The Block Estate

Front Door

Monday, October 21st

4:02 P.M.

We're going to get caught,Claire thought as she rang the doorbell again. She let out a long sigh in an attempt to calm her nerves but it didn't work. There was just so much that could go wrong, and it could end up hurting Massie even more. If the Blocks found out that Derrick was involved, they would flip out and probably make sure that Massie could never leave the house again.

"Claire!" Kendra's voice brought her out of her thoughts, "Come in! Massie will be happy to see you."

She bit her lip at Kendra's statement. Either Kendra was just so used to saying that because that's what she had always said whenever Claire expectantly came over, or she was lying. The last time Claire had seen Massie, they had sat in awkward silence for most of her visit, and whenever they did speak Massie only gave her one-word answers.

Claire immediately head for the stairs, knowing that Massie was probably there. Memory intact or not, that was where she spent most of her time. Even before the accident Massie didn't spend too much time with her parents and her room was the only semi-private room in the house.

When she reached Massie's door, she stopped herself, her eyes tearing up. She desperately wanted her best friend back, the one that she could tell everything to, the one that knew every single detail about her… Massie survived the car wreck, but her memory hadn't. It was as if a different person was stuck inside Massie's body.

Massie may never be the same… Josh's voice haunted her with what he had said about her during class. Claire's shoulders sagged, with the thought that her memory might never return, that she may never truly be the Massie from before.

Claire clenched her fists, a sudden burst of determination spread like lightning throughout her body. She wasn't going to give on Massie, no matter what. Even if Massie's memory never came back, Claire was still going to be there for her. They had their whole lives ahead of them, and they could make new memories together.

She opened the door, with a small smile on her face but when she saw who was sitting next to Massie on her bed, it fell to a frown.

"Hi, Claire." He said, smirking, taking Massie's hand in his.

"Landon." She growled.

"You know each other?" Massie asked, her eyebrows lifted up in surprise.

Landon opened his mouth but Claire beat him to it, "Yes, he was a friend until he broke your heart... he's your ex-boyfriend."

Landon chuckled to himself, and then smiled at Massie. While his smile seemed charming and even loving, to Claire it was sinister. "I'm her boyfriend."

"What?" Claire gasped, "You two broke up though! You broke up last month, then got backtogether and within a day you broke up again!"

Claire looked at Massie for any sign that this was news to her, but she didn't even flinch. "I even have the text that you sent to me the night of the accident saying that you were going home early because you broke up again!"

"Claire-" Massie said, sighing.

"We got back together before the accident." Landon said, and Claire felt as if the ground was trying to swallow her.

"You didn't even visit her in the hospital, and you walk around school as if nothing happened!" She pointed out. Who did Landon think he was kidding?

"As I've explained to Massie, I never came to see her because it would be too hard to see her hurt, and I was sort of in denial up until now, I didn't want to admit that anything was wrong, but now I have to because I love her."

"Landon, start talking with your mouth instead of your ass, because that is obviously bull shit!" Claire scoffed with a pang of pain. When she had first moved to Westchester from Florida she wouldn't have said that so easily, but after years of being Massie's best friend she had learned to call them like she saw them.

But there was a possibility that it was true… but wouldn't Massie have called or texted them that they had gotten back together? The thought that maybe Massie had been texting her and Kristen about her and Landon while driving popped up in her head, but Claire squashed it since Massie wasn't dumb enough to do something like that and the police had said she hadn't been drinking and that there was no evidence that she had been using her phone when the accident happened.

"Landon, maybe you should go." Massie said, "We can talk later."

"Okay." Landon kissed her before getting up.

Claire starred at him as he grabbed his varsity jacket and walked out, returning her nasty look. She wondered why she was ever friends with him and why Massie had ever saw anything in him.

"Massie, he cheated on you!" Claire sighed, her head in her hands, "Why are you going along with this?"

"I don't really want to be with someone that cheated on me, but he said it was a mistake, and while I'm pretty sure that he's not really honest about that, the doctors told me that I should get back into my old routine; and if there's a chance that hanging out with my asshole boyfriend could help bring back my memory, then I'll do it." She explained, twirling a piece of her beautiful brunet hair around her finger. Claire sat down the sleek white loveseat, turning over every word that Massie said in her head. She was desperate enough to date Landon in order to help get her memory back, but even that might not be enough. She wondered if that also meant that Massie would be coming back to school since that was a major part of her "routine" before the accident, but she decided not to bring it up; they could talk about it later.

"So…" Massie said, trying to find words to fill in the silence.

"Do you want to go out to eat?" Claire asked suddenly, almost too eagerly.

Massie looked down at her hands, looking unsure, "I don't know…"

"Derrick will be going too, he's actually waiting for us-"

"Derrick is here?" She asked, smiling for the first time since Claire had seen her since the wreck.

"Well yes and no, he's waiting for us down the street." She said, trying not to look suspicious. Why was she so happy about the thought of seeing him?

"Where are we going?" Massie got up and walked to her closet, riffling through her racks of designer clothes.

"Slice of Heaven."

Lots of drama in the next chapter. And I will be updating quickly now.