Hul-lo! This is my first Graire fic I believe, so it may not be very good, but I thought of the plot and thought it would work nicely with these two. Anyway, review ONLY if you want and enjoy~
"I'll be your practice test!"
"Hn?" I looked up to try and find the source of the shouting at 6:00 in the morning, and of course it was none other than Claire, "Don't you have someone else to bother?"
"Don't you mean don't WE have someone else to bother?" she replied with a suspicious giggle, "We're going to the library as soon as it opens~!"
"Haven't you bothered poor Mary enough?" Claire glared at me and pounced onto my bed.
"She enjoys talking with me, but that's not what I'm here to talk about!" I sat up as Claire crawled next to me, "Lets talk about 'us'."
"WHAT?" I nearly choked. What did she mean by "us"…like boyfriend-girlfriend us!? I felt my cheeks warm up, so I turned my head. Claire's familiar "I'm-just-kidding" giggle made me turn back though.
"Back to the subject of this Mary person you've spoken of. It's very obvious you are crushing on this girl, and it's also very obvious that she's not into you." I glared at her, but that only made her smile larger.
"So you came her at six in the morning just to state the obvious about my pathetic love life?" I was nearly shouting, but I didn't want anyone to come in here so I tried to keep quiet. I must have been louder than I thought though because Claire hid under my sheets.
"That's not true!" She said with a pout on her face as she poked her head out of the covers.
"Then why are you here?" I asked.
"I'm here because I have the solution to your problem!" Claire smiled at me in an odd way. It was the kind of smile that told a person that Claire wasn't sure how her evil plans were going to turn out, but she always decided to carry them out anyway.
That always, I repeat ALWAYS, meant trouble for me because I've taken the part of being her best friend. So if I've hadn't had enough trouble with the overly joyful people in this town I had to be the puppet/guinea pig of the strangest person I've met.
"What ar-"
"WE'RE GOING TO BE BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND!" At this point I felt like my face was on fire, and the laughing in the hall wasn't helping either, "Ann did you follow me again?"
"ANN!?" Great…of course Ann is the one to be right there with me in the most embarrassing moment of my life.
"Uhm…no!" I heard two pairs of footsteps run down the stairs, and when I thought the coast was clear I turned back to Claire.
"Now let me explain myself!" I glared at her but it had no effect, "I recall that you once told me you were afraid to ask Mary out because you didn't want to mess things up. So, if you let me be your practice girlfriend for a while then I can prepare you to be the totally awesome boyfriend you want to be. Also, Mary might get jealous seeing us all lovey-dovey and realize she has feelings for you! The plan is flawless!"
"Wrong. If Mary does like me that will destroy your friendship with her." Anything to help me out of this would be nice…
"I don't mind as long as it helps you in the end!" Claire smiled at me and that did the trick.
"Fine, but what are we going to tell people?" She giggled, which meant she had an answer ready. While Claire doesn't know which directions things are going to go, and she doesn't care, she thinks things through as much as she sees possible. Which means whenever I question her she always has an answer to spat right back at me.
"We'll just tell them we're madly in love, duh! It'll be your first test…just to see if you can handle admitting your feelings in public!" I blushed…I don't think I'm going to be able to handle this.
"T-test?" I replied quietly.
"Yep! We have to go around the whole town and tell everyone that we're in love. You also have to hold my hand the whole time!" I nearly choked…again (Claire tends to do that to me). I've never had a girlfriend before and now she expects me to be able to go around telling people I'm in love with someone I'm not in love with?
"I'll meet you downstairs." I mumbled as Claire jumped out of my bed and grinned. The only reason I'm doing this is to make her happy and ensure that smile never fades.
"You better hurry, hun!" Claire purposely said hun louder than any other word, and I began to wonder if this was more of a test to see how long I could control my anger.