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"It's not a question but a lesson learned in time. It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right. I hope you had the time of your life."

-Green Day 'Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)

Nina woke up in her bedroom and smiled to herself. Her date with Fabian was amazing. Yeah, it kind of ended on an awkward note, but either way she hadn't felt that way since… Florida. She looked at the clock on her bedside table and saw that it was December 1st. Had she really been as stupid to where a short strapless dress in November? Wow, she really was dumb.

She walked over to her door, grabbed the mail from the mailbox and saw a copy of Flawless. She was really proud of that month's article. But it only made it more difficult to top herself for this month. She needed something juicy, she needed something interesting! But what?

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of her latest ringtone "Time of Your Life" by Green Day. She saw Mick's name on the caller ID and knew that he had called to interrogate her about her date with Fabian.

"Hello Mick." Nina sighed, turning on her coffee machine.

"So, how was the date with Fabian then?"

"Ugh, Mick if you called to interrogate me just- wait. You called him by his real name! Not jackass or fucker, just Fabian!" Nina squealed.

"So?"

"I call that progress," Nina smiled.

"Oh please, you stole that from Glee!" Mick laughed.

"So?"

"You're a tool, Nina." Mick laughed, "But seriously how was the date?"

"It was great!" Nina gushed, "He was sweet and kind and oh Mick his eyes were sparkling!"

"You're referring to you list?" Mick laughed, "Seems serious."

"Mick, you know that know that no one has ever had sparkling eyes! He gave me his jacket and he carried me to his apartment! It was amazing." Nina giggled, "Wait, shouldn't you be at work now?"

"I am."

"What? Are you talking about my date with Fabian with Fabian in the room?" Nina began to blush, regardless of no one being around.

"Oh relax, he stepped out it's just me and Eddie." Mick laughed, "Did I forget to mention you're on speaker?"

"Hi Nina!" Eddie's voice rang through her speakers.

"Mick!" Nina yelled.

"Did you guys have sex?" both guys asked at the same time.

"Are you serious?" Nina yelled.

"So is that a yes?" Mick laughed.

"It's a no." Nina stated clearly, "Fabian and I did not have sex!"

"Poor Fabian." Eddie said.

"Poor Fabian what?" Fabian voice came on the speaker, followed by a door closing.

Nina stayed completely silent.

"Poor Fabian," Mick repeated, "Um, didn't get to have the frozen yogurt we got for you because it melted."

"Umm, you guys really shouldn't be eating sugar in the morning." Fabian sighed.

"Eh-hem," Nina cleared her throat, "I'm still here guys."

"Nina!" Fabian yelled, he grabbed Mick's phone turned off the speaker and began to talk to her. As Fabian and Nina spoke, Mick left the room and Eddie just sat in his desk chair smirking.

The call drew to a close and Fabian said goodbye, placing the phone back on the table.

"So I guess it's going well then," Eddie sighed, "She's going to fall in love with you by the Christmas Ball and that account will be ours!"

"Yes," Fabian said, "The bet, I almost forgot about that."

"How could you forget about the bet of the century?" Eddie asked spinning in his chair, "Nina is going to fall in love with you by the Christmas Ball, Jerome is going to give us the account, and Nina ends up brokenhearted. Just like you want. And I want."

"Why would you want that?" Fabian asked with a confused expression.

"Because then, Nina will be vulnerable. She's going to need a nice, blonde, American shoulder to cry on. And I will be that shoulder." Eddie smiled.

"Not if I tell her you knew." Fabian smirked.

"Oh please, it's not like she's going to want to speak to you afterword." Eddie said.

"Eddie chill," Fabian sighed, "This bet isn't that big a deal. The only thing that matters is the account."

Fabian knew that that wasn't true. Nina meant something to him. He wanted to be with her after the bet too. But if she found out, she would probably bitch slap him into the next century. But, if he told Eddie that he'd punch him into the next century.

After those words escaped Fabian's lips, Nina hung up the phone. Fabian had pressed speaker not end call.

Nina dialed her phone without a single tear gleaming in her eye.

"Purely Amber Dresses, Amber speaking how may I help you?"

"You're answering phones?" Nina laughed.

"Ana's sick." Amber sighed, "Did you need something?"

"Yeah, meet me at my place for lunch." Nina told her, "Lunch is in five minutes for you, yeah?"

"I'll go now, Nathalia can manage the store for a while." Amber said and Nina could hear her in the background closing the door of the store.

"Okay, I have to call Mara and tell her to meet us." Nina said, before she hung up. She called Mara and told her the same she told Amber and the three of them met at Nina's.

"So what's this about then?" Amber asked as they sat down on Nina's couch in the living room.

Nina couldn't contain herself any longer, "Fabian's using me to win a bet."

Mara's jaw dropped and Amber simply got up and walked toward the door.

"Where are you going?" Nina asked her.

"To bitch slap Fabian." Amber said plainly.

"Oh not you're not." Nina said grabbing that taller girl's arm.

"Can I at least ask Mick to do it?"

"NO!" Nina said, "Mick isn't going to know, he'll kill Fabian."

"And?" Mara and Amber asked together.

"I have a plan," Nina smiled, "The whole point of the bet was to make me fall in love with him by some Christmas Party. But he doesn't love me. So if I cry to him and bitch slap him so what he loses the account, which was the prize of the bet, and he feels guilty for a while."

"Yes," Amber said slowly, "Can we go cry and bitch slap him now?"

"No," Nina continued smirking, "We are going to do the one thing that will make him wish he never made that bet."

"Which is?" Mara asked.

"We are going to make him fall in love with me."

"What?" Mara and Amber asked.

"Think about it!" Nina yelled, "I can use this for an article, I can call it All's Fair in Love and Revenge and I'll write how to get revenge on a guy who uses you or something, by making him fall for you! Because then and only then will he regret every making that bet! Or whatever he did."

"Nina?" Amber said with an evil smile, "Are we talking revenge?"

"Oh yeah."

"I'm in."

"You done with my phone?" Mick asked walking in.

"Mick you missed an interesting conversation." Eddie said with his signature smirk.

"Did I?" Mick asked mirroring the smirk on Eddie's face in his own Mick-ish way.

"Mick you missed nothing." Fabian said with a simple shrug of his shoulders.

He actually didn't miss anything. All they did was confirm another date in the park this lunchtime. It's no big thing.

"Hey guys," a voice drifted from the doorway.

"Eww." Eddie said his usual look of disgust present on his face upon the arrival of Patricia and Joy.

"What's this I hear about a date?" Joy asked.

"I'm going on a date with Nina." Fabian shrugged.

"Where?" Joy and Patricia exchanged a knowing glance.

"The park?" Fabian said, his voice clouding with confusion, "Why?"

"Just, curious is all." Joy piped up, he voice full of enthusiasm.

"Wow," Nina sighed upon seeing what Fabian had set up, "Why would you go through all this trouble?"

The picnic basket was on top of a checkered picnic blanket and was stuffed with sandwiches, desserts, and everything under the sun.

"It's nothing," Fabian smiled, grabbing her hand and pulling her onto the blanket.

"Oh come on," Nina sighed, "It's not nothing! You went through all this trouble, you must really want something."

That something is winning a bet.

"I want you." Fabian said, crawling to me.

He placed his lips on Nina's and she couldn't help but feel sparks. They were there, or was it her imagination?

All she knew was that revenge was the only answer. And he totally deserves it! Well, she thinks.

Okay, mega long wait for a mega short chapter. I'm so sorry guys! I'm just a bit caught up in my contest! Oh, and watching the first look at house of Anubis over and over again!

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