Chapter 1

1st day of seventh grade

So this is the Gallagher academy for exceptional young women?

The day they came to tell me that there was somthing special about me and they wanted me in the top school in the who world was the day I knew that there was something different about the school. Orientation was the best.

I'd learned of the sisterhood and Gillian Gallagher.

I'm a Gallagher Girl now...

I met Catherine Goode at orientation, she's truly beautiful. She's also my roommate. I call her Cathy. Everyone thinks she's strange. I can understand why. She's sort of a loner, she doesn't speak much and when she does she's always so damn condescending. Lilly Bauer is the sweetest of us all and I've known it for some time. Ever since mom and dad decided to finally tell me what the Gallagher Academy was and that my mother worked for the CIA and my father was a US Marshall who made people disappear, I'd become obsessed with the idea of being a spy. Lilly had been the first girl I'd met. We'd gone through orientation together and now I was sure that we would be good friends for a life time. :D.

Jessie Fetterman is just the cutest, she can be such a dork sometimes. Always tripping, she is the only person I know who can hurt herself with a bagel. And I know a lot of highly un-coordinated people, so that's saying a lot.

My sister Abby's going to come around next year and Mom says I have to be a good big sister, but shouldn't she learn to take care of herself? After all, we're going to a spy school.

"Don't touch the sword," headmistress Walters said. She's Ali Walter's mom. Her mother was a retired MI6 agent. Now my head mistress.

"Let's settle in now," said Lilly slipping in next to me. I giggled.

"I call the bed next to you," I said.

She nodded, "Good."

We sat down on our bed and sat down on the bed spreads we'd already put on for orientation. "We're going to learn how to kick the guts out of someone..." I laughed.

"That sounds way more fun," Lilly said, "Then going to normal school. Those boys are so annoying," she huffed.

"I was homeschooled, remember? You actually had friends. My sister's coming next year, you know. This school might not survive with two Cameron's here..." Lilly and I shared a smile.

My sister is probably the most annoying of all the Cameron's. She thinks she's the most fun, but she gets fun mixed up with annoying quite often, like when she leves stuff all over the house and says: it's fun for the nanny to pick up. I think the nanny got a little pissed at me and my sister. Although she did always love me more than my sister.

We entered the grand hall and stood at our table for dinner and Headmistress Walters called, "Women of the Gallagher Academy who comes here?"

"We are the sisters of Gillian."

"Why do you come?"

"To learn her skills. Honor her sword. And keep her secrets."

"To what end do you work?"

"To the cause of justice and light."

"How long will you strive?"

"All the days of my life."

I am a Gallagher Girl.

I look around the room and see girls who look at one another and see friends and family. A... Sisterhood. We really are a sisterhood...

I just never knew what came along with being a Gallagher Girl.