I actually have the free time to write. It's a miracle! (For me anyway. I've been getting so bored of homework! But luckily school is now over!)

So anyway, I left off the last chapter with quite a few roads I could take to continue with the plot. Which one shall I choose? Read on to find out!

Enjoy!

Chris' POV

"No way," Cathy said after I had told her, Danny, and Bryce about what had happened at school. They had a right to know, and Phoebe's threat didn't scare me. The kids at school knew me better than they knew her, and trusted my word over Wendy's. They'd have to work up a pretty good story to black mail this guy.

"Yes way," I replied.

"I just can't believe Phoebe would do something like that," Bryce said, shaking his head and staring at the ground in a confused sort of concentration. "I mean, I know she's manipulative, she always has been but… I just don't get it!"

"Hey, all is fair in love and war," Danny pointed out. "Even though that statement is a total lie…"

"We'll get back to the truth of that matter later. Right now, we need to work up a plan to get Mark and Wendy back," Cathy said. "And it has to be just as creative and sneaky as theirs."

"I don't know if we're capable of formulating a plan like that," I commented, thinking about it. I mean, sure, we could probably piece together some kind of plan based on plans like it in movies and what not. But could we actually carry it out was my question.

"Maybe. But you know, it doesn't have to be all that sneaky," Bryce said, his eyes gazing off into the distance, as though he'd had a really good idea.

"I think someone's got an idea," Cathy said in a singsong voice, prompting Bryce to share his thoughts with us.

"I have a plan, but it may not work," the silver alien replied, still looking off into space as his hand found his chin in thought. "But what've we got to lose, right? I mean, a little risk wouldn't hurt…"

"Bryce, just tell us the plan!" Danny exclaimed, growing slightly impatient with our friend.

"Ok," Bryce said, shaking his head. "Here's what I think we should do…"

~The Next Day~

Sam's POV

"You'll never guess what happened," Mark said to me as he sat down next to me in study hall.

"You're parents told you that you're moving away to Antarctica to live with the penguins?" I guessed unenthusiastically. Part of me really hoped that he'd say yes.

"No," Mark answered giving me an exasperated glance. Darn. "I heard that Danny has been spending an awful lot of time with that new girl Phoebe."

"And?" I prompted for him to go on, still remaining unamused and keeping my eyes fixed on my books.

"I think they're secretly dating," Mark said. I glanced up at him.

"Mark, she's been here what, a day? There is no possible way that they could be together. Besides, Danny's dating Cathy," I responded. "He'd never do that to her."

"I don't know, Sam. Danny's always seemed like a real ladies man to me," Mark argued calmly, leaning back in his chair with his eyes trained on mine. "For all you know, he could've been cheating on Cathy this whole time."

"No Mark. I've known Danny since first grade. He would never do that," I said in response.

"Fine, believe what you want. But don't come crying to me when you find out that one of your best friends was cheating on your other best friend and you knew about it but didn't try to stop it," Mark retorted, looking off into the distance.

"First of all, I'd never come crying to you about anything. And second, Danny is not cheating on Cathy," I replied defiantly, scooping up my books and heading for the door. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go talk to our math teacher."

"I'll see you later, sweetheart!" Mark called slightly sarcastically after me as I headed for the door. I shook my head and pushed against the door out into the hallway. And the first thing I saw when I opened the door was Cathy.

"Sami, we need to talk," she said seriously. I knew something had to be up, Cathy only called me Sami when something was wrong.

"Ok. Want to go somewhere just the two of us?" I asked.

"What about in the library?" she asked in reply.

"Well Mark's in there…" I began, looking back at the door.

"Then let's not go in there. Here follow me," Cathy said, taking hold of my wrist and gently leading me into one of the hallways that was rarely ever used. We had often questioned why this hallway even existed in the building, but had never come up with a good answer.

"Cathy, what's wrong?" I asked as soon as we were alone. I set my books down and sat on the floor with my back against the wall. Cathy sat down next to me and looked me straight in the eye.

"Ok, you've heard the rumors buzzing around the school, right?" Cathy questioned, looking me straight in the eye.

"About Danny cheating on you?" I asked in response.

"Yep, that's the one," Cathy replied, her blonde hair bouncing as she nodded. "Who'd you hear it from?"

"Mark," I answered, rolling my eyes.

"Thought so. By the way, why are you dating him?" Cathy asked, getting off subject. "You never told me why and I'm still really confused."

"Oh yeah, that. I'm only dating him because he has this plan to break you and Danny up and he's only using me to get you guys jealous, so thus I'm trying to make him think I'm all for it, but really I'm trying to break him from the inside. I think Wendy's in on the plan too. I'm sorry I couldn't tell you sooner but at school if Mark wasn't around, one of his friends were. And I tried calling you last night but you were busy," I explained. "I'm really sorry, Cath! I wish I could've told you sooner." Cathy just stared at me for a minute. Then she broke into a smile.

"Actually Sam, this is great! Now I don't have to tell you about the plan!" she said excitedly.

"Wait, you… know about Mark's plan?" I asked, super confused. What had I missed in one day not hanging with them?

"Yep. And you were right about it being Wendy's too. In fact, I think it may have been her plan in the first place," Cathy replied. "And that's what I wanted to talk to you about: Wendy and Mark's plan and then our plan to counter it."

"Our?" I asked.

"Me, Danny, Chris, and Bryce," Cathy clarified. I nodded. "And yours too now." I smiled.

"And what is this plan of yours?" I questioned.

"Well, remember that rumor we were talking about?" Cathy asked. I nodded again. "We started that. Or more Chris told Wendy and Phoebe that a good rumor to start would be that Danny was cheating on me with Phoebe. And once Wendy got that started, Danny would start acting slightly guilty and I would act all upset and stuff, and then Wendy would think her plan was working but all along, we're just playing our own game! How exciting is that?"

I nearly laughed at how excited Cathy was about this.

"That's actually a really good plan," I answered. "What's stage two?"

"Well," Cathy began, "you see, what we've got is that Wendy and Mark's plan intends to break Danny and I up so that they can have the two of us; Danny to Wendy and me to Mark. So, what we're planning to do is play along with them as long as we can go, and then when they try to get us to separate, we'll just turn around and foil their scheme." This was sounding like a pretty serious plan.

"Sounds good. What can I do to help?" I asked, wanting to get involved.

"Come with us to the clubhouse after school," Cathy answered. "Bryce can work you into the plan; he actually came up with it."

"Awesome," I said in response. "But I do have one more question: do we know what to do if Phoebe finds Bryce?"

"Not a clue," Cathy answered. "And I actually have one question for you: how did you find out about Mark and Wendy's plan?"

"I have my sources," I replied slyly.

And now all of the MBC is on the same side again! Or are they? And who is this mysterious source?

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