CHAPTER THREE.
Karma's POV
"Let me get this", Karma said, looking at Shane, who was in front of her. "the last week you hated me and now you wanna team up with me?".
Shane snorted. "I didn't hate you, I was upset with you. And since you told your secret at the drama club I can stand you more, but don't flattered yourself. Besides, I'm doing it for Amy".
That morning Shane had literally grabbed Karma while she was going to class, saying that he needed her help to fix Amy's problem. Karma didn't even know that that one was a problem, but, according to Shane, the fact that Amy hadn't introduced Reagan to them yet was a huge problem. And the cause of this problem was, according to Shane, obviously Karma.
"Amy is embarrassed from introduce you her new girlfriend so a group date is what we need".
"I don't think Amy will be ok with this kind of thing".
"Trust me", Shane said with a strange grin. "She will, she won't have any choice".
Karma thought about it for a while. Actually, it wasn't an absurd idea. Definitely a group date would have been less embarrassing than a dinner among her, Liam, Amy and Reagan. She once dreamed about going on a double date with Amy, but things had changed a lot since that time.
"Alright", she agreed at the end. "If the others are all in, I can't see why me and Liam shouldn't". Karma couldn't understand yet how Shane had made Lauren and Theo coming to the date, but that didn't really matter.
Shane became suddenly serious. "You don't have any problems about this relationship, isn't it?".
Karma snorted, why everyone kept thinking that she was supposed to be jealous? "Shane, I've already said that. I just want Amy to be happy".
"It's better this way. I think things between Amy and Reagan are getting serious, you would have the worst timing ever if I understood to have feelings for Amy right now".
"Trust me, I like Liam", Karma pointed out. "And I think it's too early to say that things are getting serious between them two, they only dated for two weeks, and it takes a long time to Amy to become attached to people".
Shane chuckled. "Lesbians moves fast, and they're viciously territorial."
"What do you mean?" Karma asked, frowning.
"This date has to be perfect", Shane clarified. "So you'd better behave and do not act like you and Amy are... ... well, Karma and Amy".
As far Karma didn't like the entire conversation, she knew what Shane meant. After all, it was for the ambiguously way she and Amy behaved that it all began. Sometimes even Liam seemed irritated by the relationship between Karma and Amy, even though she continued telling him that it was completely platonic, at least by her side.
"Chill out", Karma reassured Shane. "No one will take us for more than just friends, you have already made that mistake once".
"It wasn't all a mistake Karma, given how things turn out".
Amy's POV
Amy wondered how she could have thought that that was a good idea.
The evening had started badly with an awkward car ride to the restaurant. Whenever Amy and Reagan had tried to start a conversation, Lauren had rendered useless every attempt with her acid comments. Amy, who was beginning to know her stepsister, knew that her behavior was due to her concern about her first date with Theo, although she would have never admit it. Anyway, at halfway, they had all agreed that sit in silence was definitely the best.
At the restaurant an hectic Shane and an embarrassed Duke were waiting for them.
Somehow, Shane had to be a little concerned about his date too because he decided to focus all his attention on Reagan and Amy, filling them with embarrassing and way too personal questions.
Isn't this thing supposed to make me feel comfortable?, Amy thought, pinning mentally herself to never give more attention to any of Shane's ideas.
But if Amy had thought that the evening couldn't get any worse, she was wrong because after about ten minutes they made their entrance Karma and Liam.
Reagan looked surprised at the two newcomers. "Wow, you've invited a lot of people".
Shane winked at Reagan. "We take group's things very seriously".
Seeing Liam and Karma come hand in hand still gave Amy a strange feeling. By now she had given up the idea of her and Karma together plus now she was with Reagan, but maybe it was one of those things that she would have never been used to.
Liam and Karma greeted everyone and then Shane went to a quick round of introductions.
"She is the friend I told you about", Amy clarified to Reagan, emphasizing the word friend.
The girl smiled and turned to Karma. "Nice to meet you, Carmen".
"Karma", Karma corrected her in an irritated voice.
Amy scowled at Karma and she whispered to Amy, preventing the others from hearing. "It's a rather unusual name, easy to remember".
"She made a little mistake, calm down", Amy begged Karma.
"Is everything alright, shrimp girl?", Reagan asked, noticing the silent conversation between Amy and Karma.
"How did you call her?", Karma frowned.
Shane jumped into the conversation. "You are so cute, you have been together for a short time and you already have sobriquets".
Karma chuckled sarcastically. "Cute? Amy hates nicknames".
"No, I don't", Amy reassured Reagan, giving Karma a death-look.
"Oh Gosh", Lauren said exasperated."this dinner couldn't be more awkward".
"What are you talking about?", Shane replied offended. "We're just a group of friends hanging out".
Lauren couldn't help but laughing. "Friends? It's a term quite simplistic to explain the mess within this group".
Amy felt that something really bad was going to happen. "No, Lauren. We're all good friends".
Reagan, and besides Theo, were quite confused. "I'm not following", she said.
Lauren felt compelled to be the one who explains the situation to Reagan, even though Amy was begging her to shut her mouth. "I don't blame you Reagan, I can't even follow these two. Before they are friends, then they are girlfriends but they are actually friends, then it turns out that they weren't faking it, at least...".
Shane literally leaned forward and covered Lauren's mouth with all his strength, but it was too late.
Amy saw the awareness appeared on Reagan's face as she turned toward her. As soon as Reagan met Amy's gaze, her face turned red with anger. "You two were a couple!?".
Amy didn't know what to say and Reagan kept staring at her, waiting for some explanation.
All the others stared in disbelief at Lauren. "Did you not tell her? What?", she asked almost apologetically. "I can't keep track of who knows what anymore".
A/N: Hi guys! First of all, I'd like to thank anyone who has read, favorited, followed and reviewed my fic, I really appreciate that. I apologize if there's any grammatical mistake, English is not my mother tongue. So, as you can see this is based mostly on the next episode (that I can't wait to see, btw), but the date is not over yet, so another chapter will be updated before of Tuesday's episode. Hope you've enjoyed reading.