Jyrus - Kissing Booth
If you didn't already notice from the title this will be my own play on the Netflix original The Kissing Booth. So yeah let the story begin…
Note - I want to improve in my writing, so I will be having a beta reader, hopefully I can improve from what they teach me.
Part One - Fundraiser
Jefferson Middle School as having its quarterly fundraiser.
For the past years, the students have held events such as bake sales, craft goods, and carnival-like attractions.
When Principal Metcalf put this quarter's fundraiser into the hands of some of his most trustworthy students, they knew it was time to do something different.
"What are we going to do?" Andi asked Cyrus, Buffy, and Jonah.
Jonah responded in a way one might consider panicking, "I don't know, this is so bad, we have to have the plan by friday."
"And we will have it done by then." Cyrus reassured Jonah.
"Yeah, I'm sure of it, we are a great team," Buffy said.
Wagging a correctional finger Cyrus said, "the perfect team," and Andi giggled.
Jonah mentally corrected that if this were the perfect team they would be done by now. However, they hadn't even gotten started.
They spent a while lounging around Cyrus's step dad's office looking at ideas online before Andi shot up yelling, "I got it!"
"What?" Buffy and Cyrus inquired.
"We can do a kissing booth. "
Jonah furrowed his eyebrows. "What exactly is that?"
Buffy glanced over at Jonah with eyes that said, really Jonah, you don't know, it says it in the title.
He just nodded his head, causing Buffy to say, "Oh my god, it's really simple, we get a booth, and we sell kisses at it."
"Like Hershey's kisses?" he asked, still not understanding.
Cyrus snickered, and Andi explained, "No, they pay money, and they get to kiss whoever is at the booth."
"Oh," Jonah said, as Andi's face dropped.
"What, do you not like it?" she asked while Jonah thought about it.
"I can't really say no, cause I don't got any other ideas, so yeah it's fine…"
"Good it's settled we will make a kissing booth," Andi said while Cyrus shifted uncomfortably in his seat.
"What, don't tell me you dislike the idea too?" Andi asked, exasperated.
Cyrus stayed silent, trying to think before speaking, so Andi went on with a eye roll, "Come on, what is with you boys being against it?"
Buffy thought about it some more, and thought that maybe Cyrus wouldn't enjoy watching all these guys kissing girls.
Cyrus shook his head, "No, it's fine, I'm fine. Everything is cool."
"Okay then it is settled, for the second time."Andi said.
"Wait," Buffy interjected at the end of Andi's sentence, "Who will be doing all the kissing?"
"I don't know. In fact we don't even know if Metcalf will let us do this. Let's not worry about it until he approves it. "
Yeah who will they get to give out tons of kisses…
Jonah nervously asked, "I gotta question, so the kissing, will it be on the cheek or what?"
"I was gonna say lips, but I guess it could be whatever the person is wanting," Andi told him.
The next day, Buffy took the lead presenting their fundraiser idea to the principal.
He did not look too pleased with theirr idea, but he did not interrupt or say anything about it.
At the very end he placed his arms on the table, hands folded together, smiling, and said three letters.
"PDA."
"So..we can't do it?" Andi asked, hoping that her idea was not being shut down.
Mr. Metcalf responded, "Nope, I'm afraid not, it's against school policy."
"But it's the only idea we thought of," Cyrus whined, wanting to go through with it, so he wouldn't fail his principal's task.
Buffy was subconsciously tapping her lips, muttering, "PDA, public displayed affection, PDA, public displayed affection, PDA."
Meanwhile the principal said, "So, I guess we will be having another bake sale."
Cyrus wanted to scream no, but then he remembered all the delicious snacks they would have like, chocolate chip cookies, chocolate cake, chocolate cupcakes, chocolate chip muffins, fudge, and brownies, or anything chocolate related. He could already feel his mouth watering.
Buffy's face lit up, and some could have sworn a light bulb lit up above her head, "I got it! What if we do the kissing booth-"
"-Wait, we just went over this I said no." Metcalf interjected.
"Just hear me out, I wasn't done," he nodded his head, complying, "Okay so the kissing booth, you're saying we can't do it because it breaks the 'no PDA' rule, but what if it isn't public? It's not public displayed affection if it is not public."
"I guess that could work, what do you propose?" Now Metcalf nuinely curious..
"I'm not sure yet, they could go into a room, or have like a curtain or something."
"A curtain, yeah that would work, okay you guys have got me convinced."
Later in the day, they were sitting outside, at one of the circular tables.
The group was discussing their kissing booth project, and how to put it together.
"So, I get to do the poster, and banners?" Andi asked enthusiastically.
She was excited to do this, it was her chance to show off her artistic side to the school, as if the constant DIY bracelets weren't enough.
"Uh huh, and I can help," Cyrus added wishing to be more helpful to the project.
"Hmm, so we can get like one guy, and one girl to work at the booth," Buffy said trying to mentally make a infographic chart of the plan.
It was silent for a whwad, until Jonah asked, "Why is it so hard to think of anyone?"
Buffy gave him, a meaningful look. "I don't know, but I already thought of someone. You won't like it, though."
Jonah Beck was one of the friendliest kids at the school, so he was fairly confident that he would be fine with whoever it was. "Try me. "
Buffy started laughing prompting Jonah to ask, "What?"
"It's just I was thinking you could do it, and then you said 'try me'."
"Oh um… couldn't we get someone else to do?" Jonah asked, trying not to sound like too much of a bummer.
Andi had enough of his crap."Jonah, think about it, who is going to be willing to kiss whoever shows up at our stand, and pays us? No one, and we already promised Metcalf we would get this done, so you're doing it."
Jonah slumped his arms across his chest, and said, "Fine, but I won't be happy about it," not fully aware that he would be having tons of lips on his own.
Andi had looked down, until Jonah realized something, "Wait just a minute, what about the girl? According to you no one will do it, so it will be one of you two."
Andi looked up with hopeful eyes to Buffy, who responded immediately with, "Are you kidding me? " and then in a whisper to her she added, "I wouldn't even kiss Marty."
Andi responded back in a whisper, "I know, you're so mean, you broke his heart."
Jonah took this opportunity of them talking amongst themselves to strike up a conversation with Cyrus, "Sooo… Cyrus, wanna trade me jobs?"
Buffy whispered back to Andi a bit loud, "I know, I feel bad, we aren't even friends anymore."
Cyrus denied Jonah with a, polite, "No thank you."
He hoped that Jonah would not ask why, he didn't want to have to come up with some fake excuse on the spot to explain why he did not want to have to be kissing girls all day.
Andi shot back, "Well if you do this for me, you can make it up to Marty, like what if he comes up, and gets what he wanted?"
Buffy blushed, and said, "No, don't you think people will be intimidated by me? We need a more friendly face, like yours."
"Hurry up, we already got a guy, it shouldn't be that hard to get a girl," Jonah said.
Andi acted like Jonah never even spoke, and continued to whisper to Buffy, "Maybe, I guess you're right. But I still bet that I can get someone else to do it."
In the end they agreed that Andi would do it, but only if she could not find someone else to do it for her.
Cyrus had held in how he felt until he had gotten home from school that day.
He went to his bed, hugged his pillows, and throw a blanket over himself.
In no time he was out like a light.
His sleep wasn't too good, seeing as he dreamt of things he was not looking forward to seeing.
Lines of girls, all getting ready to kiss Jonah, the hot guy.
Even in sleep his stomach churned at the thought of all the girls at school getting to kiss his crush.
Cyrus woke up mid dream, and began to weep.
It was a odd, yet peculiar feeling, he normally cries himself to sleep, never waking up and starting to cry.
It felt horrible thinking about it… he had a tough decision to make.
Then there was the bright side to this situation, if he were to watch probably hundreds of girls kissing Jonah, he might be able to get over his crush on him.
Buffy could talk some sense into him.
When Cyrus consulted Buffy she had told him that no one would judge him if he went into Jonah's line.
Besides both of the people will be blindfolded so they won't know who is kissing them.
Buffy told him that Jonah never has to know that one of the people that kissed him was a guy.
She said that Jonah would not be able to tell the difference between a guy or a girl kissing him.
Cyrus trusted Buffy on this, he said he would try, but if he became to nervous or if something came over him he would not go through with it, and he would just back out.
Buffy told him that there was no shame in doing that, just know that you might regret it later.
The following day Andi had told them the great news, she was not going to be running the kissing booth.
This means that Andi had gotten some other girl to do it.
"Lakota agreed to do it," Andi told them, as their minds processed the name.
Lakota, rich girl, fake girl, glam girl, she was the type of girl who wore so much makeup you couldn't trust anything to be natural.
None of that mattered, seeing as most of the guys in the school thought she was the hottest chick to walk the grounds of Jefferson.
It might be a close call of who will have a bigger party at their side, Jonah or Lakota?
Kissing Jonah, was Cyrus really going to do it?
Would Jonah really not be able to tell a difference?
Cyrus prayed that Buffy wouldn't be wrong about this.
Time was moving faster than he would have liked.
Flyers, and posters had started popping up on the walls around the school, at all the hot spots like hallways or water fountains.
These signs served as physical reminders of what Cyrus was getting himself into. Was he even allowed to use the booth, since it was partly his creation.
Glittering a sign mindlessly because his thoughts were busy wondering about what the sign was going to mean for him.
It was just one kiss, nothing special, all the students would be doing it. Surely nothing negative could come from this.
Right?
End Of Part One
Special thanks to "Tyrus2.0" the amazing person who used their time to improve this, and help me. How do y'all think this kissing booth will go?