CHAPTER 15

CAMMIE'S POV

"Zach?"

He just smiled sheepishly at me then said, "Hey Cammie."

"I cannot believe it! You're actually Alex's brother? And I get it now!"

Confused, he asked me, "Get what now?"

"When you said that you were the good and bad guy!"

"Wait, you heard me say that? I was whispering that to myself! You have incredibly good hearing, Gallagher Girl," I commented.

"Yeah! I heard you say that! Well, you weren't doing a good job of not letting me hear what you said now, did you? And thanks! I do have good hearing but sometimes I don't. I have no idea why. Maybe it's because-" I was cut off when I suddenly heard the guard who was bringing Zach to my cell shout, "JUST SHUT UP WILL YOU? You two are getting on my nerves."

Zach glared at him then quickly composed himself and asked him, "What's your name?"

BBG #2 (I named him BBG because he's just as big as Carl! And looks as scary as him too) glared back and answered his question nonetheless. "Mike. What's it to you?"

"Well, then Mike," he said his name with bitterness; "you wouldn't want to disrespect Cindy's son now do we? Unless you want me to report it to her and get you fired. Or maybe killed."

When he said that last statement, I got chills all over my body and I thought to myself, "I never knew Zach could be this cold blooded! I'm getting tingles."

Mike's eyes grew wide and then he coughed awkwardly, "Of course not. I'm sorry. Please don't report me to Ms. Evans. I'll never do this again. I'm sorry, sir."

Zach just smiled and said, "Oh no worries, Mike. I won't tell her. Just don't do that again. And can you please tell someone to get a doctor for Ms. Morgan over here?"

"Of course, sir!" Mike answered with fake enthusiasm. "Carl, please get someone to attend to Ms. Morgan's, uhm, injuries?"

Carl just glared and looked at Ned, his second-in-command and he just nodded and left to find a doctor, hopefully.

"Thank you boys! I'll be sure to tell my dear mother to maybe give you a raise or something. Now please take off these handcuffs and let me in the cell," Zach commanded Mike.

Once his handcuffs were removed, he had a last minute request which was to remove me from the chair. Mike approached me then Carl suddenly shouted, "Mike, don't. We have orders to not let her get out from that chair."

Mike just sighed and whispered, "Sorry 'bout that, Ms. Morgan," and left the cell.

I looked at Zach who was seated on the floor beside me. He was just staring at me and I really got annoyed and asked him, "What's with the staring Zach? Will you quit it?"

"Oh sorry. I was just staring at how your face looks beaten and bruised. I wished that I was the one who was hurt and not you."

"Oh that. Well, you can't do anything now, can you?" I don't know why I was acting like a bitch to him, but I just felt like being a bitch to him!

He looked at me with a sad expression and said, "Yeah, I pretty much can't do anything," then he said, "I suppose you want to ask me about me being Cindy's son, am I right?"

I stared at him and nodded.

"So where do I start. Okay, so it turns out that the mother I know is my aunt and she just took care of me when Cindy was being a very neglectful mother. And she just killed my aunt. Or mom, when she was just about to tell me everything. Well, that's what your mom told me anyway. So in conclusion, my mother is a freaking psychopath and so is my brother, which apparently is Alex."

When he said Alex's name, I have no idea why but I got tingles and I think I blushed. I coughed awkwardly and looked anywhere other than at Zach, hoping that he wouldn't notice. Unfortunately for me, he did notice me.

"Why aren't you looking at me? And why in the hell are you blushing and coughing like mad?" he demanded.

"What are you talking about, Zach. I'm not 'blushing and coughing like mad'," I answered him.

"Okay then. So if you're not blushing and coughing like mad, will you look at me?"

Sighing, I looked at him then he frowned and said, "You're still blushing."

Screaming in frustration, I apologized and said, "I really have no idea why I'm blushing."

He was still frowning then as if a bucket of cold water was thrown to his face, he said, "I do."

Raising one of my eyebrows, I said, "Oh you do?"

"Oh yes I do."

"Then please, do tell me," I told him.

"It's because I said my brother's name, right?" he said with a straight face.

"What?" I demanded, "That's absurd! Why would I blush because you said his name?"

"You don't believe me?" he challenged me.

"Yes I don't believe you."

"Is that so? Okay then." he became silent then he suddenly said, "Hey Cammie?"

"Yeah?"

"I have something to tell you," he said seriously.

I was intrigued so I just nodded to show him to tell me what it is.

"ALEX," he said with a smirk on his face.

Then he suddenly laughed out loud then said, "You just blushed! You like my brother."

Me of course, being the stubborn girl, I disagreed and said, "No way. I don't like your brother."

"Oh really you don't?"

"Yes, I don't," before I could stop myself I suddenly blurted out, "I like someone else."

I felt like slapping myself, hard. Why the hell would I say that?

He was of course surprised and asked, "Well, who do you like?"

"No one! I don't like anyone."

"Yes you do. Why would you say you like someone else and then say you don't even like anyone?"

"My, my. We're being pretty persistent, are we?" I teased him.

He just chuckled and told me, "Okay, I'll tell you who I like then you tell me who you like."

"Why in the world would I agree to that?"

"It's every girl's dream! To know who Zachary Goode fancies," he said with a smirk on his face.

I just did nothing but shake my head and chuckle. "Zach, by now you should know that I am not like any other girl."

Sighing, he just said, "Yeah, you're like any other girl. But I'll tell you anyway. I've always wanted to tell someone about who I like."

Deciding not to argue with him, I just nodded and told him to go on.

"So, there's this girl. She's not a normal girl. She's pretty awesome, which is cool since I'm also awesome," we both laughed at that, "Honestly though, I don't even know how to tell her I like her! I just think that she'll freak out and scream so I never told her."

"She seems like a really cool girl," I commented.

"Oh she really is," he said with a smile on his face.

"What does she look like?" I asked, since I was very curious about this "mystery girl". (Note that there was no sarcasm to my statement.)

"She actually looks like y-," his statement was cut off when the door suddenly opened and lo, behold, enters the leader of the Circle, Cindy Evans.

BEX'S POV

"Damn it! I'm bored. Can we do something fun?" I asked my friends.

"Shut up, Bex. We can't do anything fun in here because for your information, we're prisoners," Macey answered.

Sighing, I went over to Liz and Jonas and asked them, "Can't you two do anything to help us escape this shithole?"

They looked at me and just shook their head. Suddenly, Macey jumped then went towards us and whispered, "Do you guys think that we can escape using this hair clip I have?"

Liz's face brightened up and then said, "Where's your clip?"

Macey dug into her trouser pockets and then gave the clip to Liz who then proceeded to the door. Just when Liz was about to do her 'magic', the door suddenly unlocked and I pulled Liz to the bed and hid the clip.

"Why are all of you so quiet?" demanded this big, ugly guard, looking suspicious.

"What's it to you?" Macey asked.

He just glared and pulled someone inside our cell then locked it again. That someone was actually Grant. Suddenly, Jonas stood up then grabbed Grant then punched him straight in the face. I pulled Jonas away from Grant and asked him, "What the hell did you do that for?"

"He helped Alex kidnap Cammie! Bex, he helped Alex kidnap Cammie! Cammie, your sister. Don't tell me you're not angry at this bastard," he shouted at me.

Jonas' words sunk in and I asked Grant why he helped Alex kidnap Cammie.

He stood up, wiped the blood from his mouth and asked all of us to sit and he'll tell us. Jonas, unfortunately, was reluctant to sit. Obviously he still wanted to punch Grant.

When we were all seated, he started to tell us why.

"Long story short, it happens that my dad works for Cindy. He's in charge of the security in the Circle lair. Then, there was this one incident wherein the lair was almost infiltrated with CIA agents. Of course, Cindy was mad at him and he threatened to hurt me or possibly kill me. When he said he'll do anything so that she won't hurt me, she demanded him to tell me to help Alex kidnap you. When Alex told me about that, I disagreed but he told me that when I disagree, Cindy will kill my dad and when that happens, I'll no longer have anyone with me. He's the only family I have left, you guys. I'm sorry if I helped Alex kidnap Cammie, but I love my dad so much and I will do anything to keep him with me."

Grant was in tears after he told us his story and I couldn't help but hug and comfort him.

Suddenly, Liz said, "So your dad was in charge of security?"

Grant nodded then Liz told Jonas, "Oh my God! Grant's dad is in charge of security! We can get out of here with his help! Of course, we have to help him. And by 'we' I mean me and you."

Macey rolled her eyes and said, "Yeah, yeah we get it. You two are the techie people in here. But of course we need to get out of here first before we even get to Mr. Newman."

Grant and I were still hugging and he whispered "Thanks" then said to the others, "Come on guys. We have to make a plan for us to escape in this stupid cell then find a way to get to my dad."

We huddled together and made a plan for escape. You better watch out, Cindy. Because we're ALL coming for you.