The block State

kitchen door

august 30, 8:35 pm.

Massie Block stomped her foot. Once. Twice. Thrice. Everything to win that argument. But it didn't look so good. Luck was on her mother's side, as always.
"Massie, enough. Claire's friends are visiting, and I want you on your best behavior" Kendra said, holding the fork too-tight. "You have to be nice to them. You will."
"Ugh! Why does this keep happening to me!" she whined furiously before storming out of the kitchen. She ran upstairs and slammed the door.
"Don't slam!" her mother's voice said by the intercom. Massie rolled her eyes, and then was suddenly overwhelmed by dejavu. Bean raced to her then, and she picked her up and was about to whine about her problem when she stop mid sentence, staring at her mac computer. Was the deja vu never going to end? She picked up her cell, wondering if maybe she was living a year ago all over again, when Claire moved in. What was different was that Claire's friends were visiting, and that they weren't going to stay. At least there was something good about all that.

Massie punched number 1 on her blackberry. Alicia Rivera picked up at the other side of the line.
"Hey!" she greeted her best friend. Massie looked around her. Were there any cameras hidden somewhere in her room? The dejavu kept getting worse.
"Wait, I'll get Dylan" she said and then she shut her eyes, wishing she hadn't said that. Was her life getting ruled by deja vu? A deja vu she didn't wanted to remember?

After she got Dylan and Kristen on the phone, Massie was relieved. They weren't going to talk about the same thing they talked a year ago. "so, Claire's friends are visiting" she began "if they look cool or ah-mazing, we'll see if they can be our friends. If they are like, or WORSE than Claire when she came, they are all out, and the month they are spending here is going to feel like Hell."
"I hope Claire warned them" Alicia giggled "It would be a big surprise when they hear that 'Sweet and beautiful Massie Block and her friends' are going to destroy them"
"I know!" Dylan said with excitement "we sooo have to rate them."
"if we like them, what would our rate be?" Kristen asked, curious.
"we rate them seriously" Massie said, her face serious like a business woman.
Alicia sighed "And if we don't like them?" everyone would hear the evil grin building up in her beautiful face.
"ZERO!" the girls shouted together, and then broke into hysterics.

The Block State

Driveway

September 1, 10:15

"Linda!!!" Claire shouted and when to greet her friends. "Suzz, Fiorella!!!!" she went hugging them one at a time conforming they got out of the rented car that brought them to the Block state. The new girls gazed at the huge house, amazed. Claire shared their view too, remembering how she felt when she saw that house for the first time. She figured her friends were feeling like that.

Fiorella started jumping up and down and pulled Claire towards her, hugging her again. Claire laughed, and so did Linda and Suzz, who Claire noticed a second later, were jumping up and down too.
"Is this going to be our home for a month?" Linda's voice went up to a squeal as her face flushed with excitement. "I can't believe it!"
"Believe it!" Claire said, laughing.
In that second, the pretty committee stepped out of the house. The Florida girls didn't noticed, there were to focus on their reunion.

Massie was wearing a super cool, strapless, green dress that went higher up the knee with matching high-healed boots and black tights. The girl held her head up high and her gaze was fixed in Claire's friends.

The brown haired one had poorly done blond highlights, to light to look like real hair. Suzz was dressed in pure polo: Her green shirt had a neck and the little brown horse in upper-left side. Her jeans were ah-obviously from walmart, and she had pink flip flops on. Massie couldn't help thinking that she may actually be pretty if she got rid of the polo outfit and highlights.
Fiorella was way better than Suzz, but not enough to please the pretty committee. She was the one in the Demi Lovato hat; her chin-length, pixie-like hair sticking in every direction. Her wide black eyes moved everywhere, like a ball rolling out of control. She had a long-sleeved, v-necked white blouse and a knee-length black skirt with matching flats with a tiny white bow. Alicia squealed with disgust, low enough for her friends to hear.
Linda was the most decent of them three, but she was still a fashion don't. The girl had paired up white gap capris with a blue non-sleeved shirt and blue snickers. Massie examined her outfit choice and wrinkled her nose in disgust, even though she preferred looking at her than the other new comers.

In that instant, Dylan's cell phone buzzed and her ring tone began. That distracted the bffs and they finally noticed the pretty committee standing there, looking ready for the red carpet instead of ready to hit the mall.
"You must be Massie and her friends!!!" Fiorella said amazed and exchanged a look with Claire. They all thought she had been exaggerating, but know they knew she had so not.
The Orlando girls ran their way to the front door to meet Massie and her friends who were watching them getting their shoes muddy when stepping in every puddle there was, and they didn't seemed to care. When they got there, they all stood awkwardly and silent. Kristen pinched Massie's arm and pointed to the window. Massie's mom was there watching. Kendra shot her a look that said 'you better be nice and say something now' Massie looked away and introduced themselves.
"I'm Massie Block" she said gesturing to herself. She continued with the same patronizing boring tone with a sharp edge "she's Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen" Massie gestured to each of her friends while she introduced them. "We all go to OCD, the school you will be attending tomorrow."
The girl's faces were flushing with excitement, but Claire's wasn't as optimistic. She knew how Massie had reacted when she moved there, and she wondered how would she react now. She didn't wanted her friends to be treated as she had been that first month. Even though she loved that her friends were there visiting, Claire secretly wished that they had never come.
The awkward silent came again. Trying to find something something to talk about, Claire remembered something.
"Hey guys, where is Millie?"
Linda, Suzz and Fiorella looked at each other and the excitement faded to be replaced by shame. Claire truly fell for it but Massie, Alicia, Dylan, and Kristen knew they were faking.
"We kinda left her in the airport" Suzz confessed looking at the floor. Dylan's eyes narrowed while Claire's widened.
"WHAT???"
"We are sooo sorry Claire, we forgot about her" Linda said, trying to fight back a laugh. What really did it was seeing the eye roll that Massie shared with her friends.

Claire cupped her hands and she hid her face on them. But in that moment, They heard the car's door open wide.