Alright I am swamped from lots of stuff and I'm truly sorry about the slow updating. Remember I'm still spitballing on these chapters and I have no idea how to go about them. I'm one whacked out teenager. Anyway, let's hope I can get this story of mine finished before the coaches run me to death.

Onward to the double digit chapters!

Chapter 10

Amber's POV

Three days. It has been exactly three days since the 'Triple Break Up' as the school loves to call it. I can't tell you how many times I've heard how 'sad it is that the three power couples of our school broke up.' Jesus, people stay out of their lives. Of course I love the gossip but I don't actually confront them when I see that they're hurting. That's just plain cruel.

Once again I watched as half the table I was sitting at be depressed. Ashley and Lucas were looking bored and not paying attention. Miley was still as clueless as ever and kept giving looks to the feisty blonde across the room. Honestly, do I have to do everything around here? I bet Miley to go out with Lilly for her to realize that they are meant to be together and she's still as clueless as ever. Smart girls are really dumb these days. As for Jake and Mikayla, I had a few ways to get them to jump back from their funk. It's time for 'Operation Idiots-to-Get-Their-Head-Out-Of-Their-Asses-Before-I-Ghetto-Slap-Them-Silly,' and it was going to start today.

I quickly excuse myself from the table and exit the room. Taking out my cell phone I find the name and hit 'Send' smiling as I hear their voice.

"Hey, are early do you think you can get here? The lovebirds need some major assistance."

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Joanie's POV

Everything seems to have been hectic as hell these last few days. First Miley and Lilly break up, and then like freakin' thirty minutes later Jake and Oliver and Mitchie and Mikayla broke up. Then Mitchie goes missing while Oliver and Jake are glaring icicles and we find her later in the music room banging on the drums like she was making a damn King Kong soundtrack. Becca comes out to the band members about how she had cancer, which sucks for me because everyone's all worried about her.

But shouldn't I be happy? My friends are freed from the clutches of the fake daters. I can see it in their eyes though. Whenever they pass their other half in the hallway, or accidently touch them while opening their lockers. It hurts them. They're dying slowly.

Mitchie has blisters on her hands from playing instruments and getting lost in music and is too lazy to get up in the morning so all she wears is sweat pants. Oliver is snappy at everyone and depressed every day. But I see Lilly has the most stress of them all. Before dating Miley, she had the pressure of getting good grades, working, basketball and keeping up with the band. Now she's humiliated everyday because her girlfriend was just faking everything about their relationship. I can see that she's hurting badly. Her grades are getting lower, she can't make any of her shots in basketball to save her life, and I can see that all three are lacking sleep because of the black and blue bags under their eyes.

Did I also mention that my friends were so depressed to be around their counterparts that they asked for a new seating arrangement in every class! How the hell does that work out? But somehow they convinced all of our teachers to manage it.

But something feels off about everything. So right when I saw Amber get up and I knew it was my chance to strike and figure out what the hell was going on. I unlaced my hands with Becca's which we had been doing a lot lately and told her I'd be right back. She gave me a small smile and nodded then continued gazing sadly at my Oliver, Lilly and Mitchie who all look exhausted.

Once outside the cafeteria I see her back was to me and it looked like she was on the phone so I decided to wait, however her talk on the phone with the anonymous person seemed to have caught my attention.

"No seriously, my friends need to pull their heads out of their asses and I need your help with it. Thank you so much. Alright, I'll see you tonight, then." She hangs up and without even realizing what I'm doing I speak.

"I want in." She jumps and turns around looking like she was about the smack the hell out of the person who eavesdropped on her but when she saw it was me, her eyes softened and then she got a mischievous look in her eyes.

"Alright, wel-" I hold up my hand and cut her off which seems to aggravate her.

"But first I want answers," looking a little peeved that I interrupted her.

"Okay first off, do not interrupt me and second, answers on what?"

"Was the entire thing a bet?" The question was killing me. Could the populars really be that cruel to my friends? Do they hate us? What have we done to them?

Amber looks down and sighs. This makes me feel uneasy like I'm not going to enjoy her answer very much.

"Well, ya see the thing is…."she starts, looking up unsure.

'Oh boy.'

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Miley's POV

'What is wrong with me?' I thought as I once again looked over at Lilly.

'Shouldn't I be happy that I don't have to deal with her anymore? I'm free, single and ready to mingle, date central here I come!'

But I wasn't ready for that; for any of those options actually. For the past three days it seems like only one thought or person I should say invaded my brain 24/7. Lilly.

"I told you you would be an idiot if you let her go."

"I know but I didn't think it would hurt this bad or that I would be thinking of her this much. What is my problem?!"

"It's simple, Stewart. You love her."

"What?! You're freaking delusional."

"When you were with her did you feel butterflies?"

"Well I-"

"Did you feel fireworks when you two kissed?"

"I-"

"Whenever you were apart did you miss her company almost immediately and thought about her a lot?"

"Shut UP!"

"Why? Can't handle the pressure of knowing that you're an idiot!"

"No! I can't! So just stop!"

"Then admit it! You love her. Lilly is who you want and you don't want anyone else!"

"Fine, I love her! Ohmigod, I love her!"

"Finally…"

"I have to get her back…but how?"

"Now that's where me and my brain help your stupid side out."

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Okay so I'm really sorry about this sucky chapter but I'm running out of ideas here. I'm like seriously blanking out when I'm writing and when I re-read it, it's total crap. So I'm sorry for the badness.

Another thing that sucks is basketball. The coaches have been running us to death. That, plus I have two games on Friday and one on Saturday so I once again barely have enough time to do anything so I once again apologize. I promise I'll attempt to make better chapters.