A/N: Ah, I did it again with the name stuffing up! I kept naming Molly Lucy and Bob Jeff! Oh well, I fixed it now. If you find a mistake in any chapter, PLEASE TELL ME! And I know, hardly any song references – there was a grand total of… THREE in the last one! I'll try more. Oh, and some of you mightn't have read Chapter 13 as I uploaded it really close to Chapter 12, so you might not have noticed there was a new chapter, so if you're confused with this chapter, that's why! And thanks for the two reviews…

Oh, and this is the first chapter that is focused on one of Sadie's friends from her group, instead of Tim, Patrick or Max. Oh, and did anyone realise that Max wasn't even in the last chapter? Enjoy!

Chapter 14 – Yesterday

I was absolutely and utterly horrified. Why on earth would Prudence do this? I thought she was my friend! And here she is, posting a picture of PATRICK AND I HUGGING and tagging us in it! Great, Max was definitely going to see it! I couldn't believe her! That's when I saw her online that I had a little chat to her…

ME: Prudence, how could you do this?
P: i duno what ur talking about.
M: The picture! What were you thinking posting that?
P: ohhhhh the picture… it's a great one isnt it
M: NO, it isn't! How could you betray me like this?
P: hunny, i didnt do no betraying

It was freaking me out. This certainly didn't sound at all like Prudence. For one, she was really smart and hardly talked in text language. I just logged off in disgust then, not continuing the conversation. Just then, my mobile phone rang.
"Hello?" I asked, not looking at the caller I.D.
"Sadie, did you see Facebook?"
Patrick.
"Yeah, I did. Hey, why aren't you in detention?"
"It doesn't start till tomorrow."
"Oh."
"How are you?"
"I just wonder how Prudence could do something like that."
"It certainly isn't like her."
"Does she know how much trouble she's probably caused? Wait 'til Max sees it… shit is going to hit the fan. He'll be angry."
"Ugh, I hate how I keep getting in the way with you two!"
"What? Patrick, you do no such thing!"
"I do Sadie, face it."
"Patrick, stop blaming yourself for everything. You sound like Daniel this afternoon."
"Daniel? What'd he do?"
"Well he heard it on the grapevine like everyone else about the punch up."
"Which one?"
I couldn't help but laugh at that.
"Both of them. He blames himself for everything. Like you're doing now."
"Really? Dan had nothing to do with it."
"He thinks that because he told me your 'plan' that he initiated everything."
"How stupid."
"I know," I sighed, "But why do you think Prue posted it?"
"Some ulterior motive…?" he suggested, "I really have no idea."
"All I know is that she's gonna get it from me at school tomorrow."
"Okay, I better let you get to waiting for Max's call."
"Okay, see you tomorrow. Bye."
"Bye."

I sat there wondering what Prudence's motives were. It really wasn't like anything she'd do. A minute after I hung up with Patrick, the phone rang again. I looked at the picture on my screen. Max. It was of him standing at the cash register pretending to scan things whilst we 'lived' in David Jones.
"Max?" I probably sounded fearful as I answered the phone.
"Sadie? What is this picture I see here?"
Yep. He was angry.
"What picture?" I tried acting innocent.
"Don't tell me you haven't seen it. You know exactly what I'm talking about."
"So what, I'm hugging Patrick in it. What does that have to do with anything?"
"You like him more than me, don't you?" he accused hurtfully.
"No Max, I do not. Don't be stupid."
"But you were hugging him!"
"People hug friends, Max!"

Silence on the other end.
"Are you denying me the right to have friends?"
"No! But I get worried when you go around hugging male friends…"
"Max, do you know why? Ask me why. Ask me why I was hugging him."
He sighed.
"No I don't know. Sadie, why were you hugging Patrick?"
"Because we were both depressed! Something happened in school today that upset us…"
"What happened? I have a funny feeling this involves Tim."
"Your funny feeling is right. Tim… he…"
"He what?"
"He was spreading some rumours about me in HPE."
"What type of rumours?"
"Well, practically the whole grade knows about the fight on Saturday."
"Fuck," he cussed softly into the phone, shocking me slightly.
"Yeah, and he heard about us and our little camp out in the shopping centre…"
"How on earth did he hear that?"
"He heard my group and I talking! He went around telling people that we…"

I didn't want to say. It would be awkward for the both of us.
"That we what?" he urged hesitantly.
"That we… did something in the shopping centre…"
"Oh, that is ridiculous! That is feral! That is such a Tim thing to do!"
"I know, I know. And, well, Patrick stepped in and defended me. It turned into a fist fight."
"Another one? Patrick really is into defending you."
"You know he likes me. Well anyway, Tim ended up accidentally hitting the teacher, so the three of us had to go to the deputy."
"Why did you have to go?"
"Well they were fighting about me. So anyway, Patrick ended up telling the deputy everything, from the arrest to the fact that Tim likes me too much."
"You like me too much," he mused.
"So now Tim's suspended and Patrick has two week's detention. And it's all my fault!"
"Sadie, it is not your fault."
"Yes it is! All of this would've never have happened if I was never born!"
He laughed briefly, "Ah, come on Sadie! Don't be like that! I tell you, if you were never born I wish I wasn't."
That was beautiful. I started crying.
"Hey, why are you crying?" he asked soothingly.
"I'm just… you're so adorable!"
I could imagine him smiling proudly at himself right about now.

"I've got to go and unpack the dishwasher, keep me updated, yeah?" he said.
"Yeah," I replied, "Talk to you soon."
"Bye."
"Bye."
I hung up and thought about my life.

I woke up on Friday and didn't want to go to school. But then I remembered… Tim was suspended! He wouldn't be there to pick a fight with Patrick or spread more rumours about me. I cheerily got dressed and went to school. But when I got there I remembered something that was bad and I was certainly not looking forward to confronting… the Prudence thing. I couldn't find her all morning until the bell rung. I saw her hurrying off to her pastoral care class with her books and her head hung down. I ran after her.
"Prudence!" I called when I was near her. She whipped around to look at me, obviously very upset.
"What?" she snapped at me. I was taken aback. What was wrong with her?
"Uh, I was just wondering why you posted that picture…"
She rolled her eyes in disgust and marched off, not saying another word to me. I had just been snubbed by one of my best friends for no apparent reason!

I confusedly walked to class, my thoughts pondering over Prudence. Why was she all of a sudden being like that? She was usually cheery and happy. It baffled me so much that I began to forget about the rest of the world.

Heroic, cheeky, red-headed, chocolate-brown-eyed Patrick was creeping up my Ladder of Friendship. Yes, I have a LOF. Said boy is very close to the top, with Max being number one. Tim doesn't even make it on the ladder. I grew closer and closer to Patrick. He had saved me twice now. How could that go on unrecognised? By now the whole grade knew about the Woolworths Incident, as I like to call it. I got awkward and sometimes evil looks from people in the locker room or in class.
"Just ignore them," Patrick advised me as we walked to HPE, my most dreaded class.
"How can I? I get stares everywhere I go!" I complained.
"Yeah, well it's not just you. I get stared at too! If you remember, I was arrested too."
I looked at him as we walked.
"Yeah, you're right. I'm being selfish as usual."
He laugh-groaned.
"It's not all about you, Sadie!" he chuckled jokingly.
"I know, Patty."
Patrick stopped laughing the second I called him that, scowling at me. I giggled.

HPE was awkward. Everyone in this class had witnessed the fight yesterday and Patrick and I received strange looks from people. Ms Garth had a bruise on her cheek. I felt sorry for her. She was another victim to have fallen to Tim.
"This is so awkward," Patrick leaned closer to me whispered, glancing uneasily around the room.
"I know, just act naturally," I whispered back.
We went along doing our work, ignoring the looks from our classmates. No one seemed to notice that Tim was missing. Wow. So he wasn't so popular after all. Those 'friends' probably only hang around him because he's a gossip machine. Oh, how I hated him. There weren't very many people who I absolutely loathed, but he was definitely one of them. We were released from our misery when the bell rang. It was morning tea, time to face Prudence again.

Patrick sat with us now. It was like he couldn't be separated from me. I always liked him, but yesterday… yesterday was a strange day. The punch-up, the hug, and then Prudence going and doing something like that! Molly was the only one sitting in our spot when we arrived. Anna and Prudence were nowhere to be seen.
"Hey," I greeted her as I sat down. Patrick sat next to me.
"Hey," she replied cheerfully.
"Have you seen Anna or Prudence?"
"Not since English."
"Was Prudence… acting strange?"
"Yeah… she was actually. What the hell has gotten into her?"
I glanced at Patrick.
"We have no idea," I replied.
Just as we were speaking, Anna came rushing over to us.
"Guys, what's with Prudence?" she asked us.
"Absolutely no idea."
"Well I just saw her outside B Block on my way back from I.T."
"Oh?"
"She was in distress. Some guy had her cornered. I couldn't see who it was, but it looked like he was trying to… do something."
We all looked at each other pitifully, wondering.
"Then what happened?" Patrick spoke up.
"She managed to get free and then she stormed off crying. I quickly rushed off – I didn't want her to get angry with me for not helping her or anything."
We nodded, understanding.
"Reckon she's gonna sit with us?" Molly asked doubtfully.
"No," I answered, "If she's in this mood, she won't want to talk to anyone. I should know, I tried this morning."
"What did she do?"
"She snapped at me."

Yesterday was a really bad day. We had no idea what had happened to Prudence to make her like this or what the motive behind her posting the picture was, but we knew that it was something really evil.

A/N: Well, what do you think? What on earth is wrong with Prudence? Review please!