Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

Author:Ally Carter [Carter, Ally]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adventure, Mystery, Young Adult, Fiction - Young Adult
ISBN: 9781615585199
Amazon: 1423100069
Goodreads: 568645
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The Gallagher Academy has prepared me well for a lot of things, but none of those things are red. Or strapless.

Maybe my mother had forgotten that I was the girl nobody sees—The Chameleon—and chameleons simply don’t walk around in formal gowns with empire waists and long gauzy skirts that flow when you twirl. It was as if my mother didn’t know that this dress was for someone who was definitely supposed to be seen.

“What’s the matter, Gallagher Girl?” Zach asked as we left COW the next morning and started the walk to C&A. “You seem . . . jumpy.”

Well, he would have been jumpy too if he’d heard Bex’s theory that a terrorist group was going to take over a prom and we were going to have to go undercover and stop it, but obviously I couldn’t say that. And in a few minutes, after we’d settled into the Chippendale chairs of the Culture and Assimilation classroom, no one was saying anything.

“The all-school exam . . .” Madame Dabney exclaimed as she stood in the center of the room. Soft rays of early sunshine glowed around her, and her voice had taken on such a dreamy quality that I almost expected harps to start playing as she floated across the floor. “Ooh, ladies,” she said, then rushed to add, “. . . and gentlemen. In all my years of teaching at this fine institution, I have never had the opportunity to organize such an exciting educational experience.”

Liz went still, and Eva and Tina tore their eyes from Grant’s muscular forearms.

“This Friday evening, all students in grades eight through twelve will be invited to a formal examination.” Madame Dabney waited for what she must have expected to be a standing ovation. “A ball, ladies and gentlemen,” she explained when no one broke into applause. “There’s going to be a ball!”

Tina gasped, and Liz’s eyes went wide in a way that can only be induced by the combination of both tests and high heels; Jonas swallowed hard and turned the exact same shade of red as the dress that was hanging in my closet—the dress I was going to have to wear . . . for a grade!

There had to be some kind of mistake, I thought. Surely Bex was supposed to get that dress and I was supposed to get instructions on how to access the dusty, dirty, mice-infested ductwork of the Russian Embassy or something.

Mice I can handle. Strapless bras? Well let’s just say, I’m the kind of girl who likes things sufficiently strapped.

“Tomorrow during this time, you will each be fitted for a gown.” She beamed at the girls. “And tuxedos,” she said as she turned to the boys. “On Friday evening you will be asked to participate in a cumulative examination—a night that will encompass everything we teach. And you will be expected to dance.”

At that point I’m pretty sure every other girl in the room heard “dance.”

But I thought back to Bex’s words as we’d stood in the deserted East Wing, and I, personally, heard “rematch.

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