AN: I apologise for the delay, this was meant to be uploaded yesterday, but my internet got cut off, anyway, enjoy.

Kara's POV

For someone who claims to be a smart girl, I do some really stupid things. What was I playing at? Kissing Shannon? And the worst thing, she ran a mile.

"Mum, I don't want to go to school today." And as usual, my mum ignores my plea,

"I'm sorry, Kara, but you have to." She says as she sets a plate of toast and a cup of coffee in front of me, I hear a great thump on the staircase, coming from my hungover sister.

"I'm fine, I'm fine-I'm ok!" Mollie stammers from the staircase.

"Mum, I can't go to college today." She whines, "I'm too sick."

"Too hungover, more like." I scoff, earning me a middle finger from Mollie,

"Does my little angel want a coffee?" My mother cooes as Mollie nods and goes back to bed,

"You let her off college!" I fume at my mum, I hate it how my perfect older sister is the family golden girl, to them, anything I can do, Mollie can do better, mummy and daddy's little blonde-haired angel, can't put a foot wrong, unlike me eh?

"The girl looks as though she's on her deathbed." There she goes again, trying to justify her blatant favouritism….

"Yes, because she was out all night getting pissed!" I don't need this, on top of everything else, "Whatever, I don't care, I'm going to school."

Shannon's POV

Me, Maddy and Tom are sitting in the dark room before registration, "I mean who does he think he is?" Maddy ranted, Rhydian stood her up last night, and of course me and Tom had to be the first ones to hear about it… "I'm done with boys, maybe I should just jump on the other bus."

I almost choke on my drink, uncomfortable of the topic. "Excuse me?"

"Well, I am only joking, obviously, but it couldn't be any worse, could it?"

"Rhydian's mad about you." Tom finally pried his eyes away from the computer, "There's probably a good explanation, and anyway, no matter how bad your night was, it couldn't have been worse than Shannon's."

"Oh, yeah." Maddy grins at me, "Revision with Kara, bet you had fun."

Oh God. I haven't told them about the kiss, I wouldn't know how to, and I just…bolted from there…it was so embarrassing….the scary part though, was that I kissed back…..the even scarier part, was that I liked it.

I bet Kara's having a right laugh now with the other two bitches of Eastwick, was that her plan all along? I don't know….but it makes a lot of sense, "It went ok." I lie, in fact it was the most unexpected night of my life, and as much as I want to deny it, Kara put a smile on my face, and I haven't been smiling much lately.

Katrina's POV

"-And I just felt the need to google Pork Chops, Kay."

"You talk some shit." Kay shakes her head at me, she just doesn't understand I get curious about the contents of my dinner sometimes! "Kara's so late." Kay swirls around towards the gate to wave Kara over, Jesus, that girl has seen better days…yes, even from here I see it, something about Kara is very different this morning, and I'm not sure I like it. "We're sorry about before."

"Yeah, me too." She says.

"Babes, don't take this the wrong way, but you look like shit." We made a pact, and that pact was to always be honest with each other, even if we didn't want to hear it,

"Oh, thanks, Kat." Oops.

"No, I mean, you look great, but you just…..don't really look well, you're all… shifty and stuff."

She smiles an unusually sad smile, "Girls, I'm fine." She really isn't.

"Listen to this right, my mum was making Pork Chops for dinner last night, and then I got a right craving for them and-Kara, are you listening?" I click my fingers in her face, but she keeps looking over my shoulder,

"Yeah, yeah, that's great, listen I've got to go." Someone's desperate to get away…..she darts down the corridor before we can call her back.

Kara's POV

"Shannon, wait!" If I don't do this now, I'm going to chicken out, I know I will, "Listen, we need to talk about what happened last night."

"Yeah, we do." The redhead seethes, "What were you playing at Kara? I bet you and the other two had a right laugh about it afterwards, didn't you? I suppose I should've seen it coming really, and you were being so awfully nice, you almost convinced me, but I can't believe that it was purely out of the goodness of your heart."

"You're right, Shannon, this is some plan all three of us cooked up just to make you look stupid." I snap, "I let my guard down and talk to you, I make excuses to Kay and Katrina so I can revise with you instead-oh and by the way, they don't even know where I was last night, and I haven't even told them about-" I nearly said it loud enough for all of Stoneybridge to hear, "About the kiss." My hushed tone then reverts back to normal, "I did all that just for the sake of a cheap laugh!"

Shannon no longer has that haughty expression she did just moments ago, "Kara, I didn't mean-"

"I get it, Shan. I'm a 'K', it's only expected of me." I shrug my shoulders, and return to my girls, that could've been handled so much better, but Shannon hurt me. Does Shannon think I'm that low, if she realised how much I like her then she'd realise how stupid she sounds…wait….did I just?...

Oh, bollocks.

AN: So what did you think? Am I off my game? Am I just right? For some reason I had a really hard time writing this chapter, but at the same time it was fun, and to answer DarkFire Galaxy's question: I don't know what everyone else thought, but if you look at the way Kara is acting around Shannon BEFORE she reveals her real agenda (Science help.) one might think that Kara was going to say, "I think I might be a lesbian." Because when I first watched that episode, I actually thought that was what they were building up to. But trust me, if this wasn't a kids show, Shara would so be canon.

Love,

Immortalgothgirl

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