I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Later that night, Liz confronts Cammie about what happened at the pharmacy. Cammie argues she could have helped if things got out of hand. Liz demands to know if Cammie “could” or “would” have helped, and to Cammie, the “difference between those two words had never seemed so huge” (238). Liz accuses Cammie of not caring about her friends anymore, and Macey arrives, coming to Cammie’s defense without revealing the news about Bex’s dad. Cammie sneaks out of the school and goes to Josh’s street, where she watches his family through their kitchen window and cries.

At dinner the next day, Cammie and Liz make up. A professor approaches their table to tell Bex her father called and says hi. Bex thanks her while Cammie and Macey share a relieved look. After dinner, they head back to their room, where Liz intercepts an email chain between Josh and Dillon. The boy swears he saw Cammie with the Gallagher Academy girls and tells Josh to meet him tonight at nine o’clock and “WE'LL GET PROOF!” (245). The girls make a list of options for dealing with the situation, but they all make Cammie uncomfortable. Grabbing