A/N: Ahhh alas, and thus I begin to tilt the fulcrum, lol, hope you enjoy this chapter.

"Al, there's…something that we need to talk about…I'm moving." Abbie says, before she shakes her head and sighs. "No, that's too straight forward…I don't know how I'm going to do this. Okay, I'm going to go up there, I'm going to ask for her, and we're going to talk and hopefully this won't turn out as bad as it is in my head. Alright Carmichael, you can do this."

With that, Abbie gets out of her car and makes her way up the cobblestone pathway to Alex's house. She steps onto the porch and raises a rather shaky finger to the doorbell, letting it linger for a moment before she actually has the courage to press it The bell chimes through the house.

Seconds pass before Rachel is the one who opens the door and her face lights up upon seeing the visitor on the other side. "Abbie!" She exclaims excitedly earning a smile from the older teen.

"Hey Rache. How's it going? How's little league cheer?" Abbie teases.

"Hey, it is NOT little league cheer. I'll be in high school next year. You make me sound like I'm a baby." Rachel replies with a roll of her eyes that resembles that of Alex. "Anyways, what're you doing here? Here to see my sister right?"

Abbie shoves her hands into her pockets and nods her head in response. "Yeah. There's something important I need to talk to her about. She home?"

"Yeah, she's here. Maybe seeing you will put her in a better mood. She's been in one of her moods practically all day. She almost punched me when I asked her if she was on her period or something. Anyway, I'll go get her if you want. I'd ask you to come in, but since you said it's important I thought you might like some privacy away from our parents."

"No, that's fine, I'll just wait out here." 'Just in case she might cry.'

Rachel nods her head and leaves the door cracked a little as she disappears back into the house to get her sister. A few minutes pass by before the eldest Cabot sister returns to the door and her facial expression softens upon seeing her girlfriend. "Hey…"

"Hey you…" Abbie replies as the world's tiniest smile flits across her face. "I was wondering if we could talk…"

"Same…but can I go first?" Alex speaks up quietly, taking a deep breath when Abbie nods for her to continue on. "I'm really sorry about how I treated you the night of the game and even before that. I should have been more considerate of your time and I should have let you focus on your game instead of me. It's my fault that you weren't focused that night, which leads me to, I shouldn't have yelled at you like I did. I shouldn't have gone off on you in front of everyone because you were having a bad night and it was all because of me to begin with. You didn't deserve that and I'm sorry."

Abbie hangs her head and shrugs her shoulders. "To be honest, I wasn't really mad at you. I felt numb last night and nothing was really processing clearly for me. But there is something really important I have to tell you. I-…I love you, okay? There's never been any girl that has caught my attention like you have and you're really special for that but…I'm moving Alex."

All of the color seems to drain from Alex's face and her heart sinks like a thousand pound bag of bricks. "You're…what?" she whispers, not even fully comprehending what's been told.

"I'm moving…My dad got this job offer to coach basketball down in Oklahoma and my family is going to be moving there. I don't want to go, honest I don't, but I have to. I'm sorry."

"You can't be moving. No, you can't go! What about me? What about us? You're pretty much telling me you're breaking up with me right now!"

"I don't want to break up with you Alex! God, I love you! If there was anyway that I could stay, I would, but my parents have made up their minds and there's no way that my dad is going to turn down this offer."

Alex is stock still for a moment before she throws her self into Abbie's arms and immediately begins sobbing on the brunette's shoulder. "P-please…you can't leave me…I need you!"

Abbie feels her own tears begin to fall as she desperately clutches the sobbing girl in her arms. "I'm so sorry Ali…I'm so, so, so sorry."

But that was a week ago, and now as she stands in the middle of the airport, Alex feels like her entire world has crumbled around her. She has cried more in this single day than she is sure that she ever has her entire life. Clutching Abbie in a tight grip, she sobs hysterically for she doesn't want to let go, because if she let's go that means that it's real and she just doesn't want to believe that it's happening.

Abbie pulls away from Alex long enough to say goodbye to the others that have gathered to see her off to her flight. She walks over to Liv and pulls her best friend into a tight hug, thoroughly surprised that the shorter girl is tearing up a bit. "Are you crying Benson?" she teases, laughing a little trying to lighten the moment.

Olivia pulls back and wipes the tears lining her eyes. "No…yeah, maybe a little." She admits before she wraps an arm around Serena's waist again. "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too." Abbie replies as she turns towards Serena and holds out her arms. "And I know I'll miss you. There isn't anyone who I know is as social as you are."

Serena laughs through her small amount of tears and returns the hug. "Take care of yourself, and don't get into trouble down there in Oklahoma."

"Yes Ma'am," Abbie responds with a smile as she moves down towards Kim. It pains her a little to see that the shorter girl won't exactly look at her directly at the moment. "Could you give us a minute you guys?" she asks the rest of the group, but to Alex's slight confusion but she's to distraught to protest.

Abbie turns back to Kim and still is a little hurt that the girl still won't look at her. "Would it be too much to ask you for a hug?" she asks quietly yet expectantly.

Kim shakes her head and wraps her arms around her self. "You broke my heart and then you avoided me like I was the plague, like I had some sort of deadly disease or something which only proceeded to break my heart even further. I never had the courage to tell you that I fell in love with you but now I'm glad that I didn't because I would hate to imagine how you would have treated me if I had." She admits quietly. "Did you tell Alex what happened."

"No I felt…I feel like this is enough for her right now and since my obliviousness shares most of the blame here…let's just let that be our little secret. Okay?" Abbie suggests with a raise of her eyebrows.

"Alright." Kim replies although her voice cracks on the tail end of the word. She places her hand over her mouth in an attempt to keep her self together. When she sees Abbie try to hug her, she steps back and shakes her head vigorously. "No, no…I'll be fine."

Abbie nods her head and turns back to their returning group of friends. She wraps her arms around Alex once again in an attempt to calm the blonde and get her to stop sobbing. "I'll call you okay? I'll call, I'll write, I'll do whatever it is I have to do to stay in contact with you okay?"

Alex shakes her head as she pulls away from the hug. "Abbie I…no…you won't. You say you will and you will for a while, but then everything will start to die down and fade away. I'll be expecting a call that you'll never make or be waiting for a letter that you'll never send. Please I…I can't set my self up for those kinds of broken promises. I just…I don't want you to go."

"I don't want to go." Abbie murmurs before she presses their lips together, tasting the tears that have run across Alex's lips. She is forced to break the kiss when she hears her name and turns to see her family waiting for her at the gate for their plane. "Alex, I have to go now…"

"No please…stay with me. Don't leave." Alex begs as she keeps a tight nit grip on Abbie. "Please don't go."

"Alex, I have to…."

"No! Please! Don't leave me!"

Serena literally has to intervene and gentle tear Alex away from the grip that she was keeping on Abbie. She feels her best friend go weak in the knees and she cautiously guides the two of them to the floor in order to keep the hysteric blonde from collapsing in a heat.

Abbie's heart snaps in two when she sees Alex on her knees and sobbing hysterically on Serena's shoulder. She would want nothing more than to run back and wrap Alex in her arms and tell her that she could stay but she knows that it's pointless to wish for the impossible.

"It's for the best Abbie." Mark says quietly as he claps his daughter on the shoulder, ushering her through the terminal gate with his wife and son following not to far behind them.

"Alex, come on honey, we gotta go." Serena says quietly as she brushes some of her best friend's blonde hair behind her ear.

"It hurts so much Rena…I-I can't…"

"You have to Alex…I'm so sorry honey."

"I can't Serena. I need her and…she's gone. How am I supposed to continue to go on like this?"

Later

" Hey guys, where's Alex?" JJ asks curiously as she walks into cheer practice and notices the absence of the blonde at the start of practice when she's usually the first one there.

Serena cocks her eye at noticing the innocent blonde approaching her hand in hand with none other than Casey Novak. "She ah, she decided that she was going to stay home today. She still a little torn up at the fact that Abbie's moved away." she explains to JJ though she keeps her gaze locked on Casey. She can't help but notices the girl's shiny crimson hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, accompanied by her wardrobe, a light form fitting tee under a leather jacket and form fitting skinny jeans with simple converse sneaks. It is a definite change from the redhead's typical attire and to be honest, Serena thinks she actually looks kind of hot but she immediately blushes and curses her self at the thought. "You look nice Casey."

"Thanks." Casey replies as she briefly looks at her shoe covered feet. "It's a nice change I guess."

"You can go sit over there and watch if you want to. If you wanna leave though I understand." JJ says as she turns to Casey.

"No, I'll stay. It's no problem. I think it's cute watching you cheer anyway." Casey responds as she leans down and presses a kiss to the petite blonde's lips before she heads over to the bleachers where she sits down feeling a little disgusted with her self.

She can't help but feel like the scum of the earth with everything that's going on right now. She like's JJ, she really does, she likes her a lot, and more than that friend zone kind of stage either. But at the very same time, she still feels like her heart belongs to Alex. She often finds her self comparing the two blonde's against one another and she knows that's not fair.

What makes things even worse is the fact that Casey knows that JJ really likes her; like really likes her. The more and more time they spend together, the more she realizes that JJ likes her. But she likes Alex; which is why she hasn't asked JJ to officially be her girlfriend. How is it fair to ask someone to be your girlfriend when your heart already belongs to someone else?

"So, you two seem pretty cozy." Serena inquires with a smile on her face. "What's going on there?"

JJ stops stretching and whips around towards the curious blonde. "If your going to start telling me how I shouldn't be around her and start criticizing me on my decisions, then you can just stop right there."

Serena holds up her hands in defense and shakes her head. "Jennifer, calm down. I wasn't about to attack you. When ever you're around her you seem really school girl giddy and you start blushing like crazy. I was just wondering if you were dating so I could be happy for you."

"Sorry, I guess I'm just used to Alex doing that thing she does…" JJ mumbles as she begins blushing. She looks over to Casey who is sitting on the bleachers doing something on her phone before she turns back to Serena and sighs. "I really like her a lot and she acts like she likes me too, but she hasn't asked me to be her girlfriend. It's almost like…there's something holding her back, you know? I don't think she realizes just how good I am at reading human behavior. Sometimes she'll look at me and I can see for a split second, it looks like she wants more and then it changes to her realizing she isn't getting more and she's just settling; then her mask goes back up. I don't know what it is I can do to make her want me like I want her to, you know? I just feel like she wants more than I can actually give. It's almost like…she wants someone else."

Serena bites her lower lip and refrains from making a comment. Although, the facial expression doesn't go unnoticed and she immediately curses at JJ's over observant tendencies.

"Why did you make that face? What do you know that I don't? Don't lie to me Serena, because I know that you can't. You're a terrible liar." JJ states bluntly.

"I know." Serena whines as she stomps her foot. "I don't know I was just thinking. It might be a possibility that she likes someone else, I don't know. I just think you should talk to her, you know?"

"Yeah, I guess your right. It's just…she's so misunderstood, you know? People were so quick to judge her that no one actually took the time to get to know her and figure out what a nice person she really is."

"I get what you're saying, but when the majority sees her act like a jerk, the majority is going to treat her like a jerk. But I've seen something in her that I haven't seen in like…ever, and that's a heart. Maybe you were that one person that was able to change her for the better."

JJ nods with a small smile on her face. "I hope so."

"Me too." Serena replies quietly before she clears her throat and smiles. "Now let's see how much of this practice we can get done before all of us want to conspire and offer Carly to the wind gods."

"You all believe in wind gods?!"

"It was a joke Jen…"

After cheer practice, Serena practically forces Kim into her car so they can drive over the see Alex and she practically drags the protesting brunette to the Cabot's front door where she stops and points a finger in Kim's face. "I don't know what yours and Alex's problem is but it needs to be fixed. No matter what's going on with you two right now, we are still best friends got it? Through thick and thin and we are not going to let something stupid and petty tear us apart. As much of a bitch she has been lately, Alex is still our best friend and she still needs us right now. So we are going to go up there and we are going to be the amazing best friends we are and check on her, got it?"

Kim opens her mouth to protest but decides that it might be best if she doesn't say anything at all. "Right," she replies with a nod of her head.

Serena's scowl fades and she puts on a smile when Veronica comes to the door. "Good evening Mrs. Cabot. How are you today?"

"I'm good, and how are you girls?" Veronica replies, stepping to the side to allow the two teens to enter the house.

"We're great." Kim replies with a sincere smile. "We came to check on Alex."

"It's good that you did." Veronica replies before she sighs and shakes her head. "I've never seen her like this before. If you can please try to convince her to come down and eat something. She's just been cooped up in that room for I don't know how long. She's starting to worry me."

"Don't worry, we've come to spread our happiness and joy. C'mon Kim." Serena exclaims cheerfully as she sets about climbing the stairs.

The two make their way down one of the hallways towards Alex's room and Serena quietly opens the door without even bothering to knock. As soon as they step into the room, they see literally everything in complete disarray. Used tissues litter the floor next to the bed and in the bed a large lump can be seen right in the center.

"Oh my god." Kim gasps as her OCD begins to kick in and she has the urge to go around to room cleaning up anything and everything she can get her hands on.

"Ali?" Serena says quietly as she cautiously sits on the edge of the bed. "It's Kim and me. We've come to visit honey."

"Go 'way." the lump grumbles heavily from under the blankets.

"Alex, seriously, you cannot stay in her all day like this. Look at this place!" Kim exclaims as her voice increases several octaves. "I mean…seriously. We're really concerned about you all."

"Kim's right." Serena adds on. "Everything will get better eventually but you just can't sit here down in the dumps forever."

Alex shoots up in bed and stares at her two best friends with her bloodshot eyes. Her face is paler than usual simply because she is void of any make up and the dark circles under her eyes make her look like she's physically ill. "What if that's all I'm worth right now!? There's no reason to do anything else Serena! Look at me! Do you see what I am without her here?! Do you have any idea of what it's like to lose the person that you have literally given your everything to?! I gave her all of me Serena! I gave her my energy, I gave her my time, I gave her my heart, hell, I gave her my virginity! Now she's gone and she took all of that with her! My heart, mind and body I gave to her and now she's gone! She took all of me you guys and now I feel like I'm nothing. I'm not worth anything anymore. I should have listened…I shouldn't have given her everything because now that she's gone, I don't know what to do with myself. Now that she's gone…I feel empty."

Exit Abbie stage left, Enter Casey, stage right. Yes, yes, I have glorious written Abbie out of the story…for now. Mwahahaha, I mean come on, you guys honestly didn't think I'd get rid of her forever now would I? What fun would the future be if I did that? Lol, leave your thoughts?