CHAPTER TWO

Annie looked around the table at the group that had assembled there. Dixon was beside her – with his arm slightly touching hers – to offer support. Ethan was next to him, Adrianna was next to him, Navid next to her and Naomi was next to her on her other side. "I'm glad that you all could make it here - I know that we all don't truly get along," her eyes looked at Adrianna and Naomi. "I also know that not all you are really fond of Silver," Here Annie just looked at Naomi.

"Guilty on all charges." Naomi said in a heated voice. She put her palms on the top of the table – slowly standing to her feet. "I am not welcome here – so I'll leave."

Annie put a hand firmly over Naomi's left hand, "Your past war with Silver is why you are here, for no other reason than your guilt will you be able to finally help heal Silver's soul." She said in a calm voice as she looked up into Naomi's eyes.

Naomi tightly nodded and slowly sat down once more, "What is it that you are asking from me, Annie?" She pulled her hand out from underneath Annie's.

"I want you to tell all of us the real reason why you told everyone about Silver's dad – when Silver told you that it was a secret." Annie said as she looked Naomi fully in the eyes.

"I was too caught up by than on being popular – being seen by the right people – being with the right people – getting the juiciest dirt on someone – anyone – even my best friend." Naomi said in a hard matter of fact tone. Her face was impassive – as it had been since she figured out how life was going to be for her – back in sixth grade – mostly seventh grade. "Silver trusted me enough – seeing how we had been best friends and irresistible since Preschool." She looked over at Adrianna, "Adrianna was also part of her crowd. But, Silver didn't fully trust Adrianna – hadn't since Addy got that part in the movie."

Adrianna lowered her eyes and blinked back tears that threatened to fall. This wasn't time for anyone's attention to be drawn away from Naomi's story.

Naomi turned her eyes off her best friends bowed head, "I still held Silver's complete trust – she was very foolish to still hold onto childish trust. Because I knew by than that I would betray Silver in a horses minute if she told me anything truly worthwhile." She barked a harsh laugh.

Annie's face grew hotter and hotter as she listened intently as Naomi talked. Her hands clenched on the table and she had to force herself to breathe deeply – otherwise she would have rushed Naomi and beat her senseless – but she kept reminded herself that she asked for this – she asked for the truth. She was going to get the truth – she had too – to get Silver's family back together – to grant Silver her Christmas wish.

"If Silver had been more alert with me – as she had been with everyone else – her sister and brother including – than she would have realized that I would betray and hurt her given the chance." Naomi eyes narrowed. "Silver was hell bent on keeping her childish fantasy and her childish belief that her closets friend wouldn't hurt her for the world." She pursed her lips, "She deserved the lesson that I had to teach her."

"How dare you …." Annie growled deep in her throat.

Naomi turned calm eyes on Annie. She waited for Annie to make her move – she wasn't going to fight her off – she fully well knew she deserved whatever Annie Wilson decided to dish out. Either physical or mental.

"Didn't you think ….. Didn't you feel …... Didn't you …. Didn't you." Annie couldn't get a complete thought out …. hell she couldn't form one single complete thought. She just stared teary eyed fully into Naomi's face. Licking her lips she nodded her head firmly.

"All I cared about was being the most popular girl in Beverly Hills, I never wanted to be on the lower ground – as I was in preschool – besides Victoria was perfect – she didn't have to work at being popular – she was born that way. She was born to have all the attention on her -" Naomi barked in laughter, "and it didn't fucking matter to my darling older sister!"

"That's a good enough reason to destroy someone's trust – to steal one of the most important things a person holds dear." Ethan said in a low voice, he had never taken his eyes off of Annie's face as Naomi was speaking. What he saw play out on her face told him the complete story …. and he was sadden what he had discovered. But he vowed to himself that he would do everything in his power to protect Annie from the same fate that Silver had gone through.

Naomi hadn't missed where Ethan's eyes had been locked on since they all sat down at the table – Annie. She very well knew than that it was finally and definitely over between them – that whatever they shared in the past was done. It was in the past. There was nothing else she could do to get him back. But, perhaps she could still have his friendship – once he has cooled down and decided to forgive her for this one last dastardly act that she had committed. She harden her heart against the raw pain that she was feeling for the loss of Ethan Ward, her first love, her childhood love. She pulled strength as she finally told a truth … and it truly did feel good finally letting it off her chest and her soul.

"When Silver told me that she walked in on her father having sex with …. get this …. a common girl pretty much off the street …. uglier than a horses ass ….. just think Mel Silver threw over a beautiful stately woman like Jackie Tyler for a horses ass!" Naomi barked in sharp laughter.

No one else laughed – not even a cracked smile.

"The next day I spread it around school like wild fire – of course once Silver heard it she knew that I told everyone. I was the only one she told." Naomi said back in her toneless voice, "She rushed home trying to keep her mother from hearing – but the moment she and I – I had to follow her home."

"What!" Adrianna gasped looking shocking at her best friend. "You never told me that, Naomi, you just told me that you told everyone in school – you said you were angry at Silver because Silver looked at a boy you liked very much." She shook her head, "You never told me that you followed her home – too see ….."

Naomi lifted her head straight and looked at the wall over Navid's head, "Yes, I went to Silver's house to make absolutely certain that Jackie Tyler learned that Mel Silver couldn't keep his zipper zipped up and his cock in his underwear, waiting to be put into her!" A lips turned thin. "Silver had to learn that she could not trust anyone – not me; her best friend – not her mother – not her father – not her brother – not her sister."

"Lessoned learned." Navid seethed.

Annie felt tears roll down her face. "You evil vampire bitch!" She chocked out, "You just succeeded in making Silver never trust anyone ever again."

Naomi head turned slowly, "She trusts you, Kansas, you alone have Erin Silver's trust in your hands." Cocking her head to the right, "Even when I forced you away from her side that first day …. I could see the heartbreak in her eyes. I knew that Silver all ready trusted you fully …. and I knew that she would attack you in her video blog too get back at me."

"Even than you couldn't allow Silver to have a friend -" Adrianna breathed out. "How evil can you be, Naomi?"

"By the time Kansas showed up, I was too far gone in my anger and hatred of Erin Silver that I wanted to destroy her completely." Naomi shrugged. "She meant nothing to me – just an thorn in my side – an annoying rebellious thorn." She sighed deeply, "Erin only had to thank me for finally riding her mother and herself from her faithless sex manic father and than I would accept her by my side once more, as if nothing happened."

"How the hell could she thank you for destroying her family!" Navid said dumbly shaking his head too and for. "You couldn't have known what she would have to suffer after her father left. You couldn't have known that her mother would hit the bottle again and so soon."

Dixon and Annie's eyes turned quickly to look at Navid.

"What aren't you telling us, Navid?" Dixon hissed his eyes squinting as he looked at his best friend across the table from him.

Navid shook his head and licked his lips. "I saw Silver, I saw the change in her. I saw how devastated she was when her father left. I saw how scared she was …. I followed her home one day, as soon as she went into the house – I went up to the widow – I looked in and I saw Mrs. Tyler with a vodka bottle in her hand and pouring a glass full of it. The window was opened a creak and I heard Silver beg her mother not to drink. To get back on the wagon and still strong. I heard Mrs. Tyler scream at Silver that she was just a child and had no business to tell her what to do or drink. That she didn't need her no good daughter telling her anything – when it was Silver herself who had found out about her father and told Naomi the biggest mouth in Beverly Hills too boot. That Silver was largely too blame for Mel's destroying his family. Than Mrs. Tyler brought the glass up to her mouth and chugged it down. Silver turned and the look on her face broke my heart – she saw me at the window."

"Why haven't you said anything?" Dixon shook his head. "Why have you never been close to her? I never saw you even talk much to her since I arrived at school."

"Silver rushed out of the house and ordered me never to tell anyone about what I eavesdropped upon. That if I even hinted to Kelly or David than I would never be able to sleep another peaceful night. She had a wild look in her eyes and I promised her that I would keep silent." Navid said. "I tried to get close to her – to try to be the friend that she needed – but Silver was too damaged by the life lesson that Naomi taught her – that she closed down on me."

"Why didn't you go to Kelly?" Dixon asked …. "Kelly would have stepped in much sooner and gotten Silver out of that house. Before things got the way they ended up …. where Silver no longer felt safe enough to sleep under her mother's roof …." He turned and glared at Naomi, "Silver was sleeping in a shelter for weeks – than I found her outside the mansions gates – sleeping in her car."

Annie had turned her eyes back to Naomi, "So was that what you planned for Silver?"

"No." Naomi said. "I never meant for her mom to start to drink and use coke again," Shaking her head, "Once I found that out a few weeks ago; I knew that I went too far. But it was too late to apologize to her. By than I was going through my own hell with my own father – after the truth of my own sex manic father who couldn't keep his zipper zipped up – who couldn't keep his cock in his underwear until he was inside my mother – than I fully knew how Silver felt."

"She fully wanted to let the entire world know about it – but I managed to confess her that it would only hurt herself to get her revenge on your pain." Dixon said in a calm voice. Dead calm. His hands were balled into fists on top of the table top. "I should have allowed Silver to run her smear campaign against you." He breathed fire through his nose. "But, I gave you the benefit of doubt, Naomi, figuring that you finally realized what Silver had gone through when she found her own father." He took a deep breath, "But, I never dream t … even with my own early childhood, before the Wilson family rescued me … did I ever dream that someone could truly and so willing hurt someone … their own best friend that way."

"I can't take back my past actions – or my past feelings." Naomi said, "But I can start to make amends for them."

Annie nodded firmly, "Than you, Naomi, will help us. You will help us get an in with Jackie Tyler. Mrs. Tyler still believes that you and Silver are best friends."

Naomi nodded firmly and swallowed around the lump in her throat.

"But, don't even think that you are in the clear with us." Annie said in a firm voice as she stood to her feet and left the room. Ethan stood to his feet and silently followed her out.

END CHAPTER TWO

Author's Note: I have been very angry with Naomi since the premier episode …. until the writers have written more in depth for her character – now she's one of my favorites … but this story and perhaps other stories I may Naomi bash a bit – but don't worry Naomi always will turn out better at the END of my stories than how she begins.