I've been having a lot of thoughts for this story lately. And I had a thought while writing the first part of the last chapter, and I decided to forget about it. Now, I've decided to actually go with it.

So here we go right on to the next chapter!

Enjoy!

Cathy's POV

The only thing I could think of was… well, I really wasn't thinking of anything, that's how blown my mind was. I never thought that I'd ever see this sight in a million bazillion years. Mark actually had a girlfriend. And that girl was Sam!

"Cathy?" a voice asked before a hand waved in front of my eyes and broke me from my shocked daze. I turned, wide eyed to find Jeremy watching me with concern. "Are you alright?"

"I…" was all I could manage out, simply pointing over to where Sam was standing with Mark's arm wrapped around her shoulder. Jeremy's green eyes followed my gaze, and then popped with realization.

"Oh! I see," he said. "You're in shock that Sam's dating Mark." I replied with another sound of confusion. "Hey, maybe she'll be a good influence on him."

"Don't even joke about this!" I snapped, able to communicate suddenly. I guess agitation follows shock.

"Too soon?" Jeremy asked, still joking slightly. I gave him an exasperated glance and he stopped smiling and looked away sheepishly.

"Jeremy, you may not realize this, but this is bad. Really bad," I said. "He's gonna break her heart!"

"Who's gonna break whose heart?" Danny asked as he waltzed up to me and took my hand gently. I gave him a small smile before nodding towards the new 'couple'.

"Hey now, when did this happen?" Danny asked, his green eyes widening in surprise just like Jeremy's had. "Why is Sam allowing Mark to put his arm around her? They're not… dating, right?"

"It's sad but true," Jeremy answered with a nod. "It appears that Sam has fallen for Mark."

"I doubt it," Danny replied. "Unless Sam went insane last night, she'd never date Mark willingly. There's gotta be a reason we aren't seeing here."

I stared down my best friend, trying to see if I could pick anything up about her true motive from just watching her. I soon realized this plan really wasn't going to work. Other than the fact that Sam really didn't look happy to be standing so close to Mark, she gave nothing else away. Now I'd have to grill her about it later.

"What if she's doing it to get someone jealous?" Jeremy suggested, totally oblivious to the jealousy issues we've been dealing with for the past few days. Oh irony.

"But who would Sam do that to? And why Mark?" Danny asked. I bet I know who she'd want to get jealous, I thought. But it's not like I could just blurt out who Sam liked in front of two guys who knew that certain boy well. "Seriously, if a girl I liked tried to get me jealous by dating Mark, I'd forget about her."

"Well luckily you don't have to worry about such a thing," I said in response. "Cause I will never, ever, ever, in a million years even consider dating Mark. Or making you jealous."

"Glad to hear that," Danny replied smiling at me. I couldn't help but smile back, Danny's just too adorable when he smiles like that.

"So hey, random topic switch here, but do you two know what's going on with Chris and Wendy?" Jeremy asked, sounding generally curious. "Are they dating, or not? I've been hearing both."

"They aren't actually dating, or that's at least what Chris told me and I tend to believe him more," Danny replied. "You know, trust my best friend over my lying ex girlfriend." I held on to Danny's hand a little tighter at that statement. I know he really didn't like to talk about Wendy because he'd seen what kind of a person she really was inside.

"Well how come they're always together then?" Jeremy asked innocently. If only he knew the dramatic backstory to all of this…

"They're fake dating. Wendy asked Chris to pretend to be her boyfriend so that she can score a role in a play. We're convinced it's all a set up to get Danny jealous," I answered this time. We'd discussed this yesterday, Danny, Chris, Bryce, and I. And we had a plan to get back at our blonde troubleshooter.

"Well that's weird," Jeremy commented. "Chris actually fell for that?"

"Yeah. That surprised us too," Danny said, looking away and out the window to the sunshine filled day. "But I guess he let his guard down with her and is just now realizing what a mistake he made." Jeremy nodded, and I realized the truth in Danny's statement. Wendy had always been a tricky one, and I guess it was Chris' turn to learn that from experience.

"Speaking of, where is Chris?" I asked, scanning the room for our blunette friend. I didn't see him anywhere. Come to think of it, I didn't see Wendy's swishy blonde ponytail either.

"Oh great, our actors are missing," Danny remarked sarcastically. "Jeremy, you heard about the whole Shakespeare scandal with Wendy and Chris, right?"

"Yep. Didn't believe it for a second," Jeremy replied, shaking his head defiantly.

"Well it did happen, but Wendy was twisting the story. So if she starts any rumors about where they were today if they walk in together don't believe them. They seriously are just rumors," Danny said in response. He knew his stuff when it came to Wendy's schemes. Maybe Danny could help us decode Sam's ulterior motives with Mark.

I turned back to my friend to see her golden brown eyes watching our little trio calmly. I quickly caught her gaze, and focusing my energy on communicating to her through facial expression, trying to look as confused as possible. Sam nodded, took a quick glance at Mark to make sure he wasn't watching, and then mouthed 'I'll tell you later'. I nodded my consent. Sam smiled before Mark turned back to her again.

I sighed. This situation just kept getting more and more confusing. I turned to the door just in time to see Wendy enter the room with Chris and another girl I'd never seen before. She was tall, with platinum blonde hair that had pretty red curls at the ends. She and Wendy walked over to where Mark and Sam were, while Chris separated from them and walked over to us. He looked nervous, with his hands shoved into his pockets.

"Hey man. What's up?" Danny asked, sensing that something was wrong. "Have you already heard about…"

"Sam and Mark? Oh yeah. Wendy won't stop talking about them," Chris said, shaking his head to dismiss that thought quickly. It clicked in my head then that Sam probably was trying to get Chris jealous by dating Mark. My earlier suspicions seemed to be correct. But why would Sam complicate a situation she was already winning? "But there's something else."

"What?" I asked. I was under the impression that it was just losing Sam that was upsetting him. What else could there…

"You see the new girl over there with Wendy?" Chris asked, nodding towards the two blondes. The three of us nodded. "Her name's Phoebe. And she's currently really mad at her ex boyfriend Bryce. Mad enough to seriously hurt anyone that got in her way of trying to make him pay for dumping her." Oh great.

So now we have our alien bad guy on Earth and in striking distance. Oh boy! What will happen now? When will Phoebe go after Bryce? How are they going to get back at Wendy? Whose plan will succeed first? The answers to all of these questions… in the near future!

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