Torrance had never felt this awkward before in her life. Being a cheerleader she was always chased after and wanted everywhere, but she definitely didn't get that vibe here. At the moment, she was in a room filled with smoke surrounded by people she had grown up with, but for the most part, never spoken too. Sitting next to her was Gavin, the only person in the room that didn't act as if he despised her. On the couch, across from Tor and Gavin, sat Courtney Shane, Brittany Foster, and Miguel Lopez Fitzgerald. On a giant beanbag next to the couch sat Luke Watson. Torrance had never met Courtney, but she sure had heard some horrible stories about her. Brittany Foster was exactly the same, only Torrance had witnessed some of Brittany's horrible stories; unfortunately, Torrance had cut Brittany from the squad at the beginning of the year, and Brittany hadn't been to happy. Torrance couldn't understand why a nice football player like Miguel would even find a girl like Brittany bearable, let alone date her. But right now Miguel wasn't being the sweet, happy-go-lucky cutie that he had always been to Torrance. Brittany and Courtney, and maybe some of the drugs he was smoking, had rubbed off on him and turned him into a complete ass whole. Other than Gavin, Luke was the only person in the room that Torrance felt like she knew. Torrance had become good friends with a nerdish yet beautiful girl named Leigh Anne Watson during her sophomore year. Leigh Anne and Luke had this weird thing going, you know, the whole love hate thing. Both would give each other a hard time, but really they where nuts for one another. Torrance thought they where great as a couple; Leigh Anne was a total overachiever, and Luke was a total underachiever, together they would balance out perfectly. Unfortunately, summer came, and Leigh Anne and Torrance fell out of touch. Torrance had never found out whether Leigh Anne and Luke hooked up or not, but Torrance didn't really care anyway, she had enough drama to deal with back then (Sophomore year had been when she had made the mistake to start dating Erin).
Todd had gone to find some more bud, leaving Torrance there to wait for him so she could bitch him out and convince him to turn in his best friend, Derrick Webb. As more time went by, and more smoke got drawn into Torrance's lungs, she began to think maybe she should let the whole "rape" thing rest. Afterall, that had been three years ago, when Torrance was only a freshman. Maybe, she hadn't known everything, maybe what she thought had happened really didn't happen. Besides, wouldn't Naomi have turned him in if he really had done something like that? No amount of money would ever have silenced Torrance if that had happened to her. Add to the fact that Torrance didn't remember Derrick as a mean or violent person and she officially decided against confronting Todd about turning in Derrick. All it would do is piss off Todd, and then Courtney would probably bitch at her, all the while being rooted on by Brittany who had been very obvious about the fact that she was still pissed about the whole cheerleading fiasco. No, it was definitely a bad idea. If Naomi wanted to get revenge, she should do it herself. It wasn't any of Torrance's business.
"You wanna know what we should do?" Miguel said excitedly.
"Get laid?" Luke said making Courtney, Brittney, Gavin and Miguel all begin to giggle.
"Well that too, but we should also go to the Crane mansion." Miguel said with a giant smile on his face.
"The Crane mansion? What the fuck is that, a brothel?" Courtney said giggling.
"It's a mansion in the town next to us."
"Harmony? Didn't you move here from there?" Brittany said trying to sound innocent and sexy at the same time.
"Yeah. It's great, there is this maze in the backyard and it's kinda like a game you know." Miguel said getting excited thinking about the maze.
"Yeah, because we are in 3rd grade and games are still fun." Courtney said in a bitchy tone that completely went with her entire attitude.
"Well no, it's different than just a game, what happens is everybody splits up in the maze and the first two people to make it to the center are meant to be together forever." Miguel said.
"Sounds like a shitload of fun, running through a gay maze trying to find out which one of you are my soul mate. Hopefully, for my sake at least, me and Brittany get to the middle." Courtney said as she began to giggle.
"No, we can go when Todd, Anton, Derrick and Cecile get here, so then there will be 10 of us. And I forgot to tell you, getting to the middle isn't the only obstacle." Miguel said excitedly.
At first Torrance didn't even notice what Miguel had just said. After a couple seconds of actually thinking about what Miguel had said she finally realized it.
"Anton is coming here?" Torrance said beginning to get nervous.
"You are such a god damn dumb ass, jesus christ!" Courtney said angrily at Miguel. "Todd is going to kick your fucking ass. He didn't want the bitch to know."
"Wait, so is Derrick? Derrick Webb is coming here? Why the hell is he here? Why didn't Todd want me to know?"
Torrance began to become scared. Why would these people not want her to know that Derrick and Anton where coming? Was there some sort of plan to do something to Torrance?
"What the fuck is going on? Gavin did you know about this?" Torrance said, the fear beginning to show in her voice.
"Umm……….well see, Tor, Derrick and Anton just want to talk to you. It's no big deal, they just asked me to lie to you and get you here. They smoked me out so I said I would do it, they promised they weren't going to hurt you."
"Look Torrance! Their not going to hurt you so just calm your shit, okay?" Courtney said getting pissed off.
Torrance was about to leave when the door opened. Todd, followed by Anton, Derrick, and finally Cecile entered. Torrance began to freak out, this was too weird. Todd was still drop dead gorgeous, Derrick was still wearing the most expensive clothes Torrance had ever seen, Anton was still doing drugs (he had a lit joint in his hand), and Cecile was still stupider than ever.
"What is that smell? Seriously, you guys, it smells grody in here." Cecile said in a dramatic tone.
"What the fuck do you think that smell is, you dumb bitch. Todd, Miguel thought we should drive into Harmony and play this stupid game." Courtney said, standing up.
"It's so much fun, Todd, and it's perfect for what you need to talk to Torrance about."
Torrance wanted to ask what there was to talk about but decided to stay silent. After about 20 minutes of discussing and fighting, Todd finally decided they where going to go to the maze. Courtney, Todd, Anton, Cecile, and Luke went in one car, Torrance, Gavin, Brittany, and Miguel went in the other one. As they began to head towards the maze, Gavin suddenly tapped Miguel on the shoulder.
"You said that getting to the middle wasn't the only goal of the game, what else do we have to do?" Gavin said, still as high as a kite.
"Oh shit, yeah, I forgot. It's so cool, the maze, and don't ask me how the hell it does this, but it makes everyone's deepest secrets and fears real." Miguel said smiling.
"What? How the hell could it do something as fucked up as that?" Brittany said in a Courtney-like bitchy tone.
"I don't know, but it's so cool, everything you've ever done comes back to haunt you in this place, it's some majorly trippy shit!" Miguel said practically squealing with excitement.
"Cool, this is gonna be a hell of a lot of fun." Torrance said sarcastically.
Maybe Derrick will finally pay for what he did to Naomi, Torrance thought. Maybe tonight will be the night that the truth is revealed about what REALLY happened.
