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Taylor walked over to the fire pit in a confident strut. She had every thing under control. Everyone sat around the fire watching as the final touches were put on dinner. Jackson cut the fish into equal sections and distributed them to everyone. Taylor danced over and took her fish and fruit and sat down next to Eric. They exchanged knowing glances and started on their dinner. Everyone was silent as they picked at their dinner, no one quite hungry for another meal of fish and fruit. Everyone except Eric that is. He hungrily scarfed down his fish and fruit as usual. Everyone was so silent; Taylor almost had second thoughts about launching her plan. She would certainly harsh everybody's mellow in a matter of seconds. Although her plan had promise of being catastrophic, it was necessary. She wanted Jackson more than she had ever wanted any other boy. She knew Jackson wanted her back, he just wanted the old Taylor; the fun-loving-responsibility-lacking-valley-girl.

Daley nervously looked around the fire pit in hopes of recognizing a hint as to who was spying on her and Nathan making out. Nathan could blame the mysterious sound on a branch or an animal or the wind or whatever he wanted but she knew it was a person. She knew it was Lex. She studied his face and only saw one thing: concern. He occasionally glanced over at Melissa. Why is he looking at Mel? What does she have to do with this? Daley then focused on Mel's face and saw despair. Did Lex tell Melissa what he saw? Is she depressed because Nathan had kept such a huge secret from her? Daley felt queasy at the thought of destroying or so much as tainting Nathan and Melissa's friendship. They had always been so inseparable and dependable on each other. It seemed now that Daley was tearing them apart. She finally looked up at Taylor, who accompanied an evil grin.

"I have an announcement." Taylor stated as she stood up and smiled.

"An announcement?" Lex echoed in curiosity.

"Yes, that's what I said!" Taylor snapped. "More of a toast, actually."

"A toast?" Melissa questioned. She paused and thought about it. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened recently. Well, other than getting my heart squished and Taylor and Jackson getting together. Wait, was Taylor making a toast to her and Jackson?

"Yes! A toast!" Taylor smiled at the sound of it. "To Daley and Nathan!"

"Wait, what?" Nathan asked immediately standing also. This could not be good. "Why?"

"Eric saw you guys; it's not a secret anymore." Taylor answered still smiling with fake sincerity.

"Saw you guys what?" Jackson asked even though he already knew the answer. He looked over at Daley who seemed to be mortified whereas Nathan just looked pissed.

"Hooking up." Taylor said letting her sincere smile morph into an evil grin.

"Daley, is this true?" Lex asked his sister. Daley carefully nodded her head avoiding eye contact with anyone. Melissa threw a hurt look at Nathan.

"How could you not tell me?" Melissa asked in a barely audible whisper. Her eyes where glued to the fire, her mind calculating. Nathan was too astonished by the current situation to muster up any words in return.

"I- I have to-" Daley's voice quivered. She turned away from the fire and stoked into the woods. She was too embarrassed, too angry, too shaken, to deal with Taylor right now. Without hesitation Nathan chased after her, to undoubtedly do his boyfriend duty to sooth her in her time of pain.

"There they go again" Eric smirked watching the two of them disappear into the jungle. Taylor snickered at his remark.

"Why, Taylor?" Jackson asked forcefully. "What benefit do you get from this?"

"I…" Taylor managed to get out. Why was Jackson so angry? Wasn't he supposed to be praising her for this? Instead he looked every bit as angry as when he was rejecting her.

Melissa looked curiously between Taylor and Jackson, as did Lex. They both recognized Jackson's behaviour towards Taylor as less than kind, to the point of brutality, and certainly not the way for a boyfriend to act. Taylor looked genuinely surprised at Jackson's reaction. The whole situation just got more and more confusing to Lex. First, Jackson was dumping Melissa because he was in love with Taylor. Now, he was openly criticizing Taylor's less than moral actions. Lex was still astonished that Taylor would be so malicious as to publicly embarrass Daley and Nathan. Lex was even more confused in what exactly Jackson had seen in Taylor (mean didn't seem like Jackson's type) and if what he had seen, was an illusion of Taylor's that had just been destroyed.

"Just forget it Taylor." Jackson huffed, and stormed down to the beach.

Taylor, Eric, Melissa, and Lex were left at the firepit, none of which really knew what had just happened and why. Each knew their own tid-bit of information, which combined, might make sense, but alone where just questions in themselves.

A/N: Sorry that took half a year to write. I don't know why but I was having a MAJOR case of writers block. Well, better late then never, right? I hope this chapter lived up to your expectations. I couldn't help but not be completely satisfied with it but I decided it was time I update. Please review so I have to urge to start to update this story regularly again. School and shit tends to get in the way but I'll try my best.