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BOCD High

Room A-3

Wednesday, October 2nd

9:46 A.M.

Massie wanted to punch something, preferably Claire's face.

How did she still win? After Massie had done practically everything to make sure she didn't. There had to be a mistake!

"So congrats Miss Lyons!" Sanders said before pausing to talk to a voice that had asked where the office assistant went, "And congrats to our other homecoming court members Courtney Sova, Brad Holmes, Derrick Harrington, Annie Bolton, and Hayden McKenzie. Have a good day BOCD!"

Massie thought about storming out of the room and demanding to see the paper that said Claire won, but she realized everyone was already staring at her. If she walked out now, they would know that she's pissed. She was going to have to act like she didn't care.

Massie shrugged as if to say, No biggie, and picked her pen back up, returning to conjugating French verbs, or at least tried. Every time she tried to think of what the answer was, her mind went blank. It was as if she hadn't been paying attention in class for the past three years. She decided to write down whatever came to mind, even if was wrong. As long as everybody thought she was focusing on something other than losing to Claire, she was in the clear.

By the time class ended Massie felt disoriented, but the second she walked out of the classroom she felt determined. She was going to win, no matter what.

She marched to Tiffany's locker, slamming it shut just as Tiffany had retracted her hand after she placed her things back. She turned to her, black eyes squinting at her. Massie refused to feel scared, it should be Tiffany who's scared of her.

"You said I would win if I did what you said." Massie said through clenched teeth.

"I don't ever remember saying that specifically." Tiffany smirked, "And even if I gave you that idea, you did everything I needed you to do."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Massie whispered. What was Tiffany planning? And how did she miss the fact that she was being used as Tiffany's pawn?!

"I needed you to look like you could also win, so if someone changed the results of homecoming they would believe it." Tiffany explained, "I was going to change the results myself if Claire won, but she took them before I could get to them."

Massie gasped and what felt like a thousand questions flashed through her head. Claire took them? Why would she want to take the results? Did that mean she sent the text at lunch? Did that text mean Claire was surrendering?

Massie smiled at the thought of Claire surrendering.

"Why would you want to change the results?" Massie got back to the point.

"So I could say it was Alicia that changed the results." Tiffany said, "I knew everyone would believe it since she did it last year."

"So this was just so you could get revenge on Alicia?" Massie placed her hands on her hips. How dare Tiffany use her like that?

"Basically." Tiffany smiled an obviously fake smile. "But I also needed someone to at least be seen with since Mikayla and the two dumb bitches that follow her around decided they're too good to be seen with me."

So Tiffany also wanted a friend? Or at least the look of one? Massie was so confused. There was too much information to absorb so quickly.

"Besides, I can still make you win by Friday night."

BOCD High

D-Hall

Wednesday, October 2nd

10:31 A.M.

Claire took in a deep breath, trying to calm herself as everyone that had ever had a conversation with her congratulated her as she passed in the hall. Even people she's never seen in the school before told her how much she deserved to win.

This wasn't supposed to happen! Claire wanted to scream at the top of her lungs to everyone in the hall, Massie was supposed to win!

"You okay?" Courtney asked as they turned into the bathroom.

"Yeah," Claire sighed, "just tired."

"Why was Natalie so pissed last period?" Monica asked Annie as they came through the door of the bathroom.

"I dunno." Annie shrugged, "Probably about something Hayden did."

Monica shrugged too before she turned around and checked herself in the full-length mirror on the far wall.

"God, these straps are killing me." She tried adjusting the straps of her Cosabella leopard- print sling and black lace babydoll.

Claire looked at Monica's black Cosabella legging covered legs with wide eyes. She's been getting thinner, and even though Monica only gained a little weight since she said she would try to stop her bulimia, that extra weight was obviously gone now.

The door to the bathroom suddenly burst open and Natalie stormed in.

"I'm going to kill her!" She screamed before kicking the door to one of the stalls so hard that it hit the wall with a slam making everyone else jump. The infamous Natalie Turner temper was back with a vengeance.

"Who?" Kristen asked. Claire hadn't even realized that she, Dylan, and Britta had come in after Natalie.

"Alicia." Natalie huffed, crossing her arms across her chest. "She's the one that Hayden broke up with me for."

"How do you know?" Monica asked the question everyone was thinking. No one wanted to believe Alicia had done it, not after they had finally given her their trust.

"Other than their flirting in the hall, call it intuition."

"That's not a whole lot of evidence." Britta rolled her eyes, "Hayden is the biggest man-whore in school, he flirts with everything that's considered female."

"Seriously Natalie, it's pretty old news." Annie said as she finger-combed her long blond hair, "Hayden even flirts with us."

"None of you have noticed how both of them always disappear whenever we hang out with the guys?" Natalie exclaimed.

"No." Everyone said at once.

"Ugh, whatever. I know they're together and I'll prove it sooner or later." Natalie said, leaning against the sink.

Monica and Claire exchanged their she's never going to learn look before Claire turned to the mirror above the sink. She looked like a perfect ten in her sky blue Cosabella V-neck lace- trim babydoll, white Ralph Lauren leggings, white Frye moccasin slippers, and a sky blue silk/ white lace eye mask that was above her forehead. Her side fishtail braid rested perfectly on her shoulder and chest just as it was supposed to. No wonder Cayden hadn't stopped looking at her the entire time he walked to her first hour. And the entire time she couldn't stop staring at him either, but only wearing underwear to school would cause everyone to look (and they did).

But the entire time they walked together, Claire still got the feeling that Cayden was holding back. But what? She had spent hours yesterday running through what she could have done to upset him, and couldn't think if a thing.

"Earth to Clllaaaaaaaaarie!" Dylan burped the last part.

"Huh?" Claire didn't even know that they had still been talking.

"We're gonna go to the soccer game tonight, you gonna go?"

"Yeah."
As long as Massie doesn't make eye contact with me, I can get through it.

BOCD High

Pottery Room

11:02 A.M.

Cayden threw a chunk of red clay across the room at Hayden when Ms. M wasn't walked out of the room. It hit him in the middle of the chest, causing everyone to laugh.

Hayden stuck up his middle finger before ripping off the plane white shirt that Principal Sanders had forced him to put on. Hayden picked up a piece of clay he wasn't using to make his pot and sent it sailing across the room, hitting Cayden's shoulder. Cayden peeled off his and threw down on the floor.

It had been Hayden's plan to make an excuse to get rid of the shirts, and pottery was the perfect way to dirty a shirt. But it was Cayden who decided to actually throw it Hayden. He deserved it, thanks to him he was in trouble for only wearing boxers to school and not to mention that Claire probably thought he was out of his mind.

His mind betrayed him by thinking back to earlier that morning when he had walked Claire to her first class. For the most of the time it had been silent, but Cayden couldn't think of anything to say. He had been too embarrassed about the whole underwear thing, he didn't want her to think he was trying to get attention. But at the same time he had kept thinking of what Cam said.

He didn't want to think about it, but it kept coming up. If Claire cheated on Cam, would she cheat on him? He wanted to say no, and the other part of him argued that Claire wouldn't and if she did then she had her reasons… he just didn't know.

"Dude!" Josh punched him in the arm.

"What?"

"You spaced out." Josh said looking at him as if he had grown a second head, "You've been doing it all day, so what's up?"

"Cam told me that Claire cheated on him with Derrick." Cayden said quietly. He didn't want anyone to think he was acting like a girl by talking about his feelings because he certainly felt like one. He knew Hayden would give him none stop crap if he talked to him about it.

"Shit!" Josh cursed, "When did he tell you that?"

"Last week."

"No wonder both of you have been acting weird." Josh sighed and pushed his leaning vase that resembled the Leaning Tower of Pisa, "She did, but he's just telling you that to get to you."

"So she did cheat on him?" Cayden asked with wide-eyes.

He was immediately taken back to his freshman year when he had dated Mikayla Splendor. They had started dating at the end of eighth grade, and they were the perfect couple up until the middle of ninth grade. She was always running off when they were together, but she continued to act as if she loved him. So it had been completely shocking for him to find her hooking up with Kyle Forest, a childhood friend of his, at the end of year at a party. It had taken him the entire summer to get over her, and he was still holding a grudge against Mikayla and all cheaters.

"Yeah, but it was because they were so bored with each other." Josh said simply, but Cayden furrowed his brows as if to say how's that supposed to make me feel better?"Don't worry, Claire won't get bored with you! Cam mainly only cared for soccer last year and didn't pay a lot of attention to Claire and when he did it was when others were around. And Derrington was constantly following Claire around like a lost puppy but Claire still loved Cam so she didn't want to break up with him." Cayden listened to the rest of Josh's story of Claire cheating on Cam before he asked, "If you were in her position, what would you have done?"

Cayden sighed. Cheat.

He suddenly felt bad for thinking Claire would cheat on him. How could he have thought that?

"So don't let it get to you, Cam was just trying to get to you." Josh said before pulling out his phone and texting Kristen.

"But why would he try to get to me?" Cayden asked rhetorically, "Other than trying to make me break up with Claire?"

"There is no other reason." Josh said, "Cam wants her back."

BOCD High

Café, Table 15

Wednesday, October 2nd

12:43 P.M.

Derrick dipped his French fry in some ketchup before shoving it in his mouth. Screw not eating when you're heartbroken, he was starving! He had eaten almost his entire tray full of food while everyone else wasn't even half-way through with theirs.

"You really should talk to her." Cam said, looking at him with concern, "You have ketchup on your face."

Derrick wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, "I'm done with talking to her."

"But she never cheated on you!" Cam exclaimed, "I could tell when I talked to her, she loves you!"

"Even if she didn't, there will always be that small amount of me that doubts her honesty." Derrick said, slamming his hands down on the table. He was tired of Cam constantly saying that he should talk to Massie, "Seriously Cam, I don't want to talk about it!"

"Whatever man." Cam shrugged before returning to his attention back to his hamburger.

Derrick got up, threw his garbage in the trash and went back to his seat, his eyes roaming the faces in the crowd as he sat back down.

About six or seven tables away, Massie was looking down at her iphone until she looked up and met his gaze as if she had known he was looking at her. He quickly darted his eyes away, but this went unnoticed by Cam and Josh. They both rolled their eyes at him.

"Why do both of you have such fucked up relationships?" Josh asked sounding annoyed.

"It's not like you don't have the same problems we do!" Derrick snapped, "You're dating your ex's best friend and you know she still likes you."

"So?" Josh snorted.

"So, it's Alicia who doesn't sit back and take that kind of shit." Cam said, leaning back in his chair and crossing his arms across his chest.

"Whatever." Josh said as Nolan took a seat next to him.

"Women." All three said.

Nolan looked at Derrick, Josh, and Cam's faces, there was no doubt they were completely and utterly confused and frustrated with women. Well, they can join the club, he thought.

Nolan had thought he had Monica figured out… but last night proved him wrong and it had felt like a big punch to the stomach.

He knew everything about her. Her favorite movie was Can't buy me love, her favorite song was 'Under the Sheets' by Ellie Goulding, she's 5'10, she can never decide on what her favorite color is, she gets straight A's and is a perfectionist. But that's information anyone could get just by talking to her. He knew the deeper stuff too, like her bulimia, how she always pulls out her phone and starts to text someone whenever she's in public and trying to avoid someone, how she twirls a piece of hair around her finger whenever she's nervous (which is a rare thing for her), how she wants to follow in her mom's footsteps by going to college at Michigan State instead of Columbia but thinks her parents won't like the idea of her not going to an Ivy League school, that she can go from being calm and reserved to fun , loud, and crazy with a snap, that she loves cheerleading and lacrosse and hates not doing either of them.

He knew she loved Liam, but she wanted to marry him? After everything he's done to her? It was bad enough that she was even with him, but MARRY him?!

One of the few things that also confused him was how Monica could even love Liam after they had secretly dated last year. Monica herself had said how much she loved him and how much better he was compared to Liam, the guy who had acted as if she didn't exist… So why would she choose Liam over him? It made no sense of why Monica would welcome Liam back with open arms and kick him to the curve like they never dated.

He knew part of the reason was because both of them had hurt Annie, but Monica knew that he really did love her. Besides, as horrible as it was for him to do- he only dated Annie to get to Monica. Nolan had eventually loved Annie, but his feelings for Monica were stronger… always have been and always will be.

"Whoa, what's with the pity party?" Nolan's friend, Aaron Harper, laughed as he sat down. Normally there wouldn't be enough room, but Cayden and Hayden had decided to sit with the girls today, and the rest of Derrick, Josh, and Cam's soccer friends had decided to practice during lunch.

Nolan missed sitting with everyone else, but thanks to Cam and Claire's break up and everything else that was going on, the guys had decided that it would be better to separate themselves for a while.

"Where's Ashley?" Nolan asked, avoiding Aaron's question. But Nolan knew the answer to his own question, Ashley Frayer, Aaron's girlfriend was busy hooking up with Joel Elliot in the parking lot like she always did during lunch. Nolan had been the one to tell Aaron.

"We broke up last night so she's probably off with Joel." Aaron said, glaring down at the food in front of him. Everyone knew that he and Ashley were eventually going to break up but neither of them seemed to want to be the first one to say they wanted to break up.

"That sucks." Derrington said, and everyone knew he meant Welcome to the pity party.

BOCD High

Claire's Locker

Wednesday, October 2nd

1:02 P.M.

Claire grabbed her phone from her white Marc Jacobs crossbody, wishing she had worn something with pockets so she wouldn't have to wait in every class wishing she could check her texts for an important text from Mr. Rivera concerning her last name.

She scrolled down, and tapped on the one she was looking for and smiled at stupidly down at the message. Thanks to Mr. Rivera and his contacts that were able to quickly change her name faster than normal, her name was now officially Claire Brielle- Marie Sova. She had decided to keep the name Claire since that's who she's been for most of her life, it would feel weird to be called by a different first name now, she would never be able to get used to it. But she had made the first and middle name she was supposed to have her new middle name. And of course she changed her last name now that she was finally with her real family.

Claire read the rest of the text and almost dropped it once she reached the end. Todd was Jay and Judi's son, so now they had to wait to see if any relatives wanted him before they could have him stay with them.

But the vibration of her phone that signaled a new text suddenly reminded Claire about the media. It was only a matter of time before they found out, and she was running out of it. The announcement of Rupert's show was tomorrow, and it was likely that news of her being kidnapped and raised by another family was going to be on the seven o'clock news according to the text.

"Hey." Cayden said from behind, making her jump, "Sorry, didn't mean to scare you."

Claire was about to say that it was okay but was taken by surprise when his lips brushed hers, but she welcomed it.

"Well that's a complete three-sixty compared to this morning." She said smiling when he pulled away.

Cayden nervously ran his hand through his short dirty blonde hair, "Yeah, sorry if I've been a little weird the past couple of days. Good news is I'm over it."

"What did you need to get over?" Claire asked warily. If they were going to have serious relationship, she wanted to be honest with each other. Not communicating ruined her last relationship and she didn't want to screw this one up so early.

Cayden took in a nervous breath, "Cam told me that you cheated on him with Derrington."

That bastard! Claire wanted to scream. Just because Cam's relationship with Courtney went down the toilet didn't mean that Cam had to destroy hers!

Shit! Shit! Shit! Claire thought once she remembered that Cayden hates cheaters since Mikayla cheated on him. He was probably never going to trust her again!

"But Josh told me the whole story, and I don't blame you… if I was in the same position you were I would have done the same thing." Cayden said quickly upon seeing Claire's face completely fall.

"I just wish you would have talked to me about it." Claire sneaked peek up at him and saw guilt spread across his face.

"I know, and I'm sorry… I didn't know how to talk to you about it. I didn't want you to be pissed." He said apologetically.

Claire stared up into his shocking electric blue eyes and knew there was no way she could ever be pissed at him. She threw her arms around his neck and was immediately surrounded by his muscular arms, and she finally felt all of her stress disappear for those few seconds that they were locked in embrace.

BOCD High

Principal Sanders' Office

Wednesday, October 2nd

1:06 P.M.

"But it's not fair!" Tiffany said, leaning forward in her seat, "How do you know that someone didn't place the results in Coach Worthy's office after they changed them?"

Massie forced herself not to smirk and appear innocent. The plan was working perfectly so far.

"Because there was the mark on the results." Sanders sighed, he was obviously tired of talking to them about it, and he was about to give in.

"I'm sure one of the smart kids that are into computers could figure out how to do it." Massie said, and she knew it was a good argument.

"Miss Block, we can't have another vote so close to homecoming." Sanders said, trying and failing to look sorry, "There's not enough time."

"Sure there is." Tiffany said sweetly, "All you have to do is have everyone vote tomorrow in first period and announce the results at lunch."

"It's only fair." Massie smiled.

Sanders sighed, "Fine, but it's going to be the last vote and the results stand with whoever wins no matter what, no re-votes."

Massie and Tiffany stood up, thanking him before walking out of his office and closing the door behind them before bursting out into laughter. Too easy, Massie thought.

And tomorrow was just as easy. All they had to do was steal the results and change them (if they needed to be) and place them in the office an hour before lunch.

"I swear, everyone in this school is just as stupid as they look." Tiffany hissed as they walked out of the main office and into the hall, directing it to a freshman wearing flannel plaid pajamas.

Harsh, Massie thought, but laughed anyway. It was better for someone else to be insulted than her.

"TIFFANY!" A voice from behind screeched.

Massie and Tiffany stopped and turned around, watching as Alicia stomped up to them.

"You told everyone I changed the results, didn't you?" Alicia yelled with her fists balled at her sides.

Massie was surprised that word had spread so quickly, Tiffany had only spread the rumor to a few people at lunch. But then again, it didn't really surprise her. Gossip could spread faster than wildfire in this school.

"Just admit it Slut-icia, you'll never win." Tiffany smirked, practically answering Alicia's question without saying anything remotely correct to the actual answer. Alicia opened her mouth to retort, but Tiffany beat her, "And you can tell that to your friends too."

With that, Tiffany turned on her heal and began to walk away. Massie stared at Alicia for a few seconds, glaring back at her before turning around and following Tiffany down the hall.

The Block Estate

Massie's Bedroom

Wednesday, October 2nd

9:10 P.M.

Massie turned on the flat screen that hung on the wall and turned down the volume before returning to her desk to finish her homework.

She pulled up Sparknotes and wrote down the few things she need for her Huck Finn worksheet for English. Massie knew she was technically cheating since all of the English teachers in the school practically forbid all of the students from using Sparknotes, but that never stopped anyone, it actually encouraged them.

Once she was done with her homework she signed on to her Facebook, clicking on her notifications she saw that Talise posted pictures with her tagged in them.

These better make me look good, Massie thought. She clicked on the notification and the screen changed to a picture of Massie, Shea, Talise, and Tiffany in Senior hall, smiling at the camera the way real friends should.

Massie noted that she looked sexy and sultry in her pink Ralph Lauren silk and lace camisole and matching silk shorts and white sequin short UGGs. Her new spray tan gave her a special glow as if she had spent a week in St. Barts, and her wavy hair framed her face perfectly. She took extreme satisfaction that she was the best looking in the picture, and it was about time.

Ever since she entered high school, Massie felt as if she was surrounded by beautiful people that always got the attention for it… the attention that used to belong to Massie. Whenever people said 'She's so beautiful' or 'I wish I looked like her' it used to be directed towards her, but then it was directed towards the upperclassmen A-listers, Monica and all of her bitchy sluts, and then Claire. Massie felt as if she had been pushed out of the spotlight and forced to sit in the dark with all of the other LBRs.

But now Massie was back for the warmth of the spotlight, and once she's announced for homecoming court tomorrow, she'll never give it up.

Massie looked back at the screen and went down the page of newsfeed and stopped when something caught her eye.

It was Jane Olenska's status, but that wasn't what made Massie stare at the screen in shock. It was someone's name that appeared under saying that they liked it.

Jane Olenska accepted to Yale :)

Claire Sova and 23 others like this

Claire Sova?!

Massie hoped it was a cousin of Monica, but clicked on the name just to make sure. And a picture of Claire showed up in the profile picture. What the hell?

Why would Claire change her name on Facebook?

Massie pulled up Google and typed the name Claire Sova in the search bar.

After hitting enter, Massie read several titles that had popped up:

News for Claire Sova:

Long lost daughter of Sova Family found!

Fifteen years away from her family, Brielle Sova is finally home

Claire Lyons is found to be American royalty-the lost daughter of one the country's wealthiest families

Actress Claire Lyons is really Brielle Sova!

"Claire? Brielle?" Massie whispered, how could any of this be true. She grabbed the remote on her desk and pointed it at the TV, changing the channel to the news and turning the volume up.

Winkie Porter's face appeared on the screen as the news went from the studio and showed her standing in front of a large gated driveway with the Sovas' home in the background, "Fifteen years ago a member from the family that lives in the home you see behind me… went missing. The daughter of Alex and Addison Sova, Brielle Marie Sova, was kidnapped while the family lived in Lansing, Michigan when she was only four months old."

Monica's family lived in Michigan? Massie had thought that her family had always lived in Westchester.

Winkie started to walk down to sidewalk with her microphone in hand as the camera followed her and showed a better view of the large estate, "The young girl was at hospital with her parents and sister at the time, when a nurse that was treating her sister for chicken pox noticed she also had it and took her away from her parents, saying she needed to be taken out of the room to be treated… but was never seen again after that, until now."

"We now know that the nurse that had taken her was May George, paid by Jay and Judi Lyons to kidnap her after their own young daughter, Stacy Hope Lyons died a few weeks earlier, also four months old, of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome."

Massie stared at the screen in disbelief. Jay and Judi stole Claire-Brielle- or whoever the hell she was?!

"And the story only gets more complicated as it turns out that after living in Florida for twelve years, the Lyons moved to Westchester, New York, the place where the Sovas moved to a few years before. And that actress Claire Lyons, who is rumored to be starring in Rupert Mann's new television show, Very, went to school with her long lost sister, even befriending her."

Massie's mouth dropped. Claire was going to be on a TV show?! WHAT?!

"After rising suspicions a short time ago , the family got a DNA test that showed that Claire Lyons was definitely Brielle Sova."

Winkie went on to say how happy the Sovas were to have her home and what was most likely to happen to Jay and Judi, but Massie couldn't hear any of it. All she could think was one thing: Claire was a Sova…

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***Dylan and Kristen glared at Alicia entered and Claire thought the same thing that was going through their minds, How could she betray us like that again?

***"MONICA MADELINE SOVA!" Her mother yelled as she stared down at the ring on her finger as if it were a symbol of her death sentence. She looked over to her dad and noticed that he was turning red with rage, glaring at the ring in anger… she knew he was about to explode.

***"We broke up for a reason Cam." Claire rolled her eyes, "Besides, I'm happy with Cayden."

"Do you love him?" Cam asked immediately.

"I don't care what you do, all you have to do is suck durning half-time on Friday." Worthy barked.

***"And for a final time, your female sophomore representative for homecoming court is…"