Disclaimer: She's the Man characters were for entertainment purposes in this story only, and they don't belong to me in any way.
"Andrew, I'm open!" shouted Viola. It was a cloudy Sunday afternoon and Viola spent her time practicing with the boys. "Pass, the ball!" she shouted once more.
Unfortunately, Andrew seemed distant and when he did pass the ball, the other team got it and quickly ran to the opposite side. Viola had no idea why her teammate was acting so strange, but before she intended to find out, she had to get the ball back first. Toby jumped in and kicked the ball away from the goalpost before the other team had a chance to score a goal and immediately moved the ball away from them. He then quickly passed the ball to Viola.
Moving, swiftly across the field and avoiding the other team players, Viola finally had an open shot to pass the ball to Duke. The team captain then scored a goal which left his teammates rejoicing.
"That was good effort." said the coach loudly as he approached his team. Everybody settled down. "I just hope that maybe next time Clifton here would get his head in back in the game." said coach Dinklage looking pointedly at Andrew, who hung in head in embarrassment as a few of his teammates looked at him. "Now hit the showers!" he ordered. Viola was about to go and console Andrew when someone sitting on the empty bleachers caught her eye; it was Paul. Viola Hastings went straight for him.
As Viola came up to Paul, he handed her a clean towel, which she accepted gratefully and immediately began wiping her face. "Did you do it?" she asked somberly as she cleaned her jaw. When there was no reply from her friend, she found out that he was looking longingly at the boys' soccer team who were now slowly making their way towards the changing rooms. Grabbing his attention, Viola snapped her fingers in his face and repeated her question.
Paul's reply came distant and incoherent and Viola knew it was no use trying to keep on the subject; besides she trusted him enough to know that he had already done her request. "You know you could always go up to them and say 'hi', right?" she said rolling her eyes. Before Paul had time to object, the brunette twin grabbed a stereotypical looking jock that made his way close them. He was definitely taller than Viola with short locks of brown and an extremely toned physique that made Paul speechless at sight.
"James, this is Paul," Viola introduced comfortably, "Paul, this is James."
James gave a small nod at Paul and greeted the suddenly neurotic hairstylist, "What's up?" Instead of greeting back, Paul just grinned shyly and mumbled away. Viola then had to think if Paul was taking any meds that would sharpen his vocabulary. "I'm Paul," said the ever so jumpy hairstylist as he held out his hand, "I do hairstyles." James shook his hand and gave Paul a vacant look. "Right," said James softly. There was then a short awkward moment which the jock couldn't notice before he said goodbye to Paul, "See you around campus," James then gave a small wink at Paul and walked away.
When James was out of earshot, Paul came back to his senses. "Oh my god!" he mouthed, Viola had to resist the temptation to roll her eyes once more and gag on the spot, "Is he new?" he asked, "I haven't seen him before. Did you see his body? Where does he work out?" he continued swiftly "Did you see him winking at me?" he asked excitedly. Voila looked at him with satirical disbelief, "Yes I did Paul," she answered with weird calmness "I think you were busy staring at his abs, that you didn't notice me standing here trying hard not to be bulimic." She said sarcastically glancing around the field, "and I think, Andrew saw the whole thing too."
Paul immediately looked around frantically, "Where?" he asked
Seeing that the field was in fact empty, Viola began laughing loudly. "You should see your face!" she said doubling over in hysterics while Paul glared silently at his friend. "It was only a joke, Paul." She said trying hard not to make fun of her friend. "That was for making fun of me about Kia, yesterday" She gladly explained.
Paul continued sulking like a little boy. "I don't get you," she said still amused, as she faced the hairstylist "you don't want to talk about Andrew, yet at the sound of his name; you go all ditzy girl crush on me." Paul then glared daggers at Viola Hastings, "If I didn't know any better," Viola continued confidently, "You still like him, don't you?" she asked poking him playfully and winking suggestively. Paul remained silent.
Viola then stopped her teasing to focus her gaze behind Paul, "Oh hey, Andrew!" she said cheerfully.
"Very funny, Viola," said Paul arrogantly not bothering to look around, "if you think I'm going to fall for another one of your--"
"Hi, Viola." came a familiar voice behind Paul, making him stop dead in his tracks. "Hey, Paul." continued the voice nervously.
Paul turned around so quickly, Viola thought he was on a spinning wheel. Paul then greeted Andrew brusquely and forced a smile that made him look slightly like the Grinch on Christmas Eve. "Coach Dinklage wants to see you, Viola." Said Andrew softly, clearing feeling the crackling air of tension hovering above them. "Oh, ok." She replied
"See you later, Paul." She said. Viola didn't even bother waiting for a reply and left quickly hoping Andrew would stay behind with Paul. No sooner had she left them, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around and saw Andrew walking behind her with his head down, Paul was no where to be seen around the bleachers.
--Damn it, Cupid needs to work harder!-- she thought.
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--Okay,-- thought Viola, --you can do this-- Viola Hastings then mentally psyched herself up before walking up to Olivia.
"Hey baby," she said as she walked up to the blonde before the start of biology. Olivia looked up from her book and replied tersely, "Hey." Olivia then returned to her book, flipping the page.
Trying to ignore the air of apprehension, Viola continued "I've missed you today." Looking up from her book once more and looking slightly aggravated "I miss you too," Olivia replied hollowly. Viola then had to tug at her collar. She then figured to take the bull by the horns, "Olivia," she started "I know you're mad about me running out on you yesterday. I'm sorry." She said earnestly, "But if you could just give me one more chance, I promise I would--"
Olivia then interjected by snapping her book shut loudly causing a few stares from the students "Look Sebastian, whatever I said the other day doesn't matter anymore, alright?" she said briefly, "Can we just forget about it?" They gazed at each other for a second before Olivia opened her book once more and tried to ignore 'Sebastian'.
"But, Liv," Viola objected softly as Olivia turned away. "Class has begun." said the teacher across the room.
Since Viola knew both her brother and Olivia were partners, she had no choice but to sit next to a friend who was mad at the wrong person for a totally different reason. The students were then given a task to dissect a lab rat .Viola tried hard not to squirm or faint at throughout the entire experiment. Whenever Viola tried to catch Olivia gaze, Olivia would never look back and not say anything. Viola then found it hard to be working on an experiment with a partner when there was absolutely no communication involved.
At the end of class, Viola tried to reach out to Olivia again by reaching out for her hand. Viola then found it hard to do that since Olivia seemed intent on packing quickly and made no sign to slow down her haphazard pace.
"Olivia, can we just talk?" Viola asked sadly.
"I'm sorry, Sebastian" she replied in the most genuine tone Viola's heard all day, "I have to tutor someone." With that, Olivia quickly left Viola alone at the table and 'Sebastian' was left wondering.
The teacher then had to ask, "Sebastian, where is your sister?"
I don't know what was Andrew's surname in the movie so I used the actor's first name though. No I don't own them, and it was just for entertainment purpose only. Oh yeah, and just in case nobody gets it the second part; Viola was dressed up as Sebastian and when she is 'Sebastian', Viola uses the slightly deeper voice. (A/N: If anybody doesn't know when Viola is Sebastian or herself, just notice how the other person refers to her.)
Anywez, Thanks for your wonderful reviews. Sorry if my update is kinda long though, I'm still trying to figure out how everything goes and hopefully it all falls into place in the end. ;)
--FlexibleFish--