Chapter 12

-Next morning -

"Courtney wants you to stay with her today."

"How much did you pay her?"

"What?"

"How much did you pay her to go through with the 'Stay With Me' plan?"

"10 Bucks, but she took it very well."

"Is she still sick?" she asked as she touched her forehead to check her temperature while she was sleeping.

"Yea, but I have to go to school today."

"Give me a valid reason." She crossed her arms.

"Home work."

"Didn't get any."

"Class work."

"Nothing you haven't done already."

"Eliza." He finally confessed.

"Bingo." Taylor knew that he would finally come clean.

"I haven't seen her in like a week."

"Then call her, to come over, I'm sure she would give up a day of school to stay with you, and she must be as obsessed about you as much as you are obsessed about her." She joked as she handed him the phone as he smiled.. Warren called her number and as he waited for her to answer, he asked her a question.. "So, how are you and Lash getting along?"

"Who's Lash?" she asked as she left the room.

-At School-

Taylor sat in her seat and waited for the rest of the class to arrive. Something suddenly pushed her to have watery eyes, something pushed her to cry as the thought of Brianna and Lash together crossed her mind.

"What's with the sad face?" someone asked as she looked up, she knew who it was, but always wished she didn't. She held her head down as he walked closer to her.

"I told you to leave me alone."

"You still didn't tell me why." He said sitting beside her and holding her hand. She quickly grabbed her hand from him. "I didn't know I needed a reason." She got up and was about to leave when Lash wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her all the way back to him.

"Will you just talk to me!" he stood in front of her, a bit angered as he released her and gripped her wrists in his hands.

"I can't talk to you!" she shouted angrily pushing him away as more tears ran down her cheeks. "I can't talk to anyone."

"Taylor! Clam down!"

"Let me go! I just wanted everything to be alright, I wanted everything to just be the same, no lies, no secrets, no Brianna…" she slowly began to calm down when he hugged her tightly. He could feel her temperature lower back to normal as she continued to cry in his arms. At that moment, Brianna came in looking for Lash, and saw them hugging, a look of nervousness appeared on his face as he looked into her angry eyes..

-Later on during school- One the way back from lunch-

"I told you to stay away from him." Brianna said behind Taylor as they walked back to class.

"Shut up Brianna, cause I did what you said and left him alone." Taylor told her as she turned to face her.

"Then why were you hugging Lash this morning."

"He was hugging me."

"Why the heck do you think that Lash would hug you?"

"Because he maybe wants to, and besides, I have nothing to do with you and Lash, so keep me out of this." She turned to leave when she felt a sudden freeze in her back.

"I believe you have."

Taylor turned back around to face Brianna, by this time a look of anger appeared on her face, and at the same time a crowd began to gather around them.

"Look I don't want to fight you."

"But I do, since this is the only way to win Lash's love, so be it."

'This chic has some serious obsession issues.' Taylor thought as he hands ignited.

"Oo, Fire powers, I'm so scared, my cousin's dating your brother so we know exactly how to deal with flame brats.."

By that time Lash entered the fight and held Taylor back before she ripped Brianna to threads…

"Let me go! Why are you on her side!" she shouted as she struggled to break free, but being as frustrated as she was, she slightly burnt Lash out of anger for Brianna and he fell to the ground.

"I told you already, mess with Lash, and I'll kill you."

"Let's just see who's caught in the backfire." Taylor said with her hands blazing with fire.

"I know that it's definitely not going to be me." Brianna said with an evil smirk.

"Listen, you don't have to do this." Lash said making a second attempt of trying to stop them, usually he would be starting an uproar or fight at Sky High, but somehow he had to stop this one, he couldn't let Taylor get hurt knowing that it was his fault, and get flamed by her brother.

"Brianna, leave her alone."

"Not until you prove to me that you don't love her."

"This is what this is about?"

"Apparently she refuses to listen to me when I tell her to back off, and you obviously won't tell her to, so I have moved to Stage 3, anyone who gets between us, bring them down." Brianna said giving Taylor a death glare.

"I don't love her alright, I never did." Lash told Brianna and it echoed through the halls.

Taylor's hands refused light again after that she was no longer angered, but hurt as his words echoed and registered in her head , she could now only see Brianna's evil smile knowing that she was victorious, taunting her…

With that she was caught off guard and Brianna successfully froze her whole body in a block of ice.

Lash turned around to see Taylor frozen. Out of immediate fury, he banged Brianna into the lockers. "You don't listen do you!"

"I got her out of the way, wasn't that what you wanted?" she seemed a lot calmer than Lash was, and that made him amazed, amazed at the fact that she would toy with people's lives at her amusement, and act as if nothing happened.

She left Lash and the rest of the crowd in shock as they gazed upon Taylor frozen in ice, she looked a lot angrier than usual and since she couldn't move, she had no hope of melting the ice.

It wasn't long before the crowd went back to their classroom like they didn't care, and Lash was an inch away from the block of ice, just staring at her.

"Taylor." He softly said as his hand gently touched the ice……