"I'm fine" I assured Noelle for the five thousandth time since breakfast. "Really, no broken bones, no emotional trauma. I'm just tired and ready to move past this."

She shook her head looking past me, "I just can't believe it, Upton? Who would have thought…"

"Noelle…If I've learned anything since starting school here, it's that no one is who you think they are." I raise an eyebrow at her, giving her my most convincing suspicious look "You're not going to jump up with a razor blade and try to off me next are you?" I joke, trying to make light of everything.

"So not funny Glass-licker."

I shrug. " You never know."

~*~*~*~

"Reed?" I look over my shoulder to find Amberly running down the hall to catch up with me "Wow, they were right, you do look bad. Are you ok?"

I reached up to cover the bruise with my hand. Somewhere between the incident and my first class, a dark purple and green bruise had appeared in the shape of a hand across the left side of my face. It was interesting considering that I couldn't remember being slapped. "Thanks for the sensitivity Amberly" I replied sarcastically . "But yes I'm fine."

"It's terrible how things keep happening to you. Maybe Poppy was right, maybe you do have a black cloud following you. Have you ever thought about seeing like a psychic or something? It's hard to believe that everything is just coincidental. What are the odds that all of your friends would turn out to be psycho killers?"

"Gee Amberly that was deep for you. A lot of stuff does happen to me, but coincidence is a lot more logical than paranormal forces."

"Okay, whatever, it was just a suggestion." She stormed off, visibly upset.

Hmm…that was odd. I wondered what that was all about. I've never really liked Amberly, the only thing she was really good for was the existence of my CarmaCard. Mostly she just caused me trouble.

~*~*~*~*~

My last class couldn't have ended fast enough. All I really wanted to do was go back to my Pemberly single and sleep. At least when I'm there, no one can look at me, and I won't have to listen to them whispering behind my back. Unfortunately, during my quick getaway, I tripped over my own feet, scattering my books and pens across the sidewalk.

"You're quite the clumsy one aren't you?"

I looked up and into the eyes of Sawyer Hathaway, who was now kneeling down to help me gather my things. "Ah, my hero." I reply with a smirk. "Always saving me."

" Yeah well, someone has to right?"

I rolled my eyes. This 'Reed is breakable and needs to be looked after' act that everyone was playing was really getting old. "I can take care of myself, thanks Sawyer." I shove my stuff in my bag and turned to leave.

"Wait Reed. I didn't mean to upset you."

I sigh "It's ok... I'm just a little touchy right now"

"Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that my dad knows what you and Noelle are doing. I heard him talking on the phone with Mr. Lange."

"Are we in trouble?" I ask, bored.

" I don't think so…but the lack of funds is really hurting the school."

"Good. So then my plan is working. Tell your Dad that he'll get his money, when we get Billings back."

"I'm not a messaging service Reed, and I'm not getting in the middle of this, I just thought you'd like to know."

"Do you think we have a chance?" I asked Sawyer hopefully

"Depends…if your friends really stick to the whole no donations thing that they're playing, then there's a good likely hood that he'll cave."

"Thank you Sawyer, that's what I needed to hear."

~*~*~*~

"Start picking out paint colors" I texted to Noelle

Y?

We'll b returning 2 billings very soon =)

Not five minutes later, Constance, Vienna and London burst into my room. "Is it true? We're getting Billings back?" they all seemed to say at once.

"Well…it's not official yet so don't get too excited. But I have a feeling that our luck is about to change for the better."

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A/N: I know this is a little short guys and I also know that it's a boring filler chapter, but it will get good again soon, I promise. I want to thank everyone that has left positive reviews. I really enjoy reading your input. However, on that note I do want to make a request. If you want to leave a negative review, it's your choice. Of course I don't expect everyone to love my story, and everyone has their own opinion. I'd just like to say that if you feel the need to be negative, please make your comment informative. Comments such as "your story sucks" and stuff like that will just be deleted. I do however, welcome constructive criticism. If you want to tell me that I have too many run on sentences and that my punctuation is all wrong, or that I use certain wording to frequently, please do! I really do want to improve on my writing, so if there is something you think I need to work on, please let me know. Again I want to thank all of you that have been reading. I appreciate your support. I might not update tomorrow because I have to open at work, then when I get home I have to watch Vampire Diaries =) but I promise I'll update on Friday (it's my day off).