Snowcrystal of Thunderclan- L.I.O.N is really cool! He's a fun character, being an AI and all! Yes, Briarfeather! :D although this is more platonic Briarfeather :D I was thinking about putting a few of the random moments of actual Briarfeatherness in but I decided not too, we'll see, maybe I'll write a chapter dedicated to the fighting for love and hope ships! :D I agree, I like how it shows the different parts of her life and how it displayed her love to technology since she was really little! XD (Reply to Review For Bree's Past (Fighting For Love and Hope)

Echo in the Whispering Wind- I know right? Jay and Bree cuteness! :D I want to come up with a shipping name for them as humans, any suggestions? (Review to Review For Bree's Past (Fighting For Love And Hope))

Featherflight- I am! :D it's just taking a bit! :D (Review to Review For Half Finished Stories)

Alrighty, I will make a series of them! And I love the title suggestion! "Just Don't Do It Again" is perfect! XD I'll definitely use it from now on! :D (Review to Review For Childhood Adventures)

Yeah, you definitely pulled a Bree! XD

"Hey! That's my thing!" ~Bree

"Calm down Bree, she's complimenting you." ~Jay

Both of you shoo! *shoves them away* anyway, I agree! Cynthia and Leon are a great couple! :D Although I want to make a shipping name special to them specifically! Any suggestions? (Review to Review For Contest Results, Leon Wins!)

Yes, I am writing one for each of the main characters! :D (Cynthia, Leon, Finli, Jay, Bree, Holly, Hadara, Sam, and Seth) Bree's is finished and Cynthia's is about half way there, although hers is a whole lot longer! XD I'll work on Cynthia's and post it next! :D (Review to Review For Bree's Past (Fighting For Love And Hope))

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Sorry about the late update and not updating in a few days guys! I challenged myself to rewrite the sight into my version of the series in two days and I completed it! (You can read it if you'd like! :D) XD After that my brain was fried for a bit and I had to go fix a roof yesterday! :D Soy anyway, here's one of the half-finished stories finished! Although I ended up rewriting it anyway! XD It's not very long, but I figure that it's long enough to hold you all over while I finish up a different chapter and upload it! :D

Pretending

Cynthia, Leon- 16

Jay, Holly- 17

I'm exhausted, Cynthia thought as she unlocked the front door and slipped into the house, hoping to go crash in her and Holly's room. Swimming practice, soccer practice and basketball practice all on the same day drained her energy and she was darn near lucky to have not fallen asleep during her swimming couch's boring monolog about how they needed to push themselves harder and what not. She was so tired that she didn't notice the guests in the living room and promptly walked towards the stairwell after closing the front door behind her, but they certainly noticed her arrival.

"Hey Cynthia," Hadara spoke softly, her green eyes briefly flickered with concern and slight worry, "these are my parents."

Cynthia turned around and forced a smile which turned nervous at the suspicious staring she was getting from the older girl's parents. "Oh, hello," she greeted nervously, having no idea what was going on and why Leon looked so tense and worried, she lived here, was that an issue?

"How come she's here," Hadara's father asked in a gruff tone, looking over the athlete with suspicion. He wasn't too fond of the idea of his daughter having a boyfriend who lived in the same house with a girl, not at all related to him.

"Uh," Jay floundered for something to say, how was he going to explain this? Cynthia was just one of his friends who happened to live with him and his siblings? That would completely ruin any chances of getting along with her parents. "She lives here…"

Holly and Leon meanwhile, were having an argument via text. Come on Leon! We have to do something!

Maybe we can say she's our cousin?

No, they already caught you staring at her a moment ago!

I can't help it! Leon shot back, the water's distracting!

"She's Leon's girlfriend," Holly spoke up a moment later, blurting out the words and inwardly wincing at them, her brother wasn't going to be pleased. Just go with it! She texted her younger brother.

Leon sucked up his pride and decided to help his younger brother, with an almost invisible nod to Cynthia he got up and walked over to her, kissing her on the cheek and brushing her black bangs out of her face, speaking in a low voice.

"Uh huh," Hadara's father grunted, "how long?"

Luckily, Cynthia could think on her feet, her shock at the lie waking her up enough to put her brain into action, "four months or so," she looked over at Leon, "right?"

"Yeah," Leon smiled, "give or take a week I think."

Leon's phone buzzed and he briefly glanced at it, Cynthia catching a glimpse of the text meant for both of them from a worried Holly.

Jay and Hadara looked stressed and concerned, if Jay couldn't make a good impression, their relationship was probably over.

They aren't buying it, you have to pull this off, guys!

Leon looked up at Cynthia, both of them knew what they would have to do to prove it and neither of them wanted to. They would have to kiss. Sure, they had kissed a handful of times before, once in a game of truth or dare, but it wasn't something that was as easy as say, talking to each other was, it was usually awkward, confusing, and strangely enjoyable. So with as much causality as they could muster, and it turned out to be quite casual, Leon leaned down and gave his friend with benefits a short kiss that was to the two of them super awkward since they were literally being asked to kiss on demand. They broke apart a moment later and Leon properly greeted her, "Hi Sunshine," he murmured, coming up with the nickname on the spot and hoping it sounded okay. "You look tired," he commented, flicking a water droplet away from one of her blue eyes.

"You have no idea," Cynthia mumbled and Leon cracked a grin and the unusual response, no doubt she was exhausted, he knew for a fact that she had had multiple practices and multiple tests that day.

Hadara and Jay's tensed positions relaxed slightly when Hadara's father took his attention away from the two younger teenagers, taking the pressure off of the two of them. For the moment anyway.

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"Holly, you have no idea how hard this is going to be to pull off!" Cynthia groaned, rubbing her face with her hands and sitting down on her lower bunk with a thump. "They're staying over for the night and you want me to bunk with Leon on top of acting like he's my boyfriend?"

Holly winced, "Believe me, I couldn't think of anything else, they know I'm Jay's sister and Leon's staring completely gave away his nonplatonic feelings." She was sitting on top of her desk, rubbing her temples.

"Oh, so it's my fault now?" Leon snapped, he was leaning against one wall, "this is not my fault!"

"It's none of your guys' faults," Hadara sighed, she was sitting in Holly's desk office chair, running her fingers through her blonde hair.

"It would've been easier if we had planned better," Jay grunted, he was leaning against the closed window of the room, gray-speckled black hair more messy than usual.

"Well nobody can really plan for overprotective parents." Holly sighed.

"Maybe not, but we could've told Cindy before hand so she could've stayed away from the house." Hadara sighed again.

"I came here so tired I could barely think," Cynthia sighed, propping her head up on her arm and looking at them all, "I wouldn't have remembered they were coming even if you did tell me with how hectic my day has been."

"Yeah, she's had so many tests and sports practices crammed in today that I'm surprised she hasn't fallen over." Leon pointed out, his amber eyes on his friend.

"Well you guys are going to have to pull it off, we need a plan and a story." Holly decided, "the basic stuff, like how you met, got together, all that mushy crap."

"Well Cyn said four months, that was a few weeks after her birthday, did you plan that?" Leon asked, looked at her.

"Hmm? Not particularly," Cynthia shrugged, "but it works. How about Leon and I have been friends for years, but have been too nervous to do anything about it till four months ago?"

"What about Hadara and I set you two up for a blind date or something?" Holly suggested, "that way we know the story."

"Okay," Leon agreed with it, "but neither of us would've just spontaneously got together. What about you two set us up a few weeks before Cyn's birthday-"

"And we ended up playing a game of truth or dare at the party," Cynthia took over, "Leon was dared to kiss me and it ended up getting pretty awkward for a little bit until we both got fed up with it and had some kind of argument."

"Maybe you were jealous of Hannah or Isa?" Holly suggested.

"Sure," Cynthia sighed, "I was jealous of Hannah and Isa and it finally got through Leon's thick skull that I liked him back so he asked me out, good enough?"

"It sounds believable," Hadara commented, "if I didn't know better I could've believed that story rather easily."

"Well, now what?"

"You two need to be more couple-like."

"What?" Leon asked a little spooked, "we have to kiss again?!"

"Is that all we're going to be doing?" Cynthia sighed, "cause I am not just kissing him on demand, it's weird."

"I wholeheartedly agree," Leon said with a nod.

"Come on," Holly sighed with exasperation, "I'm sure you two can figure it out and act it out, we all know you both are very good actors, so just pretend you like each other or something."

Leon and Cynthia shared a glance before Cynthia sighed, "Fine."

"I guess that's it then," Holly sighed after a few moments of silence. "we've got the best plan we can have."

"Finally!" Cynthia groaned and she closed her eyes before promptly falling back against her bed, her breathing deepening and steadying out barely a second later.

"Did she?..." Hadara asked in surprise, looking at the younger girl in complete surprise.

"Yup," Leon replied, gazing unabashedly at his friend, perfectly comfortable in studying her.

"She fell asleep." Holly sighed with a face palm.

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"How are we going to pull this off? We aren't a couple!" Cynthia whispered to Leon as they walked back downstairs about an hour later after the five teenagers had figured everything out and Cynthia had woken up.

"I know," Leon whispered back, "we'll just have to pretend-"

"How?"

"Cyn, calm down," Leon said, stopping aburptly and gently pushing her back against the stairwell wall as an attempt to snap her out of her rising panic, now that she was completely awake and not about to drop dead from exhaustion, she was extremely nervous about the whole thing, she hated titles and this entire thing hit too close to home for her. "It can't be too different from the whole friends with benefits thing right?"

"I guess…" Cynthia mumbled, her eyes locked on his, nervousness apparent in the sapphire blue.

"It'll be okay," Leon murmured, "Jay needs us to pull this off or he can be in big trouble."

"I know," Cynthia said before she took a deep breath to settle her nerves, "I can handle this."

Leon smiled, "that's my girl."

Cynthia cracked a small smile at the endearment before she cautiously took one of his hands and laced her fingers through his, "they're probably thinking we're conspiring or something at this point."

"Probably," Leon agreed, "so let's go settle that." he gently tugged her along with him as he continued going down the stairs.

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And of course they had to get another curveball thrown at them all a few hours later, the poor sixteen-year-olds just weren't getting a break.

"What?!" Cynthia shrieked and slapped a hand over her mouth.

"Yeah," Hadara said with reluctance, "my parents want to take you guys all out to dinner."

"No, no and no again!" Leon snapped, "I am not getting dressed up in a suit and tie and I'm dead sure that Cyndy doesn't want to dress up either!"

"Guys!" Holly pleaded, "we have to do this, for Jay!"

"No!" Cynthia snapped, "I don't do stuff like that and I look ridiculous in all that formal getup."

"Then we have to do something and get you two out of here with a reasonable excuse!" Holly snapped, fed up with their stubbornness.

"Sports practice? Studying?" Cynthia suggested.

"No…" Holly shook her head, "it wouldn't just be the two of you."

"I have an idea!" Bree inputted from her position lying on her stomach on Cynthia's lower bunk, "what about a double date of sorts? Hadara and Jay and Cynthia and Leon? It would get them all out of the entire thing and they still don't know I'm here!"

"How did you sneak up the stairs without them seeing you?" Jay asked the energetic girl in a curt voice, "they spotted Cindy the moment she walked in the door and they completely didn't notice you."

Bree shrugged, propping her head up on her arms, "I can be stealthy when I want to be!"

"It's not a horrible idea," Hadara commented, glancing over at Jay, "it would make my parents leave anyway."

"For StarClan's sake, I'm not wearing a suit and tie!" Leon snapped, amber eyes flashing.

"Face it Leon," Cynthia sighed, flopping back on her bunk and accidently knocking Bree off of it in the process.

"Ow!"

"We're going to have to dress up." Cynthia continued, not paying attention to Bree's complaint.

"Do we actually have to go on a date though?" Leon asked his sister, "I don't want to go on a date."

"Wow," Cynthia snorted, "you make it sound like it's a crime to go on a date with me."

Leon just mumbled under his breath, in truth he didn't mind going on a date with Cynthia, but he didn't want his siblings to tease him, nor did he want it to be forced and chosen by someone else.

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And I'm ending it here! XD Let me know if you want a sequel for this! It's quite funny if I say myself! XD :D :D :D :D XD