Chapter 5:

Jake's P.O.V

By lunchtime the whole school was buzzing about Sam and Quinn. Some people couldn't believe that Sam was going out with Quinn, especially Jake. All morning that's all Jake could think about was how his friend Sam was going out with his brother. He didn't think the two of them were that close, but obviously he was wrong. When had they become so close, and why hadn't he noticed it? Then Jake realized that he had been so caught up with Kate the last couple of weeks that he hadn't made anytime to notice these little details. He also realized that ever since he and Kate had started going out that he had blown Sam off a lot. He remembered her asking to go for rides together after school, but he always brushed her off because he had to take Kate home after school and then they would work on their homework together. Also deep down he really missed spending time with Sam and had actual feelings for her. He had to forget about those weird feelings, because he already had a girlfriend and her name wasn't Samantha.

Nobody's P.O.V

At lunchtime Sam met up with Jen at her locker. That morning had been pretty different from any other morning that Sam had spent at Darton High School. People who never would've spoken to her, came up to Sam in between classes and started talking to her as if they were long lost best friends. These people were only talking to her because she was going out with Quinn. Sam had known that Quinn was popular; she just didn't think his popularity would affect her. She definitely wasn't used to all the attention she was getting, and she wasn't sure if she liked it all that much. Jen brought Sam out of her troublesome thoughts.

"So how did you think it went this morning?" asked Jen curiously.

"I think it went pretty well." said Sam. "But when I looked at Jake he couldn't stop staring at me. The strange thing is that Kate was there and he completely ignored her," said Sam with a small grin. "But the rest of the morning was really weird. People who never talk to me came up to me and started talking as if we were best friends."

"Well you know that Quinn is pretty popular here," said Jen. "He always has been. So did you enjoy having random people coming up to you and talking to you?" asked Jen.

"Not really. I guess I didn't realized that by fake dating Quinn that I would get so much attention."

"Don't worry you're only fake dating Quinn for two weeks. Before you know it, it will be the dance."

"The dance should be fun." Said Sam.

The lunch bell rang and the girls got up and started for their next class. Sam had history next and Jen had calculus. During history Sam didn't pay much attention. A new thought had entered her head. Was what she was doing to get Jake right? Should she be trying to make him jealous of his brother, just so she could get Jake to notice her? Sam was starting to have second thoughts about this fake dating thing. She didn't like lying to Jake, and she didn't like all the attention she was getting from random people either. Sam was so lost in thought she didn't realize that the whole class was staring at her. Sam looked up to see the teacher, Mr. Felder looking at her.

"Sorry. Did you ask me a question?" asked Sam innocently, even thought she could feel herself blushing.

"Ms. Forester, I asked if you could tell us what year the Battle of Hastings took place."

Sam thought for a minute and then replied "1066." The teacher looked a little disappointed that she knew the correct answer. No doubt the teacher wanted her to get it wrong just so he could lecture her about not daydreaming. Sam was glad that she knew the right answer, so she didn't have to get one of Mr. Felder's long boring lectures.

As Sam was grinning about answering correctly Mr. Felder went into one of his long boring lectures about daydreaming. Great, Sam thought to herself. She hadn't been able to avoid the long boring lecture after all. But Sam just pretty much tuned him out. She caught some of his words every so often though. She caught the words 'daydreaming is bad' and 'need to pay attention to learn.' Sam disagreed with Mr. Felder though. Daydreaming wasn't bad, it was just the opposite. Daydreaming was fun and helped her from falling asleep during this boring class.

Halfway through Mr. Felder's lecture the bell rang, signaling the end of the class. Sam grabbed all of her books and threw them into her backpack and then walked quickly out of the classroom. She was glad to be free of all the lecturing. Sam was walking toward her seventh hour class when Jake caught up to her in the hallway. Sam was taken by surprise because Jake never usually acknowledged her at school. What was even more surprising was that Jake was alone without his clingy girlfriend Kate.

"Hey Jake," replied Sam happily.

"Hey Brat," Jake replied back sullenly. Sam was staring at Jake and noticed that he didn't look too happy. Sam was wondering if her 'going out' with his brother was annoying him.

"I was wondering if you wanted to go for a ride after school," asked Jake quietly.

"Sure," answered Sam quickly. She was happy that Jake actually wanted to do something with her again. Ever since he had started dating Kate he hadn't done much with her. They hadn't gone riding together for a long time. Sam always asked, but Jake's answer was always something he had to do with Kate.

"I'll meet you at Riverbend around 4:00," said Jake. "Then we can talk and catch up a little." With that Jake left Sam standing there confused. The way Jake had said they would talk, Sam knew that he was going to ask her about going out with his brother. Sam really didn't think that fake dating his brother was such a good idea anymore. Sam quickly walked to her next class and made it as the bell rang.

After school Sam and Jen were riding the bus home. Sam was going to tell Jen that she wasn't going to fake date Quinn anymore. During her last hour class Sam had thought of a new plan. This plan Sam thought would accomplish the same goal, but it didn't include fake dating. Jen was talking about her calculus class and Sam didn't even try to follow what Jen was saying. By the sounds of it calculus sounded confusing and Sam was glad that she wasn't taking it. Algebra II was hard enough for Sam as it was. Eventually Jen stopped talking about calculus. This was the chance Sam needed to tell Jen that the plan was off.

"I've decided that I'm not going to fake date Quinn anymore," replied Sam nervously. "It doesn't feel right and I don't like lying to Jake. "Besides that I don't like all the popularity that comes with fake dating Quinn." Jen looked at Sam and was wondering if she was hearing her best friend correctly. She was calling off the plan to get the guy she loved to notice her.

"Why Sam?" asked Jen confusedly.

"I just told you why," said Sam. "Besides I have a new plan that I thought of."

"Really? What is it?" asked Jen curiously.

"Well I'm going out riding after chores with Jake tonight…"

"Really?" asked Jen. "He isn't going to go spend his precious time with his girlfriend? He is actually remembering his old friend all of a sudden?" Jen said all of this very sarcastically.

"Yes we are going riding," replied Sam impatiently. "If you're done interrupting me, I'll continue on with my new plan."

"Go ahead, I'll be quiet while you explain your master plan." Replied Jen.

"Like I said Jake came up to me after sixth hour and asked if I wanted to go riding after school with him. He said that he wanted to talk and catch up. Anyway the way he said we'll talk sounded like we'll talk about you going out with my brother. I knew then that I couldn't pretend to fake date Quinn anymore."

"Sam is there a point to rambling on like this, or are you going to tell me the new plan?" asked Jen.

" I thought you weren't going to interrupt me anymore?" said Sam seriously.

"I can't help it," said Jen stifling a laugh. "You should know that it's very hard for me to be quiet and not to interrupt." Then Sam and Jen both burst out laughing because they both knew that Jen being quiet was impossible. People on the bus turned in their seats to see who was laughing and wondering if the two best friends were insane.

"You're right," replied Sam still laughing. "You can't be quiet at times. Anyways my grand plan is this. I tell Jake that I only flirted with his brother to get a date to the Valentine's Day dance. Because you can only go if you have a date right? So then I tell him that after the flirting didn't work, I just asked Quinn if he would take me to the dance, so I could go. Then of course Quinn agrees to take me because he feels sorry for me and he decides to take me out of the goodness of his heart. But there will also be some jealousy on Jake's part hopefully when he sees me at the dance with his brother having a good time. Brilliant right?

"Sam I don't really see how this is a new plan. It's more like an alternate plan. You're still going to make Jake jealous and you're still going to get the popularity at school. You might not be dating Quinn, but you're still going to be his date for the dance and that's almost the same thing." Sam looked at Jen in shock.

"I never thought of it that way before. It really isn't a new plan is it?"

"Nope," replied Jen.

"Well if it makes me feel better about not lying to Jake, it works right? I mean he won't be mad at me now, because he will know that I don't love his brother, but still going with Quinn will make him jealous. It's like a safer way for me without Jake yelling at me or hating me forever. Right?" Sam said all this rather fast and a little confusedly.

"I guess it works," said Jen thinking hard. "Why didn't we think of this sooner though? Now we have to readjust parts of the plan, and we'll have to let Quinn know that we altered it a little bit. Jake better realize he loves you after all of this is over and done with, because we are working really hard to make this plan work."

"I hope Jake realizes he loves me too after all this hard work. Otherwise all this planning is a waste of time. But still we have to try, because you never know what will happen. Are you going to tell Quinn that we changed the plan should I?" Said Sam.

"I'll tell Quinn that you didn't want Jake to kill you, so you decided to alter the plan to ease your conscience."

"That works for me." Replied Sam quietly.

The bus stopped at their stop and the two girls got off the bus and went their separate ways to their homes.