Chris Plovert:
{because chris plovert will always hear her.}
He is the only one who ever really listens her words true meaning. He is the only one who ever knows what she is really saying. He is the only one who has ever really heard her. Because Chris Plovert will always hear Massie Block. But because he refused to listen to her plead he will never have her.
Chris listens to her voice. It sounds like a beautiful melody to him. Her laugh is even better; it's like bells chiming. He's been listening to her ever since the day she started dating Derrick. To him, even as she announced what should have been happy news the cheerfulness seemed forced. And he didn't understood why. But he could hear a trace of pain and regret in her voice, a trace that no one else seemed to hear. And that's when he started listening; he felt like he needed to know why.
Christopher Plovert soon is analyzing everything Massie says. He listens to how her voice and tone change according to the person she talks to and what he topic is. Soon he realizes that Massie isn't completely in love with Derrick. Not anymore.
She sounded happy with him at first. She always smiled and joked and appeared totally in love. But then eventually it all seemed to change. He can hear the way her voice breaks and wavers so slightly that, no one but him notices, when she speaks to or about Derrick. Chris doesn't know what to make of this. He doesn't know why, but she sounds broken.
He noted other things about her too. She's smarter then she lets on. He can tell by the way she can string words together so poetically. She also seems to be different from what he thought. She wasn't all about money and popularity. He could hear her life philosophies sometimes when she talked. She'd say things like "I never want any regrets" or "just live a little" and he'd realize she was special. Those little comments didn't mean much to anyone else, but to him they did. They made him realize she took what life gave her and tried to make the best of it. She saw life in a light most people didn't. It makes him wonder about her more and listen harder.
Soon he realizes, Massie knows he hears her. She knows he can hear what she's really thinking. When Massie tells Derrick she loves him Chris can tell it's a lie; and Massie knows that. And when Massie talks to Kristen he can tell that Massie doesn't believe Kristen is smart. He can hear how disappointed Massie is that Kristen is still trying so hard to please everyone. Chris hears how Massie is tired of living up to the expectations of others and not her own. And it comes to him that maybe Massie has always known he could hear her. Massie starts going out of her way to talk to him. She calls him too. On the day Derrick breaks up with her she calls Chris and he can hear the raw hurt and pain over the phone. He realizes she lets him hear her when she's weak. He also realizes she must think he's special since she doesn't do this for anyone else. He realizes he thinks she is really special too; he might even love her.
The next day he sees her at school. She was laughing with Alicia and didn't seem affected anymore. But then Cam brought up the break up. Massie says she's fine and she'll find someone better. She looks at Chris when she says this. Chris can hear what she's trying to say. She's telling him that she loves him too and she wants to be with him. She wants Chris to be that some one better. But Chris can't; because Chris is greedy. He can hear something else in her voice, it sounds like she's desperate like he wasn't her first choice. Like he wasn't special enough, but she'd have to settle. And Chris is too greedy to let himself go out with someone who didn't consider him her first love. Because Chris has always been out-shined by his friends and he's tired of not coming in first. He wants some one to think he's special. And if Massie doesn't think he is her first love then he doesn't want her.
So Chris tells her in a neutral voice that he thinks Danny Robins is into her. No body in their group hears the underlying rejection that he is giving to her but Massie. And then Massie says something that twists his heart. She says that she doesn't want to be with anybody, and that Danny isn't special the one for her. And when she says it Chris can hear the hurt that no one else can.
And he knows, too late, that he was wrong. Massie did think he was special. She did love him. So what if he wasn't he first love? The fact that she loved him should have been special enough. But Chris was greedy in a relationship that hadn't even started and for that he lost her. Because he refused to listen to her plead to be with him, he will never have her.