a/n: I changed the prologue because I felt that it was really really bad :P lol
Also I changed the title form Blinded by love to Nothing Gold Can Stay because I found that title much more fitting to this story, and it will make more sense later on, oh and also I noticed I forgot to do a disclaimer, I own nothing and everything except the plot belongs to Lisi. So now it's officially disclaimed (:
Prologue
Massie sighed as she walked down the lobby of the luxurious Four Seasons resort in Maui. She dragged her Louis Vuitton monogram Pegase with a customised purple strip in the middle across the floor not caring one bit about it getting scratched. Her 8th grade geography class was treated to a three day camp in Hawaii, because on the Geography midterms about Hawaii everyone got a B or above, their teacher was so proud. Everyone was ecstatic about it, but Massie would rather be anywhere else but there.
"Hey Mass, wait up" Alicia Rivera, her best friend since second grade called out to her, power walking to her because she didn't run. Massie did her best to try and smile, stoped walking, and waited for Alicia to reach her.
"So Alicia, where's Claire?"
"She's down at the beach with Cam"
"Oh, great" she groaned
"So what room are we in Mass?"
"Umm..." Fiddling with the set of keys in her hand, Massie tries to find the room number because they were rooming in different rooms to their classmates. Massie's father had persuaded Mr. Myner to let Massie and her friends' room in the Maile suite, while everybody else got the ocean-view prime rooms. But Massie was anything but pleased at his attempts to make her forgive him.
"712 on the 7th floor"
"Okay then, let's go" Alicia said as she pulled Massie towards the elevator.
Entering their room, they were astonished at how extravagant looking it was, especially since they were only staying for three days. They each had their own private bedroom complete with a sitting area and entertainment system with marble bathrooms as well as a living room/ lounging area and an office with a computer complete with internet access, a dining room and a butler's kitchen.
Claire's baby blue suitcase was on the floor of the living room, with the clothes she wore on the plane scattered on the sofa. It was obvious she was in a hurry to swim with Cam.
Alicia laid her Coach suitcases next to Claire's on the floor deciding to pick a room later,
"Well, we know Claire's been here Already, so let's get our bikinis on and crash her party with Cam at the beach"
"I'm gunna pass Leesh, I don't want to see them be all flirty and stuff right now"
"What are you talking about Mass? You never used to care, it's just Cam and Claire, come on you and me can go and secretly make fun of them like we always do." she replies as she and opens her suitcase taking her blood red Chanel bikini out and walked to the bathroom.
"No. I really just, want to stay here; I'm feeling jetlagged anyway." Massie claimed while yawning.
Alicia rolled her big brown eyes at her reflection in the mirror and called out "Mass, you know you've been acting really different lately, you know you've been avoiding me and Claire, you aren't even wearing makeup today and come on you only brought one suitcase when I brought four, and even Claire brought two."
Grimacing that Alicia had actually noticed something that didn't have to do with herself, Massie groaned and called to bathroom "It's only a 3 day trip".
"That's why I brought 3 and a spare"
Sighing Massie says "Fine, if you stop saying, I've been acting differently, which totally untrue it's just I have a lot going on at the moment. Then I will come."
Alicia beamed and cheered "Yes!"
She put her hair into a side braid, and started putting waterproof make up on.
Massie dragged her suitcase to the biggest bed room and dumped it on the floor; she then took out her purple Dior bikini, and pulled off her juicy sweats.
After putting her bikini on in a hurry, she tied her hair in a high messy bun, not even bothering to check out her reflection in the mirror. She grabbed a cover up, and then knocked on Alicia's bathroom door asking if she's ready.
Alicia opened the door to find Massie ready; she quickly checks her reflection one more time finding that she looks perfect she says "Okay Mass, I'm done. Let's get to the beach"
Nodding in reply, Massie grabs the grabs the keys off a table and they head down to the crystal clear blue water.
Claire and Cam are splashing each other and laughing in the water, Cam picks her up bridal style and is about to drop her in the water, when she spots Alicia and Massie walking down the pathway.
"Cam, Massie and Alicia are here, put me down and let's go say hey,"
Grunting Cam sets Claire back on her feet with a scowl he says "You go. I'll wait here".
Claire sighs in reply, Cam and Massie have always hated each other, ever since they were younger when Cam pushed Massie in the mud, and for revenge she got him kicked off his soccer team. Claire batted her eyelashes, widening her big blue eyes "please Cam, for me"
Cam groans and wraps his arm around her waist as if to say lead the way. Claire gives him a bright smile as they walk toward Alicia and Massie.
During the evening, their class had to meet up for dinner at the restaurant DUO at 6:30, as they would be doing so every day until they leave. Mr Myner was being cool enough to let them do whatever they wanted during the day, as long as they left after breakfast and came to dinner so he could see if anyone had gone missing. Since there were 24 kids in their class, they had sat in two different tables.
Massie, Alicia and Claire all sat next to each other at the end of the table with Massie at the edge, Claire in the middle with Cam sitting in front of her, much to Massie's dismay and Alicia on the other side of Claire. They were severed steak and salad, something Mr. Myner had chosen for everyone so their orders wouldn't take too long.
Massie sees Cam and Claire feeding each other and giggling, disgusted at them Massie shifts her position facing the other side of the room.
She sees a couple who look around her parents' age smiling and laughing, and enjoying themselves with their daughter.
The pain in her chest get bigger and tears begin to form in her eyes. She blinks the tears back trying to remain strong. Immediately Massie excuses herself from diner saying she has a terrible head ache. Out of sight from Mr. Myner Massie walks to the beach, thinking the sound of the waves would make her feel better. She settles down on a rock like seat and watches the sunset.
Cam noticed as Massie left her eyes looked watery and she looked like she was in pain. He wondered why Claire hadn't noticed.
Not knowing why he even cared he excused himself too, coming up with a lame excuse of needing to go the bathroom.
Assuming she would go outside, he went to the beach area and found her sitting on rock immersed in her own thoughts. He takes a deep breath gathering all his courage and sits down next to her on the rock. She didn't even acknowledge his presence until he said
"Ahh, the girl sitting down watching the sunset, a very cliché move, if only your boyfriend Landon were here that would make it even more so"
Massie sighs in reply and after a minute she adds "we broke up" Cam laughs,
"No way, BOCDs it couple actually broke up".
Narrowing her amber eyes Massie retorts
"Why are you here? We hate each other, remember." He rolled his multicoloured eyes, even though it was true.
"Well, you looked sad and I saw that Alicia and Claire to busy whispering to each other to notice, so I thought you'd need a friend"
She smiles softly and says "you know you're possibly the most kindest and caring person in my life right now"
Intrigued Cam says "Why is that? You have tons of friends and people who care about you, come on you are Massie Block"
"They only like me because I'm popular".
"That's not true what about your parents and even Landon, he had to somehow care about you, because you were together for two years" Cam says narrowing his blue and green eyes.
"Landon is a perfect example of a person who only liked me for my popularity or looks, because if he cared about me. Then he wouldn't have cheated on me almost every day. At first I didn't mind, because I also only cared about looks and popularity, but a couple days ago my parents told me they were getting a divorce, their marriage was a mistake and that they never really loved each other. I realized that I don't want to end up like them, I want to find true love, that's why I broke up with him" Massie said with tears coming to her eyes again.
When Cam got up right after Massie, Claire suspected that her boyfriend had gone to find Massie and told Alicia.
Alicia said "wait ten minutes and if he doesn't come back, we go and look for him".
After 10 minutes had gone by, they got up not even bothering to tell Mr. Myner because he was busy flirting with a red haired waitress.
Claire and Alicia wondered around the beach area, where they found Cam and Massie sitting next to each other on a rock.
Claire whisper shouted "That bitch! Massie has been sneaking around with my boyfriend behind myback, what a slut!"
Alicia defending her best friend said "they might just, be talking ".
They walked a bit closer, but when Cam wrapped his arm around Massie's waist and she put her head on his shoulder. Claire's anger fumed and tears began forming in her eyes "that slut! I thought we were best friends"
"Don't worry we'll make sure she pays for what she did" Alicia said grinning evilly because she finally had her chance to over throw Massie and become alpha, now that Claire hated her. Before they turned around to leave they saw, Massie kiss Cam on the cheek. Claire stormed off angrier than ever, with Alicia in tow.
Cam felt bad for bringing up the subject because now Massie was crying. He wrapped his arm around her tiny waist and she cried into his shoulder.
Stroking her hair he said "don't worry Massie I care about you and will always be here if you need anyone to talk to"
Massie looked up from his shoulder into his blue green eyes, for the first time noticing how gorgeous he was, but when the thought came to her mind she mentally slapped herself, he was Claire's boyfriend.
"Thanks Cam I really appreciate it" Then she did the unexpected and kissed him on the cheek. She smiled when she saw them redden and looked back at the sunset. After a while of awkward silence, Massie got up and went to her room leaving a slightly dazed Cam behind.
Massie arrived at her room and found Alicia sitting on the loveseat, on Facebook while watching Pretty Little Liars on the TV. She heard Claire on the phone speaking and giggling to someone who she guessed was Cam. Massie greeted them with a "hey,"
Alicia looked around and found Massie in the doorway.
"Hey Mass, we missed you at dinner, why'd you leave?" She said feigning innocence.
"Oh... I, uh didn't feel hungry"
"oh, okay" Alicia replied focusing on the TV again.
"Well I'm feeling tired so I'm going to nod off, well um... goodnight" Massie said with a yawn.
"Mass make sure you get a good sleep, because we're getting up early tomorrow and going skinny dipping." Massie's eyes widened Claire the innocent, goody two shoes actually wanted to skinny dip.
Claire saw Massie's shocked face and said "don't worry we won't be inviting the boys. It'll be just us, I think we should do something crazy before we leave" Massie yawns again and says "I don't know, what if someone sees us?"
"Come on Mass... please, no one will see us , back in Florida me and my friends used to do it all the time, it makes great inside jokes and we haven't done much best friend things lately, pretty please"
Claire makes the puppy dog eyes and pouts her lips. Massie sighs "fine we'll go, just let me sleep now so I can wake up early" Claire starts jumping up and down, "yay! Goodnight Mass"
Claire and Alicia lock eyes and smirk evilly. When Massie was in her room asleep, Claire told Alicia "Cam will diffidently be there, he said he'd love to go swimming with us"
"The photographer is booked he's flying in tonight," I just love my dads connections Alicia thought to herself.
"It will ruin her reputation so bad she'll be branded as a slut forever. And I'll get my revenge" Claire beamed
"Yeah, then I will finally be the alpha of our school" Alicia added. They both said goodnight to each other and went to their rooms to sleep, because they needed to be up at around 5.
The next morning at five Alicia, Claire and Massie got out of their room clad in their bikinis and cover ups, each with a matching pair of black Prada sunnies framing their gorgeous faces, they went to the empty part of the beach.
Feeling self conscious of her C cup boobs, Alicia said to Massie and Claire trying to back out "why don't we just swim in our bikinis"
"Yeah that's-" but then Claire interrupted Massie eyeing Alicia and saying "come on we have to do this, we'll just take off our bikini tops"
"But..." Alicia tried but Claire eyed her again and she said " fine, but I'm staying underwater so you can't make fun of my boobs" They took off their bikini tops, Massie and Alicia both covering theirs boobs with their arms and Claire walking normal not caring, and they all went in the water.
Cam woke up to the buzzing of his iPhone and groggily said "hello".
It was Claire screaming at him for being late and asking him where he was, he told her he'd be there in 15 minutes and hung up, lately he felt Claire was acting differently and un-Claireish, like making him get up at five just to swim when they could go swimming anytime during the day.
He got out of bed and grabbed his board shorts, took off his shirt being careful enough not to wake Kemp.
He left slowly and ran to the beach. When he arrived he saw Claire and Massie splashing each other and Alicia just keeping her head out in the middle. He wondered why they had come to, but figured it was because he was late.
He went in the water and swam out to where they were. As he got closer he heard Massie scream and place hands over her chest and realized all three of them didn't have bikini tops on.
That's why Alicia is only keeping her head out, he thought. "Uh... umm hey Claire... Massie and Alicia" he said awkwardly Claire greeted him with a hug not one bit embarrassed by her appearance, Massie muttered a "hey" and a "what the fuck", Alicia just nodded.
Massie turned to Claire and said "can I talk to you alone", and she pulled her about three meters away.
"Claire, why'd you invite Cam here?" She asked raising her voice slightly.
"I didn't. I just told him we were going to go for a swim, how was supposed to know he'd come with us!"Claire snapped.
"Fine whatever, I'm leaving" Massie snapped back, and she walked to the shore.
"Cam!" Claire called "go and tell Massie you're sorry for coming and get her to come back."
"Why. Do. I .have to?" Cam said
"Pretty please" Claire said with puppy dog eyes. Cam sighed, it seemed like he was doing whatever she told him to do lately and he caught up Massie before she reached the sand.
Turning to Alicia, Claire says "Give the signal to the photographer, and let's leave, also put your bikini top on, so we can tell Mr. Myner that Massie and Cam snuck off to the beach without permission early in the morning. We'll show him the photos and Xerox them later" They both took the bikinis kept hidden on and headed back to the resort.
"Massie wait," she heard Cam call from behind and turned around.
"What Cam? Can't I just leave, I feel so embarrassed." she said still covering her boobs
"Massie it's fine I didn't see anything anyway, so come back I know Claire will be sad if you leave and you know how sensitive she is" Massie sighed when Claire gets sad she cries and cries and cries, she didn't feel like putting up with that so she said
"Fine, and... uh, Cam... You're a good boyfriend; I hope one day I find someone who likes me as much as you like Claire"
"Thanks Mass" he said even though he was starting like Claire less, he just gave her a hug and was surprised when she put one of her arms around him also. She just said "I trust you enough to hug, even when I'm naked, because you're a good guy Cameron Fisher, I just wished I'd noticed that before"
Feeling confused about what Massie said he looked around when he looked back at the spot where Alicia and Claire were supposed to be, he found that they were gone. Cam stiffened, and Massie looked towards what he was staring at, Alicia and Claire were gone.
Cam swam over to check just in case they were hiding and Massie tried to find her bikini top, but gave up hope when she found that everything they brought was gone. Cam came back and said "no sign of them I think their gone"
"They also took my bikini top" Massie said madly.
"Why would they do that?" Cam asked and Massie didn't reply because she ran off in the direction of the hotel, Cam chased after her wondering why she's running.
When they reached the entrance they found Mr. Myner standing there with his arms crossed with a stern look on his face, and Alicia and Claire fully dressed standing behind him smirking.
"See, Mr. Myner I told you she would be naked" Claire spat.
"You two both are suspended. I will be contacting your parents notifying them of what happened today, and please don't tell me why Massie is half naked, I do not want to know" he then handed Massie a towel and walked away talking out his mobile.
Massie couldn't say a word she was frozen on the spot. So Cam spoke to Alicia and Claire for her,
"Why would do that to us? I thought you were different Claire that's why I liked you, but it turns out I was wrong, Massie is your best friend. "
"You want to know why? Because Cameron You. Are. A. no good two timing jerk! And Massie is not my best friend because best friends don't steal each other's boyfriends, she's a whore!" Snapping back into reality Massie said "Ewe, really Claire? As if you think I would do that, he's your boyfriend, not mine. I'm perfectly happy with Landon"
"Whatever, you're such a liar. You and Landon broke up, I know because he told Sky when they hooked up, and she told me afterwards" Claire said
"And when we show everyone the evidence, I'll become alpha and you'll just be an LBR that everyone will hate" Alicia said joining the conversation and then they both then stormed off not wanting to hear anything else Massie or Cam had to say.
Massie burst in to tears and ran outside to the beach and curled up into a ball. Cam went after her, he found her sitting on the same rock that they finally got over their differences and became friends on. Then something clicked in his mind, Claire and Alicia must have seen him and Massie on that rock and got the wrong impression. He went and sat next to her smiling and softly chucking.
She noticed his smile and asked "Why are you so happy? Claire thinks you're a cheater and I'm apparently a backstabber"
"I'm smiling because I know why Claire thinks that" he replied
"What ! Why ? How ?" Massie said
"Remember yesterday when we were sitting on this rock... and what we did" he said
"oh, they must he seen and misinterpreted what happened," she said as realization hit her. Then she started to laugh uncontrollably.
"Only Alicia and Claire would assume that, they really were that brainless, come on she's known I've hated you for years, and I mean like ewe, and Claire really is a dumb blonde" Cams smile disappears as she says ewe. He fakes a laugh and says,
"Yeah, I mean if she thought I would cheat on her she could at least pick someone who is pretty and who I would actually go out with"
Massie stopped laughing and an awkward silence happens.
In a small voice breaking the silence Massie says "Do you really think I'm not pretty?"
And after what felt like forever he replies with "yeah, I don't think your pretty..."
"Oh" she says blinking back the tears she knew were coming and got up to leave, but he grasps her arm and continues,
"I think you're beautiful" and he pulls her into an embrace and kisses her passionately as it starts to rain.
As he does do Massie thinks in her head whatever happens to her in the future she doesn't care, as long as she's got Cam.
They stop and press their foreheads together, looking into each other's eyes.
Cam and grins sheepishly "I have always thought so, ever since, I pushed you in the mud" Laughing Massie kissed him again as they both get soaked head to toe by the rain.
A/N: Did you think this version was better? Review please :D
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