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Sydney's POV

I met up with the girls at Kristin's house, and we headed to the mall to see if we could find any dresses there. I highly doubted that we would, but they wanted to check anyways, and while we were here they could buy a new outfit for my graduation party.

"What about this one?" Kristin asked, coming out of the dressing room with a short silver dress on... I shook my head, looking at the dress.

"What's wrong with it?" Kristin asked.

"It's way too short. You'll sit down or bend over and reveal your panties to every single guy there." I said, pulling at the bottom of the dress.

"Plus it makes your boobs look smaller than they really are." Julia added, getting a pouted expression from Kristin. "Here try this one on instead." Jules handed her an orange sun dress that only had stings that tied around the neck to hold up the top.

Kristen took the dress and walked back into the dressing room. Julia and I turned back to the rack, searching through the clothes. Julia's cell went off and she pulled it out and smiled answering a text. I raised an eyebrow in question.

"Who is that?" I asked. Julia smiled at me and shrugged.

"Just this guy." She said. I smiled at her.

"That's all I get? 'This guy'?" I asked. Julia giggled and took out her phone, playing on it for a while until she held it in front of me to show me a picture.

The guy seemed to be tall, with light brown shaggy skater boy hair, and a dorky cute smile. I smiled at the picture, and Julia pulled her phone back, smiling at the picture before putting her phone back.

"His name is Tye." She said.

"Where did you meet him?" I asked.

"We ran into each other a couple of times at Spencer's. We exchanged numbers and we haven't stopped texting since." She smiled, a small blush rising on her face. I giggled at her. She liked this guy, it was obvious.

"Does Kristen know?" I ask. Julia nodded.

"She was with me the first time I bumped into him." She answered.

"Well, are you going to Prom with him?" I ask. She smiles bashfully at me.

"I don't know. I mean, I don't even know if he likes me enough to come with me to Prom." She said. I shrugged, going through the clothes again.

"Well Prom isn't until the end of the month. You have until then to ask him." I smile at her and she nods agreeing.

"Okay, how does this look?" Kristen asked. We looked up at her and a smile came to my lips.

"Yes. I like that one." I say. Kristen walked in front of the mirrors and checked herself out. The dress was perfect for my party, and Kristen seemed to love it.

"I like it too." She said, twirling in it, having the skirt spin beautifully with her. "I'm going to get it." She said, heading back to the dressing room.

"Okay, we'll wait for you." Julia said, on her phone again.

I looked around the store casually, looking towards the entrance and I was about to look back towards the clothes when a couple walked caught my attention. I had to do a double take. In the store across from us, which was a shoe store, stood two people I thought I would never have to see back together.

"Sydney?" I heard Julia call, and I then noticed that I had started to walk out of the store.

"I'll be right back, there's something I need to go check on." I say, walking out of the store and heading straight towards the shoe store.

Adrian's POV

I stood in the shoe store, looking over the dress shoes. I needed a new pair, and inconveniently Rose had followed me here. She claims that Lissa sent her to come check up on me, seeing as she was locked up in court with work, and that Rose was the only one that could handle coming to see me.

I knew I shouldn't have talked to Lissa the night I had the fight with Sydney. I should have known she would worry so much that she would send the red devil after me. I tried my best to ignore Rose, but she kept close, thinking that I was about to fall apart in front of her.

"Adrian, what do you need shoes for?" she asked. I looked at her like she was crazy.

"Even I need shoes Hathaway." I quip, looking over the many pairs displayed on the shelves.

"This is just too weird." Rose said shaking her head.

"Why is that?" I ask without looking at her, and grabbing a box for inspection.

"Adrian Ivaskov doing regular shopping. I guess I'm not used to seeing this." She smiles at me, and I can't help but chuckle. What can I say? I've changed quite a bit since I've been to court.

I begin to walk past her to try on the shoes when I turn around the shelf and nearly run into someone. I hear the person apologize, and when I see it is my face pales – if that were possible – and my heart nearly jumps out of my chest.

"Sydney." Her name slips from my lips.

"Uh – sorry." She says, apologizing again, and her eyes dart from me to Rose and back to me again. "I'm just," she looks down at the ground closes her eyes and shakes her head. "I'm sorry." She says and turns around to leave.

"Wait, Sydney." I hear Rose call after her. Sydney stops and looks back. "I'm glad to see you're doing better. You took a really nasty fall." Rose said, and I looked down at the box in my hands. I hadn't really mentioned that Sydney knew what really happened at the ski slopes to Lissa yet.

"Um – thanks." Sydney said, and I realized she was keeping the secret.

"What was that?" Rose asked. I looked up to notice that Sydney had left.

"What was what?" I asked. Rose rolled her eyes, folding her arms in front of her.

"Last I saw you were crying at her bedside, begging her to live. Now, it's like you two were strangers." She says. I shook my head, putting the box down and stuffing my hands in my pockets and walking out of the store.

"Adrian, what happened?" Rose asked grabbing my arm and making me look at her. I stared down into her brown eyes. The brown eyes that I used to love. How did I come to this?

"Oh hell no!" I heard someone shout, and both Rose and I looked over. My body went rigid at the sight of Kristin storming up to us. I looked over to see Julia holding Sydney in comfort and it seemed that Sydney was crying. Oh crap.

"You! Asshole!" Kirstin shouted at me, standing in front of me. Rose stood in front of me protectively. I sighed getting irritated.

"Look, before you continue and tell me off, shouting about how horrible I am or whatever, realize that I'm not the one who called it quits first. She did that by walking out on me." I said to Kristen and she shook her head, nearly laughing.

"Are you serious?" she asked. "Just because she needed to step out and think, doesn't mean she walked out on you." She said. Then she looked at Rose glaring, and then looked back at me.

"She tried to call you back, but you went off about how you understood why Keith cheated on her and pushed her away. Now you put her through more pain by doing exactly what Keith had done to her? Going out with an ex, which is even worse!"

"We aren't," Rose tried, but Kristen was too pissed to care what she had to say.

"You know I thought you were going to be the one that made Sydney happy. The one to take her away from the shit filled life she's living, but no, you just made it worse for her."

"Kristen, please stop." Sydney begged, pulling her friend back and away from me. Seeing Sydney's tear stained face nearly broke me down into full apology mode, but I wasn't going to do that.

"Do you even realize she got disowned for you?" Kristen asked.

"Kristen, stop." Sydney pled, but I looked at her shocked.

"Wait, disowned for what?" I asked. Kristen then chose this time shut up. I looked at Sydney, who didn't even want to look at me. "Did they kick you out?" I asked, starting to get worried. She didn't say anything.

"She chose you over her father." Julia said quietly, and I looked at her confused. She chose me? What did that – then I realized what had happened.

"Sydney, I – I," I began, but she looked at me and Rose.

"Don't say anything Adrian. I don't think your sympathy would really matter now." She said, and looked at the ground before speaking again. "I want to thank you for all your help. You really did help me get over Keith." She said, and then she looked at me. "Now all I have to do now is to get over you." She said.

My heart thudded to a halt at her words. Get over me? Was this us breaking up?

"I'll bring you the final check and that will be it." She said, and took in a deep breath beginning to walk away. Julia and Kristen followed her out, Kristen glaring at me as she walked by.

I watched as they walked away and my heart sped up again. I couldn't take her walking away, not again. I can't let her go. I can't say goodbye.

"Sydney!" I shouted after her, but she just walked faster, ducking her head down, bringing her hand up to her face. Please, no. No more crying. "Sydney!" I shouted again, starting to go after her, but the girls walked out of the door and disappeared before I could catch up to them.

"Damn it!" I shouted, kicking the brick wall of the building.

"Adrian, what exactly happened between you two?" Rose asked. I shook my head, raking my hands through my hair.

"I need a drink." I said, walking down the street towards the nearest bar. Rose grabbed my arm, and pinned me against the wall.

"No, you are going to tell me what's going on, sober, right now." She practically growled.

"Rose." I warned.

"Adrian." She growled back.

I stared at her for a while until I sighed and gave in. I finally spilled my guts up to her, not surprised to hear her freak out and start giving me a lecture about the crime I have just committed. But at least, I realized what I was feeling towards Sydney, and that I didn't want to lose her. I just hope it's not too late.

Sydney's POV

I got into Kristen's car, trying not to cry again but it was really hard not to. This hurt more than the day I found Keith cheating on me. I felt like my heart had shriveled up and died, leaving me with a huge gaping hole in my chest.

"Sydney?" Julia called, turning around in the passenger side seat to look at me. "What did you mean when you told Adrian that you would bring him the final check?" she asked.

I looked at her, to Kristen who was also turned to look at me. I sighed, knowing it was about time I told them the truth.

"I hired Adrian to be my boyfriend." I said bluntly. My friends stared at me for a few minutes, looking surprised and shocked.

"Wait, you hired him?" Kristen asked. I nodded.

"I wanted to get over Keith, and so I thought getting a boyfriend would help. So I hired Adrian as my boyfriend." I explained.

"So the whole relationship was a lie?" Julia asked. I shook my head at that one, looking down at my hands to then notice the locket I wore around my neck that still had Adrian and my picture in it.

"No, most of it was real." I say, opening the locket to look at the picture.

"When did it start getting real?" Kristen asked. I let the tears fall as I looked at the picture, the night of the concert, the day mine and Adrian's love began to grow.

"At the concert." I answer, wiping the tears from my cheeks and sniffling. "He had gotten jealous because of Trey, and out of the blue kissed me." I smile at the memory. "That kiss started it all."

"Awe that's so romantic." Julia said.

"Still doesn't get rid of the face that you lied to us." Kristin said. I looked at her, but she didn't seem mad about it.

"I'm sorry for lying to you guys. I just needed everyone to believe that he was my boyfriend." I said. They smiled shaking their heads, understanding completely.

"Just tell me Sydney." Kristen said, looking at me seriously. "Do you love Adrian?" she asked.

I sighed, closing the locket and holding it closer to my chest, squeezing it tightly in my fist.

"Yes. I do." I answer.

The girls smiled sympathetically, and didn't say much else as they turned back to the front. Kristen turned the car on and began to pull out of the parking lot and I looked out the window, taking in a deep breath. I wanted to say goodbye, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Not yet.

A/n: So the truth comes out. What did you guys think? You will all flip when I you see what I have planned. Review and let me know what you guys think. Trust me there is a huge plot after this. Hope you enjoyed. Until next time, I'm out.