A/N: Randomly came up when I was
watching a movie and listening to an
Offspring album. (Rise And Fall, Rage and Grace)
and a Rise Against album. (Appeal to Reason)
Hope you like. And I have no idea
why I keep coming up with new stories when
I haven't finished my first fanfic yet. Haha,
whatevs. Read & Review. Happy Birthday, Tiffany.

Disclaimer: Lisi Owns.

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Ready To Fall

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Massie Block was alone, sitting at Table 13 in the Café of Briarwood Academy. She wasn't even glancing towards Table 18 where the popular girls sat. Where her ex-best friends sat. She used to be one of them. She snorted. How could that ever be possible? If you compared old Massie with new Massie, you would have never guessed that they were the same person at all. She didn't have any friends here. Nor did she want any. They were too complicated, too clingy.

She glanced around the room. Everywhere everyone was sitting with their friends, laughing and smiling. All wearing designer clothes, wasting their money like it just popped up out of the ground. Massie looked away in disgust. She glanced towards the boys' table. Her eyes flickered to Derrick for a moment and saw that he was staring intently at her. She quickly looked away. She became too close to him. She loved him so much. He hurt her so much when they broke up. He shattered her heart. And she fell so hard. Tears stung her eyes, but she blinked them away before someone saw them.

At Table 18, Alicia, Claire, Dylan and Kristen were looking at Massie with the same kind of disgust on her face.

"What a loser." Alicia said.

"She has no friends." Dylan said.

"Why do you guys care so much about Massie?" Claire asked.

"We don't." Alicia replied.

"Then why do you guys keep talking about her?" Claire asked.

"You don't…miss her, do you?" Kristen asked.

Alicia, Dylan and Claire looked at each other. Then burst out laughing.

"You are just too funny, Kris." Alicia said.

"Yeah, why would we miss Massie Block?" Dylan smiled.

"Never mind." Kristen said, looking away.

Kristen couldn't believe her friends. How could they not miss Massie? She's what kept everyone from becoming who they were now.

Alicia still loved Ralph Lauren, but she was such a whore. And she always tried to hard to be what Massie used to be.

Dylan still loved to eat, but no one was ever there to tell her that she wasn't fat so she became bulimic, in secret and only Kristen knew.

Claire loved Cam. And she was obsessed with him. Everywhere they go, 'I miss Cam' or 'I wish Cam was here' it was so annoying.

And Kristen was the same, only she kept mostly to herself. Sure, she talked to her 'friends' when they talked to her, but only because she didn't want her social life ruined.

But she still desperately wanted to be friends with Massie.

Massie was so different now. She only wore designer clothes when they matched her new punk-like style, she didn't hang out with the girls that wore too much designer like Alicia. Kristen knew that she didn't want to face her past.

At Derrick's table, the boys were all looking at Derrick when he turned back around.

"What?" He asked.

"Why do you keep staring at Massie?" Cam asked.

Derrick just looked at him.

"Yeah, do you like…still love her or something?" Kemp asked.

"No." Derrick flushed. "I just…she looks lonely."

"Oh, gee, I wonder why." Josh snickered, shooting Derrick a glare.

Derrick shot him a hateful glare.

Josh put his hands up.

"Dude, you did this to her, not me so don't be trying to come at me." Josh said, glaring back just as hatefully.

Derrick just shook his head.

"Whatever." Derrick said.

Derrick put his head down, remembering that day.

Flashback.

It was pouring rain outside and Massie's Marc Jacob clad feet were getting soaked, but she waited for Derrick anyway. She was standing under a tree in the park for cover as he approached her.

"Hey," she chirped happily as he showed up. She threw her arms around his shoulders, ready for a kiss, when he pulls her arms off of him.

"What's wrong?" Massie asks him.

"I…I think that we should break up." He says.

"Why?" Massie asked, thankful for the rain so that Derrick couldn't see the tears leaking out of her kohl rimmed eyes.

"Look, you're a great girl and all, but…I like someone else." Derrick said.

Massie looked down.

"Can you at least tell me who it is before you leave me?" Massie asked quietly.

"Alicia." Derrick answered.

"But…she's with Josh." Massie said.

"No, she broke up with him for me…this morning." Derrick said.

"Oh." Was all that Massie managed to get out of her glossed lips.

"I'm sorry." Derrick said.

Massie looked up to him.

"I'll always love you, Derrick." She whispered.

She got on her tiptoes and kissed him lightly on the lips.

Derrick felt a bolt of electricity go throughout his body and he started to regret his decision.

"Goodbye." She said, not daring to turn back and face him in case he saw her pained expression. She was ready to fall. And she fell hard.

And he watched her until the mist and fog engulfed his vision and swallowed her.

He only let a single tear slip down his cheek.

End Flashback.

Derrick had always regretted breaking up with Massie, but he could never muster up the courage to ask her out again. He was afraid of getting rejected. That night, he stayed with Alicia and they hung out and kissed, but it wasn't the kind of kiss that he shared with Massie. Alicia's kisses felt cold a foreign to him. He didn't love her. After a week of being with Alicia, he broke it off because he couldn't stand all of her nagging.

Massie was never like that.

That night, Massie quit being friends with Alicia as well as Claire and Dylan who knew about this and didn't tell her. She cried her eyes out to Kristen, but after a while, she cut herself off from her too. In fact, she cut herself off from everyone. She quit wearing all the stupid expensive clothing and dressed herself in clothes that would make her seem invisible so that when she wanted to, she could simply slip into the shadows and disappear. But she always wore that hurt expression.

And Derrick always knew that he was the reason why.

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What do you think?
I'll probably update…sooner or later.
I won't be able to until Saturday.
Sorry. And I'm debating whether or not
to have a beta reader for this story.
So if your interested, tell me and I'll
decide whether or not i want !

xoxo_*OOTF!