Elizabeth still hadn't told Belle about her and James' date yet. She was feeling too guilty. Maybe she'll tell her tomorrow, at lunch. So Belle couldn't really scream at her with all the people around. Right now, it was already midnight and Elizabeth still hasn't forgotten the way James had wanted to kiss her.

Was she really falling for her best friend's ex?? No she couldn't be... It was too much to think about. She pushed it all out of her mind and went to sleep.

-LY-

Lunch

"Hey.. I heard about your break-up with James," Elizabeth told Belle with a symphathetic look.

Belle looked at her with a confused look on her face. "What break-up? James and I never broke up. Who did you hear that from?"

Now Elizabeth was the one with a confused look. "You mean.. you and James didn't break-up?" Did James lie to me?!

"No, in fact we had a one hour talk on the phone yesterday. He said he went to visit his aunt earlier that evening and he asked me out tonight!! I can't wait," Belle giggled.

Now my emotions were a mix of anger and sadness. James lied to me!! I can't believe him, thought Elizabeth. What's more, she can't even believe she had believed him.

"Liz? Are you alright? Your face looks reddish. Are you allergic to anything in the food?" Belle asked Elizabeth with a concerned look.

"Umm.. I think I need to go to the bathroom for a while.. See ya at drama class!" I said and dashed out of the cafeteria.

-LY-

Drama Class

"Now I will seperate you into groups of three and each group will perform a play written by moi," said Ms Darbus, their drama class teacher also known as the 'drama mama'.

Elizabeth, Belle and James were in one group. Whoop-de-do, thought Elizabeth. She stared at her script. It was about a woman finding out that her husband had been cheating on her with another woman. Just perfect!

Belle was cast as the woman and James was cast as the cheating husband and Elizabeth was the woman the husband was cheating on.

"Brad! How could you do this to me?! I don't believe you," Belle said, slapping James gently across the face.

James rubbed the spot where Belle had slapped him. "Look, Marie, it didn't mean anything!"

Then it was Elizabeth's turn to slap James, only she slapped him harder. "So I don't mean anything to you at all?!" It felt good to slap James, Elizabeth thought.

Then it was time for Belle to break down in tears. "What's wrong with me, Brad? What does she have that I don't? Why did it cause you to cheat on me?"

Elizabeth couldn't help but stare at Belle. What if she told her that James was cheating on her.. with Elizabeth? Would she break down in tears, too? She was thinking so much that she had forgotten her next lines.

James whispered into her ear, "It's your turn to say something!"

Elizabeth pushed him away and cried, "Get away from me, you lying jerk!"

Ms Darbus looked up at her in surprise. "I don't remember that in the script!" she said flicking throught the script.

"Umm.. I just made that up," Elizabeth lied. The truth was that Elizabeth hated how James' breath tickled her ear and how good his breath smelled.

"Excellent! That's good!" Ms Darbus said, pleased with what Elizabeth had done. "Next group!" called Ms Darbus before Elizabeth's group had even finished their play.

Elizabeth, Belle and James took they're seats in the school auditorium. Elizabeth sat next to James.

"Why didn't you break up with Belle?! You lied to me!" she hissed in his ear.

"Look, I'm sorry but I just couldn't do it. I love her too much and I don't want to hurt her," whispered James.

"Well then we're done," Elizabeth replied moving to another seat.

James' Point of View

I can't believe I just dumped the girl of my dreams – who was prettier than Kate Moss – for my girlfriend who wasn't even as pretty as Hilary Duff.

I can't decide. I want both of them. Elizabeth's like the pretty and wild one while Belle was the sweet and always-there-for-me one. Then I turned to look at Elizabeth who was chatting with my best friend, John Fowler. They looked like they were having an interesting talk. Then Elizabeth and John laughed and stared deeply into each other's eyes.

No! No!! I couldn't lose the girl of my dreams to my best friend! That would be horrible. So I looked Belle in the eye and said what I thought I'd never say. Ever. "I'm dumping you, Belle."

And I also never thought that I'd ever see Belle's face like that. Her mouth was wide open and it looked like she was going to cry. Her was was all red. Then she burst out laughing.

I stared at her with a confused look.

"You're joking, right?" she laughed and wiped her eyes. "You almost fooled me!" She laughed harder, but when she didn't see me laughing, she stopped.

"You're really dumping me?" she said softly.

I stroked her hair. "I'm sorry B. I'm just attracted to another girl," I confessed.

"But you said.. you said you would always love me no matter what. We've been dating for five years – five years! – and you want to break my heart now?" she said, tears running down her cheeks.

"I know Belle.." I started but she cut me off.

"No you don't know! You don't know how I feel. You don't know what it's like when you think you love someone but they don't love you back," she cried.

Ms Darbus turned towards us. "Silence, please."

-LY-