Third semester. Ever since the audition day, she hasn't talked to James and she avoided his presence. She wanted to forget that she was ever in love with him, even that he was her friend. Just like the situation with her best friend, their parents had a fight because Clara's friend's mother was a crack head and had a false argument accusing Clara of saying things that weren't right for her age. Clara's parents were infuriated and blocked her contact with her best friend Lisa for life. Lisa and Clara were however allowed to hang out at school. Lisa couldn't handle it so she broke it with Clara. Ever since, they haven't talked in 3 years.

James kept staring at her with regret. He wanted her back. She hadn't had any regrets ever since that serious talk with James and carried on with life. Each day he's been thinking about her and has driven Jessica, James' girlfriend, with serious concern.

"Baby, is everything okay?" Rebecca asked

"Oh! Yeah everything's okay." James said

"No, something's wrong."

"An ex. It was long ago. Its just appeared in my mind again."

"Oh. Again? An ex? You never told me about your exes."

"Well, I don't know maybe it is time for me to talk about it."

"Yes you always can talk about your past with me."

So with that note, he talked to her about a girl named Clara. How he could've been with her all this time but he really didn't notice that she was trying to tell him something big. How stupid he was to not see that one girl who rarely gets noticed. He felt ashamed and Rebecca got jealous.

"So.." Rebecca interrupted, "How about that date Saturday?"

"Oh, right. Yeah that's still going on."

"Okay great" she said as she leaned over and kissed him on the mouth, "see you then."

Weeks passed and days went on as Clara went on to continue loving her life.

"So, our concert is coming up soon" Michael said in his deep voice.

"Yeah I'm so excited! I love to hear your amazing voice."

"I love to hear your absolutely stunning pipes you were impossibly born with."

Clara smiled and turned red.

"Clara!" James said as he ran up to her

"What?" She annoyingly said

"Look," he panted as he looked as if he came from a mile run, "I wanted to tell you something too. For as long as you have and I can't deny it."

"Oh, Jamesie-wamsie! Come here darling!" Rebecca shouted in the distance

"Yes, tell the group what you wanted desperately say" Michael said authoritatively

James looked at Michael with disgust. Rebecca abruptly jumped onto James.

"James! Hey baby! Who are your friends?"

"Uh...this is--"

"I'm Clara Blythe" she said as she gestured herself, "and this is my boyfriend, Michael Scott" she said as she pointed a finger at her boyfriend.

"Oh", Rebecca's voice got slightly softer, "Hello. I'm Becca. I'm James's honey bear."

"I can tell" Clara said

"So...uh, we better get going"

"Yeah, Scott's right. Rehearsals in five so...see you around, maybe."

Clara and Scott turned and walked away while they adjoined their hands together and intertwined their fingers walking confidently to the theatre room.

As Clara hung with all of her friends having a good time, James was feeling miserable for not scoring Clara and hanging with a girl he doesn't like.

Rebecca noticed his negative vibe and tried to cheer him up. He smiled for a few moments then continue to his content. His vibe then transferred to Rebecca and she was trying to figure what was wrong and thought she was the mistake.

If she only knew what he was really hiding. If she only knew.