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Due to college, work, and my personal life I will not update this story ever single day but don't worry I am not taking a break from it either. I will update when I have free time to and when I become very inspired to write which may be during a hetic time or a relax time it all depends. Thanks for the reviews everyone!
Love,
Haley
I never could have even fathomed that this would have ever happened to me of all people. I am supposed to be untouchable and yet there is someone threatening to ruin me. No one has ever dared to harm one of my friends to get my attention because no one has ever been brave enough. Whoever has taken Claire is not afraid of me and that scares me to death.
"Massie, we didn't know how to tell you. We are all so scared." Kristen said innocently because they honestly have never encountered something like this, none of us have. The one thing that I regret is being so misinformed and so gullible.
"I know that you girls are scared and so am I but whoever this is wants me not you," I told them the truth because this impostor has been after me the whole entire time and I have been a coward in hiding. "I am going to face them because I need to put an end to this." If I want to put an end to this destruction then I have to leave. I need to go after my enemy without any help from my friends. I collected myself and reached for the door handle.
"Massie, you can't do this it is practically suicide." Dylan shouted after me but it is too late, I am already out of the door. I can't turn back now. I need to be strong for them. I need to become untouchable once again.
I need to start from the beginning because maybe I will find some clues that we reveal the impostor before they come after me and kill me. Now Claire started acting strange right after she found out about my summer vacation with Alicia, but wait that doesn't make sense of how the impostor could have switched with the real Claire if that had been the incident. No, the impostor would have had to switch with Claire without any of us knowing or suspecting a thing.
'That's it.' I thought as I started my car and drove madly to my destination. 'It makes perfect sense of how none of us would have known.' I continued to think about of my theory might actually be a fact as I remembered that night so clearly and all the incidents after it.
"Derrick, what are you doing here?" I asked as I walked into the ballroom of the Ritz hotel only to find that Derrick Harrington is a step ahead of me. I looked around the room and noticed that he is not alone the rest of our old gang minus Claire are here as well.
"We are helping you; this is too deep for you to do this by yourself." Derrick said flatly as he rummaged through the tables to find something, anything that could act as a clue.
"How did you find out that this is where the kidnap happened?" Cam asked and I could tell that he indeed had been crying earlier because his eyes are puffy and red. I feel so bad for him because he truly loves Claire and for him to have to go through with this is unimaginable.
"It added up in my head because what better place to kidnap someone than at a masquerade party." I said flatly because I don't want to remember this night anymore. It has a different feeling to it now, back then it was a loving and carefree feeling and now that I know the truth it is a depressing and enraged feeling. I lost my best friend here and it may be forever until I see her again.
"I don't know what sick bastard would ever think of harming a sweet girl like Claire." Alicia said with venom in her voice because deep down I know she does care about Claire. She may not show it but she does care very deeply.
"How about Dylan, Leesh, Josh, and Plovert come up with some possible suspects and the rest of us with investigate the clues and find the criminal." Derrick said with authority because as an alpha, we tend to get our way. I don't like the idea of working separately but if we can find this person the quicker than the better it is for all of us.
I took a seat at one of the tables and recall the events that happened here two years ago, the best that I could remember. Now that I think about it I really didn't see Claire that much which is beyond bizarre because Claire is always glued to my side. The last time I did see the 'real' Claire is when she hurried off to the bathroom-that's it.
"I know where we will find the clue." I said proudly because I figured it before Derrick, ha now who is the one who is two steps behind the other not me. 'Ohmygawd I am being so ridiculous.' I thought to myself as I led the others to the bathrooms. This is about finding Claire not about who is the better amateur detective.
"I am not going in there." Derrick and Cam said in unison as I opened the girl's bathroom door open for everyone. Kemp looked at them with a sheepish grin on his face and entered into the 'cooties infested' area with pride.
Derrick and Cam slump their shoulders and entered without the confidence Kemp had. I suppressed my laughter as I followed behind them and both Kristen and I gave each other questioning looks when Kemp walked in with such ease. "Okay this is the last place I saw Claire head into which means it is also the last place she was before she was kidnapped." I said as I kicked the stall doors open hoping to find something relevant from two years ago.
"Mass, come here and look at this note that I found taped to the bottom of the sink." Kristen said as I kicked another helpless stall open. I turned around and walk towards her to see the note that she is talking about.
"You took away a precious love of mine and now I am doing the same thing to you. You go through life acting as if you are invincible but I am about to prove that you are not. I will not kill your precious Kuh-Laire because after all I want you. She is just a piece of cheese that I will toy with until you will fall into my perfect mousetrap. If you want to save Claire then you will have to figure out this next clue; most people fear this will others devour the feeling of having absolutely no control of your body. Be careful with one false move, I will end this game quickly. No cops." Cam read the note peering over Kristen's shoulder. The note didn't help because there is no way that I will win this sick game.
"Wait a second, there is an important clue in here," Kemp exclaimed as he snatched the note away from Kristen's hand. All of us looked at him as if he had just lost his mind right in front of our very own eyes. "Don't you see that she said Kuh-Laire? This means that she knows us personally because no stranger would know that Massie called Claire, Kuh-Laire unless they knew us." I had to give it Kemp, he may be deemed as a pervert but every girl at BOCD high school but he is very intelligent when it comes to these things.
"Well that is just great, but if we can't figure out what the next clue is then we are done." Cam yelled with frustration; he has finally cracked. If we are going to find Claire then we are going to have to keep ourselves together.
"The clue doesn't make any sense whatsoever, how the hell are we supposed to know where this psycho wants us to go?" Derrick asked confused by the note. If the psycho wanted Massie so badly than why couldn't they just tell them exactly where they are? Instead they have to play this stupid catch me game.
"I know where the next clue is going to be," I said as came to end of the theories I had in my head until I found the perfect one. I don't know how it is relevant to Claire or me but I can't exactly say that I have never done it before. "Think about it, what are most people scared of? Heights and that is the reason why most people never go skydiving because they are terrified of heights. You have no control over your body while you're in the air as a beginner, get it now?"
"I get it but why the hell would they chose that place instead of something like the mall? That is where all you girls are always heading to or getting back from." Derrick asked very puzzled on the place of choice by the kidnapper. There is no way in hell Massie would ever wear a skydiving suit so therefore she would never go skydiving and Claire is too much of a chicken to go through with it.
"It may have to do with the fact of where girls go when they aren't shopping," I tried to explain to the boys but they still were confused as before. I might as well go on and tell the truth of why I never have my sleepovers on Saturday nights. "In my spare time I like to go skydiving especially on Saturdays which are why I have my sleepovers on Friday and not Saturday."
"Who would have thought Massie Block would be so much a daredevil?" Kemp asked as he wrapped his arm around my shoulder and escorted me out of the bathroom.
The look I saw on Derrick's face haunted me, I have never seen him look so disappointed in his whole entire life. I feel guilty for never telling Derrick about my secret hobby but there is a reason why I stopped skydiving and why I never told a single soul about it.
"A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets."-Gloria Stuart.
Review:) give me feedback I would really appreciate it. What is Massie's secret? Well you have to continue to read this story to find out!
