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Chapter17: Cammie

"Hey." I said to Zach once I was outside. He didn't even turn around to look at me.

"hey." He was being childish about this whole break up thing that happened over a year ago. I touched his shoulder to turn him around.

"What's wrong?" I said when he finally turned around.

"You have the nerve to ask me that when you know goddanm well what's wrong." He yelled.

"You know what? I'm sorry I can't read minds for crying out loud. Why'd you even come here? You've done nothing good but drive me insane, every scene you walked through those damn doors with Liz." I yelled back.

"Don't blame this on Liz. She hasn't done anything to you, but the only reason she did all those things was because of you. You brought it on yourself." He yelled in my face getting closer.

"Me?" I asked astonished.

"Yes, she was jealous of you," I cut him off "jealous, of me?"

"Yeah, I just said that." I scowled at him but he continued as if I didn't.

"She's overly jealous of you, she's always has been. You finally got me which sent her over the top, I'll admit. Liz has had a crazy crush on me for years. Liz is smarter than you think too; on our final exams she got perfect scores, on all of them. Don't you see cam, she's been in the shadows…. because of me."

"Zach I didn't know…" I trailed off.

"Yeah I know. Just like you didn't know how to tell the truth right? The sad part about this whole situation is that everything leads back to you. The fact that you lied to me; how you tried to get back at Liz." He shook his head in disgust.

"h-how'd you know about what Liz did?"

"Liz told me; we don't have secrets between us. She told me that when you guys were younger you were best friends but when Macey moved into town you forgot all about her. You liked josh in middle school right?" I nodded at this, "and Liz took him from you when you guy were talking at the pep rally and she kissed him?" I nodded again. "Then next thing you knew they were dating….. Cammie don't you see she was only doing these things to get back at you because you broke the friendship you guys once had. You were her only friend Cammie but you were to selfish to know but all these years when she made your life hell she didn't do it because she hated you, she never hated you; she just wanted you to see the pain you put her in. you were just too worried about yourself, you can't even stop to make sure others are ok before yourself…. Your just… a selfish person." Zach finally finished and started to walk away.

"You have one right to call me selfish, I do think about others." Zach turned around to face me and began walking back in my direction.

"I have every right. Your selfish about friendship, love…" he trailed off after he said 'love'.

"For crying out loud! Zach, I didn't know how to tell you I tried but I just didn't know how to."

"Cammie I loved you and I thought you felt the same even though you didn't say it back right away after I did I thought you felt that spark…something but I guess I was wrong about you, about everything we had."

"Zach, I tried," I pleaded, I need him to understand, "I still care about you." There was a long pause between us.

"That's not good enough." He said, not even above a whisper, and walked away. I stood outside of diner for a few more minutes, trying to calm myself down from the recent events but not seceding. I walked back into the diner and noticed it was completely quiet and everybody's attention was on me. I didn't know what to do so I just stood there trying to compose my poker face.

"How was he?" bex spoke getting straight to the point. Just her reminding me of the recent events outside made water works. I ran to Michael's embrace. I just need him, his voice, his smell, anything that could get Zach out of my head.

"That bad, huh?" Michael whispered into my ear.

I nodded my head into his chest, "you don't even know the half of it." I mumbled in his chest.

"Wanna get outa here?" he whispered again, I just nodded. He took my hand and lead me out the door of the diner; ignoring the calls from our friends asking where were going… well everyone else but Bex who kept planning out Zach's death.

Hey guys I know I haven't update in a loooooong time(and I know this isn't a long chapter but next chapter will be) but its summer so that should change. I do want to thank everyone who stuck with me in the making of this story, it means so much. And to show my appreciation I'm going to give you guys a sneak peak to the next chapter! JUST leave a review and PM and leave to you to read Again thanks amazing folks!