FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH WESTCHESTER HIGHSCHOOL TRACK 10:10 am

Claire's blond hair twinkled in the daylight as she gasped for air. She was on her final lap and she wanted to be the first one to finish. Karen McDonald was right on her heels and she pushed herself towards Mr. Krane, the gym teacher.

"Good job, Claire! 6 minutes flat. Karen, 6 minutes and 1 second. Take a breather girls." Mr. Krane said as he pushed the tiny button on his Fossil stopwatch. He threw 2 maroon towels at them with the Westchester logo printed on the front.

Claire sat down on the bottom bench and took a full swig of water. Karen sat next to her.

"Hey, Claire. I heard you have a crush on Will Chad Ray in 11th grade." Karen said. Her short red hair was sideparted to the left and her face was flushed from the mile run. She was dressed head to toe in Nordstrom sweats.

Claire rolled her eyes and grinned. "Puh-lease." She said it sarcastically. Of course she had a crush on him.

Yesterday, their meeting was great. Dylan had told her that he would meet her on the front steps. She stood there with his notebook in her hand reciting her most favorite song that he wrote.

'REGRET

I regret the day I said I hated you

And I regret it when you walked away

Baby everyone has regrets and you're my biggest one

Come back to me, my biggest regret

The way I hurt you, I will never ever forget'

It reminded her of Cam so much and singing it somehow made the sadness go away. She remembered the way Will had came up behind her and put his hands over her eyes doing the famous 'Guess who?' trick. They laughed and talked for awhile mostly about his notebook. He wasn't upset at all that she looked through it. After a few minutes, they exchanged notebooks and separated. When Claire got home and opened her notebook to do Algebra homework, it said '555 1931'. It was his number.

"You do know he goes out with Anais right?" Karen said. The two girls scooted over to make room for the third and fourth finishers, Derrington (who had the hugest crush on Massie even though and since they broke up) and Sharlee Williams (who had the hugeset crush on Derrington).

Claire shrugged. "Yeah, I know." Claire figured since he gave her her number, they were bound to break up.

"And you do know if she finds out about you, she'll break you like a twig." Karen said it in a very serious tone.

Claire laughed. "Don't sweat it. If I can handle Massie, I can handle this Anais Beautiful Quadruple chick."

"You can, can you?" A loud voice cackled behind her.

Claire froze in her seat and Karen's eyes bulged out.

"Ha-eye, An-eye-yeast." Karen nearly stammered the words out. Claire didn't dare to look back.

"Don't worry. I'll forgive you, Clarisse or whatever your dumb name is." Anais said boldly.Derrington and Sharlee listened with great interest feeling sorry for Claire. "But I hope you know, if you even try to befriend Will, I will make it my personal duty to have things comin' your way and I'm not promising you this. I swear on everything I love. Get your face straight, girl." With that, Claire heard a higheel shoe stomp on the bleachers and listened to them getting fainter and fainter.

When it was safe,Claire turned her head and Anais's back was to hers as she glided back towards the school.

Claire gulped with her hands trembling.

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH BLOCK ESTATE, MASSIE'S ROOM 7:45 PM

Massie sat on her belly while waiting for her guests as she watched Super Sweet Sixteen on MTV deciding she so needed to be on this show in a year. It was Friday and now that everyone was back from vacation the annual sleepovers could begin.

She was fully prepared. She picked out a white lace chemise to change into later. She picked the theme of 'Rainbow' for tonight's theme. Sprawled on her floor were 5 sleeping bags: Purple for Massie, Orange for Claire, Blue for Alicia, Green for Dylan, and Red for Kristen. Next to each sleeping bag was a bowl full of Skittles handpicked to match everyone's sleeping bag. She reached into Alicia's bowl which was the closest and popped a blue skittle into her mouth.

Her cellphone vibrated.

ALICIA: PSST... MIND IF I BRING SUM1?

MASSIE: STRICT GLU POLICY, MEMBA?

ALICIA: CAN'T GO W/O HER

MASSIE: P FINE WHATEVS. JUST THIS 1 TIME.

ALICIA: LUV YA! SEE IN 15.

Massie flipped her phone shut and groaned. The very first sleepover of the school year was ruined. She asked Inez on the intercom to bring up a Pink sleeping bag. She thought it would look best with the rest of the colors.

"Hey, Mass." The door opened and in came Dylan, Kristen, and Claire.

"Inez told us to bring this up." Claire said setting up the Pink sleeping bag on the floor. Massie made a mental note to fill Pink's bowl with bubblegum since she had no pink skittles.

"Ugh.. yeah. Alicia's bringing someone." Massie said getting off of her bed.

Dylan sat at Massie's vanity looking at her reflection.

"You're so ah-noying, Dyl. How many times did you look in the mirror this week?" Kristen said as she changed the TV's channel to ShopBop Network. A Rebecca Taylor Safari Coat was on sale.

Dylan shrugged. "Can't a girl wanna know if she looks good?"

Massie rolled her eyes. "Why can't you be like us? We don't have to look in a mirror because we already know we look good." Massie grinned. She was kidding of course and even if she wasn't, you couldn't blame her. She looked like she could've attended a banquet with her sleek hair parted to the left and perfectly applied Benefit Dallas bronzer and blush.

Kristen, who had planted herself on Massie's bed rolled over on her back and watched the TV upside-down. "Alicia's guest better not be a loser or I'll be totally pissed that I missed TFC for this. Me and Manny were finally going to set up a date for that bet I told you guys about."

Massie rolled her eyes. "And also, I wanted to talk about things."

"What things?" Claire's wide blue eyes gazed over to Massie. Massie pretended she had a piece of lint stuck to her sweater and avoided her eyes. She hadn't talked to Claire directly ever since she found out what the Beautiful Quadruple wanted to do to her.

She had no clue what to do. Of course Claire's was her very best friend since seventh grade and Massie promised herself she would try her hardest not to hurt her ever again. But the thought of not being the most popular girl of her grade, over Olivia, gave her nightmares.

Massie cleared her throat and talked to her feet. "You know, how the PC sees each other only about once a day at lunch. How we only had one shopping trip this whole week to the mall. And actually, that was only with Alicia."

Dylan diverted her attention from her reflection. "You're kinda right, Mass. We are so not as close as we were last year." Kristen and Claire nodded in agreement.

Massie sprinted across her room to her computer and opened up a blank word document.

"We need to assign some reinforcements. Y'know, a renewal to the Pretty Committee." Massie typed away and labeled it 'URGENT RE-INFORCEMENTS'.

"They'll be like rules like before but to keep us together again." Dylan pulled up the chair towards Massie to see what she was typing.

'NUMBER ONE' Massie tapped her chin lightly.

'NO NON-GLU'S OR LBR'S ALLOWED ON ANY MALL TRIPS OR SLEEPOVERS.'

"Alicia will be an exception since we're making this now." Massie said as she opened up her iTunes and started to play a Black Eyed Peas track.

"I know." Kristen said lifting her head from the TV that was displaying Donna Karan's newest perfume.

'NUMBER TWO: NO BOYS WILL EVER COME BETWEEN US'

"I know, guys. It is soo Cliche but need I remind you what happened with Dylan and Kristen way back in our middle school years." Massie said thinking of Derrington, who she got anyway, and thought it was funny they had fought over him.

Claire zipped open her sleeping bag and snuggled her way in. "Let's put something fun in it. Like wear brown every friday."

"Except for the fact the brown is so outat the moment." Dylan said.

Massie thought for a moment. "I have the greatest idea. Why don't we wear full-on denim every Tuesday. C'mon, we'll start a new trend. It'll be just like OCD."

As Massie typed in the newest rule whenher intercom alert beeped.

"Mass, there's an envelope down here for you. It looks kind of important. You should come down." Her mom's loud but sweet voice filled the room.

It beeped again to signal her mom was done speaking.

Massie sighed. "Ughh. Can't she see I'm trying to have a very important sleepover?" Massie said handing the keyboard over to Dylan. "Here see if you can come up with any good ones. Remember unity, glam, and US."

She made her way into her huge living room where her Mom was on the floor doing Pilates.

"What is it, Mom?" Massie sat down on their green and gold European sofa that matched the walls.

Her mom pointed to the glass table as she did a roll-up. "Some nice girl dropped it off here just a few minutes ago. Her name was Camina or Camden. Can't remember."

Massie nearly fainted when she the pink envelope. She picked it up slowly and headed towards the kitchen for some privacy. On the front of the envelope it said, 'YOU'RE A MAYBE'.

Massie gulped wondering when she becomesa senior if she would write that on front of envelopes.

She tore it open and unfolded the piece of paper.

'HEY MASSIE,

JUST CHECKING IN ON YOUR TEST. REMEMBER CLAIRE LYONS. SHE'S A TOTAL LOSER. TOTALLY TRYING TO STEAL ANAIS'S BOYFRIEND. TAKE HER DOWN. AND YOU'RE IN. DON'T TELL OLIVIA OR CAMILLA, BUT OLIVIA'S JUST HERE CUZ OF CONNECTIONS. GOOD LUCK.

YOURS SPECTACULARLY,

RYANNA'

P.S.

CLDEADMEAT

Massie gulped at the sight of her friend's intials.

Massie stuck the note into the front pocket of her Tommy Hilfiger denim skirt. She rushed upstairs wondering what she might've missed. She tried hard not to think of what she's gotten herself into.

She entered her room as she said, "Guys, I haven't felt this stressed since Nina ruined our lives two years ago."

Everyone was silent and Massie wondered why. Then she saw the exact girl she was talking about sprawled across her Pink sleeping bag.

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MM.. I KNOW THIS WAS KIND OF A BOOTY CHAPTER BUT I NEEDED SOMETHING TO UPDATE. I PROMISE REALLLY REALLY GOOD DRAMA WILL HAPPEN NEXT CHAPTER WHEN..

CLAIRE CONFESSES TO MASSIE SOMETHING, DEEP. WILL MASSIE BETRAY HER FRIEND OR SACRIFICE HER SOCIAL LIFE TO SAVE HER? THERE'S A NEW KID IN SCHOOL WHO'S OUT TO RUIN ALICIA AND CHRIS'S RELATIONSHIP. NINA STARTS SCHOOL. DYLAN STARTS HER PROBLEM AGAIN. KRISTEN AND MANNY'S BET ARE PUT INTO ACTION.. AND ALOT MORE GOOD STUFF.

PLEASE REVIEW OR I SERIOUSLY WON'T UPDATE.

REALLY.. I WON'T.

NO LIE.

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