When Maddie Van Pelt doodled in the margins of her textbook, she'd be writing one word over and over in fancy calligraphy. Diego.

Every dream she had was starring him. Every love song that she had started listening to was always about him.

The girl's love interest in every romance movie she watched had his face.

The only voice that she wanted to hear was his.

And every morning when she woke up she would sigh his name with a goofy smile, "Diego."

Just the name sounded so handsome and it rolled off her tongue perfectly.

She thought about his dark hair, handsome features, pool-of-chocolate eyes, and bright white smile all the time.

Maddie hoped he felt the same way to her that she did to him as she brushed her hair. She was in her bedroom wondering what she could wear that would say 'ask me to be your girlfriend, Diego'. He was coming over soon and Maddie wanted this to be the day that they finally became official. Part of that 'not being together' thing she figured was her fault.

Maddie never wanted to admit her feelings to Diego in the beginning. It just wasn't the Panther way- and definitely not the Van Pelt way. No, Diego was supposed to beg her to date a lowly peasant like himself. That was what her mom had taught her to do anyway.

But as time went on, Maddie could tell that all of her attempts to try to seem too good for Diego were actually working. And too well at that. Maddie was pretty sure that Diego was convinced that she didn't care for him at all. Now she wished she hadn't listened to her mother- on anything. What Daniel called the 'Diego Effect' was making her rethink her entire life! Was she really thought of as the meanest most horrible girl in the school?

That's why she loved hanging out with Diego so much. He looked through that image and helped the real Maddie Van Pelt come out. And Maddie adored every minute of their time together. She would never let him see it, but she even had a little photo collage of him hanging in her closet. And she had giggled so much when Diego followed her on Instagram.

So today Maddie had decided that she would just let her guard down and completely show that side of her. She hoped that Diego would like her back. She had had fantasies about how well this night could go. But she only dared to think about them once or twice. She didn't want to be disappointed.

The best part about tonight was that her mom wasn't going to be home. The entire house was to themselves with no Panthers, of course Diego didn't know that but Maddie hoped he'd be happy when he found out.

She peered into her closet and picked out a lacy top with cute kaki short shorts that she hoped Diego would like. Something girly, but not too girly. She noticed that when she wore dresses around Diego, he seemed a little put off. She decided to leave her hair down and she sprayed a little perfume on. It was meant to smell like the beach. Diego loved the beach.

She made sure that her bedroom was ready too. She purposefully put some books and her laptop on the bigger couch in her room and she threw all her pillows on the chair. That way the only place to sit would be the small pink couch, that way they could get all snuggly and close.

Maddie's heart leapt as she heard a ding dong coming from downstairs.

Diego must be here! She thought. She did one last quick hair check and dabbed on some lipstick (another wishful thought) before she headed downstairs. Instead of waiting a few moments before answering the door like she used to, she opened the door the second she got downstairs.

Her knight in shining armor was standing on the front porch, looking gorgeous as ever with one hand in his pocket and one hand clutching a few books. Maddie had told Diego that they would be studying. She didn't know what to really say when she invited him, but she hoped that they wouldn't actually use the textbooks.

"Hey." Diego greeted. It made Maddie's heart skip a beat and her eyelashes flutter.

"Hi." Maddie said breathlessly. If she was going to leave behind her Panther ways, she might as well go all out. She found herself getting lost as she looked at his perfect eyebrows and how hot he looked with his signature lopsided smile. He was wearing his Sharks varsity jacket. Oh how she wished that he would give her that jacket. Or at least let her borrow it.

"So…?" Diego asked with a raised eyebrow.

Maddie's cheeks flushed as she realized that she had left Diego standing there without inviting him inside. She was distracted in his features.

"Sorry, c'mon in." She smiled as she led him into the living room.

She noticed Diego out of the corner of her eye make a move to sit down on the couch in her living room, where they normally would hang out with Sophie and Katie. That wasn't good.

"I was thinking we could head to my room." Maddie said.

"Oh, okay then."

Phew. Maddie thought. That would've been a close one. If the night was going to go how Maddie wanted it to, everything would have to go according to plan.

As she climbed up the stairs in front of the kanay, Maddie took a few deep breaths to calm her beating heart. She never used to get this nervous when Diego came over before. She figured she was so flustered because she wanted this to be a big step in their relationship this time. She hated the way her legs felt all shaky.

The two walked past Ursula's room and Maddie saw that Diego tensed up. She didn't blame him. Her mom had been horrible to her Proxy ever since she found out he was a kanay.

"By the way, my mom's not going to be home tonight." Maddie tried to say as casually as she could.

Diego's face lit up, "That's a relief. Whenever she's around she makes me put air fresheners in my pockets."

Maddie laughed and she tried to do the sweetest laugh that she could imagine. She tossed her hair and fluttered her eyelashes, but that just made Diego look at her funny.

Well that didn't work, She thought. She decided to just head to her room.

She led Diego into her pink bedroom and sat down on the small loveseat, hoping her plan to get him to sit next to her would work.

She watched Diego look to sit down on the chair or couch like he usually did, but since both were full he headed to the pink loveseat and eased in next to her. His knee touched hers for a second, sending fireworks up and down her body until he repositioned himself so that they weren't in contact. She resisted the urge to sigh. Don't lose hope yet, Maddie. She thought to herself, You have plenty of time for your plan to work.

Diego started flipping through a history textbook, "So what did you want to work on? Maybe the Harrison and Burr duel? Or the alliance between Jefferson and Madison?"

"I was thinking we could do a different subject." Maddie smiled.

"Oh, okay." Diego pulled out another textbook, "There's a quiz coming up in Algebra 2. We could work on some problems."

"How about we try chemistry?" Maddie said sweetly while twisting her hair, meaning the chemistry of love.

Diego looked confused, "But we don't even take chemistry. That's for junior year."

Maddie sighed, she seemed to be doing that a lot, "Okay, then math is fine."

Maddie painfully sat next to her Proxy for a full twenty minutes as he worked out formulas and graphs and all she wanted to do was yell at him that she loved him. Diego was knee-deep in equations while the only equation Maddie could think of was Maddie plus Diego equals true love.

"So x in this case is 95 and y is 32." Diego was saying. He probably noticed the blank expression on Maddie's face, "Do you get it? I can go over it again. That was a hard one."

"No, I get it." But Maddie was determined to make that the last non-romantic thing that she did all night. She had her eyes on the Sharks jacket he was wearing.

She started shivering a little, nothing too noticeable that it would look fake, and she rubbed her hands up and down her arms. "Wow, it's kind of chilly in here." She said.

"It is?" Diego asked, confused.

Maddie nodded, "I just get cold very easily. It runs in the family."

"It does?" He asked in the same manner, but he took the textbook off his lap and stood up.

Maddie desperately wanted to scream, No come back, be with me! She had no idea what Diego was doing. He was looking at her wall.

"Your thermostat says the temperature is 70 degrees. That's perfect room temperature. We always keep it at 70 in the 7 because of that."

Another romantic idea, fallen through. Maddie thought with disappointment. What could she possibly do to get this guy to make a move on her? He was so oblivious to all her hints.

Was there anything else she could do? She had wanted him to at least make some romantic gesture before she told him how she felt. But she didn't see any way that was happening. She had been so jerky to him the past few weeks. Maddie was sure that she had made him feel like he meant nothing to her, even though the truth was the exact opposite.

She realized that she had to just come right out and say it, and she found now that she wasn't afraid anymore.

"Diego, could you sit back down?" She asked. When he returned to the loveseat Maddie turned to face him and pour her heart out for him.

"I know I've been a real jerk in the time we've spent together and well before it too. I know that you probably deserve someone much better than me, but I also know that… that I'm crazy for you Diego Rueda. I think about you all the time. I love your laugh and smile and everything about you. I love how you don't make me use magic all the time like Sophie and Katie. I love how you understand the real me and you never gave up on me even when I was acting mean or self absorbed towards you."

Maddie focused on her feet while she was speaking and practically talked to the floor. She didn't want to see if Diego was disgusted.

"I never wanted to say this before because I always thought the way that my mom did things was the only way you could be with boys, but I realize now that she was all wrong and I really hope you can overlook all those bad things I've done and said. And I want… I want to go out with you, and laugh with you, and be with you all the time. I want to cheer for you in Sharks meets and stay in the 7 all afternoon just talking with you as you work. I know that would probably never happen, but I knew the second that we danced together at the Anime dance last year that there isn't anyone else in the world like you."

Saying those words was like a weight off her chest and she felt like she could finally be herself. But Diego hadn't said anything yet. Did he feel the same way?

"If you don't feel the same, I understand," Maddie rushed, "But I just had to- mwf!"

Diego had leaned in and suddenly, his lips were against hers. As they kissed Maddie couldn't help but think that the pairs of lips fit perfectly together. That Diego had been designed just to kiss Maddie and vice versa. Maddie had gone out with a lot of boys before and had kissed all of them, but none felt as special as this. Diego reached out as they smooched to her cheek and he traced his thumb along her jawbone. No feeling in the world could rival that. Then he raked his fingers through her hair. Maddie was happy that she had left it down and she sighed as Diego wrapped his other arm around her torso.

When they broke the kiss Maddie couldn't stop smiling. Her breaths came in short, shallow gasps. And she touched her forehead to his. She couldn't stand that her lips were apart from Diego's. She wanted to feel that remarkable feeling again.

She guessed Diego wanted the same thing, as he tilted his head again and thrust his lips against hers. Now that the surprise of the first kiss was over, she could actually live in the moment during their second kiss. Her mouth felt burning hot and then freezing cold and then hot again. It wasn't a bad feeling, but it didn't seem normal either. Was this what it was like to kiss a kanay?

This time Maddie combed her fingers through Diego's short hair and wrapped her other hand around his shoulders. She wondered what she had done to deserve him. He was perfect. Diego was always nice, loyal, and considerate. She was a mean Panther who enjoyed making people feel inferior.

Stop, Maddie, She told herself, You're not like that anymore.

The second kiss was longer than the first and Maddie and Diego both gasped for air as they broke it.

"What did I do to deserve someone like you?" Diego breathed as he pulled Maddie closer.

She leaned her head on his strong shoulder as she whispered, "I was thinking the same thing."

They both looked like a mess. Diego's hair stuck up at odd angles from where Maddie had combed her fingers through it, she was sure that her hair looked the same. Diego had some lipstick on his face too, but Maddie thought that was cute.

They spent the rest of the night talking, kissing, and talking some more, and then kissing some more. Diego called his mom and told her he was at a sleepover at Daniel's, but he stayed right in Maddie's arms all night.

They didn't get a blink of sleep, but they weren't even tired.

Maddie was learning so much about Diego that she had never known before. Things about how he always got annoyed at his twin sister, but loved her all the same. He talked about how he was worried about the 7, whether it was going to stay in business or not. And he told stories about how when he had first found out about his kanay powers- and freezed his best friend into a solid block of ice!

In the morning they still were sitting on the pink loveseat. And Maddie could almost cry when she looked at her clock and realized that her mom would be home soon, and Diego had to leave.

He stood up and yawned and then looked back down at his love, with a hint of anxiety on his face, "So… can I… um… call you my girlfriend now?"

Maddie laughed and jumped up to hug Diego, "Yes!"

"Oh wait!" Diego exclaimed as he wriggled out of the hug. He shrugged off his jacket and delicately folded it in his hands, "I was wondering if you'd have this?"

Maddie smiled, it was what she had been trying to get all night. All she really had to do, she knew right then, was to tell him how she really felt.

She nodded and took the soft blue and orange Sharks jacket from him. There was an impressive number of patches on the varsity jacket. Things for winning special competitions and participating in different events. When she put it on she hugged it close to her. It even smelled like Diego.

Diego checked the time on his phone, "I'm sorry, but I have to go. My shift at the 7 starts soon."

Maddie nodded and led him out of the house. He waved goodbye on the doorstep and then started jogging to the 7. It wasn't very far from Maddie's house.

When she closed the door, Maddie leaned against it and sighed. It was the perfect night. Everything hadn't gone according to plan, but it had gone according to fate. And Maddie couldn't think of a better way for the night to go or a better person to spend it with.

And after tonight she knew what she wanted to be. She didn't want to be a mean Panther anymore, but she didn't want to be a Shark either. She just wanted to be Maddie Van Pelt. And Maddie Van Pelt could make her own decisions with who she wanted to be with. And right now, and forever, she wanted to be with Diego Rueda.

That was just a little quick project of mine (sorry for all the errors). I really love EWW and I think Miego is awesome!

If you guys comment I might make another like this or even with a different pairing if you want- I just wanted to finally put something of mine EWW on Fanfiction!

And you can also check out another EWW fan fiction of mine. It's on Wattpad and called Every Witch Way: The Rueda Twins.

It's all about Gigi and Diego's relationship as twins. You should read it!

Okay that's it! Peace out Fanfiction!

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