The Block Estate
Massie's Room
Sunday 20th December
21.00
Massie Block was standing inside her walk in closet with seven Gucci suitcases wide open with hot fashionable designer clothes in it. One bag was especially for shoes, another one for tops, another one for trousers, another one for skirts, another one for coats and sweaters, another one for health, hygene and beauty, and the last one for underwear and socks.
It was a day before the day she, TPC, and The Briarwood boys (which included Derrington, Cam, Chris, Josh, Kemp, and Griffin), departed to Massie Block's chalet in Aspen for two weeks and a half. They were going to spend it skiing, chilling in front of the fire, drinking cocoa (diet of course), chatting, and flirting.
It was going to be one of those unforgettable winters. When Massie asked Kendra for permission to fly away to Aspen with her best friends, instead of spending Christmas and New Year's with her, Kendra didn't seem disappointed at all, she stared at Massie to see if she was serious then hugged her real strong and said: "I am so so glad Massie honey! Me and your dad were planning to go to Rome, but wanted to go alone, now that you are going somewhere too, it's perfect!"
Massie was really surprised by the reaction, but also happy to death. Finally half a month spent with her best friends and crush together. It was a dream come true.
Kendra made Massie promise to be responsible, and promised Massie that no parents were going to be there, so everything was alright with her.
Suddenly Massie heard a beep coming out of her Bose speakers. Massie walked over to her bedroom, and looked at her iMac. She had just received an IM from Alicia.
HOLAGURL: MASS!
MASSIEKUR: OUI?
HOLAGURL: OMG, MASS ARE YOU READY FOR TOMORROW?
MASSIEKUR: TOTALLY
HOLAGURL: I AM SO SO NOT! OH GOD, CAN YOU IMAGINE? HALF A MONTH WITH MY CRUSH??
MASSIEKUR: LEESH JUST CHILL, STOP ACTING CLARE-ISH.
HOLAGURL: CANT HELP IT.
MASSIEKUR: JUST PACK YOUR BESTEST CLOTHES, EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT!
HOLAGURL: OKAY. I'LL JUST GO TO SLEEP AND TAKE A SLEEPING PILL
MASSIEKUR: NOT TOO MANY K? IF YOU DON'T WAKE UP BY 7 YOU WILL ONLY HAVE TWO HOURS TO GET READY!
HOLAGURL: I'LL KEEP THAT IN MIND. LOVE YA
MASSIEKUR: X2
HOLAGURL LOGS OFF AT 21.10
Massie got back to her packing. She put in every single piece of clothing, then brushed her teeth before going to sleep.
But just before she was about to fall asleep she just had the urge to send Derrington a text, she grabbed her sidekick, then typed like a maniac.
MASSIE: HEY DERRICK, DREAMING ABOUT ME YET?
DERRINGTON: HAHA, NOT YET, BUT WILL SOON :)
MASSIE: OOH, DONT SLEEP TOO MUCH, EXCITED ABOUT 2MORROW?
DERRINGTON: TOTALLY, CANT WAIT
MASSIE: ME EITHER, REMEMBER TOMORROW AT 10, IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE :)
DERRINGTON: PERF. SEE YOU THEN
MASSIE: NIGHTIE
DERRINGTON: SWEET DREAMS :)
Massie smiled after that text conversation. Derrick was so cute. They were together since seventh grade, now that they were high school sophomores everything was much more exciting than it was before.
She got inside her enormous bed, and fell asleep thinking about Derrington.
The Block Estate
The Entrance
9.00 AM
The day after
"Good Morning Inez!" Alicia said with a big fat smile as Inez opened the big door that lead in to the block estate. Claire, Kristen and Dylan were standing behind her, with Dean, Alicia's driver getting their bags out of the limo's trunk as Isaac helped him put them into the Range Rover.
"Good Morning girls, do you want to get in? Miss Block isn't awake yet though" Inez said.
"What? That sleepy pig!" Alicia said getting inside the big luxurious building.
The four walked down to Massie's bedroom, and got in without knocking, then Alicia jumped on Massie's bed.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Massie shouted. What on earth was going on inside the house?! "Leesh? What the fuck! Claire, Kiki, Dylan, what are you guys doing here already??"
"Already? Guess what time it is? Oh, nine in the morning, now you only have one hour left to get ready!!"
"Holy Catburger! Omg, Omg, Claire, call Isaac and tell him to buy us cappuccinos from Starbucks, Dylan, close all my Gucci Suitcases, Kristen, get my outfit out of the Massiequinn, Leesh, feed Bean!" Massie ordered as she thought about all the things she needed to get down. She jumped into the shower, washed her hair, body as fast as she could, dried herself, blowdried her hair as she brushed her teeth, got her clothes Kristen got out of the manequinn, went to her beauty desk, and applied make up on her.
First her Lancolme cream, then her Dior Mascara, then her Bodyshop eyeliner, eyelash curler, Estee Lauder corrector, then Guerlin blush, Yves Saint Laurent red lipstick, and finally sprayed her Escada Rocking Rio behind her ears.
She was finally ready by 10.05.
"Oh my God! Here they come!" Dylan said looking outside the window and seeing the Briarwood Boys inside Cam's parent's Hummer with Harris Fisher driving.
"Oh God, Rating time! Leesh, you look fantistic in that Ralph Lauren beige plaid blazer over that gorgeous Chloe white tee, your skinny jeans are adorable, and that Ralph whitish trench is a 10. Total, 9.7! Dyl, your cute BCBGirls turqouise blouse, is ah-dorable, and so does that jean mini skirt from Seven. Your Legs look thinner in those black stockings, and those black Oxfords are such a plus! 9.6. Kirsten, I like your dark wash Citizens of Humanity skinnies, and you look like a real 'I am pretty I don't always need to dress up girl' with that beige-whitish hoodie, and those ankle boots, are amazingly pretty. 9.6 too. Kuh-Laire, you look prettier than usual with my BCBG babydoll mini dress, and those purple stockings are such a cute touch! They match the black dress, and you are getting really color co-ordinated! Love the purple YSL bag I leant you! and your black ankle boots. 9.5. Now me, I am wearing a pair of grey skinnies, with a loose bordeux tank layered with my grey shirt underneath my brown Blumarine cashmere sweater and black Marc Jacobs short trench."
"9.8!" They all shouted out. Right in that moment as Massie bowed happily, the boys knocked and came inside.
Derrington was wearing a cute preppy long sleeved white and brown vertically striped Diesel button down shirt, with a pair of matching brown A&F shorts. He was such a cutie.
"Hey Massie. You look pretty" Derrington greeted her by kissing her cheeks like Europeans did when they saw each other.
"You look good too" Massie kissed Derrick back.
The guys sat on the bed, while Isaac got all the seven Gucci bags with Inez's help then when they got out, TPC sat on the pink diva sofa.
"So, when are we going to get in the Private Jet?" Josh asked. Fiddling with his Sidekick while checking Alicia out.
"In like thirty minutes, you guys wanna have breakfast? Inez made some" Massie said checking herself out in the mirror.
"Sure, I am completely starveedd" Chris said.
"Yeah me too"
The girls got up and so did the boys, they walked downstairs to the dining room. The breakfast was layed out for them, Pancakes, Cappuccinos, raspeberry muffins, and all those dietetic foods.
"Woah, who made all this, this is sooo great!" Griffin said while his tummy was making a rumbling noise.
"Inez, she is amazing, I know"
"Wow, Love the pancakes!" Derrick said eating like a pig. So did the rest of the boys, the girls looked at them disgusted.
After ten minutes all the food was gone. The boys ate it all while the girls just ate a bar of Kellog's Special K.
They all got to the airport, and inside the Block's private jet. It was extremely lovely. Very modern, it had fifteen seats, all of them really huge. Massie sat next to the window with Derrick next to her, Alicia was next to Josh, surprise surprise, Claire with Cam, Kristen next Griffin, Dylan next to Kemp and Chris. Started as a threesome, always will be, haha.
"Dyl, want an Oreo?" Kemp asked.
"Sure!" Dylan said.
"Dylan, want to listen to my iPod? I just downloaded some few new songs" Chris said getting his iPod.
"Oh, yeah, what do you have?"
"I have the Artic Monkey's song."
"Loves it"
"Dyl, who are you sharing room with?" Kemp asked.
"I don't know, haven't chosen yet"
"Aren't you staying with the Pretty Committee?" Chris asked.
"Uh, maybe. Or maybe not. I'll change roomie everynight" Dylan said trying to please them all. "I promise I will get to stay with both of you most of the times"
"Okay. It's all good with me then" Chris said while Kemp nodded agreeing.
Back to the front seat, there sat Massie with her beau. Massie was getting comfortable, and asking the hostess to bring a cocktail for them two.
"Remember when we were in seventh grade? How I called you immature at Skye Hamilton's party? I was really mad at you because you were flirting with that girl"
"And you still are jealous I see. Calling Chris a girl. Remember, me and Chris are excellent friends. Don't try to insult him and make me mad big boy"
"I know you and Chris are good friends, and I am definately not jealous. You invited me to Aspen, not him, remember?"
"Whateverr. Still, remember when Nina the Obscena came in Westchester and you were all over her slutty butt? So I guess I can say we're fair."
"Okay, okay, you win, like always" Derrick said giving up.
"Haha, one thing everyone knows about me is that no one should mess with me, cos they will get their ass beaten anyways"
"True. So how long is the ride?" Derrick asked.
"Four, five hours. Je ne sais pas surely"
"Good. Well, this is going to be our firstest trip to somewhere without parents or adults! Yes! It is going rock!"
"I know. Don't get too excited cowboy" Massie tried to chill him down. "So. We had to buy the groceries... uhmm... clean up the place a little, do you know how to do that? I never cleaned my room up since I was in third grade" Massie said jotting thing down on her Louis Vuitton planner.
"You're so spoilt Mass, but it's okay my little Princess, us boys can do all the work!"
"Okay then my saviour, we will do the groceries, cook and set the table up, even if we never did any of those things in our lives"
"Okay, I'll teach you then, if you really have no clue"
"Thanks honeybun!"
Behind Alicia and Josh were chilling, no talking, no joking. Alicia was just leaning her pretty Spanish head on Josh's lap to sleep. Josh was listening to his iPod. She had a crush on him for over four years, still nothing happened, yes she did have other boyfriends, but everytime they started dating Josh would pop in her mind. It was always him, always had been always will be.
Leesh closed her dark brown eyes, she thought about all those years spent crushing on Josh Hotz, was he really that worth it? Worth all the break ups? Then why did he not even show her a little clue of appreciation??
He suddenly moved, she pretended she was asleep while he was trying to grab something from his backpack,and that meant bending and suffocating Alicia with his chest.
He did it anyways, she smelled him. His CKOne perfume mixed with aftershave.. he suddenly seemed convincingly worth it.
Josh got back up again, holding his favorite book. The Five People You Will Meet In Heaven. By Mitch Albom. Josh was so special, so different. He like reading, he was smart, yet he was such a hottie, and enjoyed having fun. He was like the perfect guy. He started reading and really got into the text, and that was when Alicia decided to sleep for real.
"Are you kidding Griff?!? Becks is so much better than Totti!" Kristen argued about who was better; Beckham or Totti with Griffin. Like almost three years ago, he hated her, found her freaky and really annoying, now they were best friends, but Kristen started to feel more than friendship there.
"Totti! He is such a legend! Beckham he sucks, leaving Real Madrid like that just because he wanted to live with all the celebrities! Plus, Italy won 4 times at the World Cup, didn't it? And Totti scored tons of goals, didn't he?"
"Shut up, Becks is mine and untouchable!"
"Whatever you say"
"Yeah, whatever I say. By the way how are your parents?" Kristen asked. She met them two years ago, and was in a very good relationship with them, she managed to get a job at the Slice of Heaven, and that was when Griffin and Kristen started to be really close friends.
"They're alright, travelling in London, trying to find someplace to create another restaraunt. Busy I guess"
"Good! So, you're hanging out in that ginormous mansion of yours alone?"
"I was, until yesterday, my 'nanny' came to take care of me so I just left"
"Haha, your nanny! You have a NANNY!!" Kristen made fun of him laughing endlessly.
"Shut up Kiks! Dont tell anyone! I swear if someone found out, my reputation would be so over!"
"Okay, I pinky!"
And that was Kristen's relationship with Griffin. Pure friendship, with just a tad of love inside. Kristen liked him so much! She dated Kemp for a while during eighth grade, but then they dumped each other while she got closer and closer with Mr. Slice of Heaven.
Cam and Claire, instead broke up.
They dated thru eighth grade then in ninth grade, when they became freshmen, she cheated on Cam (again) more than once with Conner Foley. Too bad things went to the press and poor Cam found out in the newstands. But they remained enemies until a party where she got so drunk and was about to fall into a small river while she and Cam were clearing things out. It was a heroic act for Cam to save Claire and risk his precious life.
But after Cam started dating Olivia Ryan, Claire officially dating Conner Foley, and things got alright. After Olivia for Cam, there came Strawberry, then Skye Hamilton for two days, and that was it. Claire just stayed true to Conner until now. They were still a couple. More like the IT couple of the moment.
That meant Claire was taken, and Cam single. How beautiful.
After five long hours, they finally arrived to ASE. Massie, and the group got picked up by a chaffeur in a long classic black stretch limo, and got inside while the chaffeur got their at least twenty bags...
The ride to the Block Chalet lasted more or less an hour, the group could see how cold it was outside from the window, but since the limo was absolutely heated, everything was great, the group started chatting, playing games, flirting, and kissing, they were having an awesome time until they got to the Chalet.
The Block Chalet
Aspen, Colorado
3.30 PM
Massie looked out of the window when the limo stopped. There, she could see her beautiful huge Chalet. It was made of bricks, somehow since chalets were nearly all wooden, and it looked really nice. The Chaffeur opened the door for Massie and went to pick the suitcases. Massie put her feet covered by a pair of Cowboy boots out of the limo and hopped down to the door. She got out her Louis Vuitton keyring with a thousands keys in it, and looked for one with a petite Tiffany's mini chalet charm attached to it, and penetrated it to the keyhole, the door opened immediately, and there she found herself inside the Block Chalet.
It was like it used to be the last time she saw it. Big, spacy, warm looking, and welcoming. Gorgeous.
"LOVE IT!" Alicia said when she first stepped foot to the big wooden house holding one small carry-able Louis Vuitton suitcase.
"Absolutely" Dylan said checking the place out better.
"Wow, Block, how rich are you? You have thousands of houses and all of them are amazing!"
"I'll take that as a compliment Derrick" Massie said sitting on the suede Fendi Casa couch while Chris and Kemp tried to light up the fire as soon as Dylan said the word 'cold'.
It used to be one of those chalets you rented when you came to Aspen for 12.000$ a night, but when Massie Block decided to make it her own home, and begged William to buy her the house, that was Massie's Christmas present.
The house of course had a jacuzzi bath, and outdoor hot tub, a steam shower, a bar, designer bathrooms, extensive wine cellar where Will and Kendra kept their oldest and bestest wines an open fireplace, a private jim, digital satellite, a plasma screen, private cinema, Gameroom with pool/snooker, study/office with a Windows Vista PC, wireless DSL internet, a terrace that overlooked the village and mountains and naturally a garage parking.
"WOW!" was all they could say when everyone saw the house. It was nearly better than Massie's famous Westchester Mansion.
"So guys, my mom called the maids to clean the place up for us, so there's no need for cleaning, but we need to do the groceries shopping. We either go, or call the shopping service" Massie announced while they were all sitting in the living room's suede sofa.
"Let's call the service, it will take us forever to go to the market and come back, plus it's freezing" Alicia said.
"'Kay, Dylan and Kristen, you call the service, the number is attached on the fridge, order everything we could need, like breakfast food, lunch food and dinner food, water, Coke, beers, matches, i dont know, that shit, like toilet paper too"
"Done!" Dylan and Kristen said rushing over to the kitchen.
"God! It's so cold, we should turn the temperature higher!" Claire said.
"Excuse me Florida girl? If we turn it higher we are going to be in a sauna!" Alicia said knowing.
"Okay then, I'll wear more clothes" Claire said looking for her old crayola colored suitcases from Benetton.
"Let's start cooking, I am absolutely starving!!" Derrington said touching his tummy while stretching his body. The girls agreed, and so did the boys, so they went to the classic looking classy kitchen, and looked thru the fridge to see if everything was there.
"There's nothing here" Josh noted.
"What? Not even like cereals?" Massie asked desperate.
"No. Sucks, I guess we have to wait until the shopping guy comes. When will he arrive?" Chris asked sitting on a chair in the dining room.
"Around thirty minutes. Jeez I am like starvinggg." Dylan said coming in the room making a desperate face and sitting next to Claire and Kemp.
"We should decide who sleeps where" Massie said sipping water from a crystal cup. She then slowly and calmy took a piece of white paper and her Tiffany's silver pen and started writing. "There are twelve sleeping places. Some of them bunk beds, most of them Queen and King sized, a few just twin. Now I've decided that me and Derrick are sleeping in the King size bed in the Master Bedroom suite. So the King size is out of the list. You guys tell me who you want to sleep with" Massie said.
"Is there a bed for three?" Dylan asked.
"There's a queen size in the Guest suite and we can simply attached another bed to it, that would be alright for three people" Massie said thinking carefully.
"Okay then, it's decided , Me Chris and Kemp"
"Done. Who else"
"Kristen and I can go together, you know, since we are close" Griffin offered. "Of course only if it's alright with you Kris" Kristen smiled nodding with approvement.
"Okay then, you two in my Master Guest Room. in the other Queen"
"Josh, is it alright with you to sleep with me?" Alicia asked chilled.
"Sure" Josh agreed.
"Okay, but it's separated. Like in the same room but with twin beds" Massie said and gave a 'sorry' look to Alicia. Alicia smiled back as she expected something to go wrong.
"Okay," Alicia said.
"So that leaves us with Cam and Clairee... uhmmm" Massie said hinting. "Come on it's just the same room with bunkbeds"
"Okay" The two said together completely syncronized then they looked at eachother and blushed.
Suddenly the doorbell rang. "I'll Go!" Massie said rushing to the door, while Derrick and the guys followed her cos they knew she was never going to be able to carry all those bags alone.
"I have a package for... uhmm..MASSIE BLOCK??" a tall girl shrieked when she said the name and looked at Massie really shocked.
"Oh my God! Jasmine! Is that seriously you?!? What are you doing? Delivering food? What happened to the Jasmine I know, full of money that would never even say the word 'JOB'!" Massie said checking it was her. It was kinda hard, since she was wearing an enormous jacket, a hat, some skiing sunglasses, and a scarf, but she reckognised the hair, straight away without a doubt.
"Oh well... Didn't you hear?" Jasmine asked kind of uncomfortable around Massie.
"Is it a long story?" Massie asked.
"Yes..."
"Want to come in? You look like a mess Jasmine! And you smell like one? When did you shower last?" Massie said in a mean way but still treating Jasmine nicely.
"Don't ask,"
"Do you want to use the bathtub? I'll lend you some clothes, and you'll stay here for some time... It's way too cold to go back" Massie said.
"Hey Mass, where's the food?" Josh ran to Massie and asked. Then noticed a girl inside the house and shrugged his eyebrows.
"Outside, guys, go get it in," Massie said taking Jasmine upstairs.
Now the big question was: Who was this Jasmine? What happened to her? All she needed to do was wait until she came out of the bathtub clean and feeling alright.
