Author's Note:

Hi guys! So this is a new story I've been working on and I'd love to hear your feed back. So review so I can keep uploading? y/y? None of the characters are mine yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill.

Block Estate

Massie's Bedroom

Monday, August 29th

8:12 pm

The brunette took a deep breath to calm her nerves. This was Massie's town, she knew this place like the back of her hand. Unfortunately, she hadn't returned to Westchester since she moved to England back in eighth grade. She knew everything had changed since she left. She obviously couldn't go without Facebook stalking her friends for three years. She made sure to keep tabs on what used to be the Pretty Committee, even if they didn't all stay in touch.

Massie heard from Alicia every so often and Kristen from time to time. When Merri-Lee did a special on The Daily Grind about the royal wedding she brought Dylan to England, so the redhead made a point of visiting Massie. The only member of the Pretty Committee Massie didn't hear from was Claire, the girl she thought was her best friend. But she never heard a peep from the girl. Which upset the amber eyed girl deeply, she used to trust Claire with her deepest secrets. The secrets she never told any other member of the Pretty Committee, and Claire didn't even make an effort to stay in touch with the girl that made her who she was today. Massie had texted her every so often, but Claire never replied unlike the rest of the Pretty Committee members who replied to Massie's text messages instantaneously.

Honestly Massie didn't know who to reach out to first, no one in Westchester knew that the Blocks were moving back. The only people that knew were the Blocks, of course, Inez, Isaac and the real estate agent, Nancy. The Block family had moved back a week ago, giving them enough time to get used to the time change. Fortunately when Massie arrived to her old estate, everything in her room was already unpacked and the room was decorated to perfection. Of course now the closet was a mess.

Massie was searching her entire closet to find the perfect outfit for her first day back at school. When she entered Roosevelt Day School tomorrow morning she needed to show everyone that she hadn't changed a bit since she left for England. Unfortunately, the search was not going well. Massie couldn't find a single thing to wear in her closet. Actually she couldn't really call it a closet anymore, as it was just a pile of clothes strewn in the middle of the walk way of the closet.

The petite girl sighed in frustration. How was she supposed to do this on her own? She needed her best friends by her side, she was literally freaking out without them. Muttering curses to her closet the brunette exited the thing that was giving her a migraine and flopped onto her bed. Leaning over, she grabbed her phone checking to see if anyone had messaged her. Her phone lit up with 8 new notifications, four old friends from England had liked her recent photo on Instagram, two people retweeted her tweet from an hour ago, she had one snapchat from her best guy friend back in England and a text message from him as well.

Jonathan: How's that Westchester place? Still miss me I assume.

Massie shook her head at her friend. God she missed him. Jonathan always knew how to cheer her up. Even if she was in the bitchiest mood he would be able to make her smile. He also never took her shit, he handed it right back to her and made sure she knew that he could see right through her bitchy exterior.

Massie: It's no fun without you by my side! I mean, I guess I miss that annoyingly perfect hair of yours.

After texting Jonathan, Massie opened a new message. She had totally caved. Instead of making a surprise entrance into Westchester, definitely catching the Pretty Committee members off guard, she had to contact one of them in particular. She needed someone to visit her asap, and help her with her fashion emergency.

Massie: Hey Leesh! Sooooo... surprise, I'm back in Westchester! Come visit me?

It had probably been less than two minutes when her phone started ringing. Grinning from ear to ear she looked at the caller ID, Alicia Rivera. The brunette picked up instantly.

"Hey!" She breathed excited and nervous at the same time.

"What the fuck, why am I just hearing about the return of the infamous Massie Block just now?" Alicia shrieked. Massie laughed at her best friends reaction. God she missed the Pretty Committee. the Pretty Committee girls were the Ben to her Jerry.

"I was going to surprise everyone, but I need you here right now." Massie replied getting up from her bed to start pacing. This was a new habit for her when she got nervous.

"You know I hate surprises right? Settle babe, I'm on my way over now. I'm assuming you still live at the same place." Alicia said, and Massie could hear her shutting the door of her car.

"Yes, I know. But this was a good surprise so I thought you'd enjoy it. Yup, nothing has changed. Except you know, everything." Massie said approached her closet groaning internally at the mess it was.

"Good surprise or bad, I hate them all. Ugh, you're telling me. I literally have so much to catch up on. It's honestly ridiculous what went on after you left." The Spanish girl spoke out loud as she drove her car.

"Fine, I won't surprise you again. Okay? You need to fill me in on everything, but I'm gonna let you go. You need to focus on driving. I'll see you in a couple of minutes." Massie responded.

"Okay babe, I'll see you in a bit." Alicia answered before she hung up.

Massie sighed, sitting facing her closet. She couldn't wait till Alicia got here. She needed help picking out an outfit and she needed to know everything that had changed in Westchester since she left. Of course Alicia would fill her friend in on everything, she was the gossip queen of all gossip girls.

Just as Massie tossed another shirt into her discarded pile she heard her door open and a beautiful Spanish girl entered her room. The two best friends shrieked in excitement. Massie got up from her seated position on the floor and ran towards Alicia. The girls embraced in a tight hug finally feeling as though they were back in their rightful places.

"Oh my God, I have missed you so much!" Alicia exclaimed once they finally let go of each other. The two made their way onto Massie's bed just like old times.

"I don't know how I made it through these last three years without you." Massie agreed, squeezing her friend's hand. The duo couldn't stop smiling.

"I'm pretty sure I didn't survive these past three years." Alicia replied sighing as she collapsed on the fluffy white comforter that lay on Massie's bed.

"Tell me everything that I missed since I was gone," Massie insisted eagerly. Her amber eyes were wide with curiosity.

"Where do I even begin? Good lord things are a complete mess. Well first off, Claire kicked me to the curb so I've been hanging out with Olivia, Kemp and Plovert. Two years ago Claire started dating Derrick, ew by the way. I yak every time I see them even talk to each other. Her Pretty Committee is made up of herself as alpha, Dylan, Kristen and worst of all Skye." Alicia shuttered at the name of her blonde rival.

"Kristen's dating Harris, but everyone knows that Claire and Harris have been hooking up behind Kristen and Derrick's backs. They're so oblivious to Claire and Harris, it almost hurts. They practically dry hump each other in front of D and Kris. It's disgusting really." Alicia rambled as she twirled a piece of her dark brown locks.

"How can Kristen be so oblivious? She's still the smartest girl in the grade, right?" Massie questioned, hoping for her old friend's sake that she'd come to her senses.

"She's always been valedictorian. The day we stepped into high school it was her title without a doubt." Alicia replied, she let out an audible sigh and settled her head into Massie's lap.

"Please tell me you'll fix this shit show." Alicia pleaded looking up at Massie with her large doe like eyes.

Massie smiled and mindlessly braided her friend's hair. She nodded encouragingly as she hummed the tune of Let Her Go by Passenger.

"Don't you worry your pretty little head, everything will be as it should in a couple of months." Massie reassured her easily.

"Good, I was getting sick of Westchester without you." Alicia said smiling up to her best friend. Alicia missed her dearly, and now that she was back she knew that things would go back to the way they should.

And the two girls stayed like that for the next few hours, gossiping and filling each other in on what had gone on in their lives for the past three years.

Roosevelt Day School

Theodore Commons

Tuesday, August 30th

7:08 am

Claire Lyons hated being early. She made a point to always be fashionably late. Always. Unfortunately for her, Todd Lyons had to meet with his ice hockey team for preseason prep. So instead of Judi or Jay dropping off their pest of a son, they made Claire wake up an extra thirty minutes early to bring him. Typical, now that Claire had her license and a car she was stuck toting around her stupid brother.

After dropping Todd off at RDS, she had driven back to Starbucks to get her usual iced vanilla spice latte and blueberry oat bar. Once she had gotten her breakfast and caffeine pick me up she was back where she started, early to school. What the hell what she supposed to do with twenty two extra minutes? The blonde was already primped to perfection. She seriously needed her friends to get there stat.

Letting out a frustrated sigh she made her way from her car to her table. Technically it wasn't her table, but her and her friends always sat there before school started everyday. Today was the first day of their junior year and it was no different.

Crossing her perfectly toned legs she pulled her phone out of her bag and checked her messages. None. How in the world could that be? She always had messages, even if it was from desperate wannabes. Unable to handle her loneliness any longer she opened the group message going on between her friends and began typing.

Claire: Where the hell is everyone? Get your asses here now.

She locked her phone when the message was sent to Dylan, Kristen and Skye. Taking a sip from her latte she people watched the nerds as they worked on homework on the ground. How they already had homework confused Claire, they really needed to take a break and just get high for once. They worried too much.

As her gaze wandered she heard the beep of her phone, signaling she had a new message. She hoped one of them would move their skinny asses into high gear and get here so she didn't look like a complete loner when everyone started showing up to school.

Skye: On my way, chica. Relax, relax. Did someone not get any before the first day of school? ;)

After reading the message Claire rolled her eyes. Skye always had to mention something sexual, especially when it came to Derrick. The girl really need to chill, yeah Derrick was hot, but he wasn't worth talking about sexually all the freaking time.

Claire: You're such a slut, just get here soon mkay?

Soon enough a skinny blonde with a dancers body sauntered towards Claire. Once Skye made her way to her counterpart the two gave each other kisses on both cheeks. It was basically a habit of sorts. All the girls greeted each other as so.

"Why were you here so early?" Skye questioned her friend as she sat at the round granite picnic table with her. She took a sip of her iced coffee slowly, her wide tiffany blue eyes staring at Claire.

"Todd had some stupid meeting for hockey so I had to drop him off early." Claire said with a wave of her hand, dismissing the topic quickly. Skye nodded her head in understanding.

"So anyways, I was thinking of having a party this weekend. You know in honor of it being my last first week of school and what not." Skye explained as she pulled out her phone checking Twitter.

"Isn't Harris having a party this weekend?" Claire asked snidely. Skye couldn't just have a party, it would give her way too much attention. And everyone knew that the person in the group that loved attention most it was Claire Lyons.

"Well I was talking to him last night and he said that his parents cancelled their weekend to the Hampton's for labor day weekend. So I thought since my parents are never home that I could have the party at my house instead." Skye rambled as she played with the straw of her drink.

Claire made a face as her blonde friend explained the situation. She really hated when things weren't all about her and this party definitely wasn't going to be all about her.

"I suppose," Claire said noncommittally. She turned her attention from Skye onto her phone. Hoping someone would text her. As if her prayers were answered, her phone chimed with a new text message. Derrick Harrington. Claire smiled at the name.

Derrick: Morning sexy, you at school yet?

Instantly Claire's fingers were sliding over the touch screen keyboard. Claire tuned out Skye's incessant talking about the party, already over the topic.

Claire: Hey babe. Yea, I'm at the table with Skye.

Claire sent the message and scrolled up to see the conversation they were having last night. This was a something she did once per day, if not more. She loved to look at the little compliments Derrick sent to her. Some of them may be crude, but Claire didn't care, she loved the attention from the most popular boy in school. She was the queen to his king. The power couple ruled over RDS easily.

Derrick: Leaving the hockey meeting now. I'll be there in 5.

Receiving the text message from her boyfriend made the conversation she was looking at pull all the way down to his newest message. She smiled locking her phone and waited for Derrick to come sit with her.

Soon enough Derrick was striding towards Claire and Skye. Claire smiled brightly as she watched Derrick, Cam, Josh, Chris, Kemp and Harris shove each other as they made their way to their table. They sat down and kept talking about the hockey meeting that they just had.

"Hey babe," Claire said as Derrick plopped down next to her. He kissed her cheek softly and wrapped his arm around her waist. She smiled at the fact that the the entirety of the girl population at Roosevelt was glaring jealously at her. The blonde loved that people feared her just as much as they wished they were her.

"How was the meeting?" Claire asked once she focusing her attention on Derrick and not on the staring eyes of Roosevelt Day's student body.

"It was good," Derrick replied looking at Claire sweetly. "He wants us to go to this training program before the season starts. It's every Sunday morning though." He said and then took a sip from his water bottle. Claire grimaced at the thought. What about Saturday nights? Going to parties without being able to show off the fact that she had he best man candy would suck.

The arrival of Kristen and Dylan distracted her for the moment though. Both girls carried their usual drinks, Kristen an iced tea and Dylan a juice of some kind. The redhead was on a juice kick lately, apparently Merri-Lee said it was all the rage in California. The two girls greeted Claire and Skye the same way Skye had greeted Claire, air kisses on both cheeks.

"Sorry for being so late," Dylan said as she took a seat between Derrick and Kemp. "My juicer wasn't working and I forgot to plan an outfit for today." Dylan continued as Kristen wriggled next to Harris, her boyfriend, and Josh.

"Of course she didn't text me telling me she was running late, so I was waiting for her completely ready for twenty minutes." Kristen jumped in as Harris slipped his hand into hers. He gave her a quick kiss on her temple and she blushed slightly.

"I'm sorry! I know I'm an awful friend!" Dylan exclaimed putting her head in her arms on the table. The group laughed at Dylan's dramatics. She tended to do this a lot, always putting on a show for her friends. She stifled a giggle before she lifted her head and began to fully laugh with the rest of the group.

Claire loved her group of friends. They were the perfect combination of popular and manageable to deal with. Thank God she kicked out Alicia the summer going into freshman year.

Roosevelt Day School

Hathaway Parking Lot

Tuesday, August 30th

7:24 am

Massie pulled her black Range Rover in one of the only open spots left in the parking lot. God she hated being late, all the best spots were taken when you were late. Though, she always liked to be fashionably late. Gathering her purse and books the brunette finally got out of the car, locking it as she walked away.

Not wanting to walk in alone, Massie paused in the middle of the lot and called Alicia. After three rings, Alicia picked up

"Hola mamacita!" Alicia exclaimed brightly. Massie laughed, she sure missed Alicia for the past three years.

"ETA?" Massie asked as she rummaged through her Dabier Ebene Louis Vuitton Neverfull GM for her lipgloss.

"I literally just parked. I'm by the- oh wait! Never mind, I see you." Alicia said and hung up quickly. Massie looked up from her purse to see if she could spot her dark haired friend. After a few seconds of searching her vision narrowed in on Alicia speed walking towards her. Somethings never changed.

Chuckling at her taller friend she walked towards her. The two hugged each other excitedly. It was good to be back.

"Oh my God, I'm so glad you're here with me to face junior year." Alicia said beaming at Massie.

"Me too, I've missed Westchester way to much." Massie replied as they walked through the parking lot making their way closer and closer to Roosevelt Day School.

When the duo got about twenty feet from the commons Massie stopped in her tracks. She was so nervous. What would people think of her return? Was she prepared to rule over RDS like she used to rule OCD? High school was so much different than middle school. Plus now Claire was heading the most popular group, would she give up the throne easily? All of these thoughts raced through Massie's mind creating doubt. Her petite hands began to get clammy, a sign of her anxiety.

Alicia turned when she realized that Massie wasn't beside her and turned to face her friend with a questioning look on her flawless face.

"What's wrong M?" Alicia asked as she back tracked to stand next to the smaller brunette. Massie tried shooting her a small smile but it came out more like a grimace.

Sighing audibly Massie's posture changed from confident to timid and unsure. Glancing at her shoes, a brand new pair of nude Christian Louboutin peep toe heels, she wiggled her perfectly polished toes.

"I'm nervous," Massie admitted to her best friend. Her eyes stayed staring at her toes instead of looking into Alicia's eyes like she usually would.

Alicia immediately hugged her friend, catching Massie off guard. Stunned, it took her a few seconds to process her friend's arms around her, she lifted her arms to return the hug.

"You're going to rule this school just like you did at OCD. I'll be by your side no matter what." Alicia reassured Massie, still hugging her. Massie smiled at Alicia's words and squeezed her Spanish amiga tighter.

"Love you Leesh," Massie declared firmly.

"Love you too Mass," Alicia replied and gave the amber eyed girl a slight hip bump. The two laughed together, happy to be back with their best friend.

"Okay, let's go kill this year." Alicia exclaimed linking her arm through Massie's.

The dynamic duo walked through the Theodore Commons, the student body all had to double check to see if it was the Massie Block. Phones took photos that were instantly Snapchatted to friends that weren't there to see the infamous Massie Block in the flesh. Tweets and texts were rapidly being made, shocked by the news.

Massie and Alicia walked through the Roosevelt Day School's antique oak doors leaving behind confused and awed teenagers.

Roosevelt Day School

Theodore Commons

Tuesday, August 30th

7:31 am

Claire must be seeing things. That could not be Massie Block. No, the former alpha was in England. She couldn't be back, she just couldn't. Closing her eyes, the blonde counted to three. When she opened her eyes she would wake up in her bed and this would all be a horrible nightmare.

One.

Two.

Three.

Unfortunately when she opened her eyes she saw none other than Massie Block's soft brunette waves walk into Claire's school. And all she heard was her boyfriend's whisper of a voice.

"Massie," Derrick whispered softly not even noticing if Claire heard him or not.

Massie Block was back.

Author's Note:

And... finished. So what do you think?