing Liz?" I asked.
"Not very high, I'm going more for width but there will be a few towers almost as tall as I am." She replied nonchalantly.
"Is that all?" Bex asked sarcastically, small smirk on her lips.
"You sure we can get it all done in an hour Liz?" Macey asked worriedly.
"Pretty sure, if we pace ourselves accordingly. We're doing alright so far, if we need to make adjustments it shouldn't be too hard."
And so it went. For the next forty five minutes we slowly but surely turned the wet sand into a castle of considerable size. I honestly am not sure how Liz managed to do it, she is a master of time management and planning. By all accounts, I didn't think it was possible but I should have never underestimated my friend. Now, a sand castle of that height and size used a lot of sand, and I mean a lot so by the time the girls had started working on our last tower our hole was several feet deep and I was hidden from sight.
"Hey guys, where did Cammie go?" Zach called from across the beach.
"She's down there." Macey said, probably gesturing to the hole. I couldn't see her.
"Hey Cam, raise your hand." Zach requested a moment later and I obliged.
"Geez guys, how deep is that hole?" Grant asked.
"Few feet. She's sitting, she has a sprained ankle remember?" Bex replied.
"Still, that's insanely deep. You sure you can get her out of the hole?" Jonas asked cheekily.
"Pretty sure." Liz called back without breaking stride.
"Quit cheating you losers, there's not much time left and we all need to finish." Bex said as she came to the mouth of the hole to get more sand.
"Hey, who's going to judge this contest?" Sawyer asked.
"Solomon." I called from the hole. "Mom might be biased."
"Oh my gosh Cammie, we can barely hear you. You must be really far down there." Sam called.
"Really? I can hear you guys fine." I yelled a little louder. Bex laughed a little then returned to the mouth of the hole.
I handed her more sand and she quickly took it over to Liz and Macey. I shivered. The sun was long gone and it was really starting to get cold.
"Okay Cam, this should be the last sand we need. I hope you don't mind but I saw your designs in the sand and kinda put them on the towers as we built them to save time." Macey said appearing after Bex.
"I'm glad you did, we're seriously almost out of time." I handed her a bit of sand and she smiled before jogging off to give it to Liz.
I heard Liz calling out final instructions to Mace and Bex and I couldn't help but feel a little useless. The timer went off in the distance and Solomon called for everyone to step away from their castles. I wonder how long he's been out here.
"Girls, go get Cammie from the hole." Solomon called to them.
"Ten steps ahead of you." Bex called as she hopped down into the hole. "I'm gonna pass you up to Macey." She informed me as she helped me climb to my feet. As we stood, I realized that when my feet were in the bottom of the hole it went up to my chest. I had carved out a little niche to sit in, so it hadn't seemed that deep before.
"Dang son the castle looks great." I commented as Macey reached for one of my hands.
"Thanks." Liz replied as she grabbed the other hand. I braced my uninjured foot on the edge of the hole with Bex helping me balance from behind. The girls pulled me up and Bex climbed out behind me. We walked over to where we had started as Solomon went out with a flashlight in hand to examine our sandcastles. We waiting in silence and about a minute later he returned with a verdict.
"While the boys definitely had a bigger sandcastle, the girls was more creative. I would say the boys win except for the fact that they have more people so what would ordinarily be a winning castle, I can only see as average for a group their size. Girls win." Solomon said as if describing the weather. The girls and I cheered. "Now, let's go make some s'mores." He stalked off towards the fire.
"Oh come on! I call for a recount!" The boys complained as we reveled in our victory.
"As exciting as this is, can we wash the sand off now?" I asked as we turned to walk towards the fire.
"I second the motion." Macey agreed. Macey helped me hobble to where the outdoor shower stood at the edge of the beach. Bex and Liz followed and seconds later we were all doing our best to get rid of the sand.
"Look at the boys examining our sandcastle. So cute." Macey said as if talking about a clumsy puppy.
"Well aren't they just adorable." Bex agreed in the same tone. "This water hurts." She said gesturing to the wild spray.
"It has good pressure though, so there's always that." I put in as I watched muddy water go down the drain.
"Cam, you have so much sand on you." Liz pointed out with a laugh as she helped me wipe some of it off.
"Well I was sitting in it the whole time!" I exclaimed.
"And we never would've finished in time without you down there." Bex put in.
"Macey, do you have something in mind for our hair." I asked pulling up one of my sandy strands.
"I have a few ideas. They might keep us up pretty late though." She replied.
"Well it's not like we've been going to be super early recently." Bex commented.
"True enough, but we do have a long day ahead of us." Liz responded.
"We can do it. Besides, we can always go to bed earlier tomorrow." I pointed out.
"Pfft, like that's going to happen." Bex snorted and we laughed.
"Come on, let's go get s'mores before Solomon eats everything." Macey turned the water off and tucked an arm under my shoulder. We began to hobble away just as the guys started for the showers.
Macey and I stopped to get towels and turn on music before crossing to put marshmallows on sticks. We took our earlier places by the fire and began to roast the sticky deliciousness. Bex sat down across from us, her first s'more already done. It wasn't really a s'more, it was just graham crackers and chocolate. She hates marshmallows which is extremely confusing because she loves chubby bunny. Liz had stuck her marshmallow right into the fire and let it burn until it was practically charcoal. She says it's better that way. Macey liked to cook her mallows so they were golden on the outside but not completely melted on the inside, whereas I liked mine to practically fall off the stick.
We were all chowing down on our s'mores when the boys finished washing off and joined us by the fire. Zach ran inside with Grant on his heels to do who knows what. Sawyer, Sam, Xavier, Jonas, and Preston all began roasting mallows over the fire.
"Hey Solomon, how many s'mores have you had so far?" I teased as he stuck a stick with two mallows over the fire.
He gave me a small glare but I could tell he wasn't really mad. His glare broke after a few seconds and he smiled. The girls and I laughed as Grant and Zach reappeared with...peanut butter.
Bex and Sam joked about how horrible the others sand castles were, Macey and Liz got in a deep conversation with Xavier about the ethics of surfing and what it was like living by the beach, while Sawyer struck up a conversation with Preston and Jonas about cars. I sat peacefully in my chair trying not to show how much my ankle hurt.
Mom appeared behind me a few seconds after the conversations erupted around us.
"Here, take these. They're painkillers." She handed me two pills and a cup of water.
"Thank you." I whispered to her.
"You're welcome." She whispered back.
Zach appeared not long after Mom with sticky concoctions in his hands.
"Try this." He said handing me a s'more.
"What did you do to it?" I asked taking it carefully.
"I put peanut butter on it. It's good, I swear." He said taking a huge bite of his own.
I gave him a disbelieving look but took a bite anyway. He was right, it was insanely good.
"How did you figure this out?" I asked shaking the s'more lightly before taking another bite.
"I didn't, Grant did. He showed this to us a while ago. I'm warning you though, you can never go back. Other s'mores won't taste as good now." He explained.
"I'm completely okay with this."
"Hey Zach, don't you think that the '87 model was much better…" Jonas began, pulling Zach into their conversation. I fell back into my peaceful silence. The throbbing in my ankle had gone down some, but it still hurt. Maybe I shouldn't have surfed.
"Cammie." Solomon said stepping up beside my chair with a bag of ice in his hand. He pulled my ankle out to rest it on the arm of Macey's chair and rested the ice on top of it. "Your sprain is probably worse than we originally thought. I want to look at it again tonight before you go to bed. Keep this ice on it and stay off it for the rest of the night."
"Thanks Mr. Solomon." I said with a smile. He patted my shoulder reassuringly then went to stand by Mom again.
I lounged in my chair the best I could and laid my head back. I was seriously starting to get tired. Finally, the conversations started to merge and we began to discuss what to do next.
"It's getting late and it's supposed to be cold tonight." Preston was arguing. "I think we should just go inside and watch a movie. Besides Cam's not supposed to be on her ankle."
"Cam doesn't care what we do, but if you choose something just because Cam is injured she'll flip." Macey answered, knowing I would say the same thing.
"Well, we have to take off soon anyway in like five minutes so don't look at us." Sam said speaking for the group.
"Okay well Mom's gonna come out here any second and call us in so why don't we save her the trouble and go start a movie? I'm tired." Grant said rubbing his eyes.
"Yeah, and we'll take off and see you guys later. Or, eventually I suppose." Xavier said climbing to his feet we said our goodbyes as we walked them to the door.
"We should definitely hang out again sometime. Go down to the pier or maybe we'll take you to the local haunts." Sawyer told me and Zach as we made for the front door.
"For sure, we need to stay in touch. We had a blast tonight." Zach answered as my head rested on his shoulder.
"Thanks for having us over, it really was a blast." We had reached the front door, and our final goodbye's were being said.
"I hope we see you soon Sawyer." Zach said as the shook hands.
"I hope your ankle feels better Cam. Bye Zach." Sawyer was the last one out the door.
"That was one of the most exhausting situations of my life." Bex said as she shut the door behind them.
"I would agree with that statement." I said nodding.
"Let's go start a movie." Jonas said rubbing his eyes.
"We're all wet." Liz pointed out.
"We'll lay towels down." Macey said stumbling towards the couch. "I'm too tired to change now." We all followed.
Towels were quickly laid on the couch and we all piled on top of them. Jonas, Liz, Zach, and I were on one couch with Preston, Macey, Bex, and Grant on the other. Jonas had stuck a random movie in the player so we were watching some Adam Sandler movie, it was funny and such but we were too tired to laugh much. Except for Jonas, didn't see that one coming.
About halfway through the movie, Macey caught her second wind which meant it was time to get ready for bed before she crashed.
"Alright girls, let's head upstairs. We have a lot to do tonight to get ready for tomorrow and Cam looks like she's ready to drop." Macey instructed climbing to her feet. She pulled a groaning Bex up after her and Liz sighed from where she sat curled up next to Jonas before climbing to her feet..
I had leaned up against Zachs shoulder, who had fallen asleep, with his arm tightly around me. I was still in my bikini and it was insanely cold. I had no intention of moving so when Bex appeared in front of me to pull me up with them I simply shook my head and stayed where I was.
"Cammie's going to be stubborn again." Bex called to Macey. "She won't move."
"Ugh. Come on Cam, you need to shower and then you can go to bed." Macey tried reasoning. I once again shook my head.
Bex sighed. "Grant, help us get her upstairs?" She asked with a hip popped and innocence on her face. It didn't seem like he was going to do it but she batted her eyelashes and he was hooked.
He climbed to his feet and came to stand in front of where I sat with Zach. He reached down and pulled at my waist so he could easily throw my over his shoulder.
"No." I groaned as I grabbed Zachs arm and tugged.
He gave a small grunt of recognition, but didn't move. As Grant started to pull me away from his side he noticed what was going on and wrapped his arms tightly around my waist. Unfortunately, Grant had had time to get a better grip on me than Zach so he pulled me up and over his shoulder before Zach could pull me back down.
"Come on, Cammie-bear." Grant said as he threw me over his shoulder. I whimpered a little as he followed Bex up the stairs.
"We should probably go upstairs too." Preston said from where he sat but he made no move to get up.
"Yeah probably." Jonas said but he too stayed put.
We climbed up to the top of the steps and entered our room.
"Where do you want me to put her?" Grant asked.
"Just set her down nice on the floor." Bex said and Grant obliged.
"Okay, I'm headed back down." He said after he had dropped me.
"Okay." Bex said as he crossed to the door. She glanced once over her shoulder, Macey and Liz had crossed to the bathroom and she probably wanted to make sure they weren't back yet, she called to him once. "Hey. Thanks." She said gesturing to me when he turned.
He smiled once and nodded but she wasn't going to let him get away yet. She grabbed his arm with one hand and wrapped the other around the back of his neck. She pulled him down for an extremely sweet kiss that quickly turned to something more than sweet. Macey came in just in time, it was about to get awkward up in there.
"Bex, come give us a hand." Macey said appearing in the doorway, and Bex reluctantly pulled away from Grant.
"You too Cammie, chop chop." Macey called as she toed me from my resting position. I was less hesitant to get up this time. It wasn't as comfortable without Zach.
I hobbled behind Bex and Macey as we entered the bathroom to get ready for bed.
"Alrighty, you girls need to apply this to your hair and rinse it out when you get in the shower. It only needs to stay in for five minutes to work it's magic. Liz is gonna shower first cause she already has this stuff in her hair then me then Bex then Cam. Sound good? Shower fast, we need to go to bed." Macey said showing us a bottle.
"Solomon wants to look at my ankle before we go to bed." I grumbled. I hated being injured. "I'll go see if he'll do it now though."
"Okay sounds good. Please tell me you aren't going back downstairs though." Macey pleaded.
"I'm not. I was planning on yelling from the top of the stairs." I replied.
"I'll come with you." Bex said running a hand through her hair. "In case they do need you to go down."
"Thanks." I said smiling at her. She grinned back at me and bumped me with her shoulder.
"You'd do the same for me." She said knowingly.
She helped me hobble out into the hallway to the top of the stairs. I braced my hands the waist high wall and bent my leg at the knee to lift my injured ankle.
"Hey Mr. Solomon!" I called.
He appeared silently at the bottom of the stairs from down the hallway. He saw Bex and I standing there and beckoned me to come down the stairs. I gave an exasperated sigh and Bex and I exchanged a look. After our eye roll, Bex wrapped an arm around my waist to help me hop down the stairs.
"My balance is going to be excellent after this." I mumbled under my breath.
"It'd better be." Bex agreed.
By the time we reached the bottom of the steps Mr. Solomon had pulled two chairs out from under the table and turned them around so they faced each other. Bex helped me hobble to the chair and I sat down then Solomon sat down across from me. Solomon pulled up my foot and rested it on his knee. He carefully unwrapped the bandage, but he had to rotate my ankle slightly to do so. My flash of pain didn't escape his notice.
"Are you okay Miss Morgan?" He asked quietly.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I replied.
He gave me a look but turned back to my ankle. As soon as the bandage was removed he tested my ankle, and lower leg and then even my knee. He tested each of them three times then renewed his diagnosis.
"The sprain is worse than we originally thought but it's not broken. It may have have also twisted a muscle in your leg. I'm afraid I must insist you push back your plans for a day." He informed us with a solemn look.
"I don't want to be the one to tell Macey." I mumbled under my breath.
"Me either." Bex agreed.
"I'm sure she will understand. I'm going to wrap this for you and Miss Baxter will have to help you up the stairs."
"Can I wait to wrap it until after I shower?" I asked.
"If that's what you wish." He said with a nod.
"Okay, come on Cam I'll help you get upstairs." Bex said rubbing her eyes. I grabbed her arm and she pulled me up to my feet.
As soon as Bex had pulled me onto my foot, we both immediately began to fall. Solomon managed to grab us before we fell but it was painfully obvious that there was no way Bex was going to be able to get us both up the stairs.
"Miss Baxter, can you get up the stairs yourself?" Solomon asked.
"Yeah, don't worry Solomon I'll get Cam and I up the stairs safe and sound." Bex tried to argue.
"That's alright Miss Baxter, I'll help Miss morgan up the stairs. You go and inform Miss McHenry of the change in plans." Solomon reassured her.
She heaved a sigh but nodded. "Yes sir." She replied.
Bex spun on her heel and turned for the stairs.
"Sit here for a second Cammie." Solomon said as placed my ankle on the chair he was sitting on. He grabbed a towel and wrapped some ice cubes in it.
"Hold this." He handed me the towel then pulled me to my feet. "I suppose you can't jump onto my back, can you?" He asked with a smile.
"It's probably not the best idea." I replied with a grin.
"I'll help her up." Mom said appearing from her room down the hall. "Come on darlin, take a walk with your momma." She reached for my hand then pulled me up under her arm.
I carried my ice with me as we hopped up the stairs and back into our room. Macey had just gotten into the shower when we reached our room and Bex waited for me to help me rub the moisturizing stuff into my hair. I thanked my mom for the help and sat on the dresser.
"Well that was an adventure." I commented as I leaned back against the wall.
"You know I think I'm the only person that hates it when you're injured more than you do." Bex agreed.
"I think you're right." I nodded with her. "Is this stuff really supposed to help our hair?"
"Supposedly yes, but it's going to take more than once according to Macey. We'll have to do this every night apparently." Bex explained.
"Well isn't that great. Is Macey almost done? I'm really about to fall asleep." I asked.
"I think so. I'll shower fast for you." Bex said, promising to help me get to bed faster.
"We should go set out pajamas for after. It'll get us to bed faster." I suggested.
"Sounds good to me." Bex said reaching to help me off the dresser.
"Are you going to make me fall again?" I asked before accepting her help.
"No, I promise we will stay on our feet." Bex said, hand still out stretched.
"Okay then." I grabbed her hand and hopped down. Miraculously we stayed standing.
We ran into the bathroom and Bex showed me how to properly apply the moisturizer. We finished just as Macey got out of the shower. Bex hurried to get into the shower while I waited for her on the bathroom counter. While she showered, we chatted.
"So how did Macey react to the change of plans?" I asked.
"Better than expected. I think she already has something else planned for tomorrow." She replied.
"Really? Any idea what?" I questioned.
"None. Something exciting I'm sure." She answered dryly.
"Probably some replenishing thing with our hair and skin. It's starting to be affected by the salt water according to Macey." I mused.
"Probably. I'm actually 100% okay with that because my hair is starting to hate me. I've never had it tangle so easily in my life." Bex commented.
"I'm kind of exhausted." I mentioned.
"Yeah I don't blame you, I am too. We'll hopefully get to sleep in tomorrow." Bex agreed.
"Are you almost done?" I asked as I popped my back and winced.
"Yeah, just about." She replied. "Hey, do you wanna rub my back?"
"Sure, if you rub mine. My muscles are killing me. Maybe we'll get lucky and Macey's plans for tomorrow involve a spa." I joked.
"Maybe we'll get really lucky and your mom will take us to an overnight one this weekend." Bex added.
"We should ask her, to see if we can. That would make my week." I sighed rubbing my leg to loosen the muscles.
"All four of us have to ask though, she'll be more likely to say yes that way." Bex mentioned.
"True. I'm sure Macey and Liz will go for it." I commented.
"Oh yeah they definitely will." She turned the water off and I shut my eyes while she got out of the shower.
"Your turn." She said pulling back the shower curtain. "Do you need me to stay and help?" She asked kindly.
"Nah I'm good. Go talk to Liz and Mace about the spa thing." I said gesturing to the door. "And see if Liz will lay out some pajamas for me!" I called as the door shut behind her.
A good five minutes later, I was all showered and changed and waiting for Solomon to change my ace bandage. Liz was brushing my hair out when he appeared.
A single knock came on the door and Bex went to open it.
"Good evening ladies." He said kindly.
"Good evening Mr. Solomon." We toned in reply.
"Don't worry girls, I won't be here long." He knelt in front of me and pulled out an ace bandage and carefully began to wrap my ankle.
"Okay, I'm going to make sure everything is off. It's definitely time for bed." Macey said as she crossed through the bathroom to turn off the lights.
"I'll go find our phones." Bex informed us as she followed Macey.
Liz just continued to brush my hair and by the time Bex and Macey returned, Solomon was done wrapping my ankle.
"Cam, you have a text from Zach." Bex said tossing me my phone.
"Why does he do that, he's literally right across the hall." I mumbled under my breath. Unfortunately everyone in the room was a trained spy so they all heard me.
Solomon chuckled on the way out. "Goodnight ladies."
"Goodnight Mr. Solomon." We replied as the door shut behind him.
"What's it say Cam?" Liz asked as I replied to Zach's goodnight text.
"'Goodnight Gallagher Girl.'" I read outloud.
"I'm so glad he added the Gallagher Girl." Bex said picking up her phone.
"What are you saying?" Macey asked.
"'Goodnight Zachy-poo(;'" Bex said in a lovey dovey voice.
We all giggled at the response. "Okay, let's go to bed before Zach decides to break up with me." I joked as I climbed under the covers.
Macey turned the light off then hopped into bed next to Bex.
"Hey guys. Did anyone talk to their Blackthorne Boy about the party yet?" Liz asked quietly.
We all voiced our 'no's'. Tomorrow was going to be one heck of a day.
