It had been two days since the wedding and Lisa was worried about Mackenzie because she hadn't heard from her since the wedding. After Mackenzie left, Lisa, Nidia, Ivory, David, Bubba Ray and Devon left an hour later. Since Mackenzie wasn't there they didn't want to stay. They thanked Kate for letting them come and left immediately. When Monday came around she was relieved to see Mackenzie at her locker.

"Mackenzie where have you been? I was worried about you. I thought you had left and went back to New York City or something," Lisa said as she walked up to her.

"Oh I'm not at the house. I'm at the hotel with my dad and his girlfriend. I'm staying with them until school gets out."

"Oh cool. Then you're leaving with them to New York City?"

"Oh no. I'm not leaving until the fall.''

"Oh cool. So have you talked to your mom?"

"She's on her honeymoon and she's obviously having fun. She hasn't called to see how I am," Mackenzie said as she closed her locker.

"I would think that's what you want."

"In a way, but sometimes I wish she would stick up for me, but she's done enough. I'm just gonna strip her out of my life."

"Okay. Let's go to class."

"Okay."

They went to their first class and sat down and when Mackenzie looked at her desk, there was a piece of paper on it. She took it and opened it up and read it. Jeff had invited her to a party at his house. It was a party that Matt had every year since middle school and they were the talk of the school. All of the preps were buzzing about it and all of the girls were shopping for new outfits. Mackenzie decided that she wouldn't tell Lisa or any of them so they wouldn't suspect anything. She put the paper in her binder and looked at Jeff who was talking with Dawn. He didn't even notice Mackenzie and when the bell rang everyone sat in his or her seats and the teacher walked in and looked at all of them and started a lecture immediately.

When school ended, Lisa decided to go and meet Mackenzie's dad and his girlfriend so she had Nidia take everyone home and she and Mackenzie drove to the hotel. When they got there they went to the room and Quinn and Alex were sitting watching TV.

"Dad?"

"Hey mi'ja. Who's your friend?"

"This is Lisa. Lisa that's my dad, Alex and his girlfriend Quinn."

They both got up and shook her hands and she smiled as she looked at Quinn.

"You look just like Mackenzie," Lisa said.

"I think that's what attracted Alex to me in the first place." They all started to laugh and Lisa stayed for an hour and got to know Quinn and Quinn got to know Lisa. "So what do your parents do?"

"My mom is a business woman and my dad is a doctor in Japan."

"Japan?"

"They're divorced."

"Oh."

"It's okay. We're all close. He visits whenever he can, but it's kind of hard living in Japan."

"Yeah."

"Well I should be going. My mom is gonna start worrying. She just got back from a business trip."

"Well it was nice meeting you, Lisa."

"You too. Bye Mackenzie. I'll call you later."

"Okay."

Lisa got up and left and when she did, Mackenzie looked at Quinn.

"What's wrong?"

"I got invited to a party at the end of the month."

"Really? By whom?"

"Jeff."

"Well then go. Have fun. Your father and I won't stop you."

"Well I'll be like an outcast. I'll feel left out."

"Not if Jeff is there."

"Well it's kind of weird he would invite me when his girlfriend will be there."

"Who cares about his girlfriend? She'll get tired of him eventually. And besides if she's going to college she'll dump him before she goes and start going out with a college man."

"How do you know?"

"It was the same in my school."

"Oh."

"Don't worry you'll be fine. Just go and have fun. Your father and I will just go out that night."

"Okay."

Quinn smiled at Mackenzie and they hugged. When the party came around, Mackenzie was so nervous. She was wearing a dark blue, short sleeve shirt and a knee length matching skirt with flowers on it with some shoes. She wove some flowers into her hair and when her father and Quinn saw her they just smiled at her.

"I know it's not a lot but this is what I wanted to wear," she said.

"No one said you had to dress like those other girls. Now let's go," Quinn said.

They left the hotel and drove to the house and dropped her off.

"Do you need us to pick you up," Alex asked.

"No. I'll just have someone take me home."

"Okay. You have a good time okay?"

"Okay. Thanks dad."

"Bye sweetie."

They drove off and Mackenzie looked at everyone walking into the house, talking, laughing and looking at her. She fixed herself and walked up to the door and knocked on it. Jeff answered it and smiled at her.

"Hey I didn't think you were going to make it," he said.

"Well I decided to come."

"Come in."

She walked in and everyone looked at her. Amy, Torrie, Stacy, and Stephanie saw her and started whispering and looking for Dawn. Dawn was in the back and she walked in and looked at Mackenzie in shock. She walked up to her and stared at her.

"What're you doing here? Who invited you?"

"I did, Dawn. Now leave her alone. Come on, Mackenzie."

Mackenzie followed Jeff and Dawn walked over to where Amy, Torrie, Stacy, and Stephanie were. They all crossed their arms and looked at Dawn like she was supposed to do something.

"Well we'll just have to put our little plan to work here, won't we," she said.

"Well wasn't it supposed to be at the school," Torrie asked.

"Well we have to do it now. She'll be too embarrassed to come back to school after this happens," Dawn said as she walked off.

Amy, Torrie, Stacy, and Stephanie followed her upstairs and no one even noticed them or cared about what they were doing. They came back downstairs an hour later and told everyone to go to the front. They all complied and went to the front and continued to party not caring. Dawn looked for Jeff and Torrie decided to look for Mackenzie. When Dawn found Jeff, he was with Mackenzie and they were talking.

"Jeff?"

"Yeah Dawn?"

"Can you come here? I need to talk with you."

"Alright. I'll be back."

He walked off with Dawn and she took him downstairs to the basement and kept him there. Torrie on the other hand was looking for Mackenzie. When she found her, she walked up to her and smiled.

"Hey Mackenzie."

"Hi Torrie. What do you want?"

"Well I wanted to show you something. It's upstairs and it's the coolest thing ever."

"Okay. Whatever that is."

Mackenzie followed Torrie and Torrie looked at Stephanie, Amy and Stacy and winked at them. She took Mackenzie upstairs and when they got there, she took out her cell phone and started to write a message. Downstairs in the basement, Dawn had just received a message and she looked at it and smiled. She continued to talk with Jeff and then they got up and went upstairs. By then everyone was in the backyard again and Jeff thought nothing of it. He went outside with Dawn and started to look around. Dawn took out her cell phone and wrote another message and two minutes later Torrie and Mackenzie came downstairs. Torrie let Mackenzie go first and when she got to the door a bunch of trash fell on her head and everyone looked at her and started to laugh hysterically. Torrie was laughing so hard that she couldn't stand up and Dawn, Amy, Stephanie, Stacy, Matt, and Jeff were laughing hysterically. Mackenzie looked at Jeff with hurt in her eyes and he continued laughing.

She ran out through the back and ran all the way back to the hotel. She went up to the room and took off her clothes and got in the shower and when she was done, she got in her bed and went to sleep thinking about what had just happened to her. She was sure that Jeff and her were friends but she knew it was all a joke and that they would never be friends again. She knew moving here was a bad idea and she couldn't wait until she went to New York City for college. She would never come back to Cameron if it was the last thing she could do. That Monday, everything was different and Lisa could tell something was wrong with Mackenzie.

"Mackenzie are you okay," she asked.

"I'm fine. I just had a really bad weekend for some reason."

"I'm sorry. Do you wanna come to my house after school?"

"No. I'm just gonna go back to the hotel."

"Alright well when you want to hang out just tell me."

"Okay."

Mackenzie closed her locker and went to class with Lisa and went through another school day like usual. Two weeks later, Mackenzie was still acting weird and Lisa didn't know what to do. She told Dave all she had figured out and he said she was probably just getting a little emotional because she probably wouldn't see them again after she went to college. Lisa just acted like it was nothing with Mackenzie and they acted like they were happy that school was almost out. They all decided to go to prom too which was in a week. Mackenzie already had her dress and she had promised to straighten her hair out for Lisa so she could see how long it really was.

Mackenzie went back to the hotel and that night she decided to take a bath. She sat in the tub and started to cry quietly about what had happened last month. Quinn was worried because Mackenzie hadn't come out of the bathroom in two hours.

"I'm going to go check on her, Alex."

"Okay, but I'm sure she's fine."

Quinn walked to the door and knocked on it and there was no answer. She opened the door slowly and walked in and then she screamed. She called for Alex and he came running in and he picked up Mackenzie. She had cut her wrists and she was unconscious. Quinn got up and got some rags and ripped them and tied them on her wrists to stop the bleeding. Alex called 911 and Quinn put a robe on Mackenzie. The paramedics came and got her and took her to the ambulance and drove to the hospital. Alex and Quinn were right behind them and when they got to the hospital, they waited in the waiting room. Five minutes after they got there, Kate and Michael walked in and they looked at Alex and Quinn.

"See I knew it would happen. I knew it would happen. Gosh now do you see why I took her away from you? I knew she would follow in your footsteps."

"She didn't do this for the adrenaline rush, Kate. Something must've happened to her to make her do this. She didn't tell me anything," Alex said.

"Nothing happened to her. You happened to her. She knew what you use to do and I knew she was going to do it sooner or later."

"You're talking nonsense, Kate," Alex said.

"No, I'm not."

"Can we just stop? Your child is in the hospital and I'm sure she wouldn't want you two fighting over whose fault it was," Quinn said.

"You weren't married to him for seventeen years, Quinn so don't tell me what to do."

"Whatever."

Quinn sat down and Alex sat next to her and they waited for the doctor. He came out an hour later and told them that Mackenzie was fine and that she would just have some scars. They had stitched up her wrists and she could leave the hospital tonight if they wanted her to. They all went to go see her and when Mackenzie saw Kate and Michael she sighed.

"I don't want them here, dad. I want them to leave," she said weakly.

"Mackenzie…"

"LEAVE!"

Kate shook her head and she and Michael left without another word. Alex asked Mackenzie if she wanted to leave and she said she wanted to. They told the doctor and they gave her some clothes and all three of them left. The next day, Lisa was shocked when she didn't see Mackenzie and she was worried because she hadn't called her last night. She went to her first class and before class could start the intercom came on and the principal got on.

"I would just like to say that the students in this school are not as good as I thought they were. I heard from a source that at a party a practical joke was played on one of our students and because of this joke she slit her wrists and ended up in the hospital. This student's name is Mackenzie Hernandez and you all should pray that she survived."

When Lisa heard Mackenzie's name she gasped and looked over at Jeff and Dawn who were talking to each other. She started to shake her head and she got up and walked over to Dawn and punched her right in the face and everyone looked at her in shock.

"What're you doing," she asked.

"You know damn well, Dawn."

"Okay look, Mackenzie wasn't even at that party."

"Dawn why do you keep lying about everything? You lied about your pregnancy to me and you just lied right now," Jeff said.

"So you knew that this joke happened," Lisa asked.

"I was part of it," Jeff said sadly.

"I can't believe you. What did Mackenzie do to ever deserve that? And that's how teenagers commit suicide anyway. People like you make them feel unworthy. It's people like you that make the best people in the world kill themselves. I hope you go to hell for what you did," Lisa said as she stared at them both.

The entire class was shocked at what Lisa had just done and said and the teacher had left and the principal came back and had escorted all three of them out of the room.

"Now who else was part of this joke," she asked as they walked down the hall.

"My brother, Amy Dumas, Torrie Wilson, Stacy Keibler, and Stephanie McMahon," Jeff said.

"Alright."

The principal went and got them and they all went to her office and sat down and looked at each other. All of their parents came in and looked at them in disgust.

"You know I don't know what's gotten into you two. I thought you two had grown up," Gil, Matt and Jeff's dad said.

"I didn't make up this joke dad. It was Dawn, Matt, and Amy's idea and Torrie, Stacy, and Stephanie went along with it."

"And I assume you did nothing to stop it," Lisa said. Jeff looked at her in shock and said nothing. "And because of you, my best friend almost died."

"Well we didn't think that it would be that serious. I mean we all thought she would let it go eventually. It is the end of the year so she wouldn't be seeing us again anyway," Dawn said.

"That's not the point you idiot. She's scarred for life now because of you," Lisa said.

"I…"

"Don't say anything. I just want to go back to class. Even though my last month of school won't be the way I envisioned it."

"You're all excused."
All of them got up and went back to his or her classes and acted like nothing had ever happened. The kids that used to talk to Jeff, Matt, Amy, Stacy, Stephanie, Torrie and Dawn wouldn't even look them in the eye anymore. The under classmen were embarrassed that they had ever been friends with them at all. No one went up to their table during lunch and they knew that they had made a huge mistake.

As soon as school got out, everyone started hanging out with Lisa and her group and they said they would pray for Mackenzie and a speedy recovery. Lisa thanked them all and they all looked at Matt and his group.

"Come on guys. Let's go," Lisa said.

"Alright," they all said.

They all walked past Matt and his group and went out to the parking lot and got in their cars and drove off to the hotel and as soon as they got there they walked up to Mackenzie's room and knocked on the door. Quinn opened the door and smiled.

"Hi guys."

"Hi. We're here to see Mackenzie," Lisa said.

"Alright, but you can only visit for a little while. She's resting. She'll be back in school in a week."

"Well I have her work."

"Well we talked to the principal and she said that Mackenzie doesn't have to do any work. She might still be weak."

"Oh well Mackenzie likes to do her work anyway."

"Well come in."

They all walked in and walked to Mackenzie's room and saw her lying on the bed watching TV and eating. She heard the door opened and looked and smiled.

"Hey guys," she said quietly.

"Hey how are you doing," David asked.

"I'm good. Could be better."

"You better not scare us like that again," Lisa said.

"I won't. I was just hurt."

"Yeah I know. We heard about it at school and they all got in trouble. And guess what," Lisa said.

"What?"

"No one will talk to Matt or any of them anymore."

"Oh that makes me so happy," Mackenzie said with a smile.

"Yeah. Well here's your work if you want to do it."

"Thanks. I'll see you in a couple of days."

"You're still going to prom?"

"Yeah. I can't leave Adam hanging," she said as she looked at him.

"Thanks."

"Well we'll see you then."

They all said their good byes and left the hotel and talked about how happy she looked. She didn't seem phased by it, but they knew it would be in the back of her mind for the rest of her life. They just hoped that she wouldn't hold a grudge against all of them. It wouldn't make any sense to do it. Besides, Mackenzie wasn't the type of person to hold a grudge for very long but this was different. It required more thought.

A couple of days later it was time for prom and Mackenzie was much stronger and couldn't wait. Quinn had gotten a professional hair dresser from New York City to do Mackenzie's hair and makeup. Her name was Jennifer and she was Quinn's since she was a little girl. When Jennifer saw Mackenzie's hair she smiled.

"Oh this will be fun. I take it your hair is extremely long," she said.

"Yeah."

"Well let's get started."

Jennifer pulled out all of her supplies and she washed Mackenzie's hair and then straightened it out. It took almost three hours to do it and when she was done everyone gasped. It was almost to her behind and now they knew why Mackenzie always left it curly. Jennifer brushed through it and started to curl some of it. She put the rest of it up and put bobby pins in it to hold it in.

After she finished with her hair, she did her makeup and then when she finished Mackenzie went and put her dress on. It was a corset dress that was midnight blue and it fit her perfectly. She had a black choker necklace that dangled and a pair of matching dangling earrings. She put dark blue eyeshadow on and black eyeliner. She looked like a dark princess and when she walked down the stairs they all smiled at her. Lisa, David, Devon, Bubba Ray, Ivory, Nidia and Adam were all there with the limousine waiting for her. Lisa was wearing a crimson red tube top dress, Ivory was wearing a black dress with a diamond on the back, and Nidia was wearing a sky blue dress with a slit up the side. They all took pictures and then left in the limousine to the hotel that was holding the prom.

They got out of the limo and went inside and everyone looked at Mackenzie in shock. Everyone walked up to her and started to talk to her and she looked at Lisa and she gave her a look that told her. The teachers asked how she was doing and she said she was doing great and that she was much stronger. When they all walked into the ballroom, Lisa ran off to the DJ and whispered into his ear. She walked back to Mackenzie and their group and when the song ended, the DJ got on the microphone.

"Hey let's give it up to the best girl in the world. Mackenzie Hernandez!"

Everyone started to cheer and applaud and the spotlight went on her and she just smiled. She didn't know why everyone was so happy for her. After that, the music started back up and they all started to dance. Eventually they all sat down for awhile to rest. Lisa and the rest of them got up and went back to dance and Mackenzie decided to sit and rest a little bit more. She looked around and saw Jeff and Matt with their group and they weren't even talking to each other.

The royalty was announced while she was sitting and she was glad for the people who had won. Thankfully it wasn't Matt or any of them which was a shocker to everyone.

After that, everyone continued to dance and when prom ended, everyone went to the after parties and Mackenzie even went to one with Lisa and their group. While they were there, she saw Jeff and Matt walk in with the girls' right behind them. No one noticed them and no one talked to them at all. Mackenzie and her group left around four that morning and went to another hotel they had rented a room at and fell asleep there.

Mackenzie didn't get back home until around two the next day and Quinn and Alex asked her how it was. She told them that it was great and she was so glad she had gone and had friends like Lisa.