130AUTHORS NOTE:
Ok so I decided to change the title of the story from "The Winter Break" to "The Week Before The Break" because the way the story's going... It will take forever before the Winter Break even starts. I'll still make a story for the Winter Break but that will be separate. Right now I'm just going to finish this story before I start the other one.
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FRIDAY NIGHT
Zach's POV
I was wondering the halls at midnight again, because old habits never die. At Blackthorne, we did drills this early in the morning. Everyday and I still do them. Only the drills I do are different. The drills I do are for Cammie. And I do them to get to know her better.
Every night I always roam through the walls just like she does. I always go through passage ways she's showed me, and think about why she would take certain paths. I know I'm not allowed to be outside my suite at night but no one ever sees me. Including the teachers. This makes me feel special.
I was making my way to the East Wing of the school when I decided to lean up against a wall. I think of all the good times when Grant and Jonas were here. Well not only them, there were my other classmates as well. We organized our stuff so neat that some of the girls rooms looked like a kid's room compared to ours. People might have even thought we just came from the military or something. If you really put some thought into though, we kind of did.
This wall was I was leaning on was different from the other walls on this floor, I even got Cammie to admit it to me before. I wasn't sure exactly how special the wall was until a part of it moved, revealing a small hallway. Curiously, I walked in the hallway which lead me to a room with soundproof walls.
This room had furniture and everything in it. It looked like one of the old servant hallways Cammie once showed me. I take a look around the other rooms, they looked similar. By the looks of them, it looked like the last time these rooms were in use was at least 50 years ago.
This would be a good place to keep secret I think to myself. I could study in peace, and have my very own special place to disappear to. On the other hand, I could tell Cammie about it. She loves secret passage ways or in this case, a secret part of the mansion. It would be perfect. We could have midnight rendezvous everyday and "study". I might even make her jealous of the fact that I discovered this place and not her.
Finally. A place where I can occupy my time. I can't wait to tell Cammie.
Cammie's POV
"Cammie, wake up." said the voice in my head. My internal clock said I still had lots of time to sleep, especially since it's the weekend. Besides, who would want to wake me up in the middle of the night?
"Gallagher Girl, it's me." Ok so this time it was Zach in my head. He's always there. It can actually get pretty annoying sometimes when I think about what he would say in certain situations.
"Caaammmmmiiiieeeeeee!" Says that voice again. Only this time it's had help from some hands that are trying to gently shake me awake. And my nose. My nose smells something vaguely familiar, kinda like soap and shampoo. Kinda like Zach... If I'm right, he's interrupting the nice sleep I was starting to have.
"I'm...awake... Zach." I slowly manage to say without hesitation. "Well you sure don't look awake, You look half asleep from here." He says and I know he's grinning. I open my eyes and see him. He's giving me his "I- know-something-you-don't- know" smile. "Sooooo... What do you want?" I ask him because if he's waking me up in the middle of the night, he has a reason for it. That smile of his proves it. And I want to know what that reason is.
"To see you of course." he says while taking my hand and helping me off my bed. "And, I was hoping we could go for a walk since we won't be able to fall back asleep." he adds "Sure, as long as we don't get caught." "Who says we're going to get caught?" and with that we're off.
Zach takes my hand and we quietly run down the hallway. We make 3 right turns and 2 left turns. Right when I think that we're heading for the East Wing he pulls me into one of my favourite passage ways. "Shhh..." He says while pointing to where we've just been. Bex and Macey were there with Liz walking slowly behind them. "I told you... we would loose them," said Liz while yawning. "Because... whenever they're together, their chances of disappearing increase by 26%."
Zach pulled the sleeve of my night gown and pointed to the back of the fireplace. I smile because while Liz, Bex, and Macey argue, we could make our get away.
"Well she could have told us where she was going at 1:30 in the bloody morning!" Bex whisper yelled. "Relax," said Macey "Let's just go back to our suite and think about all the places where they could have gone" "Or get some... sleep." yawned Liz.
I pushed the wall behind the fire place as quickly and quietly as I can. I remove the stick that's suppose to move the wood around. "I'm going to run to the end of the hallway and make footstep noises coming this way. When they leave, you put the fireplace back the way it was... Then we'll continue our walk." Zach whispers in my ear. I nod and off he goes.
"Um guys, did you see that?"asks Bex with worried look on her face "See what?"and suddenly Liz is wide awake following Bex's gaze. "That shadow."Bex said while pointing to where Zach had just been. "There's nothing there. Let's just go back to our suite!" said Macey but she too was following Bex's gaze. "But I saw someth..." Bex never finished because they all heard footsteps. Footsteps that sounded like my mom's. In fact if I were in their position I would think it's my mom but I know it's not. It's just Zach scaring them so we could be alone. And it worked because they all ran leaving us... Alone.
Bex's POV
I run as fast as I can with Liz and Macey behind me. It really didn't matter if we got caught or not. This is Cammie's mom we're talking about! She would just tell not to do it again and leave to make sure all the school exits are blocked off. There would be no punishments unless we try to run away.
As I make it back to our suite Liz giggles behind me and Macey smiles. "What?" I ask because believe me, I hate being excluded in something. It makes me feel like punching something. "That wasn't headmistress." My eyes widen because if it wasn't headmistress... who was it? Macey laughs at my face expression then says "It was... Zach's shoes!" Liz laughs harder now then shuts up when she realizes how loud she was being. Her face goes red.
I still didn't get it so I ask "How do you know?" Macey says "At the last second I turned around to see Zach fixing one of his shoes! Cammie wasn't with him so I assume she was behind the fireplace because it looked like that's we're he was heading. I'm not sure exactly how he did it, but it sounded realistic." As I take the time to sink everything I was told, I laugh, imagining Zach in high heels. I open the door to our suite and remember I was angry at Cammie. Why didn't she tell her best friend she was going on a date?
Zach's POV
And off they go I thought as they left and I walked back to the fireplace. That had to keep them away for the rest of the night. If it didn't, then I guess I don't know them as well as I thought I did. Meaning that this puts my skills to the test.
"How did you do that?" asks Cammie and I couldn't help but smile at her because clearly she's impressed. "Oh I just, made some adjustments to my shoes." I say and next thing I know I'm on the ground, shoeless. Cammie studies the heel of my shoes then inside and around them. Finally she gives up and asks me "And where exactly did you make these adjustments?" "Right here" and I show her.
You see, when you look at the average guy's black dress shoes they usually have a very small heel. These heels are hollow inside and after countless hours of studying my unofficial girlfriend's, mother's walking style and type of heels she has on her shoes, I was able to remake the noise using wood, metal, and plastic. Of course these are the shoes I wear as my uniform for The Gallagher Academy and I don't just go walking around sounding like I'm a guy in high heels. I keep my creation hidden. Hidden under the heels of my shoes so when I'm in one of these "situations" I can easily take off the bottom part of the heels of my shoes and walk around like Head Mistress does.
"So what is it that you wanted to show me?" Cammie says while helping me up. "Something." "Well it's got to be special, You even got rid of my friends." I respond by taking her hand and continuing our walk.