( secret admirer )

[jude gregory kite]

Cadence Reagan Matthews is having a hard time admitting that she still loves Evan. He still loves her, too, but she doesn't know that. Fearing that she doesn't love him, he doesn't tell her. Cady however, has the same fear as Evan Anthony Chambers in this situation, so she keeps fooling herself into being 'just his friend'. That's how she feels, after all, right? Of course not, but she still tells herself that every time she even begins to feel as if she's falling for him. Cadence tells none other than her best friends, Tinsley, Keatie, and Brett that she loves him, but decides not to tell him. Not just yet...

Brandon's growing habit of visiting the bar each night had Cady on edge for a while. He crossed the line, however, when he could've got killed in a fight he had gotten into. Cady found him on the steps, ready to disappear into the world of uncounciousness. Cady took him to his house, and Brett happened to be in the area. She see's this, and thinks something is going on between Cady and Brandon. Since Brett and Brandon have had some stuff going on, Brett is instantly angered. Impulsive and hurt, Brett decides to take Cady down. Way down. Eye for an eye, right? But Brett wants more than an eye..she wants her heart.

With vengeance in her mind (and not in her heart) she confronts Evan and tells him about what she saw while they're at the masquerade. She even took some pictures on her phone, showing them to Evan. She didn't include, of course, that she sent them to Gossip Girl. What she did] tell him, though, was that 'Cady is over you. She told me herself. She's just friends with you because she feels bad. Haha, but you know Cady. Always miss goody two-shoes. Not so much anymore...' Evan is very hurt by this, dismisses Brett who could actually care less and keeps to himself.

Cady, about an hour later and into the masquerade, decides to tell Evan how she feels. If everything in her was right, then this would work out. She knew it. Cady confronts him at the ball. Before she can do anything, however, Evan tells her that he understands. He knows that she's over him and he doesn't want to have anything to do with her anymore. Distraught, she flees the ball and Brett follows closely after.

Brett, however, has a guilt trip to deal with. They get to Brett's house and Brett acts like a 'friend'. She shows Cady what GG has put on her latest blog about her and 'brandon beer-breath' as a nice little schpeel of how Cady's such a tramp. Hurt and not aware that Brett had sent the information in, she tells her best friend that nothing even happened or ever happened, that Brandon was just a friend she was helping out and that after he was asleep she went her way to her house. Brett feels horrible. What had she done? All this and nothing even happened? She tells Cady what she did, unable to bear the guilt. She could only do so much, after all. Infuriated, Cady goes off to Brett about various things before storming out of the house and going to her own, locking herself in the room, sure she would cry her eyes out.

Another thing Brett couldn't bear was her friend in pain. Especially Cady, who had been there for her through everything. She goes to Evan's dorm, where she immediately gets to the point, making sure he knows how hard it is for her to admit that she was wrong. Evan realizes that what he had done, and did his best to get a hold of her. Cady only blocks his calls, his texts, and his IMs. She dumps out her bag later, considering she goes OCD when she needs to think, and finds the note from her 'secret admirer' that she got a while back. She notices something strange about it, like she recognized how they worded things. 'Not even I would joke about that.' Something made her check her past IMs, and this guy was dropping clues all over the place. Everything collided as Cady realized who it was; Evan.

She knew for real this time. In her heart, she loved him. So how were they going to make this work? Who knows how long it'll take....

BRETT PAIGE KITE
EVAN ANTHONY CHAMBERS
BRANDON PETER WESTLEY
CADENCE REAGAN MATTHEWS

[jude gregory kite]

This plot has been changed to fit into the Masquerade. Read it over again so you know what's going on, to everybody that's involved!