Author's Note: yay. another chapter

Octavion Country Day School

The Café

September 22nd

12:36 p.m.

Claire had stood in the lunch line for the longest possible time, avoiding when she would see Mandy sitting happily with her old friends. Finally, the lunch lady forced her out of line, saying that she was holding up the customers. Claire headed towards Layne's table. "Heyy." Claire said to Layne, Meena, and Heather. "What's up?"

Meena and Heather exchanged looks while Layne glared at Claire. "Oh. So now we're good enough for you."

Claire looked at them, confused. "What?"

"Well, it's just that you haven't talked to us in weeks and were always ditching us for Massie and her clique. Now that they hate you, you come to us looking for friendship. I'm sorry, but that's not gonna happen."

Claire stared with shock at Layne. She had never said such hurtful words to Claire in her life. She ran from the café, tears streaming down her face. She crashed into the nurse's office.

"What's wrong?" Nurse Adele asked.

"I need my parents to come pick me up." Claire hiccupped through her sobs.

"Okay. I'll call them. You just sit right here and calm down." Nurse Adele hurried to find Claire's phone number and a phone.

Octavion Country Day School

The Café

September 22nd

12:41 p.m.

The Pretty Committee looked up to see Claire running from the café, tears streaming down her face. Massie felt kind of bad for her, but Kuh-laire deserved it for lying to her and going behind her back.

Massie turned to Mandy. "Do you like Kuh-laire?"

Mandy stopped from her conversation with Kristen and looked at Massie. "No. She totally ditched me, Layne, Meena, and Heather to hang out with you guys, no offense."

"None taken."

"She acted like we weren't good enough for her. That's probably why she ran out of here;they told her."

Massie nodded thoughtfully. "What are you doing this weekend?"

"Probably nothing." Mandy said. "Or maybe hanging out with Layne, Meena, and Heather."

"Want to go shopping with us on Saturday? We're going to Manhattan." Massie asked sweetly.

Massie saw Alicia mouthing, "What's going on?" behind her back, but she just gave her a look that said "trust me".

"Um… sure." Mandy said. "But I don't have that much money." She looked kind of embarrassed.

"Oh. That's okay! You can try on a ton of stuff and if you see some stuff you really like, we'll pay for it." Massie glared at the other girls so they wouldn't say anything.

"Oh. That's okay." Mandy said. "You really don't have to."

"Come on. That's what friends are for." Massie smiled at her.

The Block's Range Rover

First-Class Section

September 26th

6:23 p.m.

"Bye, Mandy!" The girls chorused as they dropped her off in front of Brickview Apartments. "Don't forget to come to Massie's house at 7:30"

As soon as she was out the door, the girls turned to Massie. She motioned for Isaac to pull over somewhere so they could talk.

"What's the deal? You haven't let us ask you anything this entire week." Alicia demanded.

Kristen and Dylan immediately started flooding Massie with questions. "Hold on!" Massie said. "I'll explain it all, just stop doing that!"

Kristen and Dylan were silent.

"Okay. You've probably noticed that for the past week, I've acted like Mandy was one of us." The other girls nodded their heads vigorously. "And you probably think that I'm crazy for letting someone who's not a GLU to hang out with us." More nods. "Well, the truth is, I'm deciding whether or not to destroy Mandy after this shopping trip. If she acts cool, like she has been mostly doing all week, she's in. If not, we'll destroy her. I think she could actually be a GLU if she had a different wardrobe and more money."

The other girls thought about her words. "And who would you rather hang out with; Claire or Mandy?"

"Mandy."

"Mandy."

"Mandy."

"So is it done?" Massie smiled and put her hand in the middle of the girls.

"Done." Kristen put her hand on top of Massie's.

"Done." Dylan piled her hand on top, too.

"And Done." Alicia put her hand on top of all of the girls'.

Mandy had no clue that the fate of her entire social life in Westchester depended on the shopping trip on Saturday.

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