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Kaylie got home a crawled up in her bed. Crying. Crying because she told him what she shouldn't have. That she loved him. She didn't think it. It wasn't a possibility of maybe or maybe not, it was a fact. Kaylie Cruz was in loved with Austin Tucker. And sadly there wasn't an off and on button she could flick whenever she felt like it.

The saying 'love hurts' felt so true at the moment anyone she loved found a way to hurt her. She loved Carter and he slept with Lauren her best friend who she loved like a sister. She loved her parents who now separated breaking up the perfect little family she loved so much and now Austin. She was really starting to believe that maybe love just isn't for her. That butterfly's and smiles, living is total bliss wasn't in the cards for her. Yet she fell for Austin Tucker. Hard. Why? She had to question. Then came to the crazy conclusion that she had to be cursed or something

"Never again" Kaylie mumbled rolling over on her back and closing her eyes. She planned to fall asleep just like this. That was until her phone started ringing. At first she wasn't going to answerer it. But did it anyway,

"Hello." She answered not bothering to look at the caller I.D

"Hey Princess" She almost jumped out of her bed when she heard his voice.

"Nicky?" She asked. She hadn't spoken to him in a while. Not after he decided to leave Denver discovering they had just as much drama as the Rock did. But it didn't change that he had become on of her best friends.

"It's me. Are you alright you sound weird?" Nicky asked. It sounded like she had the sniffles or something.

"Yeah it's a head cold I should be fine." She lied. Kaylie didn't want to ruin their catching up conversation by bringing him into her drama.

"I hope you'd be okay tomorrow because I'd hate it if my princess is too sick to hang with me."

"Hang with you? Nicky are you coming to bolder to spend time with me!" Kaylie squealed.

"Actually I'm coming to handle some things but yes Kaylie mostly to see you. So I'll pick you up after practice?"

"Defiantly" Kaylie said before hanging up.

[Next Day after Practice]

Today's practice went better for Kaylie. She didn't tell the girls about going to Austin's last night's so there were no questions about it. And Austin didn't show. For whatever reason. She didn't really care. She secretly hoped he would start training at another Gym. But she had a feeling she wouldn't be so lucky. She stepped out the gym with the rest of the rock girls and smiled when she saw Nicky standing by her car.

"What the hell is he doing here?" Kelly asked.

"Owl Kaylie you move on fast." Lauren giggled.

Kaylie shot her a look. "No I don't. Nicky and I are just friends. He was in bolder and said he'd stop by that's all."

"That's what they all say." Lauren said.

"We are just going to the spruce Juice for a little while you are all welcome to come." Kaylie said nudging her elbow toward Payson. Their little Relationship thing wasn't forgotten.

"I have plans with Max and Phoebe." Payson said being the first to walk away from the group and to Max's car.

"I want to spend the rest of the day with my mom." Kelly said before she departed from the group.

"Since when does she ever want to do anything with her mom?" Kaylie asked. "You coming Lo?"

"Nope, I'll leave you alone with him. He's still cute." Lauren winked.

"We are Just friends!" Kaylie said again. But knew Lauren wouldn't believe her anyway. She shook her head and headed toward her car where Nicky was waiting.

"Ready?"

[At the spruce Juice]

"So you and Austin Tucker?" Nicky couldn't stop himself from asking.

"There is no me and Austin." Kaylie told him.

"Really princess?" Nicky asked taking a sip of his drink. He already saw a photo of them kissing. But even without that proof Kaylie's face told it all. She was a bad liar.

"Okay Austin and I use to be together now we aren't." Kaylie quickly said. "End of story."

"What did he do?" Nicky said instantly becoming over protective.

"More of what he didn't do." Kaylie mumbled. "It's fine Nicky really."

"It isn't fine if he was the reason you were crying last night."

"I had a cold." Kaylie reminded him.

"Sure you did."

It got silent for a few minutes after that. Kaylie sighed. "Don't be mad at me." Nicky looked at her and shrugged. "I'm not mad. I just don't want you lying to me or to yourself. "

"Okay I was crying I'm a girl. We cry. it doesn't make it a big deal. I'm over Austin Tucker completely done with that egotistical tool." Nicky noticed the fire in her eyes when she spoke. Like she was a crazy girl popping heads of a ken doll.

Kaylie caught the strange look Nicky was giving her. "You wouldn't understand. You don't get caught up in relationship bull. You don't get all heartbroken you just….i don't know what exactly to call it but you do it." Kaylie went on. "I wish I can do what you do. Never get heartbroken…."

"I know what it's like to be heartbroken. " Kaylie was sure she saw the look of sadness spread across his face.

"Oh yeah, With Pay" She remembered. She wondered if he knew that Payson was with Max.

Nicky shook his head. "With Kelly"

"Kelly?" Kaylie asked. "Kelly who?"

"Kelly Parker."

"KP?" Kaylie couldn't believe it. "How did you and Kelly happen? When? Wow."

"A little after I went to Denver" Nicky started. "Kelly and I got close…but it ended." He tried to end the conversation there.

"How did it end?" Kaylie asked.

"I don't remember you telling me how you and your egotistical tool ended." He snapped.

Kaylie frowned. "If you tell me about how you and KP I'll tell you about my Austin and me" She gave him a hopeful smile. Nicky sighed.

"It was a secret nobody was supposed to know. It worked out that way. She wasn't this raging bitch when it was just us. She was sweet understanding don't get me wrong she still had her moments but over all she was. Different. Then I saw her for what she really was."

"What was that?"

"A puppet always down to take one for the team." Nicky told her. But realized she didn't understand what he meant. "They needed Carter Anderson and she got into his head and got him to stay then openly dated him because her mother said she had to."

"Well it isn't like she dated him for real it was like an arrangement."

"I couldn't take that she couldn't make decisions for herself. "

"So you broke up with her?"

"No. I just took off. Left Denver. It wasn't worth the stress."

"Do you still have feelings for her?" Kaylie asked. It was a stupid question because she was sure she already knew the answer.

"That doesn't matter. She is still her mother's lap dog."

Kaylie shook her head. "No she isn't. Not anymore she is thinking for herself." Nicky gave Kaylie a strange look.

"Why are you even defending her?" Nicky asked. The Kelly he left didn't deserve defending. At least that's how he saw it.

"Kelly has changed more than you think."

"Yeah that's what I thought before Carter showed up." Nicky said mainly to himself. But shook the thoughts out his head the past was the past and that's where he wanted it to stay. "Enough about that tell me about you and Tucker."

"Alright I'll start from the beginning It all started at the first party….."

Authors Note

I'm sorry for the long wait

And sorry there was no Austin in this chapter I promise he would be in the next.