My alarm went off at five-thirty in the morning, I was so exhausted that I literally had to use all of the power in my body to drag myself out of bed. Playing Call of Duty until three morning with Jonas was definitely not the best idea. I was about to enter my bathroom until my new pain the ass, 'step-sister' pushed me out of the way.
I glared at her, every fucking morning. "Seriously Heather?"
She scoffed and sat her towel on the bathroom counter. "You should know by now that five- thirty is my bathroom time, either wake up earlier or go shower in the kitchen sink or something." She looked me up and down in disgust. "I mean, it's not like looking decent is important to you anyways." Of all people, I have to be stuck with sharing a roof with her, fuck my life. "Now grab your shit and fuck off!"
I grabbed my stuff and before I left, I turned around one last time to flip her off. I debated in my head whether or not to shower in Jonas and Heather's brother Damien's shower. I decided against it, there bathroom was so disgusting, I decided I was just going to use the downstairs bathroom sink to wash out my hair like I normally do.
Later on when I got to school, literally everyone stared at me as soon as my foot stepped on campus. At first I was confused wondering what the fuck was going on but then memories of Friday night crashed over me and then I remembered, everyone thought Courtney and I were dating.
I finally spotted Courtney by our lockers talking to Bridgette Fairly and Katie Cruz, they all looked at me and smiled. Courtney waved, gesturing me to come over. "Uh, hey guys…" I was feeling oddly suspicious right now.
"I am so glad you two are finally together!" Bridgette gushed. "It's so nice to finally have an open lesbian couple here!" Did Courtney not tell them this was all a misunderstanding?
"Oh my gosh, you two are like so-so cute together!" Katie squealed. "I have to go find Sadie but I'm definitely voting for you Court!"
"Yea I should probably go and find Geoff but we should definitely do a double date sometime!" Bridgette suggested.
"Totally!" Courtney wrapped her arm around me, was she seriously going along with this?
"Uh, Courtney, Sweetie, can we talk?" I grumbled under my fake smile. I tugged her away from Bridgette before she could even respond. "Courtney, are you seriously going along with this?"
Courtney looked nervous and twiddled her thumbs together. "Well…I thought maybe, it was a good way for me to win school elections..." of course…because winning student body president was so damn important!
I sighed deeply, this was a bad idea, and if people found out we weren't together? "Courtney this is a terrible idea, what if people found out that we weren't actually dating?" they would literally hate us. I'd rather be invisible than being hated by everyone.
Courtney put her hands on my shoulders, knowing I was going to panic about this which I was starting to. I mean, who wouldn't panic about this? "Don't worry I have a plan." She reassured me.
I took a long, deep breath to calm myself down a bit before saying anything. "What is it then?"
"We'll break up right after winter formal and tell everyone that we had too many disagreements and decided to just be friends again." How long did she think about this for? "So are you in?" She extended her hand out for me to take it, I was still a little bit skeptical about this whole thing. "Oh c'mon Gwen, please?" she begged. She must've read my thoughts or caught on to my worried expression.
Oh what the hell, I took her hand in mine. "Ready for first period, honey?" I was already regretting this.
Courtney beamed and kissed me on the cheek, leaving a weird shock throughout my body, my heart suddenly pounding. Maybe I was just feeling nervous about this whole thing. "Have I ever told you that you're the best friend ever?"
"So they're faking huh… well not on my watch!"
When we walked into first, everybody stared at us for a second before the started clapping and 'awwing'. This was definitely too weird. They all continued to watch us like hawks as we headed to our seats in the back of the classroom. Courtney really owes me big time for this…
Luckily for me, Mrs. Pollock had the class turn their attention away from us, she clapped her hands together. "Alright class let's begin!" Thank god. "Now I know we all want to ask our cute little lesbian couple back their questions," she pointed towards us and once again, everyone looked at us with creepy smiles on their faces, well that was nice while it lasted. "But we must catch up on our readings!" She passed out our new reading books while explaining what the story was going to be about. "Oh this is such a beautiful novel. You all know how much of a fan I am of the Victorian era." Gee, that was such a shocker considering the fact that all of the other books that she made us read took place during that time not to mentions the Victorian era posters and costumes that she has around the classroom. "It's about a young girl who befriends a girl who's a theatre performer, they run away to London and fall in love." She then stops at mine and Courtney's desk and hands us books. "I think you two will really love this book and find it so relatable." Ugh, is this how all of my other classes are be to like, treating me like some celebrity.
"Oh Canada, we stand on guard for theeeeeee" I was trying my hardest to hit that high note. Let me tell you, trying to hit a high note in choir while trying to hold in a sneeze is definitely not the easiest thing to do.
"All right everybody take five, grab some water and if you need to go to the bathroom, now would be the best time, not during the middle of a song." Mrs. Villoe warned, looking directly at Sierra Abdul.
Sierra smiled weakly. "He-he, sorry Mrs. Villoe." Mrs. Villoe could only roll her eyes.
I went towards my back pack to check my text messages knowing Gwen would blow up my phone telling me how people won't stop asking questions about our fake relationship. I don't understand how Gwen hates the attention; I love it, especially now since I'm so sure that im going to win school elections! I don't understand why she's worried about this plan, we'll break up in less than two months and then everything will go back to normal.
"Hey, you're Courtney, right?" I turned around to see Trent Jacob's standing there, smiling at me. My heart started fluttering, I might have a tiny crush on him that's been going on for a year now.
"Yup, and you're Trent?" I asked, pretending that I didn't already know his name already.
"Yea, you were great today by the way, you have such an amazing voice." I had to suppress myself from letting out a squeal.
I try to keep myself calm and collected. "Thanks, you're great too." Not as great as me though. Truth be told as amazing as he was on the guitar, his singing wasn't the best.
He chuckled and waved it off. "Please, I could never hit that high note in the end like you did." That was a given. But that doesn't mean I cant give him one on one vocal practice...
"Barely, I had to sneeze so bad during the end!" Why did I just admit that to him? For God sakes Courtney!
He laughed. "Maybe you can help me with hitting that end note sometime you know, if Gwen's okay with it?" he suggested blushing, my heart started pounding faster.
"Why wouldn't Gwen be okay with it?" She wouldn't mind, it's not like she liked him or anything, at least I hope not.
He looked at me weirdly. "Well you two are dating aren't you?" Oh yea…
"Oh, Right…Well Gwen won't mind I mean we're just two friends hanging out, practicing for a concert, she'll be okay with it."
He didn't look fully convinced but smiled anyways. "Well why don't we exchange numbers and plan a day to hang."
We traded phones to exchange phone numbers. As much as I wanted to go on a date with Trent or kiss him, I couldn't because I was already 'dating' Gwen. I mean I guess I can just wait until after winter formal. Then again, I probably should wait another month after that so it won't look like I 'dumped' Gwen for Trent and make him the asshole. Ugh, I just hope no one comes in and sweeps him off his feet before that. Why does he have to be so damn cute!
"Ugh, I'm so nervous about today's assembly, what if I don't win?" Courtney started pacing back and forth, nervously.
I stopped her by placing my hands on her shoulders to calm her down. "Hey, you totally got this kid, you totally killed it at the elections, you were the best candidate out there." I said honestly. Everyone else just tried bribing the audience with impossible wishes like no more homework and having domino's pizza ordered every day in homeroom, the only other decent candidate that actually had good ideas for the school was Heather surprisingly. Though since its Heather, she would probably abuse her power to get special treatment on things.
"You're just saying that cause you're my friend."
"I'm saying it because it's true." I unitentially grabbed her hand, I could feel my face going red once I realized what I did. "No one could be a better school president than you."
Her face went red as well, the freckles on her face standing out even more. She smiled genuinely that made me have little flutters in my stomach. "You always know what to say."
Later on during the assembly, people kept leaning over towards me, invading my personal bubble, telling me good luck and how they voted for Courtney. Finally after they had the pie eating contests and having people in the audience doing the limbo with the mascot, all that pointless shit they do at pep assemblies, it was finally time to announce the school elections.
The principal cleared his throat. "Our class Treasurer… Bridgette Fairly!"
Geoff took off his shirt and threw it into the crowd of people. "YEA THAT'S MY GIRL, WHOOOO!"
"MR. DUNHAM, PUT YOUR SHIRT BACK ON RIGHT NOW!" The principal yelled over the mic. I was glad Bridgette won though. "Secretery…. Sky Pondelik, Vice president….Noah Nagi and your 2014-2015 class president is…" they had a person drum roll, my heart was beating so hard. "Courtney Montero!"
I couldn't help but let out a loud, excited squeal. I was so happy for her. She looked like she just died and went to heaven, she caught my eye and smiled big, I smiled back and gave her a thumbs up. Everyone was cheering and some people were even patting me on the back.
"HOLD UP JUST ONE SECOND!' Heather yelled, grabbing the mic and pushing Courtney out of the way. Oh god, what now? "THESE DIPSHITS ONLY VOTED FOR HER CAUSE SHES DATING GWEN, WELL FAKE DATING. YEA THAT'S RIGHT, COURTNEY AND GWEN ARE FAKING BEING LESBIANS, I OVERHEARD THEM EARLIER."
Everyone gasped and asked me if it were true. I started to panic and eyes were on me and Courtney. Before I could even formulate what I was going to say, Courtney grabbed the mic from Heather. "Oh yea, if we were faking it would I do this?" She then set the mic down before running off stage and onto the bleachers. My heart started to pound harder and harder as she made her way closer to me. She took my hand to pull me up, she put her hands on my shoulder before pressing her soft lips onto mine, the whole school started cheering in excitement. I felt that same shock that I did earlier when she kissed me on the cheek but this time it was 1000x more intense. I found myself wrapping my arms around her neck, pulling her in tighter.
I felt oddly sad when she pulled away. She winked at me and mouthed nice job.
"Y-Yea…" I stuttered. I could feel my face burning, my heart was still pounding loud and fast and I was still shaky, it was like that kiss really had an effect on me. I don't know why though, it was just a simple kiss from Courtney, my best friend for over ten years, it's not like I have a crush on her or anything. Maybe because this whole thing was in the spur of the moment and that it was in front of the entire school. That kiss will mean nothing later on, really.
So I know it says that this story is suppose to be a Gwuncney love triangle but I decided to change it trentney last minute , so duncnet fans! Duncan will be in this story but not as Courtney's love interest. If you are someone who also watches the actual show, you'll see why I switched Duncans role in the story.