Pretending
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chapter two: Friends now
It was another bright day for Josie Trent. Bullshit. She was still as mad as anybody in her place could be. Even more, she thought. Somehow, the brilliant plan she had designed, or, well, Corrine, didn't sound as good as it had the day before. She was still thinking about it, about the whole Vaughn thing, about Lucas, and the silver ball, and the project, and almost every little thing that came up to her. It was her way to deal with things, as Corrine thought.
"No its not! I just.. like doing stuff.. its like im hiding myself behind it or anything.." Josie explained Corrine carefully, but the last one didn't seem to be convinced.
"Of course Josie.. you're right." Corrine said ironically. It was more than obvious that she didn't believe a word she was saying. "But anyway, I gotta tell you something that might damage your plan, which by the way, have I told you I disagree and I think it's the worst that you can do?" She said again waiting for her friend to rationalize. It was one thing that she didn't trust Vaughn, she could deal with it, but tricking him so she can get what she wanted, that she couldn't. After all, Josie was her best friend true, but Vaughn still remained as a friend for her, and whatever Josie was planning, wasn't gonna be all flowers and kisses for him.
"Yes you have. Many, many, MANY times before. So tell me now what you think may ruin my plan..." Josie said quickly. She had a meeting with Vaughn that afternoon to start their project, her very opportunity to start being nice and caring.
"I saw him... with Madison." Corrine said in a low tone. Deep down she knew that she was hurting her friend badly by telling her that. She knew she cared about Vaughn even she didn't want to admit or tried lots of times to deny it. She could read her as an open book.
"Madison uh.. what did you see exactly? Were they talking? Or.." Josie didn't finish. She couldn't. Every intention she had to be nice and trick him was now fading. She was angry again, er, angrier. "Great, I leave him alone for 10 minutes and he is all over her already.." She thought aloud, but luckily for her she said it so low that Corrine didn't hear.
"They were just talking.. but.. you could see Madison was really flirting and he wasn't ignoring her. He didn't even said hello to me." Corrine said sounding now her a little hurt. Josie's eyes widened when she heard the not ignoring Madison's flirting part. She already hated that girl, now she hated her even more. And Vaughn wasn't so far from her either.
"Well I can handle talking... talking its not bad.. is it? I mean, if he wanted more with her, he would have already made a move.. and he didn't.. did he?" Josie asked unsure and confused. She was trying so hard to figure him out that she was exhausting herself with the infinite possibilities.
"I think so... Josie please don't do it. You can still back off, please you're gonna get yourself and him hurt.. Think about it Jos.. please?" Corrine pleaded as she saw Josie actually thinking about it.
"I will Corrine.. I will, I promise okay? Now I have to go to the field, Vaughn had practice so we decided to meet there.." Josie explained leaving quickly. Corrine only managed to let out a sigh as she thought of her friend's unusual way to say I love you.
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Vaughn had the ball, he was opening his way up along all the players around him. He remembered that strategy so well that he felt he could do it without even looking. He went on straight were he was supposed to and was about to score, there were no players to take him down, at least that was what he saw because there was indeed one there, called Michael something. He never actually had the chance to learn his name. But the guy was there, approaching Vaughn by the second, who now was noticing him and glancing at him a bit. He focused himself on his target, he had to score. Michael ran pretty fast and was almost next to him, but Vaughn suddenly stopped confusing him and the rest of the team. He was not supposed to do that. He looked at the crowd and saw Josie sitting on a bench, apparently waiting and watching him play. He glanced at her and then back at Michael who was trying to take him down and catch the ball himself. Vaughn avoided him by taking so many directions at a time that Michael was getting dizzy. After a couple of turns to right and then to left, and to right again, Vaughn scored. Everybody yelled and shouted loud when he did it, and the coach and his team-mates approached him to congratulate him.
"That was risky Pearson.. but you handled it well. I hope to see more of it!!" The coach said in a few growls. He always talked like that and Vaughn was used to it. His friends softly hit him on his back as he was leaving the field. Practice was over. He went directly towards Josie who was apparently smiling.
"Wait a sec.. why is she so happy?" Vaughn asked to himself as he looked at her in disbelief. He rose one eyebrow and studied the redhead in front of him.
"Are you okay?" Josie asked in the sweetest tone she managed, a really irritating one as for her, and Vaughn, he was just confused and more confused.
"I am.. ARE YOU?" Vaughn emphasised the last part. If there was someone not feeling okay it wasn't him that was for sure.
"Yeah.. by the way, pretty cool turn you did back there.. he thought he had you.. but you ended up scoring!!! It was awesome.. maybe I'll become a cheerleader or something and cheer you up at your games and stuff.." Josie lied. She wouldn't be a cheerleader for anything in the world. She hated how girls humiliated themselves by doing such job. The short skirts, the tight tops.. not in a thousand years.
"Josie..?" Vaughn tried to prove himself he was indeed talking to her and not her clone or twin sister. At that school everything was possible. Maybe she fell in the wormhole, or maybe she cloned herself accidentally or whatever, but the Josie Trent he knew wasn't gonna apply for cheerleader, not in a thousand years.
"Yeah? You ready to think of our project? I had a few ideas myself... wanna hear them?" Josie asked politely trying to imitate her previous annoying sweet tone.
"Of course.." Vaughn hesitated but followed her into the school and up to her room.
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"Im telling you.. we need to do something... they're just gonna get themselves hurt.." Corrine warned Marshal in a soft whisper. They were sitting on a bench in the yard as they talked about their friends Josie and Vaughn.
"Corrine, up to now, you have told me in 10 different ways the consequences, now would you tell me what on earth is she planning so we can stop them?" Marshal said tired of hearing the same thing. Corrine looked at him and for a minute he saw a glaring. "What?" Marshal asked confused.
"Could you keep your voice down?" Corrine said low but pronouncing each word carefully and strongly.
"Fine. Now, would you?" Marshal asked in the same tone Corrine had before.
"No I don't think so. I cant do that to Josie, but.. Oh.. forget about it.. I'll handle it myself." Corrine said mad. Suddenly Marshal wasn't a good idea. She had called him for help and everything he was giving her was more and more troubles. Just when Marshal was about to stop Corrine she was far gone.
"Damn..." He said low. He wasn't supposed to be heard saying that. He wanted Corrine to trust him, but at the moment he seemed to be only making things hard for her. He had to understand Josie was her best friend, she couldn't betray her by telling him.
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Back at Josie's room, Vaughn and her were having a bad time trying to come up with their project. Josie had said a couple of dumb ideas, and Vaughn was too focused on Josie's sudden new personality that he barely thought at all.
"I got it! What happens to roses when you don't take care of them? Cool title.. what do you think?" Josie said as she glanced at Vaughn.
"I think Professor Zeta will use us as his next example of "don'ts". Josie, are you sure you feel all right?" He asked for the 45th time. Josie realized now that she was being too friendly and nice. She was confusing him, not fooling him. She had to change strategy soon.
"Okay Vaughn you got me. All this time I've been trying to swallow everything that happened and act as usual. Im sorry, but I cant lose you as the friend you are. I don't care about the silver ball, or your father, or Lucas... I just know that I care about you." She said sounding as honestly as she could. And she was. Everything she thought she was lying about, it was deep down her awful truth. She didn't care about all that, all she wanted was things back to normal. Vaughn being there for her.
"No, Josie im the one who is sorry. I shouldn't have done what I did, but you don't understand. I was put in a sword/wall situation. On one hand I had you, we.. sort of became really close these weeks, and I.. And in the other, there was my father. I didn't know what he wanted until he called for me. He had a silver ball true, but the weirdest happened. One moment it was there, and the next one it wasn't.. Well actually it was, but it was different. As my father said." Vaughn ended up his saying. He was telling her the truth and he too wanted to be with her as they used to. He wanted everything back to normal even if that represented facing up his father. Josie believed him. She didn't know why, but she felt he was saying the truth. He wouldn't lie to her.. not again at least.
"No.. no.. Josie Trent you need to stay strong.. don't you see what he is doing? He is tricking you instead of the other way around as it was planned!!!" One voice spoke in Josie's mind. Could be? Could be Vaughn Pearson lying again? It could definitely be possible. I mean he had done it before, why not again? As Josie went on thinking she forgot Vaughn was still in front of her waiting for her reply.
"Lets just say we both are sorry." Josie forced her best smile. Not a word. She wouldn't believe him a word. Vaughn smiled himself and offered her his hand. She smiled truly this time and took it bringing him closer into a hug.
End of chapter two
A/N: Thanks to the reviewers and let me say, yeah I know, I don't describe much, its just I tend to get bored when I read so much descriptions, but I promise I'll try to improve at that. Anyway, I was thinking maybe I should pair up Corrine and Marshal as well... what do you think? Paris
chapter two: Friends now
It was another bright day for Josie Trent. Bullshit. She was still as mad as anybody in her place could be. Even more, she thought. Somehow, the brilliant plan she had designed, or, well, Corrine, didn't sound as good as it had the day before. She was still thinking about it, about the whole Vaughn thing, about Lucas, and the silver ball, and the project, and almost every little thing that came up to her. It was her way to deal with things, as Corrine thought.
"No its not! I just.. like doing stuff.. its like im hiding myself behind it or anything.." Josie explained Corrine carefully, but the last one didn't seem to be convinced.
"Of course Josie.. you're right." Corrine said ironically. It was more than obvious that she didn't believe a word she was saying. "But anyway, I gotta tell you something that might damage your plan, which by the way, have I told you I disagree and I think it's the worst that you can do?" She said again waiting for her friend to rationalize. It was one thing that she didn't trust Vaughn, she could deal with it, but tricking him so she can get what she wanted, that she couldn't. After all, Josie was her best friend true, but Vaughn still remained as a friend for her, and whatever Josie was planning, wasn't gonna be all flowers and kisses for him.
"Yes you have. Many, many, MANY times before. So tell me now what you think may ruin my plan..." Josie said quickly. She had a meeting with Vaughn that afternoon to start their project, her very opportunity to start being nice and caring.
"I saw him... with Madison." Corrine said in a low tone. Deep down she knew that she was hurting her friend badly by telling her that. She knew she cared about Vaughn even she didn't want to admit or tried lots of times to deny it. She could read her as an open book.
"Madison uh.. what did you see exactly? Were they talking? Or.." Josie didn't finish. She couldn't. Every intention she had to be nice and trick him was now fading. She was angry again, er, angrier. "Great, I leave him alone for 10 minutes and he is all over her already.." She thought aloud, but luckily for her she said it so low that Corrine didn't hear.
"They were just talking.. but.. you could see Madison was really flirting and he wasn't ignoring her. He didn't even said hello to me." Corrine said sounding now her a little hurt. Josie's eyes widened when she heard the not ignoring Madison's flirting part. She already hated that girl, now she hated her even more. And Vaughn wasn't so far from her either.
"Well I can handle talking... talking its not bad.. is it? I mean, if he wanted more with her, he would have already made a move.. and he didn't.. did he?" Josie asked unsure and confused. She was trying so hard to figure him out that she was exhausting herself with the infinite possibilities.
"I think so... Josie please don't do it. You can still back off, please you're gonna get yourself and him hurt.. Think about it Jos.. please?" Corrine pleaded as she saw Josie actually thinking about it.
"I will Corrine.. I will, I promise okay? Now I have to go to the field, Vaughn had practice so we decided to meet there.." Josie explained leaving quickly. Corrine only managed to let out a sigh as she thought of her friend's unusual way to say I love you.
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Vaughn had the ball, he was opening his way up along all the players around him. He remembered that strategy so well that he felt he could do it without even looking. He went on straight were he was supposed to and was about to score, there were no players to take him down, at least that was what he saw because there was indeed one there, called Michael something. He never actually had the chance to learn his name. But the guy was there, approaching Vaughn by the second, who now was noticing him and glancing at him a bit. He focused himself on his target, he had to score. Michael ran pretty fast and was almost next to him, but Vaughn suddenly stopped confusing him and the rest of the team. He was not supposed to do that. He looked at the crowd and saw Josie sitting on a bench, apparently waiting and watching him play. He glanced at her and then back at Michael who was trying to take him down and catch the ball himself. Vaughn avoided him by taking so many directions at a time that Michael was getting dizzy. After a couple of turns to right and then to left, and to right again, Vaughn scored. Everybody yelled and shouted loud when he did it, and the coach and his team-mates approached him to congratulate him.
"That was risky Pearson.. but you handled it well. I hope to see more of it!!" The coach said in a few growls. He always talked like that and Vaughn was used to it. His friends softly hit him on his back as he was leaving the field. Practice was over. He went directly towards Josie who was apparently smiling.
"Wait a sec.. why is she so happy?" Vaughn asked to himself as he looked at her in disbelief. He rose one eyebrow and studied the redhead in front of him.
"Are you okay?" Josie asked in the sweetest tone she managed, a really irritating one as for her, and Vaughn, he was just confused and more confused.
"I am.. ARE YOU?" Vaughn emphasised the last part. If there was someone not feeling okay it wasn't him that was for sure.
"Yeah.. by the way, pretty cool turn you did back there.. he thought he had you.. but you ended up scoring!!! It was awesome.. maybe I'll become a cheerleader or something and cheer you up at your games and stuff.." Josie lied. She wouldn't be a cheerleader for anything in the world. She hated how girls humiliated themselves by doing such job. The short skirts, the tight tops.. not in a thousand years.
"Josie..?" Vaughn tried to prove himself he was indeed talking to her and not her clone or twin sister. At that school everything was possible. Maybe she fell in the wormhole, or maybe she cloned herself accidentally or whatever, but the Josie Trent he knew wasn't gonna apply for cheerleader, not in a thousand years.
"Yeah? You ready to think of our project? I had a few ideas myself... wanna hear them?" Josie asked politely trying to imitate her previous annoying sweet tone.
"Of course.." Vaughn hesitated but followed her into the school and up to her room.
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"Im telling you.. we need to do something... they're just gonna get themselves hurt.." Corrine warned Marshal in a soft whisper. They were sitting on a bench in the yard as they talked about their friends Josie and Vaughn.
"Corrine, up to now, you have told me in 10 different ways the consequences, now would you tell me what on earth is she planning so we can stop them?" Marshal said tired of hearing the same thing. Corrine looked at him and for a minute he saw a glaring. "What?" Marshal asked confused.
"Could you keep your voice down?" Corrine said low but pronouncing each word carefully and strongly.
"Fine. Now, would you?" Marshal asked in the same tone Corrine had before.
"No I don't think so. I cant do that to Josie, but.. Oh.. forget about it.. I'll handle it myself." Corrine said mad. Suddenly Marshal wasn't a good idea. She had called him for help and everything he was giving her was more and more troubles. Just when Marshal was about to stop Corrine she was far gone.
"Damn..." He said low. He wasn't supposed to be heard saying that. He wanted Corrine to trust him, but at the moment he seemed to be only making things hard for her. He had to understand Josie was her best friend, she couldn't betray her by telling him.
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Back at Josie's room, Vaughn and her were having a bad time trying to come up with their project. Josie had said a couple of dumb ideas, and Vaughn was too focused on Josie's sudden new personality that he barely thought at all.
"I got it! What happens to roses when you don't take care of them? Cool title.. what do you think?" Josie said as she glanced at Vaughn.
"I think Professor Zeta will use us as his next example of "don'ts". Josie, are you sure you feel all right?" He asked for the 45th time. Josie realized now that she was being too friendly and nice. She was confusing him, not fooling him. She had to change strategy soon.
"Okay Vaughn you got me. All this time I've been trying to swallow everything that happened and act as usual. Im sorry, but I cant lose you as the friend you are. I don't care about the silver ball, or your father, or Lucas... I just know that I care about you." She said sounding as honestly as she could. And she was. Everything she thought she was lying about, it was deep down her awful truth. She didn't care about all that, all she wanted was things back to normal. Vaughn being there for her.
"No, Josie im the one who is sorry. I shouldn't have done what I did, but you don't understand. I was put in a sword/wall situation. On one hand I had you, we.. sort of became really close these weeks, and I.. And in the other, there was my father. I didn't know what he wanted until he called for me. He had a silver ball true, but the weirdest happened. One moment it was there, and the next one it wasn't.. Well actually it was, but it was different. As my father said." Vaughn ended up his saying. He was telling her the truth and he too wanted to be with her as they used to. He wanted everything back to normal even if that represented facing up his father. Josie believed him. She didn't know why, but she felt he was saying the truth. He wouldn't lie to her.. not again at least.
"No.. no.. Josie Trent you need to stay strong.. don't you see what he is doing? He is tricking you instead of the other way around as it was planned!!!" One voice spoke in Josie's mind. Could be? Could be Vaughn Pearson lying again? It could definitely be possible. I mean he had done it before, why not again? As Josie went on thinking she forgot Vaughn was still in front of her waiting for her reply.
"Lets just say we both are sorry." Josie forced her best smile. Not a word. She wouldn't believe him a word. Vaughn smiled himself and offered her his hand. She smiled truly this time and took it bringing him closer into a hug.
End of chapter two
A/N: Thanks to the reviewers and let me say, yeah I know, I don't describe much, its just I tend to get bored when I read so much descriptions, but I promise I'll try to improve at that. Anyway, I was thinking maybe I should pair up Corrine and Marshal as well... what do you think? Paris