Up to No Goode

Chapter Seven

As soon as we got back to school, I had Jonas hack into Cammies school records. I had to know what had happened between her and Josh.

"Man these firewalls are tough." He said. "It'll take me 45 minutes to crack it."

"Okay" I said simply. "So Grant, what's up with you and Bex?"

"Oh you mean the British Bombshell?" He said laughing "She's cool. It was fun getting the day to hang out with her. What about you and Cammie? She didn't look happy today."

I thought about Josh again, how much longing was in her eyes.

"Yeah, something tells me that guy Josh and her have history."

"Got it!" Said Jonas

"What's this?" I said, stepping closer to the screen

"It's a cove ops report, of everything that happened last semester. Cammie wrote it." I looked again at the screen, realizing the jackpot we found. "Jonas you're a genuis!" I said ironically

"Yeah, well, we only have twenty minutes before an alarm starts going off, so I say we print it."

"Okay." I said as he scans the documents and paper starts shooting out of the printer. "Damn, this report is LONG."

"What did you expect? It talks a lot about Josh, and all of her secret passageways, and how 'sexy' solomon is. Ew."

I felt myself get jealous, but I shoved it down. Then I spent the next two hours reading.

When I was done, I found myself feeling... bad for Cammie. I thought about her dad, how he disappeared, I thought about how heartbroken she must be over Josh, how well, crazy her roommates are. I thought about how different of a person Macey McHenry was when she first got to this school.

I walked down the halls of the mansion, and as I was passing the great hall I saw her.

Cammie.

She was lost in thought, wandering aimlessly. So I followed.

"You know," I said finally "I don't think I ever got the rest of my tour."

She spun around, shock in her face registering that I was behind her. I lifted my finger underneath the tapestry that hung on the wall. "So what do you say Gallagher girl?" I teased. "Is this when I get my Cammie Morgan no-passage-way-too-secret, no-wall-too-high tour?"

"How do you know about...?"

"Spy." I said, pointing to myself. I cocked my head and placed one shoulder against the cold stone wall. "So, that was Jimmy?"

"Josh." She said with a murderous look in her eyes.

"Whatever" I said, waving it off. "He's a cutie."

She rolled her eyes. "What do you want Zach? If you came to make fun, go ahead." She said "Mock away!"

I studied her for a moment, and I realized how hurt she was. She still wasn't over Josh. She tried walking away, but I blocked her path.

"You know I would," I said "But you just took the fun out of it." I tried to give her a reassuring smile

"Sorry." She said, her eyes falling to the floor.

"Hey." I said, walking towards her "Why'd you freeze out there today?"

"Its fine." She said, but her voice told me she was anything but. "I'm over it."

"No you aren't Gallagher girl." I said "But you will be."

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That night, Dr. Steve came into our room.

"Hello boys" He said, mysteriously nice. His eyes dart over to the table next to my bed. "What's this?" He asked picking up Cammie's cove ops report.

Shit.

I had forgotten to hide it, or destory it, or something other than leaving it in plain view.

Idiot! I told myself.

All of us boys look at each other. "Uh." I say "It's nothing. Just some extra credit assignments."

"Oh really?" asked Dr. Steve cocking an eyebrow. "Because it seems to me that it's not your work at all." He started thumbing through the pages and I freeze.

"I'll just take this with me." he said "Oh and zach?"

I looked up at him. "Next time you try plagiarizing something, I won't be this lenient."

Plagiarizing?

That's a good of a cover as any.

"Yes sir." I said.

As soon as he left, we all breathed a sigh of relief. Plagiarizing was bad, sure, but it wasn't quite as bad as hacking into the Gallagher database and looking into another student's files.

We were safe.

We thought.