A/N: Sorry I haven't updated for awhile. Thanks for the nice reviews I'm far too lazy to reply to all three of you. ha ha.

Chapter 4 (Zoey's Pov)

Later That Day

I'm finally in my room. The first day has been horrible. I'm not exagerating either. I have four of my classes with Chase. It's like it was planned out or something.Wait a minute- it was, last year when Chase and I planned our schedules. We requested to have the same classes and... we got them.

I would definately say that the last class is the worst. Everyone is in my Mrs. Redmons Calculas class. Dana, Nicole, Chase, Micheal, Logan, and Quinn. The room was extremely tense. I was so uncomfortable all I could think was 'I have to get out of here'. I wonder if they are still friends even though I'm not theirs anymore. I know Dana and Logan are. Which is weird because when they first met they hated each other.Well, I guess alot of things have changed.

There was a knock on my door.

"Who is it?" I asked.

" Dustin," I heard my brother say.

I crawled off my bed and open the door. "Hey Dustin," I said.

"Can I come in?" he asked.

"Sure," I replied.

Dustin came in and sat in my desk chair. "I'm sorry about friday, Zo," he said.

"About what?" I asked even though I knew perfectly well what he was talking about.

"About trying to get you and Chase to see each other. I had no buisness trying to arrange that and I'm sorry," Dustin said.

"Don't worry about that. He's in about four of my classes. Plus I knew I would have to see him eventually," I smiled. I can't be mad at my brother for long.

"He's in four of your classes?" Dustin asked.

"Yeah and my lunch," I said.

"Geez," Dustin's voice trailed off.

"Yep," I didn't reallyknow what else to say. We were quiet for a few minutes.

" I don't get it Zoey," Dustin said.

"You don't get what?" I asked starting to get tierd.

"What happened last year that was so bad you and your friends quit talking to each other?" My brother asked me.

I sighed. "I don't know, Dustin," I couldn't tell him.

"If you don't know why you guys are fighting then why don't you just be the big person and talk to them?" Dustin asked.

"Ok, so I do know," I said.

"And?" he asked.

"You really want to know, huh?" I asked my brother.

"Yeah," he said.

I took a deep breath,"Ok so you know how Chase and I were dating last year?" I asked.

"Yeah, I think the whole school knew. You were together for a year and a half and voted cutest couple in the yearbook,"

"Mhm... and do you know why we broke up?" I asked.

"No, I don't," Dustin replied.

I took another deep breath. Here it goes. I was going to say what I hadn't told anyone. What I've been hiding from my parents when they repeatedly asked me what was wrong this summer," I broke up with him because he- he-." I couldn't finish but oddly enough Dustin understood what I meant.

"Wait, what?" My brother asked."He cheated on you?"

"He kissed another girl but I guess thats kinda the same thing, isn't it?" I asked tears flying down my cheeks. I buried my head in my hands.

Dustin got off my chair, sat beside me on my bed, and pulled me into a hug. "I'll kill him. Chase is the last person I exspected that from. Would you mind if I asked you the whole story?" he whispered.

" Well it was almost the end of junior year and I hear from some innocent by stander that my boyfriend kissed Lauren Newton."

"Wait who's that?" Dustin asked.

"Some girl that was in our Algebra 2 class last year," I said.

"Oh," he said.

"And I couldn't- and wouldn't beleive it. So I approached him about it the next day and suprisingly he didn't deny it and when he tried to exsplain himself I just shut him out and locked myself in my room. I couldn't help it. It turned out all my friends knew too. Even Nicole didn't say anything until I asked her about it. But after that I didn't talk to anyone for the last three days of school. No matter how much they tried to get me to talk to them I wouldn't. I was too mad. And let me tell you it is hard to not talk to (or yell at)someone who you live with and someone who sits next to you in all of your classes," I said.

"So that's why you were walking around like a zombie all summer," Dustin added.

"Yeah," I said.

"I don't get why Chase would kiss another girl. He was obviously so in love with you for all those years," Dustin said.

I practically snorted." Yeah right. When you love someone you don't go around kissing other people. But the thing that hurts the most is that he was my best friend and best friends just don't do that," I said bitterly.

"True," Dustin said.

"I just don't know what to do. I even noticed, before this all happened, that that Gabrielle girl was always flirting with him and I was too stupid to read anything into it," I said.

"You're not stupid Zoey. If anyone's stupid it's Chase," Dustin said.

"You're telling me," I said.

"Want me to beat him up?" Dustin asked.

I laughed." No that's ok," I said.

"Zoey, you're my sister and I love you. I want you to know that I am always here for you, no matter what. I hate it when I see you upset," Dustin said.

We just sat there for a minute.He soaked in what I told him. After like three months I'm still soaking it in. It's pretty unbeleivable that innocent Chase Matthews would do something like that, isn't it?

"Are you ever going to talk to him about it?" Dustin asked suddenly.

"I wasn't planning on it," I said.

"Then what are you going to do? Be like this forever? Keep shutting everyone out?" Dustin asked.

"I did it for this long didn't I?" I asked my brother.

"Yeah you did. And how did you feel for those three months?" he asked.

I paused for a secound. "Miserable," I said quietly.

"So why don't you just try to talk to him?" Dustin asked.

"I would but... I don't know. I can't," I stammered.

"Can you just try like one time? Do it for me? I want you to be happy again," he said.

I thought for a few minutes. "Maybe," I said cautiously.

"That's good enough for me,"Dustin said.

"Dustin? When did you get to be so parental?" I asked as we hugged for the third time.

"Hey. I learn from the best," he grinned.

I laughed.

"So you're going to be ok right?" he asked.

"Yeah you can leave if you want to," I said."Alright," he stood up and hugged me one last time.

"Bye," I said.

"Later," My brother replied as he walked out the door.

Geez. My brother sure has grown up over the years.

A/N: Done for now. That was one of my longer chapters I guess.1247 word.Yeah, I'm a dork I counted. Next chapter might be in someone else's POV. I don't know who's yet. REVIEW! ((please))