(A/N: So I love Hubert and Pascal. They're amazing. So I wanted to write about them. So even if I fail, here's the attempt... It's the thought that counts, right? Haha...

Oh yeah, and this IS an AU, so things will be different. Quite different. Just as a warning.)


OPERATION!FRIENDSHIP

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Okay, so there's this guy.

Aww, c'mon! I'm a girl, aren't I? What, I can't think a guy's attractive? It's not like I'm really big into love and Valentine's Day and school dances and that kind of stuff. I didn't really even notice the difference between boys and girls until like junior high!

Okay, well, I knew they were different, but I didn't look at them differently, if ya know what I mean.

Anyways, there's this guy. He has this really flat blue hair and these really bright eyes that can kinda blind you if you stare at them for too long. He also dresses really stylishly. And he's absofreakinglutely brilliant.

Like, some of my friends tell me that I'm brilliant. And yeah, I guess I'm not too bad in Physics or Computer Programming, but this guy... He knows like everything! Sometimes it can actually be a liiiiiittle freaky.

Anyways, he saved me with that big brain of his. So that's why I kinda owe him. And that's why I kinda like him.

It happened like maybe around two years ago. I was really stumped on this English sentence because, well, honestly, I suck at English. I suck at pretty much everything 'cept Computer Programming and science. Anyways, I had to get a tutor, and my dad, kinda being the vice-principal of the school, manage to snag the best one. (He would've gotten a college student or a professional tutor, only he didn't want to pay any money. Stingy!)

So, long story short, this guy—um, his name's Hubert, but I'll just call him Hu—became my tutor for pretty much everything. I don't know why he did it. Probably 'cause tutoring looks good on the college apps or something, especially if the tutee (is that what they're called?) starts getting really good grades. Which I did, amazingly enough! And, even better, Hu and I started getting pretty close. In fact, I was probably his only friend! (Not to sound mean or anything.)

And, uh, from there, things started getting sucky.

For some reason, when we reached our junior year, he started getting all sulky. Like, I'd say hi and he wouldn't even glance in my direction! (Rude.) And I wasn't super duper quiet so he wouldn't be able to hear, either. It was pretty loud. Like, scream-across-the-campus loud. Okay, that's kind of what I did.

Anyways, my friend Poisson told me that maybe I was embarrassing him. But I knew that if he had been embarrassed, he would've told me, not avoided me! That's just the kind of person he is.

That's when it hit me. I had to MAKE him acknowledge me! And I could do that by... wait for it... embarrassing him.

Yeah. Brilliant plan. I know. I should be the next Einstein.

Anyways, as you can probably imagine, I started acting like an idiot, and, well... Let's just say that by October we weren't talking with each other. In fact, we even pretended the other person didn't exist! Like, when I was super duper mad one day, and my friend Cheria asked me where Hu was, I only summoned up my best blank stare and said, "Who's Hubert?"

I'm pretty sure he did the same thing with me, too, considering how his friends always looked so confused whenever they saw me.

Anyways, here we are, like a month into senior year, sharing five of seven classes and being forced to acknowledge the other's presence. (After all, it's kinda awkward for your band teacher if he tells his principal flautist and his principal saxophonist to listen more to each other and they only said, "We have a principal flautist?" and "We have a principal saxophonist?")

And then I realized...

I kinda sorta maybe had a huge thing for Hu.

In fact, I probably had for awhile. Maybe that's why I was so stupid when I was a junior. All going whacky and stuff instead of just walking up to him and being all like, "So why don't we talk anymore? We were like besties last year, ya know?"

But it's too late, anyhoo. He might not have a girlfriend, but we don't talk at all. We can't even consider ourselves friendly acquaintances, much less friends!

So that's when I decided. This year, I'm going to make myself be friends with Hu! ...And actually be smart about it.

Cheria and Poisson were totally onboard. Even Asbel, Hu's best friend, said that Hu was better when I was around.

So here we go! Operation: Friendship, commence!


(A/N: I know it's short, but it's more like the prologue. Anyways, what dost thou think? Ideas for Pascal's modus operandi? Please do review. I apologize in advance for any OOCness. Partially it's because this is highschool!ToG. Partially because I don't know ToG that well. Partially because I suck at writing Pascal.)