A/N: Okay, I'm going to rewrite Moments, because I hate it. It doesn't really showcase my writing skills, so I'm going to do any entirely different thing. On a sad note, I decided to put Guidance and All Year Around on the mental backburner until the review count changes. I have the chapter a quarter for both written but I stopped. It's going on the backburner. That's it. End of story. Reviews make me happy, yes?

Disclaimer: I don't own Zoey 101. Just because I write fifty-nine stories about it, doesn't mean it's mine.

Timeframe: After Zoey's Balloon; at night after Macalana scene.

Words: 530

Couple(s): no direct couple; Chase/Rebecca & Chase/Zoey undertones.

Inspiration: My curiosity that pondered a deeper aftermath/resolution than the entire school dancing the Macalana.

The Little Things In Between

True Motive

She wasn't evil or "a bucket of nuts".

Frankly, she felt quite rational and if the bucket reference was an insult, pertaining to her head, well she was actually proportionate. Rebecca enjoyed the dark because she felt it was the right time to hide and possibly think. Bringing her brown eyes ahead, she blinked the tears that were threatening to fall, and tried with everything within her to keep the justified anger that was brewing.

"I'm sorry, Rebecca. I couldn't let you do it. I couldn't let you hurt Zoey that way," his voice sliced through the cover of night, reaching her ears. She looked up, brown meeting green before she turned away from him, sighing. It was frustrating, thinking it always came back to her. Rebecca didn't know how long she had been sitting on the fountain – one of the farthest on campus, but now she was accustomed to the stony feel of it. Just like she was accustomed to everyone around her thinking stealing a balloon containing a dark secret was a case of revenge directed.

Rebecca smiled sadly, however oxymoronic that sounded. That's what she wanted everyone to think.

She wanted everyone to think she had done it to hurt Zoey. Precious, good natured, perfect Zoey.

"And why do you think I did all of this to hurt her?" she questioned, with a quietness that almost stunned him. Chase's eyes shone with not so much irritation as it did confused. He sat on the same ledge.

"What are you talking about?"

She was talking about the heart that remained broken, even though she held her head up high.

"Maybe I didn't do it to hurt Zoey at all, even though she thinks I probably did," the brunette muttered the last part more to herself. She was broken, sure. But Rebecca was determined not to shatter. She wasn't going to break into so many pieces that she couldn't be put back together.

"Then who did you want to get back at?"

The word was so small, and contain of three letters, but it was so powerful. It almost left his bushy head, reeling.

Looking up at him with the brown eyes that sparkled with suppressed tears.

She couldn't hate this boy even if she wanted to.

Rebecca often wondered if there was ever a time where he could love her, but there wasn't and she wasn't going to hang on, and watch herself shatter. Rebecca's heart could be healed with time if it was broken. That's as far as she was willing to go.

Because reality was staring her in the face, and reality resounded with, Chase. Loves. Zoey.

"You," she admitted, a clear, salty tear finally rolling down her left cheek, and darkened the stone under her. "I did everything – the blackmail, paying Firewire to steal her balloon – I did all of this to get back at you, but I'll leave you alone. You win, and I'm not going to hang on to something that doesn't exist."

Before Chase could say anything, Rebecca walked away, her heart doing the one thing she was trying to will it not to do.

Damn.

A/N: Okay, there's your moment, or in between scene. Chase didn't have a lot of dialogue because I wanted to focus on Rebecca. I wanted to focus more on the motive she had, since most people just thought she was being evil. But this piece, I hope, went deeper than the surface. Review Guidance and All Year Round…please! Or I'm putting it on the backburner, and I'm going to take really long o update. I know this makes me look a review whore, but I just like feedback, which I haven't been enough of in this section.

Review,

-Erika