Author's Note- Special thanks to iceskaterluver and candyycane21 for pointing out a small mistake in the last chapter!

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Cafeteria

Same day- 12:45 P.M.

Ryan strolled into the cafeteria, looking completely hawt and flawless as usual. It amazed Claire how good Ryan could look even though he had just came from P.E. How did Claire know Ryan had P.E.? She hated to admit it, but she was a bit of a stalker. Ryan casually dropped into the seat next to Claire, setting his tray of good down. "Are you ready?"

"Oh!" Claire had totally blanked and forgotten that she and Ryan were going to go overt the notes in math at lunch. "Yeah, let me just quickly go to my locker. I need to get my notebook."

Claire saw Massie give her a weird look that most likely said, what is he talking about? And Claire gave Massie a look that said, I'll tell you later.

Ryan smiled and stood up, "Here, I'll go with you, ok?"

Claire returned the smile nervously. "Oh, yeah, of course!" Together, they walked to Claire's locker to retrieve her notebook. As Claire was opening her locker, she hear d a girl call Ryan's name.

"Hey, Ryan!" the girl called out.

Claire turned around and came face to face with a tall brunette with green eyes. Ryan's face lit up when she saw her. "Hey, Tinsley!"

Claire wrinkled her nose. Tinsley? What kind of name was that? She turned back to her locker and retrieved her notebook. She then closed her locker with a loud bang that abruptly ended the girl and Ryan's conversation. Claire started walking away, pretending not to care about whether Ryan was following her or not. She heard footsteps rapidly approaching her and she smiled. She slowed down and allowed Ryan to catch up with her.

"Wow, you're really fast." Ryan commented, trying to keep up with Claire's pace. "You should try out for track or something."

Claire smiled, "Thanks, but I don't like track."

Ryan shook his head, "Oh, that's a shame."

Claire and Ryan walked back into cafeteria and sat back down at Table 18. "What took you so long?" Massie demanded.

"Nothing," Claire mumbled, dropping her notebook onto the table.

"Well, you just missed some major gossip, courtesy of our very own gossip reporter, Alicia." Massie said this like it was equivalent to not buying the latest Prada bag. "Do you want to know what it is?"

Claire shook her head, "No, it's ok, just tell me later or something."

Massie gaped at Claire, "What? You never turned down a chance to hear gossip? Why do you turn down the offer all of a sudden?"

Claire sighed and jerked her head at Ryan. "In case you haven't noticed, Ryan and I are trying to study for our test tomorrow." Massie shook her head, "Whatever," she resumed talking to Alicia about the current gossip.

"So, let's get started." Ryan said, flipping open his own notebook. Claire nodded and did the same. "Here, you have to know this." He said, pointing to a formula in his notebook.

Claire nodded and copied down the formula into her notebook. Claire looked at the rest of Ryan's notes and copied them down as quickly as she could. She suddenly stopped and pointed to something in the notebook. "Wait, what's that?" she asked.

Ryan looked at what Claire was pointing at. "Oh, don't worry, it's pretty easy once you understand it."

"Exactly, and I don't understand it at all." Claire pointed out.

"Here, let me explain it to you." Ryan's hand briefly brushed Claire's hand and Claire felt a little flurry in her stomach. Ryan began explaining to Claire, but Claire wasn't listening at all. She was too busy thinking about other things. For example, she was thinking about how her stomach had flurried at Ryan's touch.

"Do you get it now?" Ryan asked, looking at Claire.

Claire nodded and said, "Yeah," even though she really didn't hear anything Ryan had just said. She sighed, she was totally going to fail the math test tomorrow.

Ryan smiled, "Ok, cool, you basically know everything now."

Claire nodded and smiled back, "Yeah, thanks to you."

"No problem, it was my pleasure." Ryan said, "Maybe we should do this some other time."

Claire's heart leapt at this mention. "Yeah, that would be cool."

"Cool," Ryan looked at his watch, "perfect, the bell is going to ring in a couple of minutes." He got up, "I have to stop by my locker before the bell rings, so I'll see you around after school, ok?" He looked directly at Claire.

Claire nodded, "Yeah, of course! Bye!"

When Ryan left, Massie scoffed and looked at Claire with some disgust. "Gawd, you have got it bad." She said, "You can't be head over heels for that boy, you know."

"Why not?"

"Because if you are, then you'll become completely messed up." Massie said that as if it was totally obvious.

"What do you mean?" Claire was indignant. "You like Spencer!"

Massie gasped and at the same time, the whole table fell silent in shock. Claire immediately realized what she had just done. She had blurted out Massie's secret to the whole table! She looked at Massie and saw that she had a look of pure horror and embarrassment at the same time.

"Wait, what did you just say?" Spencer asked, looking confused.

"Dude, Massie likes you!" Sean exclaimed, nudging Spencer.

Massie was completely speechless; she didn't know what to say. Luckily, Claire quickly spoke up, after all, it was the most she could do for blurting out Massie's secret. "What I meant by that, was that she likes you as a friend." Claire quickly said. "She didn't mean it the other way…" Claire trailed off, looking at Massie for any signs of emotions. But, all Claire saw was a blank expressionless face on Massie. I hope she's not mad at me. Claire thought worriedly, biting her nails.

Spencer's face cleared up. "Oh, yeah, I like you as a friend too, Massie."

Massie cringed at the word, friend. This was probably the worst day of her life. And it was all thanks to the blabber mouth, Claire, which surprised her, because it was usually Alicia that was the blabber mouth.

The whole table was silent for a moment, but then Kristen broke the silence. "So, have you guys thought about trying out for any sports?"

Massie gave Kristen a grateful look and Kristen nodded back like it was no big deal.

"Yeah," Spencer nodded, "in fact, we were thinking about trying out for soccer and football."

Massie groaned inwardly. Great, they were going to try out for soccer. Another thing she hated, but it wasn't going to be so bad because Spencer and his friends were going to be playing soccer.

Kristen's face instantly lit up. But, before she could say anything, someone else interrupted her. "Did I just hear you say 'soccer'?" Massie looked to her left and saw Derrington and the rest of the boys standing there with a look of annoyance.

"Yeah," Spencer said, remembering the encounter with Derrington earlier. "I just said that my friends and I are going to try out for soccer."

Derrington scoffed, "I don't think so,"

"And why is that?" Ian asked, "We're pretty good."

Cam laughed, "That's not what we're talking about."

Derrington nodded, "Yeah, and what I'm talking about is that I'm the captain of the soccer team and newbies never make the team."

"You never know," Ian said, "right?"

Derrington smirked, "Don't worry, I always make sure newbies don't make the team."

"Loser," Massie muttered under her breath.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Spencer said, standing up and fully facing Derrington.

"Oh, really?" Derrington challenged, "And why is that? You guys can't stop me, no one can."

"You better be careful of what you're saying." Spencer said, "Just wait,"

"Just wait what? Just wait to see you guys fail miserably?" Derrington laughed, "I don't think so."

Spencer sat back down, "Whatever, you can say whatever you want to, but it's not true."

"Come on," Derrington told his friends, "let's go. Later, Massie."

Massie glared at Derrington without replying. She turned towards Spencer, "See? He's such a jerk!"

Spencer laughed and then frowned. "Do you think Derek was really telling the truth?"

"About him making sure no new kids make the team?" Massie asked. Spencer nodded. "No," she shook her head, "but even if it's true, we can make sure that he doesn't succeed doing that."

"How would we do that?" Ian asked,

"With a little help from me and my friends, you might even be able to get rid of Derrington as team captain." Massie smiled slyly.

"Sounds good," Spencer smiled, "so, you're going to help us? Or were you just kidding?"

Massie thought about it for a second. She really did want to help Spencer and his friends, but she didn't want the plan to go wrong and come back and bite her in the butt. Oh, hell, life was all about taking risks, right? "Of course," Massie said,

Spencer's face brightened immensely.

"But," Massie said, "I'll do it on one condition."

"Name it," Spencer immediately said.

Massie smiled, "You can't have anything to do with that Nicole girl."

Spencer stopped smiling and frowned. "Why? What's wrong with her and what does she have anything to do with this plan of yours?"

"Let's just say that I don't really like Nicole and that she is a totally LBR." Massie said.

"What's a LBR?" Spencer asked, wondering if Massie was speaking chat.

Massie sighed, "Never mind, just promise me that or else I won't help you guys, ok?"

Spencer was silent, thinking about the pros and cons of the situation.

"Deal or no deal?" Massie impatiently asked, staring directly at Spencer's green eyes.

"Deal," he said,

Massie beamed, "Great, we have a deal. Pinky swear?" she held out her white pinky to Spencer. She knew pinky swearing was so elementary school, but she thought that it was necessary to do it.

Spencer hooked his finger around Massie's. "Yeah, I swear."

"Good," Massie smiled, "and don't worry, my plan will work perfectly!" She secretly hoped that whatever plan she came up with wasn't going to backfire and fail. Otherwise, Spencer would probably hate her and never ever trust her again.

"I'm going to go now," Spencer said, "I'm going to find out when the soccer tryouts are."

Massie nodded, "Ok, see you later."

"Meet you after school." With that said, Spencer left the cafeteria with the rest of his friends.

As soon as Spencer and his friends were gone, Alicia immediately confronted Massie. "Are you absolutely positively sure that your so called plan will work?"

Massie took out her Palm Pilot and started typing. "Yeah, it better be or else we're all screwed."

Kristen laughed bitterly, "That's for sure, and you have to make sure we don't mess up, because I can't risk my reputation and the possibility of ever getting into a good college."

Claire bit her lips, "Yeah, me too, are you really sure this is going to work? We don't even know what the plan is."

Massie glared at all her friends in disgust. "Come awn, don't be such wimps, we can pull this off with no problem. After all, we have done things like this before, haven't we?"

Everyone nodded.

"Exactly, so there's nothing you guys have to worry about." Massie reassured her friends. "Now help me come up with good ideas to bring Derrington down." Massie suddenly felt like this was a repeat of Operation Derek. She smiled, this could be the third phase of Operation Derek. She couldn't wait to see what she and her friends would come up with.

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Yup, so what do you guys think they'll come up with? Guess and if you get it right or partially right, I'll dedicate the next chapter to you! REVIEW! Luv ya!