HEYY! ***Sob… Sob…. *** I just finished LIES…. Sigh. Oh well. Brianna, you can do the disclaimer.

Brianna: (Talking REALLY fast) This girl doesn't talk fast enough and she doesn't own GONE because if she did she would get all of us the heck out of the FAYZ and Drake Merwin never would've existed so thank you ladies gentlemen and Caine! Goodbye and GOODNIGHT PERDIDO BEACH!

Me: Thanks… can you do that any slower?

Brianna: NOPE!

Brianna's POV

The view from the top of the building was amazing.

I stood there and watched the sunset; letting the fake milky light envelope me in pure happiness. The clouds looked like cotton candy in the rainbow sky that night (it's true, no matter how cliché it sounds) and everything was going fine until I saw the two girls out on the beach.

Not just any two girls, they were Dekka and Taylor.

Dekka and Taylor, my best friends, were on the beach.

Without me!

I couldn't stand it. I love the beach. Why not invite me? I yelled to them from the top of Clifftop, but they didn't hear me. So I ran down the flights of stairs at breakneck speed, faster than a roller coaster. And suddenly I was standing just a few feet away from them.

"Hiya!" I chirped. They both jumped, Dekka wearing an amazingly happy look on her face; but Taylor snapped her out of it.

"What?" I asked them. "What happened?"

"We saw some kids down here," Dekka told me, her voice calm. She always seemed to lose her anger when I'm around. It kinda freaked me out if I spent too long thinking about it, but then again; Dekka wasn't just always happy person; so if she's happy around me, that's cool. Because happy people were- are, rare in the FAYZ.

"And that's weird because…" I trailed off, waiting for them to finish; but I didn't get my answer fast enough for my liking.

"They were two Coates kids," Taylor hissed at last.

Now that was weird. Coates kids never came down to Perdido Beach. Why would they? It was burned, Gaiaphage-infested, dark, polluted, smelly, close to starvation, disease-prone…

The list could go on and on.

"We thought it was Drake and Diana, so we came down here," Dekka explained further, still keeping her cool.

"If we find them, do we get to kick their butts?" I asked hopefully.

"Ya," Taylor said in a 'Well, DUH' voice.

"I'm comin'," I said, excited to hunt someone down.

We walked down the beach until we reached the end. The golden sand was soft beneath my feet and it felt amazing. I had no shoes on at the moment because I had taken them off. As we neared the rocks though, I could see bits of glass and sharp crags; so I threw them back on and tied them tight.

One of the voices could easily be recognized as Drake Merwin's; and the other was a girl's; probably Diana's. Their voices were hushed, like they weren't supposed to be there.

Diana's laugh; high-pitched like Christmas bells. Drake's low voice followed after that and then we heard nothing.

Taylor did a count down on her right hand from five and then we jumped out from behind out hiding place. I was there before Dekka, but after Taylor, who had obviously bounced out. And once we were all out, neither of the Coates kids saw us.

Because their eyes were closed.

And they were kissing.

Taylor opened her mouth to scream but my hand was covering it in less than a second. Her brown eyes were wide and she pointed rapidly at the two secret lovers. Taylor then gave me a look that said, "I'm bouncing out," and I pointed at the Clifftop hotel. Dekka nodded. She looked like she was about to say something but I was gone before it even came out of her mouth.

I have an annoying tendency to do that sometimes, Sam once told me.

When we were all in the lobby of the Clifftop, Dekka panting, Taylor just sitting there, and me pacing that floor at a pace some people may call 'sprinting'; we all were thinking the same thing. It just took a while for Dekka to voice it.

"Eeeew!" She screamed.

"Why would Diana kiss Drake? That is just plain nasty," Taylor nodded her head with a knowing smile on her face. She patted Dekka's shoulder once and Dekka looked up at her funny.

"You two are so weird," I said with my usual sarcastic tone.

"Hello? We just saw two rival Coates kids makin' out, and you're not doing anything about it. You're the weird one," Taylor laughed. Dekka glared at her.

"Brianna's not weird," She mumbled.

That earned a laugh from both of us.

"Should we tell Caine?" I asked.

"Yes, but we should bribe him."

We all nodded our heads slowly in agreement.

"Let's go!" Taylor exclaimed.

"I'm comin' with you, Breeze," Dekka said. I saw an old skateboard in the lobby entrance.

"Get on this," I laughed; and Dekka obeyed.

I pushed her all the way to Coates, and then dropped dead on the floor. I was exhausted.

"One sec, Taylor…" I breathed. Taylor nodded so hard that her bangs were thrown into her face. When I recovered, I knocked on Caine's door. He opened it, and the look of pleasure on his face turned to annoyance.

"Come in, freak," He said, and led me into his small apartment. Diana was standing in there, too.

"Caine, I need food," Diana wined from the other side of the room.

"Diana, you know that we have no food here. Or, at least, not a lot of it…" Caine said, and looked at Diana as if she were the hottest thing on earth.

Diana slowly walked over to Caine, flipping her hair. She squeezed his shoulders once and whispered in his ear,

"I think you can find some for me, Caine," She said in that tone that boys always fell for. Diana smiled sweetly; and when Caine went off to find some food, she winked at him.

All of us stared at each other open-mouthed. By this time we were backed up against the wall. Diana hadn't even noticed us.

At that moment Drake walked in. He embraced Diana and grabbed her hands. She was facing so that Drake was looking at the back of her head.

"How's the plan going?" He said, holding her tighter.

"Caine's in love with me, but that's only temporary…" She said, and grinned wickedly.

Taylor grabbed Dekka and my hands and bounced us out.