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"What Mattie said yesterday is it true?" Jack sat down on the couch and looked around at the group. Lucas shrugged his shoulders whilst the others looked at each other. Belle looked down at the floor and felt a few tears escape.

"Belle, what's going on?" Cassie asked. Mattie walked in the room and folded her arms. She was pale, her hair was pulled back into a messy ponytail and her eyes were red from crying.

"I met a guy and I suppose you could say it was love at first sight. He seemed so sweet and just perfect. I didn't tell anyone about him because I just thought it was too good to be true. I was right as well. I told him to stop but he wouldn't" Jack stood up and took hold of Mattie's hand.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Ric shook his head and waited for an answer.

"I couldn't, it was hard enough to tell Belle and I just wanted to forget it and move on. I'm so sorry" Mattie fell herself breaking down again and ran back into her room followed by Jack.

"Why does it happen to me all the time? I can't cope with this anymore!" Jack wrapped his arms around her and kissed her head lightly.

"Mattie it's gonna be ok. No one is going to hurt you anymore. I'm gonna make sure of that ok"

"I can't believe you knew all of this time and never told us" Rocco sighed sitting down the beach as far away as he could get from Drew but still talk to the group.

"I promised I wouldn't say anything."

"I wish we could have been there for her" Drew whispered.

"You're not so good at that though are you? You'd rather be the one joining in on hurting her!" Ric snapped. Cassie looked up whilst Rocco smirked.

"Shut up Ric" Ric shook his head at Lucas.

"Why should he?" Rocco clenched his fists.

"This is stupid"

"No, you're stupid!"

"Guys, will you stop. We know that Drew hurt Mattie and he regrets that. Don't you think we should be moving on and helping Mattie." Belle interrupted the argument.

"Belle it only happened a week ago, unlike you we can't just forgive and forget. We're the ones being there for Mattie when you lot are acting as if Drew's the most amazing guy ever!" Ric got up and walked away followed by Rocco.

"What's happened to us?" Belle wiped away the single tear from her cheek and looked around.

"Jack why is it so easy for a guy to do these kind of things to me? Do I really mean that little?"

"I can't answer those questions"

"Why?" Mattie pleaded with her eyes desperate for answers. Jack leant wiped away her tears and shook his head

"Could you just hurt me like that or leave or replace me?" Mattie turned her back on him and moved away "Would you find it easy? Do you understand why it happens to me?" Jack ran his hands through his hair "Would you do the same thing? TELL ME!"

"No! No I wouldn't!" Jack grabbed Mattie and turned her away "I could never do that" he pulled her too him and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Mattie kept them still not knowing what to do. After a couple of minutes Jack pulled away but kept his eyes shut. Mattie felt herself begin to move backwards onto her bed.

"I'm so sorry" Jack whispered tears threatening to spill over his eyelids.

"Just get out"

"Please Tilly, I'm sor-"

"Just get out!" Mattie screamed throwing a glass at the wall next to him. Jack left the room and came face to face with Martha.

"What's going on?" she asked nodding towards Mattie's room.

"S-she- I –its complicated" Jack struggled to string a sentence together, his lips were still tingling from touching Mattie's, his pulse beating faster and he felt dizzy questioning what had just happened.

"Jack I think we need to talk about this other girl" Martha moved towards the couch but stopped when Jack took hold of her arm.

"Martha as you can see now's not really a good time"

"Well when will be?" Martha shouted pulling her arm away from him.

"Just stop being so selfish. Can't you see there are other things going on in this world except from your problems?" Jack hit the wall as he shouted. Martha turned around and took a deep breath.

"Please just leave me alone" Jack looked slid down so he was sat against the wall and Martha nodded before leaving the house. Mattie took the pillow away from her ears as she heard Martha leave. She pulled her quilt over her and closed her eyes. It felt like she didn't have control of her life anymore. Everyone was going wrong. She thought things were finally right, she had her friends, her loving boyfriend, and she'd learnt to live without her family around her and had settled down in school again. But now, she didn't know who she could trust.

"One day we'll work things out. We'll end up where we are meant to be" Drew answered confidently.

"But what if it's like this all the time. We begin to feel happy and then yet again everything gets messed up. How many more problems can we face? How much more will Mattie get through?" Drew held Cassie to him as she cried.

"Mattie's strong. Everyone is. Compared to others we're not doing so badly. We just have to look at the good things in our life like the love and support we have from those around us. What we are going through is life." Drew nodded in agreement with Lucas whilst Belle stood up.

"We need to stop feeling so sorry for ourselves. Sitting here is not going to help any of us and I am fed up of going through life like this all the time" Belle stood up and walked down the beach. It was time to take control of her life.