This is just a little something that I have done to keep my summer reading assingments from completely consuming my last two days of summer.

I should probably go work on those now…

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Meet Massie Block

Massie studied the girl skimming through the Benefit aisle as she picked up a compact of bright green eye shadow. Massie appropriately straightened her ULTA nametag and went over to her.

"May I suggest a different color? That one will make you look totally washed out," she said with a reassuring smile.

She has Everything You Want

"I'll take that pair," Massie said, pointing to the Manolos on display.

"That will be 4,236 dollars," the saleswoman said. "You'd better look at a more, um, affordable pair. This isn't Payless," she smirked.

"And I'm not cash-less," Massie smirked back as she handed her her AmEx card and smiled sweetly, as if she was the luckiest girl in the world.

She has Everything You Can't Have

Evan Grey walked to Massie's table, holding a giant chocolate chip cookie. "FORMAL WITH ME?" it said, spelled in specially ordered purple M&Ms, her favorite color.

"Of course," Massie said, hugging him. And all of Merianne High School could see her grin that could light up a room.

"They're so cute together," gushed Mia Vanni to her friend Amber Willis.

"Massie's so lucky to have fricking Evan Grey," Amber agreed.

But Things Can Change in the Blink of an Eye…

"Massie Block," a voice blasting from the loudspeaker said. "You're wanted at the Dean's office." Massie gingerly stepped up from her seat in Chemistry Lab, ignoring the whispers that immediately commenced as soon as the announcement was finished.

"It's probably just Walters busting you on your skirt again," Massie's best friend, Hadley Davis, whispered.

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"I'm sorry, Massie," Inez, the Block's maid, said. Isaac gave her a knowing pat on her back. "There was nothing anyone could do."

"So everything's gone, right?" Massie asked, a soft hollowness to her voice was evident. She looked at her feet. "I have nothing left…"

"Actually," Inez began, her eyes darting back and forth from Massie to Isaac to Massie again and then Mr. Walters. "There is one option left."

Welcome to Westchester, Massie.

"Welcome to BOCHS," Claire fake-smiled, approaching Massie as Dylan, Kristen, Alicia, Josh, Cam, Derrick, Kemp and Plovert trailed behind her.

"I'll feel welcome when you stop lying through your teeth," Massie replied curtly and kept walking—away from Claire and her followers, leaving awe and confusion evident of everyone's face.

And Not Everything is What It Appears

"I still meant what I said," Derrick told her, gently brushing her hair behind her ear.

"Hmm," Massie pretended to think. "You just so happened to leave out the part that now I'm involved because of your carelessness and now Dempsey and Griffin have it out for me too?"

"They don't have it out for you—"

"My mistake," Massie spat angrily. "They want to kill me, just so they can get to my uncle. And you're not any different than they are!"

And Then You Start to Wonder

"Tell me, Massie," Layne said, sitting down on the couch across from her. "Do you like him? Honestly, answer me."

Massie stared at Layne quizzically. "There's a good chance that it might be more than that," she admitted. "But I know that he's not interested in me. He just wants to get to my family."

"Maybe not… he's not the jerk you make him out to be, you know. There's something going on under the surface," Layne paused. "And I think you're the only one who can really tap into that."

How Did Things Go Downhill So Fast?

"There's going to be a riot," Josh said, walking briskly down the hallway with Massie by his side.

"What do you mean, a riot?"

"I mean that Griffin, Danny, Dempsey and their crew are out to kill tonight."

"What?" Massie whispered fiercely in disbelief. "And Derrick's just letting it happen? Josh, you can't go!" She protested, searching for a change of emotion in his face. There wasn't one. "Then I'm coming. It's about me, anyways."

Josh laughed in disbelief. "I'm not even going. Derrick isn't going to let you tag along, even if you did cause it."

"Yeah right," Massie scoffed. "He wants me dead as much as they do."

Josh stopped and turned to look at her seriously. "He loves you more than you know, Massie."

Starring Massie Block

She groaned. "If it wasn't for me coming here, none of this would have happened in the first place!"

Claire Lyons

"I don't want to have to be a bitch to her. That's just what everyone keeps telling me to do so she'll leave. It's what everyone expects!" She threw her hands up in exasperation.

Derrick Harrington

"There's no way that I can do that to her," Derrick glared.

Griffin smirked. "Well then I guess I can…"

"Over my dead body."

Josh Hotz

"I'm fricking trying to keep the peace, not going around to destroy it like some people!"

Alicia Rivera

"So her house caught on fire. Cry me a river," she scoffed.

"God, will you at least be sensitive for once, Rivera?"

Dempsey Solomon

"Hey Massie," Dempsey called. "Trusting Harrington isn't the best idea, if you know what's good for you."

"Why not?"

Dempsey grinned. "How much do you know about Westchester's drug scene?"

And Other Minor, Less Important People

"Which one of you punks ratted on us?" Danny snarled. With a quick nod of his head, Griffin, Dempsey, and Vader had them pinned up against the brick wall.

"We're sure as hell not telling you," Plovert spat, encouraging a punch to his face, courtesy of Dempsey Solomon.

"Of course you aren't," Griffin grinned and threw Josh to the ground.

Dempsey emerged from the back of the alley with Massie in tow. He pulled a switch out of his pocket and held it to her throat.

"Howabout now?"

sourmuffins. presents;

Baby, You Wouldn't Last A Minute on the Creek

Answer me!

All egos aside, what do you say?

Ignoring what we've felt,

Overlooking what we've done,

No awkward silences, no hiding any truths

Ignoring what we've felt,

Overlooking what we've done,

What do you say?

Coming Soon

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I'm afraid that this may conflict with Let It Be.

Well, whatever. (:

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