Disclaimer: She's the Man characters were for entertainment purposes in this story only, and they don't belong to me in any way.

So here I am with another one of my crazy 'could-have-been's'


A knock came upon Olivia Lennox's dorm door; she had expected it and instantly opened it to greet the person on the other side. A nervous face came peering through it. "Hey baby," Olivia greeted with a smile as she pushed the door open more widely. "Come in." Sebastian Hastings nervously straightened his shirt as he walked into her room.

Sebastian cleared his throat, "Ahem, you…you wanted to see me?" he said in a deep voice. "I did," she answered as she closed the door and gestured for the boy to sit down on her bed, which he hesitantly did so. She then placed a chair in front of him and sat on it. A few minutes of silence passed as Olivia watched the boy, who fidgeted nervously as he gazed everywhere around the room except her.

Olivia told Sebastian earlier that she wanted to talk to him about something. When she first suggested the idea to him, it seemed as though he didn't think anything of it, but now, here he was sitting in front of her and it seemed as though he was going through a very hard interview. Of course Olivia only wanted to discuss something with her boyfriend that had been bothering her for quite a few days now, and now, like before, Olivia had followed Viola's advice; 'letting the chips fall where they may.'

"Sebastian," she said; breaking the silence and gaining her boyfriend's attention. "We've been together for four weeks now, right?" Ignoring the question, Sebastian suddenly replied, "Look Olivia, if this is about me skipping classes and not being there for you at times when I have practices with the band--" Olivia cut him off gently as she held onto his hand. She then noticed that his body started to tense up as he slowly gazed into her eyes. "No, it's nothing like that." She whispered.

She suddenly broke his confused gaze as she looked at a spot on the floor. "It's just that," she slowly started, "baby, don't get me wrong or anything. But," she then slowly found his gaze as she took a pregnant pause. "I don't think my feelings for you now are the same when we had first met." She said softly. At this, the dark haired boy frowned; more confused than ever. "What do you mean?" he asked. Olivia then noticed that the tone of his voice had changed slightly. Olivia bit her bottom lip and had let go of Sebastian's hand.

"Remember when we had first met?" she asked softly. Sebastian then slowly nodded his head and Olivia figured that he was probably thinking about the soccer match against Llyria and Cornwall. "Actually," she stated slowly as she looked away once more, "I was thinking more of when we had first bumped into each other in front of Gold's office." Olivia then didn't notice as her boyfriend's eyes widen slightly at the fact, instead Olivia then gave a small genuine laugh still looking away as she remembered that day. "Well, in fact it wasn't you per say, but your sister, Viola." Another small wave of silence was passed and the blonde haired girl was too busy in the memory of that day that she didn't notice her partner quickly trying to think up of a physical excuse to get out of that room.

"Sebastian," Olivia started, "I think I might have feelings for--" Before Olivia could finish her sentence, Sebastian quickly interjected. "Uh, sorry Liv, but I gotta go to the bathroom--it must've been something I ate in the cafeteria earlier." Said the dark haired boy too quickly and before Olivia could ask what was happening, Sebastian had already left the room like he was late for another band practice.

Olivia then quickly exited to the hallway and hoped that she could catch up with him. "Sebastian?" she asked. Unfortunately, the Hastings twin had already turned around the distant corner on the other side of the hallway and Olivia was left standing in the doorway.

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"Guys hold up," shouted Sebastian as he signaled for his band mates to stop and answer his phone. When they did, Sebastian answered it and was greeted by the distressed voice of his twin sister, Viola.

"Sebastian!" she cried over the phone. "Whoa Vi, calm down." He said gently, hoping to ease her as he noted the tone of her voice "What's going on?" he asked. "Sebastian I have no time for this, come out of there now!" she said loudly and with that she hung up. Sebastian quickly exited the hall. As soon, as the dark haired boy stepped outside, he literally saw himself pacing up and down in front of the parking area. "Vi?" he inquired suspiciously as he walked up to his pacing self.

"Sebastian, I couldn't do it--you shouldn't have told me to do it--I was stupid enough to go with your stupid plan--!" Sebastian watched as his twin sister, who now looked identical to him, pace up and down on the spot as she kept on rambling. "You know, it still feels weird looking at you looking like me." Said Sebastian as he tried to stifle a laughter. At this, Viola stopped pacing to glare at her twin, pulling off her wig and ripping the facial hair off her face violently as she did so. Sebastian grimaced as he thought of the hurt those sticky facial hairs could do once you pull them off, Viola on the other hand didn't show any sign of that.

"After what you put me through, that's all you think about?!" she asked loudly. Sebastian looked around; afraid that his sibling was causing attention to themselves, luckily for him, they were both alone in the car park. "Shh, calm down." He shushed as he placed an arm on his sister.

"Sebastian, I don't care if I wake the dead alright?" she said pointedly as she shook off his arm. "Now, would you just please listen to what I have to say?"

Figuring that this was going to take some time, Sebastian sat down on the sidewalk and patted next to him, looking up at his sister. Rolling her eyes, Viola sat down next to her brother.

"So what happened?" asked Sebastian warily. Viola took a deep breath before replying. "Well, I went to see Olivia like you told me to, and I don't know," she then hesitated "I thought I could've dressed up as you so she wouldn't have been that disappointed knowing that 'you' would've been there like you 'promised' you would." Sebastian then looked away, guilt and regret written all over. Viola then shook her head slightly, understanding. "Yeah well, when I got there," Viola continued "she didn't seem to notice it was me. In fact, it seemed as though she wanted to talk about something important with you… and she was sort of trying to find the right words to say." A long pause was hung and Sebastian had to vaguely wonder if Viola was even there with him.

Sebastian then sensed that his sister was leaving out the main part of her whole conversation. "Viola," he warned slightly. When Viola looked away and wouldn't respond, Sebastian asked straight out. "Viola, what was she going to say?" He asked.

In the next second, Viola became testy "Look, Sebastian I ran out before she could say anything, alright?" she said raising her voice. At this, Sebastian too raised his voice "You ran out?" he asked loudly in disbelief, "Because it didn't seem right, okay?" cried Viola. Sebastian then backed off slightly, allowing his sister to have a moment and explain. "It didn't seem right 'cause it wasn't whom she thought she hoped would be listening ..." Viola then turned away from Sebastian's unreadable expression. "Besides, after she said 'Hey baby,' I sort of pretended like I had food poisoning and went out." She mumbled slightly as she shrugged her shoulders.

Not wanting to explain anymore to her brother and guilty that she wasn't telling him the exact truth, Viola stood up. "I'm sorry, Sebastian." She said. "I have to go lie down." Viola Hastings then left her brother on the sidewalk and tried to find a place where she could recuperate in peace.

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"I think I'm just gonna have the shepherd's pie," said Paul Antonio to the cashier as he stared at the wall menu on Cesario's. Paying for his meal, he sat down on one of the booths. Paul had a day off today and he thought it would be funny just to go back to the place where Viola's fame as guy had all started. As his pie was served to him, Paul took a slice and began reminiscing of how it all started.

Viola walked in dressed as Sebastian as Paul had cued, and he watched as she strutted her way down the aisle and he cued Kia to catwalk her way towards Viola making sure they stopped in front of Duke's table.

Before the moment became too nostalgic for Paul, he could have sworn he saw Viola enter Cesario's, breaking his recollections. Scanning the area carefully, Paul did actually see Viola come in because she was now sitting in the booth on the farther side with her back facing him, obviously she didn't see him. Without thinking twice, Paul carried his slice of pie and made his way to her booth. "Pie?" he asked cheerfully as he sat down to face her.

"Oh hey," Viola greeted feebly. The next moment, Paul could definitely sense that something was wrong with his friend because; one, she had never seemed this down, two, she'd greet him compellingly no matter the situation and three, she was wearing Sebastian's shirt. Paul frowned --Why is she dressed as Sebastian?-- he asked himself. Paul shook off the unwanted answer, knowing that he'll get it later on. "Spill," he said seriously as took another slice of his pie. "There's nothing to spill," replied Viola distantly. Slightly irritated by his friend's vagueness, he got up and quickly came back with a warm mug of hot chocolate and placed it in front of her. "You could spill that if you like." He stated dryly as he sat back down in his seat.

Viola then made an aggravated expression, and without wasting another second of thinking that look was probably of him getting her one of her weaknesses or him sarcastically stating that she could make a mess of their table, "Why are you wearing Sebastian's clothes?" he asked as he finished his pie.

"It's a long story," Viola answered as she traced the rim of her cup and stared out the window. "Viola, does it look like I'm going anywhere else?" Paul asked ironically putting his arms on the table stating that he'll stay here forever if it takes for her to open up. "I thought you were here to see Andrew." She teased lightly as she looked back at him smiling slightly. The look that she got in return was one that reminded her of her father when he'd look at her with mad dissatisfaction.

Trying to push the tension aside, Viola took a sip of her chocolate looking down. "Don't change the subject," was the swift reply that came.

"I'm waiting," said Paul after a few minutes, Viola noted that he sounded like his normal self again. "What do you want to know?" she replied in disbelief as she tried hard to avoid where this conversation was heading. "Well, for a fact, I'd like to know why you're dressed up as Sebastian 'cause I thought that you told me you were done with that." He said "Or are you covering for your brother again and does Duke know about this?" he asked shortly. He then suddenly decided to throw in unconventionally, "Or is this about Olivia?"

Viola's eyed had widen so suddenly, Paul thought Viola was having a slight spasm, or it could've been the truth about all of his questions-he doubted it, but suddenly seeing Viola slightly fidget nervously in her seat made him think of the latter. "Is it that obvious?" he heard Viola ask herself softly.

"You tell me," Paul replied shrugging his shoulders, hoping that she would.

Viola drew in a quick breath and began telling her story to Paul who seemed intent on listening.

It must've been about and hour before Viola could really relay the whole story to her friend, but Paul Antonio had just kept on listening and had never once interrupted. "And now," said Viola with a heavy sigh, "I think that Olivia might have feelings for me." She finished.

It took a moment for Paul to recall everything that was said. "Well there's no question about whether she likes you or not Viola," he stated "'because it does seem pretty obvious that she does." He then continued before Viola could object, "And besides I don't think Olivia was the only girl that was falling for you as Sebastian you know." Viola's expression suddenly became unreadable, "What do you mean?" she asked blandly. "Well, Kia did seem a bit too excited to do her little part in your performance," Paul took a small pause to watch Viola's expression falter "and I don't remember her little kiss and groping being part of the plan." Viola suddenly looked like she swallowed something bile; oh how Paul loved to taunt her sometimes, he was practically smirking on the inside. Though he knew this wasn't the best time to be making fun of his friend he knew he had to do something to try and lighten his friend's mood. "Besides I did remember you mentioning something about Eunice." He said scratching his chin and looking haughtily at her.

"Kia?" gulped Viola "but I thought…her…you said…wasn't it part of the..?" spluttered Viola. Suddenly seeing Paul break into a mischievous smile, Viola threw her used soviet towards him. "Paul that was not funny!" she said loudly as she reached over and tried to pinch him. Paul laughed, "I know," he replied as he tried to shield himself. "But her eagerness was in fact true though!"

Once Viola was satisfied with the pain that she inflicted on her taunting friend, the air around them slowly became serious once more.

"What am I supposed to do?" she asked Paul. "Well, you've got to act like you don't know about it of course," he answered "She tried to tell 'Sebastian' didn't she?" he said pointedly. "Yeah, but," faltered Viola, "What if she decides to really tell Sebastian when he's actually listening?" she asked worriedly. Paul had look away for a moment to think.

"Dress up as Sebastian one more time and make sure that she doesn't say anything else about it," he paused for a second "or at least make her forget that she said it in the first place." Viola then had to frown at him, "How am I supposed to do that?" she asked skeptically. At this, Paul didn't reply but instead he just gave her this look that gave a universal understanding to anyone who saw. "No way!" cried Viola suddenly, "You've have crazy ideas before, but this is by far more insane that any of them!" said Viola as her voice started to rise higher at each word.

Despite the slight attention that Viola was gaining from the people around Cesario's, Paul just kept looking her at her silently and waited 'till she had calmed down slightly. "Viola," he said gaining her attention and silencing her immediately, "I didn't say you had to do it since I was just putting it up as a suggestion," he then tilted his head slightly to one side "But if I didn't know any better, you actually were thinking about doing it."

Viola then gave a strangled laugh "What makes you think that…I just thought, you know…since," she then trailed off.

Before Viola could find a strong explanation, the entrance to Cesario's opened and who should stand in the doorway but Olivia Lennox. In the next second Paul looked at his friend; Viola Hastings seemed like a deer stuck in headlights.

"Viola get out of here!" hissed Paul. "If she sees you in Sebastian's outfit, she'll put two and two together and she'll know!" Even after this, Viola was still rooted to the spot, eyes wide in shock. Paul waited for Olivia to move away form the entrance before he strategically maneuvered Viola out the door. After much pushing and shoving, Paul had successfully pushed Viola out the door without gaining Olivia's attention. Now Paul could only hope that Viola had come back to her senses and made a run for it.

"Hey, Paul!" greeted Olivia happily as she spotted the slightly out of breath hair stylist. "Oh hi Olivia, I didn't see you there!" said Paul turning away from the door to face the blonde.

"You didn't happen to see if Sebastian was here, do you?" asked Olivia as she came up to Paul. Paul glanced at the entrance before answering, "Nope, didn't see him all day." Paul cleared his throat "Maybe he's gone to practice with the band." Suddenly Paul noticed that Olivia's expression was suddenly put out. "Yeah, I thought so." She said softly.

"Have you seen Viola though?" she asked abruptly "I couldn't seem to find her either." Paul had to shove his hands into his pockets "Me too." He answered a little too quickly. Olivia then had to frown, "Oh, I thought you were here to see her." She said. Paul pursed his lips and shook his head slightly, making Olivia smile a little before saying "Or were you here waiting for Andrew?"

Paul gave a short mordant laugh. "No." he answered scathingly. "I just came here to have a piece of pie."

Olivia didn't seem to question him about that subject anymore, "Well, I have to go." She said "I promised Maria that I'd accompany her on the track field."

Paul and Olivia gradually said their goodbyes. Watching Olivia walk out the door, Paul didn't even have the time to release the breath that he had been holding before his cell phone had rung.

"Hello, my life sucks." He greeted cynically

"Okay, I think I need you to do something for me." Came Viola's voice.


Hope you enjoyed the first part, 'cause there's still a few more to come. Till then,

--FlexibleFish--