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She ht have let her, but then a voice echoed down the narrow street "Cammie, there you are," Zach said as he strolled around the corner, stopped suddenly, and looked fro where you'd disappeared to," he said Then he turned to the boy next to me, stretched out a hand, and said, "I'm Zach"

DeeDee looked at Zach then back to irl smile of hers like this was the most superfun reunion ever!

But Josh didn't smile He looked between Zach and me with the sa his cheht in front of him but he couldn't quite see it

"Zach," I said askicked in, "this is DeeDee And Josh They're …" I started before I realized I had no idea how that sentence was supposed to end

"We're friends of Ca me

"Zach and I …" I started, but then soo to school with Cammie," Zach said, and I marveled for a moment about how smoothly he had lied, before I realized it wasn't a he at all

"Really?" DeeDee looked confused "I thought it was a girls' school?"

"Actually, her this se this stuff up) Zach slipped his hand into ot wide as she looked at Zach, then at reat!" She beairl I know, there wasn't a doubt in my mind she was happy forto see him as DeeDee did He was sort of tall, and his shoulders were pretty broad I guess if you have to run into your ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, then there are probably worse kinds of cover (I know, because ion of Russia and a very unfortunate hat) But that didn't change the fact that I was finally with Josh again, but Josh…ith DeeDee And I was holding the wrong boy's hand

"Cam," Zach said, and I realized it was the first tiher Girl It sounded … well…different "The van's leaving in ten" He nodded at Josh and DeeDee "It was niceyou"

"You too," DeeDee said, but Josh didn't o He'd already turned the corner by the dry cleaners before I realized he had taken the quarter with him

As little as I liked to admit it, Zachary Goode was officially it

"Oh…well…I'll let you guys get back to your party plans," I said as I stepped away

"You could come," Josh called after onna be there You could co Zach," DeeDee hurried to add

"That sounds like fun," I said, except, if you asked me, a party with Josh and DeeDee and Zach sounded like the kind of torture that had been outlawed by the Geneva Convention But of course I couldn't say that Of course I had to sain

PROS AND CONS TO BEING A SPY WITH A BROKEN HEART:

PRO: Whenever you feel like punching someone, you can As hard as you want For credit

CON: The person you punch may very well punch you back Harder (Especially if that person is Bex)

PRO: High stone walls and state-of-the-art security greatly reduce the chance of seeing ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend in tres

CON: Advanced training raphic et the sight of the happy couple together

PRO: You're perfectly capable of putting all your old love letters and ticket stubs into a burn bag and hiding it really, really well

CON: Realizing that, despite everything, you can't set the bag on fire Not yet

PRO: Knowing that, no matter what the operation, you can always count on your friends

"We hate her," Bex proclaiht as the four of us walked downstairs for supper

"No, guys, we don't hate DeeDee," I said

"Of course you can't hate her--that would be petty," Liz said in the ht "But we can totally hate her"

That sounded great in theory, except… well… DeeDee wasn't exactly easy to hate I mean--she's the kind of person who dots her I's with little hearts (I know because we found a note from her in Josh's trash last semester), and she wears pink irlfriend to parties even though she totally doesn't have to DeeDee was utterly un-hate-able (And that's what I despised most of all)

The corridors were virtually empty Delicious aromas drifted from the Grand Hall as Macey McHenry placed one hand on the railing of the Grand Staircase, turned to me, and said, "We could hack into the DMV and set her up with a dozen unpaid parking tickets"

"Macey!" I cried

"It ht make you feel better," she rationalized "It wouldcould ht then, especially e reached the o to that party and show hi to that party was the last thing I needed, because A) I'd sort of promised under oath that I wouldn't sneak off campus anymore B) If I went I'd have to take Zach withto happen) And C) I didn't have a thing in my closet that could possibly compete with pink etting ready to point out those simple facts when I really heard what Bex had said

"Wait," I said "How did you know about the party?"

"Cam," Bex said softly, "you were on comms"