THE ABELEY'S HOUSE

Tuesday September 19th

5:30 PM

The quiet hum of footsteps walking towards the front step rang louder than usual for Massie.

"Massie?" Chris Abeley asked confused. "Did we have plans t-" Massie cut him off.

"No I'm here to see Layne." She pushed passed Chris, who was D2H at the moment because she remembered that he was the one that broke Massie and Derrington up, and if they hadn't broken up then Massie and Dylan would still be friends and she could skip this whole crush stage right now because they would already be going out.

"Massie?" Layne came to the doorway with the same shicked face as her brother.

"Yes have you never had a visitor here before? Gawd."

"Listen Massie, I'm really sorry about the bushes." Layne started her plead for forgiveness.

"I'm willing to forgive you, IF you tell me what's going on with you and Claire." Massie stated.

"Deal." Layne gave in almost too quickly, but as she remembered how Claire had treated her she started telling the story. "So Claire came home so I went to talk to her. I was hiding in the bushes and came out so she asked me what I was doing in the bushes. I started pretending to be a secret agent because she seemed to be in a bad mood and that always used to cheer her up. She asked me what I was doing in a snobby tone and then I told her why I was in the bushes. Then she asked me why I came in the first place and I said that I had heard Cam talking with Derrington about maybe dumping Claire and going for this other girl. So she yelled at me for eavesdropping and turning into her brother, so I'm like 'Sorry miss A-lister.' And then she yelled at me for being jealous so I yelled at her for turning into uh, you, and then she asked me about something that I had mentioned earlier and I left saying 'sorry too many wasted gossip points' and then she kept screaming for me to come back, which I doubt she would have done if I didn't know something she didn't." Layne sighed.

"Wooh! You put up a nice fight!" Massie reached for a high-five but stopped mid-way when she realized what she was doing. "So what was the thing that you knew and she didn't?"

"Uh…will you get mad at me?" Layne looked nervous.

"No just tell me." Massie insisted.

"Okay, well I heard you and Todd talking about spying so I mentioned that while I was talking to her and yeah…"

"Did you tell her anything about the spying?"

"No"

"Okay good, and don't"

"Sure." She now looked sad.

"What's wrong?" Massie sighed and looked at her new Channel watch, she had already been there for 5 minutes and she needed time to get ready for her date.

"Its just that Kristin left me and Claire left me and soon enough my other friends will leave me."

"Were you really good friends with Kristin Layne?" Massie asked with a devious smile trying to hide.

"No, she was really just a summer friend-fill-in and that's what I was to her but cant I get Claire back?"

"Just give me a day and everything will go back to normal, pinky swear." Massie declared.

"By normal you mean….?"

"When nobody except for you accepted Claire." And Massie was off.