A/N: fanfiction had a bug or virus or whatever, and I couldn't submit any new chapters! I am soooo sorry! This is the second time this has happened, and I'm kinda annoyed.

Chapter Three

I felt my blood run cold from the shock of it all. All I did was come down to the empty lobby to go buy a candy bar from Maddie, and perhaps ask her out properly, and then maybe kiss her senseless… but someone got there first.

Jake was there now, apparently they made up. I wonder what excuse he fed Maddie; it must've been really good for her to believe it. Or maybe she just wanted to believe it. The girl is probably freaking in love with him.

When Jake pressed his body against Maddie's against the candy counter, I cleared my throat loudly. The sickening couple finally pulled apart, and Maddie turned to see who it was. When she saw me, she blushed slightly, to have been caught.

Jake looked at the time on his cell phone and said, "Gotta go, hott stuff."

Maddie grinned at him, as he left.

I looked at her skeptically. "Hott stuff? That's even worse than my old 'sweet thang'."

"I think it's cute!"

"You didn't when I used to call you sweet thang!"

"Well… you were only 13!"

I angrily changed topics to something more important. "So… I see you and Jake are back together."

"Yeah! Thanks for comforting me yesterday, even though it turns out Jake was in Dallas with his sick grandmother and couldn't call me. You're such a great friend."

Sick grandmother in Dallas? Maddie walked around the counter to give me just a friendly hug. But I took a step back, not letting her touch me.

"Friends?" I said shakily. "After last night…just friends… You know what? Fine, I tried to convince myself that you weren't just using me last night, that we had something… but now I know that I was just a rebound. That you really don't give a shit about how I feel."

"Zack…" Maddie said with a small look of hurt in her eyes. "I wasn't using you."

"What would you call it then?" She took a step closer to me, and my heartbeat started to get faster. I hated it.

"I... don't know…"

"You know I'm freaking in love with you, you just can't do that to me, I have enough going on in my life right now!"

"Like what?" Maddie sounded slightly concerned… yeah right. She doesn't have to fake it. It's obvious she really doesn't care, as long as she's happy.

"You know what? Forget that. Forget you."

I turned away, without the chocolate bar I came down for, and headed to the elevator, as quickly as possible to escape Maddie, with one thing on my mind. I needed my razor.

A/N: Short? Yes, I know. But please, review anyways. Every review encourages me to update a lot quicker (I'd love to get 10+ reviews). And next chapter… someone finds out about his cutting.

Who will it be? Feel free to guess, I bet you won't get it right. :) If you get it right, I'll tell you.

xoxoKaren