Chapter One

Cameron's mouth twitched. A lopsided party hat slid off his head and hung just below his chin. His usually I-don't-care-how-I-look messy hair had been styled to a hey-I'm-cute-with-messy-hair! hair. Kayla unenthusiastically threw confetti on his head. He glanced at her and saw a beautiful girl he had never seen before. He shook his head and threw those thoughts out of his mind.

"When is she going to get here?" He said impatiently referring to Kayla's twin.

"Ricky got backstage passes to the Subsonics which Megan just couldn't refuse." Kayla replied. Cameron looked over at her. Perhaps it was his loneliness that made her seem pretty to him. He always thought of her as his best friend.

"Hey Kay?" He asked.

"Yeah?" She replied propping her head on her hand and facing him. She had fancied herself up a bit for his birthday party with lip-gloss and a new purple shirt which looked fantastic on her. The gloss glistened on her lips tempting him. He gave in and leaned across the table kissing her. She found herself kissing back. Cameron wrapped his arms around her body and pulled her onto the table knocking the two plates full of cake and the one empty plate to the floor. Just then Megan walked in in tears.

"Ricky he-" She stopped to see the sight. Bursting out in even more tears she ran off.

"Megan?" Kayla tilted her head to see Megan's retreating back. She looked at Cameron with disbelief at what they were just doing and he had the same look. Then both of them scrambled off the table and ran after Megan.

A tall attractive woman with dark brown hair walked into Megan's room. "Honey I bought you some ice cream to help deal with the pain." She handed Megan the carton of Ben & Jerry's and a spoon, both were viciously taken from her hands. The woman kissed Megan's forehead and left the room. The Kayla walked in.

"He kissed me first." She stated before climbing into the top bunk where she grabbed a small brown teddy bear.

"You looked like you were enjoying it." Megan grumpily replied.

"I don't know what came over me! He was really depressed because you weren't there."

"Ricky didn't take me to the concert. Turned out the tickets were counterfeit." Megan said. "After we were kicked out he took me to his house. No one was home and he took me to his room." Kayla stiffened a bit clutching the bear. "He took his shirt off. I pretended not to notice."

"What happened?" Kayla stiffened she had a feeling of what this was leading to.

"He told me to sit on the bed. I did he sat down as well and kissed me same as always. He pressed me to the bed. I started freaking out." Megan continued, "I looked into his eyes and they were… black. Pure black. It scared me." She hugged herself and rubbed her arms. "When I struggled he got mad and tossed me off the bed. Then I came home." Her face turned angry. "I decided to say I was sorry to Cameron for missing his birthday when HELLO you two were making out on the table!"

"I don't know what came over me." Kayla told her.

"Ricky told me that the poem that made me like him was written by Cameron." She sighed. "Cameron wrote all those English assignments that made me fall in love with Ricky! So I decided to tell him I knew about him and that I wanted to give it a shot to see if we would work out and YOU WERE MAKING OUT WITH HIM ON THE TABLE! MY SISTER AND MY BEST FRIEND! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO THAT TO ME!"

"I told you I was sorry and I didn't know what came over me! Let it go already!" Kayla screamed at Megan, who burst into more tears and ran out of the room. Kayla grabbed the ice cream and took a huge bite. "I mean it. I'm sorry." She sighed.