The Block Estate
Massie's Room
Friday, September 25
9:29 pm
Massie Block looked around the room. All her friends seemed….different. It was like they hadn't been together in weeks because of the whole overflow/Tiffany and Co. trailer. Most of it was Alicia's fault. If she hadn't ditchedthe NPC they wouldn't be in this situation. Massie then thought about how Alicia saved the day, then she automatically forgave her of being so stupid. But right now, that wasn't the problem at hand. Right now, Massie needed something to show her alpha-ness. Something like…an ice breaker.
"Let's shop online!" she blurted, not knowing what else to say,
No response.
"We could play 'What Would You Rather'," twirling her purple hair streak, hoping for a response.
Instead of the usual "Ehmagawd! Great idea, Massie," everyone gave her a whatever shrug. Massie shot them a look that replied "COME ON!!!" Massie went over to her computer and quickly searched for her favorite store, before they all got up and left. Claire quickly jumped up and said, "Can I check my email first? To see if Cam sent me anything?"
Everyone looked at her as if to gag, and Massie just gave her a go-ahead-we-don't -really-care hand wave.
Claire logged onto her Yahoo!. 1 New Message. Not from Cam though. From Layne, her kinda-sorta BFF. It was a forward. Claire glanced at the subject. It read "Check out this site, these girls have no life!" Claire rolled her eyes and went to delete it, but Massie grabbed her hand.
"Wait…" she said couriously, "let me read it. It could be about us!"
Claire surrender-sighed. She didn't want to get on Massie's bad side and possibly tear her hair out for being too much baggage.
Massie, Dylan, and Alicia jumped off the bed to read it. Kristin whispered to Claire, "Probably the most entertaining thing of the night." They giggled, but Massie shot them not-so-heartwarming look. Claire and Kristin sat on Massie's iPod -white down -feathered bed, examining finger mail polish and asking which ones they should use.
Kristin couldn't take it anymore. She walked over to Massie's iMac and read the website. "Oh, puh-lease!" she scoffed, "stop reading that junk and let's go down to the cabana. Try to make this ' 'party' a little fun."
"Kris…" Massie raised an eyebrow. Kristin shut up and everyone giggled. She read the page. Claire came and joined them. The page was no longer an email. It was a website called . It looked like a blog or survey page.
How on earth did Layne even find this? Claire thought.
Alicia read the page aloud:
#1 ASHLEY "LILI" LI
There's a new queen! She has a great sense of style, got the lacrosse jock of her dreams from Reed Prep, has a megawatt smile, and managed to climb her way up to the top of the social status bar!
STYLE: 10
SOCIAL PRESENCE: 10
SMILE: 10
SMARTS: 9
SCORE: 39
#2 ASHLEY "A.A." ALIOTO
The girl in love. She doesn't have to worry about matching her handbag with her shoes anyways- she can make it work! Has a gorgeous new BF, but smiles like she has a broken heart, I wonder why…
"Ehmagawd, she doesn't match her shoes with her handbag!" Dylan screetched.
Claire then look at her rhinestone-C Keds. They far from matched her hand-me-down Burberry tote.
STYLE: 10
SOCIAL PRESENCE: 10
SMILE: 8
SMARTS: 10
SCORE: 38
#3 LAUREN PAGE
A real Cinderella! Walks around like she owns the world in her Rich & Skinny Jeans. I guess that's why we like her so much. She doesn't have anything to worry about with her boyfriend- or boyfriends- either. But is it really smart to play around with their emotions? Someones gonna get hurt eventually….
STYLE: 10
SOCIAL PRESENCE: 10
SMILE: 10
SMARTS: 7
SCORE: 36
#4 ASHLEY SPENCER
This queen bee is not longer buzzing…. Snap! She was dumped by her BF, then by the TV studio. Don't worry, we'll see her smile sooner or later. Knowing Ashley Spencer, she'll find a way back to the top.
STYLE: 7
SOCIAL PRESENCE: 8
SMILE: 4
SMARTS: 8
CUMULATIVE SCORE: 27
"That school almost has as much drama as ours," Kristin said.
"Puh-lease!" scoffed Massie, "what's a few break ups gonna do to the world?"
"It sounds like that girl Ashley….uhhh….Spencer used to be an alpha like you. Well not like, like you, but like, she was an alpha," Dylan sounded like her usual suck-up self.
"Well, I mean, who really cares," Massie said it as a fact, not a question, "Let's play What Would You Rather down in the cabana."
And with that, everyone leaped up and nodded in agreement.
Yes, Massie thought. Maybe things would be back to normal once they had some more time together. That way, she could focus on what really mattered: Keeping her alpha status out of jeopardy…again.
