A/N: This chapter gets pretty intense, just to warn ya. (: I promise that it will get better though! Give it a few chapters. She had to hit rock bottom before she can get to the top. I think I'm going to change the rating to M, just to be safe! Love all my reviews. You guys are wonderful.

"What is wrong with you?" Was the first thing that Emma heard when she walked into the school. Who did Terri think that she was questioning Emma? Emma was expecting apologies and hugs, maybe even a few tears, but this is what she got? She was beyond angry. Her blood was boiling.

Emma rolled her eyes. "What are you talking about Terri?" She asked, trying as hard as she could to keep her composure.

"What am I talking about? Do you have any idea how badly you embarrassed me the other night?"

"How much I embarrassed you? Do you know what happened to me?"

"Yeah, you chicken out before you and Zach did anything and then left with God only knows who. Zach was a nice guy, and he actually wanted you." Her eyes traveled down to her clothing. Not wearing your Cheerios uniform was the worst thing that a Cheerio could do. It was simply not acceptable.

"What are you wearing?" Terri asked in disgust.

"I don't think I'm going to be able to make it to practice tonight."

"What has gotten into you lately?".

"You wouldn't understand. I wouldn't expect you too. I hope you had fun with Seth. And I hope that he hurts you as much as Will will be hurt when he finds out what you did."

"Oh, so you're going to tell Will?"

"Maybe I am."

"Why are you such an obnoxious prude?"

"Why are you such an insufferable skank?" That was it. That was the end of Emma Pillsbury as far as Terri was concerned.

"What. Did. You. Just. Call. Me?"

"You heard me Terri, I've had to hear all of your stories, like your bragging about how disgusting you are."

"Emma, you're going to regret this. Out friendship? It's over. I don't know what I was thinking anyway. You don't even deserve to breath the same air as I do."

"I don't care about our friendship. I do care about mine and Will's though. And I guess since you and I aren't friends anymore there's nothing stopping me from telling Will."

"I dare you."

Emma walked away. She was good at walking away in situations like this, even when she was furious, she could usually remain calm, and that gave her the upper hand. None if this mattered when it came to Terri, however, because Terri did what she wanted and took what she wanted. No matter how calm she remained, her life was about to be ripped to shreds and she didn't even know it.

-xxx-

Emma hoped that the day would never end, because she knew that at the end of the day she would have to go to her literature class, and she would have to look at Terri, she dreaded it for the entire day. It wasn't that she was necessarily scared, she just knew that it would be awkward and frankly, she didn't even want to look at Terri. Luckily, she got there before Terri, and quickly made her way to sit at the front of the room by herself.

"Well look who actually showed her face." Terri said from behind her, an evil smile emerging. Lily and Megan stood behind her, both of them smirking as well. Emma did what she usually did when it came to confrontation, she looked forward and ignored her.

"Will hates you. He hates you just as much as I do. I told him everything."

This was enough to make her turn to face Terri. "What are you talking about?"

"Oh come on, I know that you're in love with him. That's why you're making such an effort to break us up."

"Trying to break you up?"

"Yeah, you know, that rumor you were trying to start, that I cheated on him with Seth. That was really low. Luckily, he saw right threw your lie. He trusts me."

"You told him?"

"Oh, I told him everything. I told him that you talk about him all the time and that you said that you have his wrapped around your finger. You said that you owned him."

"I never said any of that!"

"Oh? Really? Well he believed me, so it looks like it doesn't matter what you did and didn't say."

Emma stood up so that she was face to face with Terri. "What is wrong with you? Are you really that insecure?"

"Insecure? Have you seen me lately. I'm beautiful, Emma. Have you seen yourself? Will is never going to pick you, do you know why? Because you're hideous. Grow some boobs, loose twenty pounds and then maybe you'll get noticed. I'm surprised Zach even wanted to touch you."

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN ME AND ZACH!" She screamed, her entire body shaking with anger.

Terri laughed. This was wonderful for her. Emma saw the enjoyment in her eyes. She couldn't take it. She couldn't stand here and look at this person. She pushed past Terri and her mob, running out of the classroom.

Emma hadn't been out of the room for five seconds, when she literally bumped into Will.

"Emma." His face wasn't a happy one. "Terri told me everything… How could you do this to me."

"No, you don't understand. That's not how it happened."

"You think that you have control over me? I can't believe that you would say that. You know that's not true. And you don't own me."

"I know I don't. I never said that I did. I don't even know why-"

"I thought that I could trust you, Em!" He interrupted. "And I find out that you had some crazy master plan to break me and Terri up? I'm happy, why can't you be happy for me?"

"I am happy for you. Well I want to be, but you don't understand. That's where I was Saturday night. I was at Seth's house with Terri."

"Terri was with her mom and sister on Saturday."

"No she wasn't! She was there with me! She's lying to you, Will. Everything she says is a lie."

"I'm starting to think that maybe I made a mistake by getting close to you again. You're not that same girl that I used to know. I don't want anything to do with you. You're nothing to me anymore." with that he walked away, and those words hit her a freight train. She was a mistake. The only person left in this school that she actually cared about no longer cared about her.

-xxx-

Will hated her. She saw the hatred and the hurt in his eyes. It was the worst feeling in the world, to know that it was her on his mind when he was in such pain.

She wasn't sure what it was about the shower. Maybe it was that the water was so loud that no one could hear her sobs. Maybe it was that the water washed away her tears as they fell. Showers were the perfect place to have breakdowns, and breakdowns are usually caused by over thinking, and she was surely over thinking every little thing that had happened that day.

Everything filled her head at once. Last night her life was great. Okay, it wasn't great, but it was tolerable. It was good enough. She was friends with Terri, not that losing Terri as a friend was much of a loss, but if she had just said nothing, apologized like she usually did when Terri yelled at her, instead of threatening her then she would still have Will. She wondered what her fight with Terri would determine about her spot on the Cheerios. She didn't want to give that up. She truly enjoyed the feeling she got when she was performing in front of everybody It wasn't about being able to wear short skirts and the popularity. That was why Lily and Megan were Cheerios. She did it because she loved to do it.

She looked down and she saw the bruises. They reminded her of what she already knew, and that was that she was worthless. The sound of everyone's voice who had ever told her that sang in her head. Then she heard the sound of Terri's vicious laughter, louder and louder. So happy that Emma was slowly breaking down. So happy that she had the one person that Emma loved under her thumb.

Emma wished that she could say that everyone was wrong, that they didn't know anything about her, but that would be a lie. They were dead on about everything.

She was worthless. She didn't wan t to hurt Will, that was the one thing that she didn't want, and yet, she still managed too.

No. Terri did that, you had nothing to do with that.

No. You made Terri do it. You left her no choice. You can't back a person like that in a corner.

No. Terri's awful.

No… You're awful.

She couldn't decide who's side she was on, everyone who hated her or her own. She couldn't decide who she hated more, Terri, or herself.

No matter how hard Emma cried, the tears didn't seem to help her. She saw her razor out of the corner of her eye. It was sitting on the edge of the sink.

No. She was not going to be one of those people.

But she deserved it.

But she was not going to be one of those people. She didn't want to be weak. She wanted to stay strong.

…But she deserved it.

She took it in her shaking hands and made a small slit on her arm. Pain never felt so good. She never felt so good. She made another one, this time, deeper and longer. She didn't realize how much built up resentment that she had for herself, but it showed it's self in the feeling she left when she was laying her bed that night.

For the first time in a week, she felt like she was back in control of her life again.

And she liked it.

A/N I tried not to go into too much detail. I hope that you guys liked it!