A/N: Hey. Sorry it's been a while. I just literally didn't have any time for writing the past couple of weeks because of final exams and school. But, now I'm on summer break, so I should be able to update a little more frequently again. :-)
So, originally, I wrote this out randomly one day and it wasn't even supposed to be for this challenge and I was just going to make it be a one-shot. But, obviously, I changed my mind and decided to make it fit into being for the letter G.

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Gavin

Boring didn't even begin to describe the movie that Jake's History teacher was making them sit through. All the while, said teacher was zoned out reading a book in the back corner of the classroom. This movie could easily put Jake to sleep. He needed some kind of distraction.

Jake glanced over at Hayley sitting next to him. She was intently watching the movie while furiously scribbling down notes. Her eyes didn't stray once from the TV screen. A quick survey of the room proved Jake's theory correct as Hayley was indeed the only one actually paying attention, much less taking notes – well, other than a select few others who were just as brainy as Hayley. They were the minority though.

Jake tapped Hayley on the shoulder to get her attention but she shrugged him off and gave him a small head shake to say "no." With a sigh, Jake flipped open to a clean page in his notebook and wrote down, "Why aren't you bored like the rest of us?" He slid the notebook over to her so that it pushed her notes out of the way and she was forced to read it.

Hayley shot him an annoyed look before she scanned his note. Two lines under his writing, Hayley added her response quickly and shoved the notebook back to him.

"Because it's not boring. Pay attention," was what she'd written down in a girly, rushed cursive.

Jake rolled his eyes. Of course Hayley wouldn't find this boring. He had no clue why though. It was because of his inability to understand her fascination with this that he wrote back, "But how can you find this interesting?" Well, for that reason, and because he knew it would probably annoy her.

Hayley wasn't fooled by his attempts though as she responded with, "Stop trying to distract me."

"Fine," Jake wrote sulkily.

Satisfied, Hayley went right back to intensely taking notes.

He lazily redirected his attention to the movie and nearly passed out from sheer boredom after less than thirty seconds.

Jake picked his pencil back up and wrote her another note on the same sheet reading: "Okay, surely you found that part boring."

Hayley looked exasperated as she read his writing but still answered him nonetheless. "Would you stop? We're supposed to be taking notes. Mr. Meyer even said he was going to collect the notes we took and be sure we were paying attention."

Jake laughed disbelievingly under his breath. Hayley sure knew how to fit the stereotypical good girl bill. Shaking his head slightly, he wrote his response out before giving the notebook to her again. "Psh, right, like he ever actually follows through on that. I'll bet you ten bucks he doesn't even remember to ask for our notes."

Hayley surprised him by actually smiling when she read it. Her response of – "You're on. Now let me watch the movie." – did not surprise him, however.

"Wait. Are you going with Felix mini golfing this weekend?" he quickly asked before she could start taking notes again.

Hayley scanned his new note and replied with, "Probably. Why, are you?"

"Yeah. I feel like I was roped into it though."

For the first time since Jake started writing to her, Hayley pushed her notes on the video aside and took a longer time to write out her answer. "Felix just gets lonely on the weekends. He doesn't have a girlfriend and he probably still misses Gavin. Which reminds me, we still need to find that mystery girl the Eris told him about."

Ah, yes, mystery girl. Also known as the girl Felix had been obsessing about for the past two weeks. The three of them had pretty much interrogated every girl in every Chemistry class, but so far no one had broken yet, even with the promise of confidentiality. Jake had his suspicions about one of Hayley's friends, Lauren, who Hayley had promptly shot down and refused to even question. "I still think it was Lauren," Jake wrote her back, giving her a pointed look once she was done reading it.

Hayley sighed and picked up her pen. "Jake, for the last time, Lauren has a boyfriend. Even if it was her, she's not single."

He tapped his pencil lightly against his chin as he thought of what he could write next.

Hayley took the opportunity to go back to watching the movie, not bothering this time to take any notes.

Jake scanned their page of messages so far, only then really noticing that Hayley had mentioned Gavin, the Troop member he'd replaced. He wrote his next response with a topic he'd wanted to bring up with Hayley for a while now. "So, you guys both really liked Gavin?"

Hayley looked away from the old boxy TV screen when Jake slid the notebook back to her and let the binding of it bump her in the elbow to get her attention. Glancing down, she read the note and furrowed her eyebrows curiously as she scribbled out a response reading, "Well, yeah, I mean he was really sweet. He and Felix were like instant best friends."

Jake didn't hesitate in his reply. "Did you like him?"

She indignantly threw him a look and flipped to the next blank page in the book.

"That's none of your business," was scrawled out on the first line when Jake read it.

Hah. Jake knew what that meant. "That means yes."

She shook her head slowly but moved her pen swiftly across the lined paper. "No it doesn't."

Jake shook his head also, clearly thinking that Hayley was simply in denial. "Yes, it does. He must've been good looking than, right?" he asked bluntly.

"Why are you so interested?"

"Why haven't you answered the questions?"

Her eyes rolled as she rushed out a response, not even bothering with cursive anymore. "Fine. No to the first question and yes to the second one."

Right, like that was honest. He'd heard her talk about Gavin on more than one occasion and he just knew that there had been something there. Not that he really cared – he just wanted Hayley to admit it. That was all. "Okay, great. Now answer the first question truthfully."

In annoyance, Hayley wrote down, "I already did. Stop badgering me."

"Thinking that someone is good looking and admitting it in writing implies that you like that person."

Hayley decided at this point that she was now officially done passing notes with Jake. She was wasting her time with him and missing out on the movie. "It does not. And I'm done passing notes with you. I am not getting in trouble with Mr. Meyer because of this."

"The fact that you're ending our conversation now is kind of suspicious…" he said, raising his eyebrows at her as he slid the notebook over.

Hayley read the writing, scowled at him, and for about thirty seconds was able to ignore him and focus on the movie. All the while, Jake was watching her, knowing she'd crack and continue their written conversation.

He was right as she finally broke down and responded to him, still looking annoyed with him. "You could also say that it's suspicious that you won't let this thing about Gavin go," was what she'd put down.

Jake couldn't help thinking how ridiculous that was as he replied with a, "How is that suspicious?"

"It makes you seem like you're jealous," she wrote, giving him a slightly smug look and a light shrug as well.

Jake shook his head incredulously at her before he took to writing again. "I am not jealous of someone I never even met. Especially after you and Felix both said that I was a way better monster hunter than Gavin ever was."

His response elicited an eye roll from Hayley. "Way to let that go to your head. And I only said that you had a better aim with the blaster."

Jake appeared to have let their conversation go since he didn't write back immediately. Hayley didn't get the notebook passed back over to her until almost two minutes later. "One more question," was all he'd said.

"What?"

"Who would you rather have on the team? Me or Gavin?"

Hayley had to turn to another clean page as she sighed at his question. "You're being immature again."

Jake rolled his eyes at whatever that was supposed to mean. "So does that mean you choose Gavin?"

"No, it just means that choosing Gavin would be the easier option."

"I don't get it. Who did you pick?"

There was a pause between their quick note-passing as Hayley paused for a moment. Eventually though, she bit her lower lip and wrote down her answer, switching back into cursive again. "You."

"Why me?" was the question that he followed up with.

"You already had your one question," Hayley wrote back, sliding it the short distance back to him without glancing in his direction.

"One reason then?" Jake pressed.

Hayley held back a smile. "You're annoying."

Jake grinned, glancing at her before he wrote her back. "Is that supposed to be your reason?"

"It was supposed to be a clue for you to stop writing me. He's collecting our notes on this video remember?" she replied, only then remembering as well.

Studious Hayley was back. "Yeah, right, the notes that no one is taking. You included," Jake wrote back, smirking at her.

"You're the one who's been distracting me," Hayley pointed out.

"You let yourself be distracted."

Hayley shot him an indignant look. "I did not."

"Yeah, then how come you're still writing me back?" He smiled at her smugly.

She found herself at a loss for words again as she realized that Jake was actually right. She had gotten caught up in "talking" to him, practically forgetting that they were still in class. Frowning at him and at herself, she wrote him back one last time. "Shut up."

Jake chuckled under his breath.

Hayley tried to focus back on the movie, only to realize that it was over, along with their class. Oh shoot. She'd barely gotten any notes down on the actual film. Now she'd probably end up getting a bad grade for this.

The bell finally rang, announcing the end of class. Their teacher took a moment to glance up from his book and wave his hand towards his students. "Alright, class dismissed. Have a good day."

Her mouth popped open in shock. She couldn't believe it. Jake had been right. And here she had wasted all that time in the beginning of class, stressing out over taking immaculate notes.

Jake knew he was right too as he returned her gaze, giving Hayley an "I told you" look. While Hayley recovered and starting packing her things up, Jake took the moment to write one last thing down on the sheet of paper.

He held it out in front of her face until she took it from him and read the final line.

"You owe me ten bucks."