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She comes down with a cold. Sitting in the room she likes to call the 'den' (in actuality is a ridiculously expensive TV room she designed to feel cozy in with a huge flat scene and thousand dollar leather couch) Massie is about to put in a chick flick when the doorbell rings. Pulling the blankets around her, she gets up in a cocoon of fabric to answer the door because Inez is at the grocery store and Isaac has the day off.

Massie is surprised when she sees the face looking back at her.

"Derrick? What are you doing here?" She question staring at her boyfriend.

"Hey," He answers sheepishly. "I got you some, uh things. Since you're sick and all."

He's holding a huge basket filled up to the point of over flowing with truffles, her favorite milk chocolate ones. The very one's you can only get from this chocolate place in the city. When she points this out he just blushes mumbling something about having to drive out there anyway today and not wanting to go to school. He also pulls out a ridiculous hot pink overly furry teddy bear, the kind you see at card stores and such, explaining he thought that she could at least have a good time laughing at how awful it was. And finally he hands her a movie staring her favorite actress, one that she had been dying to see in theaters but missed and hadn't come out yet on DVD.

"How'd you know I wanted this? In fact how'd you even get this?" Massie asked laughing.

Derrick shrugged, "I know people, and you mentioned it once at that party with Dylan had."

"Wasn't that like a year ago?"

Derrick just fidgets, turning red again, and pushed the basket towards her. Massie takes and puts in down inside the foyer. Giggling she gives him a hug, and he steals a kiss.

"It's not big deal if I get sick. I can just chill with you." Harrington teases, giving her a cheeky grin, before coming in to join her for a movie marathon.

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Remember how you went out of town that weekend?" He says casually, trying to put his arm around her.

She pulls away slightly to fix her shoelaces instead.

"You mean when I went to see my sick grandmother?" She asks.

He winces. Ailing relatives only make him seem like more like a douche.

Nodding he says, "Yeah, that weekend. And well I sorta, uh, ran into Terry, you know that chick with the blonde hair and high pitched voice?"

"You mean Carrie, the girl I used to tutor last year?" She asks now re-applying her lipstick. Derrick winces, again.

"Yeah babe, that one. So I was stoned and ran into her, and she was like a mess and crying and drunk and shit and at first I meant to like comfort her but then she just ended up coming back to my place and we, you know, we uh slept together."

Massie doesn't even look up from the hand mirror she's holding while rubbing her lips together, evenly coating her lips with a pretty shade of pink. "Derrick, is there a point to you telling me this now?"

He just pulls on collar and sputters a little. "I… I just thought I should have told you. You know I love you so much, I just, I messed up."

The brunette sighs. "Carrie already told me Derrick, on Tuesday, she can running to me before school crying about how sorry she was or something. I told her no hard feelings and that I don't hate her or whatever she was worried about."

"You knew?" He asks stupidly blinking.

Massie turns to him. "Derrick, do you love me?"

"Of course babe, you know I do." He responds immediately.

"Okay," She nods, "Then we can move on. It's lunchtime and I'm hungry. Let's go find somewhere to eat."

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Everyone wants to tear then apart.

To end relationship so damned that it just shouldn't exist. Boys want to save Massie Block and keep her for their own. And girls want to protect the pretty little angelic best friend of theirs. Even Derrick's freaking best friends agree he's not worth shit as a boyfriend with how he cheats. There is a certain honor among boys. You can cheat on you whores, but on girls like Massie isn't just wrong.

Everyone wants to save them.

Because even a blind man can see the love Derrick feels for her. For all the boys faults he loves her, loves her deeply and completely, he just can't keep it in his pants. And everyone can see how much Massie loves Derrick for all this flaws and imperfections. They 're so, so, so, in love. No one wants to ruin what in so many ways seems like true love. What those two feel for each other, no one has the heart to ruin.

Everyone can only watch.

All the boys must begrudgingly admit, and all the girls must deep down accept, that the two l o v e each other, and that could maybe be enough. Derrick loves Massie and Massie loves Derrick and all other things can only be details cast aside for this little sick love story.