Okay. SO SO SORRY FOR MAKING YOU ALL THINK THERE'S A NEW UPDATE (but there is. It's almost done, I just have to finish this ;)) BUT FANFICTION IS BEING ANNOYING. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? BECAUSE NONE OF MY PAGE BREAKERS WORK AND I ONLY FOUND OUT NOW! (Because I don't check my stories after it's been posted, and I only checked now because I decided I wanted to reply to reviews—not yet. Still fixing things.)

ARGH. I HATE FANFICTION RIGHT NOW.

NOW I HAVE TO REPOST CHAPTERS TEN TO THIRTEEN.

.:When Your Stars Don't Shine, I'll Give You Mine:.

"Hey, Derrick," Massie said, sitting across from Derrick on the kitchen counter. Her hair flowed down, and Derrick suddenly had the urge to stroke it. He never noticed how soft and shiny it looked.

He blinked and looked away from her hair, and looked at her face. She was looking at him expectantly.

"What?" he asked, putting on a confused face. He had to pretend that he forgot her birthday. For the surprise party later.

She sighed. "Never mind," she said. She was expecting it.

"Sure," he said, stretching the word, knowing that she was still disappointed even if she expected it.

"I just thought…" she said, more to herself. He pretended like he didn't hear.

"You want cereal?" Derrick asked, pushing the empty bowl on the table towards her. He never prepared an extra bowl for her, but he decided to be completely kind to her today, since it was her birthday.

"Yeah, thanks," she said, pouring out Cheerios on her bowl. She picked up one donut shaped cereal and bit half of it. She poured in the milk, and dropped the uneaten half of the cereal she was holding into the bowl.

"You're quiet," Derrick commented.

"Yeah," she said, then scooped a spoonful of cereal into her milk.

-o-

"Happy birthday!" Kristen Gregory greeted when Massie reached her locker.

"Yeah, Mass, happy birthday!" Dylan Marvil said, hugging the brunette. Dylan gave the best hugs.

"Finally, seventeen!" Alicia Rivera said.

"Ha, now I'm the baby of the group; the only sixteen-year-old in a group of seventeen-year-olds," Claire Lyons said.

"Shut up, Claire. You make me feel old," Massie said, smiling for the first time since breakfast.

"You feeling old makes me feel old," Alicia said, the girl who has the January birthday, making her older than the rest of the girls. They giggled.

"So, you guys want to do something after school? Celebrate before I have dinner with my parents?" Massie asked.

Her face fell when she saw her friends' eyes drop to the ground.

"Sorry, Mass. I have cheerleading," Alicia said.

"I have this thing with my mom in the city," Dylan said. "Tonight's her only free night."

"I have soccer," Kristen said.

Massie looked at Claire. "Sorry, Mass, I have detention, and then I have to finish my English essay. On top of that, I'm grounded for getting detention."

"But you're Claire! You never get detentions," Massie said. It was true. Claire was the kindest person in the world.

"I was eating in class, and Mrs. Link caught me," Claire said.

"Why did you eat in her class? She's the meanest teacher here!"

"I missed lunch," she said.

"Okay, well, it's fine. I still have dinner with my parents."

-o-

"Happy birthday," Landon Crane greeted her during lunch.

"Are you guys throwing a surprise birthday party for me?" Massie asked, straight to the point.

"Nope," Landon said. "Why?"

"It 's just that everyone seems to have forgotten my birthday and made other plans. I've been hoping that all my friends are just ignoring me because of a surprise party when I get home," Massie said.

"I'm sorry, Massie. We're not. The girls are really just busy, and the guys have soccer tryouts later. And I'm trying out," Landon lied. He got in the soccer team three days ago.

"Oh," Massie said, then she sighed. Then she realized something.

"That means Derrick has soccer later?" Massie asked. He was her last hope for having any fun on her birthday.

"Yeah. He's team captain. Wait, did he ever find out that it's your birthday today?" Landon asked, not knowing that Derrick figured it out from the beginning.

"Nope. He's very ignorant," Massie said.

-o-

For dinner, she wore a slightly poufy, royal blue dress that reached to her knees. It wasn't formal; she could wear it out anywhere. It was just her favorite dress. On her feet were gold ballet flats. She thought of wearing heels, but then she realized that she wasn't really going anywhere, so she just stuck to her flats.

"Massie, honey, what do you say we have an early dinner tonight?" Kendra Block asked her as she was looking at herself in the mirror. To feel somewhat special, she added a string of pearls on her neck.

She already fully accepted that she wasn't going to do anything special today, that everyone was just busy, and that there was no surprise party waiting for her when she got home, so she said yes to her mother.

They talked animatedly during dinner, which had all of her favorite food. She smiled, she laughed, she was happy. They finished dinner, and then she had nothing else to do.

She decided to just watch a movie in her room.

"You know, the sound is better in the spa. And the screen's bigger," William Block said as she was about to put the disk in the player.

"You're right," she said, smiling up at her dad. She put the DVD back in its case.

She grabbed another movie, adding to the one she was already holding. Sydney White and She's The Man. Guess it's an Amanda Bynes chick flick movie marathon.

She walked towards the spa, her head down, looking at her every step.

She didn't even bother to look up when she opened the door.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

She screamed in shock and dropped her DVDs.

It was like a bomb exploded in her ears as everyone she knew stared singing the Happy Birthday song. She wanted to say that she knew this was coming, but she couldn't because it wasn't true. She was grinning from ear-to-ear as she saw her best friends holding a banner that said, "We love you too much to forget."

And she loved them too.

Then she saw Derrick approaching her with a giant birthday cake in his arms.

That surprised her the most.

"I thought you forgot!" Massie exclaimed.

"Block, I've known ever since you put up the first calendar," he admitted.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Massie asked, her eyes widening.

"It was fun watching you," he smirked.

"Blow out your candles Massie," Alicia said. "But make a wish first."

She closed her eyes as everyone sang the Happy Birthday song again.

When she finished her wish, she took a deep breath and blew out her candles with one breath. Everyone clapped.

"Bah. Smoke," Derrick said, going away to put the cake on a table.

"So, were you surprised?" Dylan asked.

"Duh. I just accepted that I wasn't doing anything special for my birthday this year, so I thought, "I'll just watch a movie then." And when I get here, everyone's here!" Massie said, smiling. She can't seem to stop smiling.

Kristen picked up the DVDs from the floor. "Sydney White and She's The Man? You know, you should've added What A Girl Wants."

"What's the point? She won't watch any of it anymore anyway," Kemp Hurley said.

"So, Claire, how was 'detention?'" Massie asked, putting air quotes around the last word.

"Massie, I never get caught eating in class," Claire said.

"That's actually true," Chris Plovert said.

"No way, you have to teach me how," Landon said, coming over to join the group. Three days after he came to Westchester, he was already friends with everybody, and they all loved him.

"Sure," Claire said.

"So, Massie, how awesome is your surprise party?" he asked, turning to her.

"Oh, you mean my 'I'm sorry Massie, everyone's really just busy' party?" she said. "It's pretty great."

"Sorry," he shrugged. "I had to keep it a secret."

"So, who planned this anyway?" Massie asked, and she saw all of them shoot looks at each other. "Tell me," she said.

"Believe it or not, it was Derrick," Cam Fisher answered.

Massie's mouth dropped open. "Are you serious? Is this some kind of joke?"

"Nope. He really did plan this. We helped, of course, but it was mostly him," Josh Hotz said.

She looked at Kristen for confirmation. "They're telling the truth."

Massie was shocked. Derrick? Derrick picked on her every day. Derrick planned this? Derrick?

She broke out of her momentary shocked trance, and said, "I think it's time I gave Derrick a thank-you hug, right?" She walked away in search of the dirty blonde before anyone could say anything else.

She found him, stuffing a potato chip into his mouth.

"Derrick!" she called out.

"He—whoa!" he said, as Massie threw her arms around him. "This is new."

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" she said.

"For what?"

"This party." She let go of him. His face was red, but he smirked to cover it up.

"Don't get used to my kindness," he said.

Their group of friends saw this whole exchange.

"Massie and Derrick are perfect for each other, don't you think?" Alicia said.

"Yeah. Everyone knows it too," Dylan said.

"Everyone but them," Claire added.

"If only they knew," Kristen said. "What do you boys think?"

"Yeah," Josh said.

"I agree," Cam said.

"Me too," Kemp said.

"Me three," Plovert said.

They looked at Landon, who was silent because he was watching Derrick and Massie bicker. "Yeah, they are," he said.

But a part of him wished they weren't.

-o-

"Okay, Landon next," Derrick said, pushing Landon so that he could give Massie his gift. Landon brought out a blue Tiffany & Co. box, and the girls in the area let out a collective gasp. Massie opened it to find a silver necklace with a star-shaped pendant, and she smiled up at Landon.

"This is so beautiful," she said, and the dinosaur in Derrick's heart roared in anger.

"Okay! Time for my present! And you know what they say, 'Save the best for last!'" Derrick said, grabbing Massie's wrist and bringing her outside. Everyone followed.

He called someone on his phone, and told Massie to look up.

BOOM!

Happy Birthday was written in the sky.

There was another explosion, and now Massie could see her name.

In the sky.

Written using fireworks.

She was speechless.

"So, how was that?" Derrick said.

"That was…" Massie said, but she couldn't find the words.

It was probably the best birthday gift she has ever received.

-o-

Back inside the spa, Derrick handed Massie his "real" gift. It was a snow globe, bigger than your average one, with a pale purple fairytale castle inside, swirling silver glitter around it. The size, the shape, the workmanship, and the quality suggested that it was customized. Specially made for her.

She was once again taken aback by Derrick's actions.

"Picture! I want Massie, Derrick, and Landon," Alicia said, holding up a camera. "Yes, even you Landon. You're the only one who doesn't have a picture with the birthday girl," she said when Landon tried to refuse.

Derrick and Landon stood on either side of a smiling Massie. They put identical smiles on their faces too.

"Okay, one, two, three!" The camera clicked, and the screen showed a picture of a smiling, happy girl in the middle of two boys that are slowly starting to hate each other.

And the real party starts.

Yes, the plot is starting! It will slowly build up from now on…

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Oh yeah, the title for this chapter is from A Million Kisses by Romance On A Rocketship.