Alright, so here's the wonderbeetle AU I've been promising. Thanks to everyone who's been review these little one shots, it means a lot. For tomorrow's though, I don't know what to do, so, any ideas? Feel free to leave it in a review of PM, thanks guys. Also, follow me on tumblr?: rachel1003. Enjoy guys.

Title: El Estudio del Amor

Rating: low T, possibly K+

Words: ~1600

Characters: Jaime/Cassie, and a dash of Wally/Artemis because it wouldn't be my fic without them

Type of AU/Prompt: High School AU, Cassie and Artemis are cousins (I don't know, they're both blonde and I think have similar personalities)

Summary: Damn, why did her tutor have to be so cute and nice? Why couldn't Wally know any good nerds?

It was the first day back at Happy Harbor High. For some it was the beginning of their lives for the next four years, others just another average day of hell, and for the lucky few, it was the beginning to countdown to get out of said hell.

Artemis Crock was sitting at the picnic tables outside of the cafeteria, holding hands with her boyfriend, varsity soccer captain, Wally West. God, she loved calling him that, she was so proud of him when he found out he was appointed, her little athlete.

(She also loved what it did to his body...)

They were doing the whole stare-loving-into-each-other's-eyes-like-there's-no-one-else-in-the-world, that is until books are slammed down onto the table with a large huff.

Artemis looks up and sees her kid cousin, a freshie, standing in front of them with this pouty look that is completely legendary in their family. Artemis shifts a little so she can face her better, "What's wrong?" she asks.

"I hate this place."

Wally snorts and receives a quick elbow to the ribs.

"Why is that, Cass?"

The younger blonde sits down, again with a huff, and takes the apple that was sitting in front of Artemis. She takes a big bite of it, tucks a piece of hair behind her ear and tells them, "It's my stupid Spanish teacher, I'm already completely clueless! I don't remember a single thing from last year and if I don't have higher than an eighty... well, I don't even want to think about my mom's reaction."

Artemis nods knowingly, "I'd love to tutor you, Cass, but I didn't take Spanish, I take French, sorry."

Cassie turned to Wally hopefully. "No can do either, I quit that as soon as possible, but I do know someone who can help you."

"Really?" says Cassie, trying not to sound too eager.

"Yeah, while I'm the go to science guy on the team, he's the team's Spanish tutor." explains Wally. "Hey, Reyes, come here!"

A boy, Reyes, turns around and walks over. When Cassie gets a good look at him, she realizes that he's really, really cute. Like, boyfriend cute.

"Jaime, this is Artemis' cousin, Cassie, do you think you could help her a little with her Spanish?" asks Wally.

Jaime turns to her and smiles, yes definitely boyfriend cute.

"It would be a honor." and he does this little bow thing and it just makes him even more adorable. Cassie can tell her cheeks are on fire but she doesn't really care at the current moment because she staring into his deep brown eyes and is completely lost in them.

"This is really sweet of you Jaime, thank you." says Artemis, forcing Jaime to break their gaze.

"No problem." he says, shrugging.

"Yeah thanks." says Cassie.

Jaime turns back to her, he smiles again before walking off.

Damn, why did her tutor have to be so cute and nice? Why couldn't Wally know any good nerds?

A few days later she gets a text from Jaime, she's not too sure how he got her number but it was probably Wally's doing. She doesn't mind, no not one bit, but she has to admit that she was a bit shocked. Especially when after they set a date for their first tutoring secssion, they continue to have a normal conversation. (With a little flirting too if she does say so herself.)

They talk about a lot, actually. She finds out that he's only a sophomore, but since he's just that good a soccer, he had played varsity last year too. He also tells her how he's bilingual; and how he has a younger sister who he really loves but bugs the living hell out of him and that he's dad owns a garage that he sometimes helps out at when he's not too busy. They share stuff that most normal people don't share without knowing each other.

She just guesses they're not normal.

When they finally meet up, it's in a study room at the public library. They're in the back, it's a little secluded and she can feel the butterflies start to form in her stomach as she smiles at her.

He asks her what she needs help in and when she says everything, his laugh rings out in the room. And she really, really likes his laugh. She's never been so... in like with some as she is with him right now. And she's kind of mad at herself for it because: what if he doesn't like her, or he's not as great as she thinks he is? Those thoughts hurt a little.

So they get to work on the preterit? Is that what it's called? Whatever, they start working on one of the past tenses. When he finally stops explaining and puts a few sentences in front of her to conjugate, he's able to forget about him for a little while as she works.

He watches Cassie as she works, it's cute really, the way that she bites her lip or the way she scrunches her nose when she comes to a speed bump. He knows she's cute, she's actually really pretty and funny and smart (except for Spanish), but he doubts he'll ever tell her those things in the way he wants too. Like he said before, she's a pretty girl with a lot of dimensions, why would she settle for a guy like him?

They've been texting, like a lot. She likes to think that it means something, but it probably doesn't because he's such a good guy; she bet's that he has tons of girls lined up to go on a date with him, but he settles for her on Friday nights at the library with their snuck in Chinese.

"So," she says. "You really didn't have a date tonight?"

Jaime shakes his head, "I don't really do the whole dating thing..."

"Oh..." Jaime notices the way her face drops.

"But, I think it's just because the right girl hasn't asked." he says.

Cassie down her chicken lo mein, "Really? Anyone you have your pretty little eyes on?" she asks teasingly.

"Well, there is one girl... but she's a little out of my league..." Cassie fails to notice how he's moving more and more towards her.

"Ha! Yeah right! Any girl would be lucky to have you, Jaime Reyes, don't you dare sell yourself short." She also fails to notice that she's leaning closer too.

"Nah, she's way out of my league, like she's a perfect ten."

"You're being cheesy, Jaime."

"She does that to me."

And now they're really close to each other, she can feel his warm breath on her skin and it's sending shivers down her spine. She really wants to be the girl his talking about, but she knows she not. She'll forever be friend-zoned.

He's leaning in even more, and her eyes fluttered shut. Maybe she can pretend to be that girl for just a moment, just long enough for his lips to graze hers...

Jaime doesn't know what happens next, all he remembers is the squeaking of a chair and then a slam of a door, he opens his eyes and she's gone. He's not going to deny that it didn't hurt, because it did. You have to be coldhearted to not get hurt by that... yeah... the pain was that bad...

Maybe even worse than how his head felt after banging it on the table repeatedly after she left.

When he doesn't here from her in a week, Jaime starts to hate himself even more for screwing things up. He likes Cassie, he really likes her. He likes the way she smiled and laughed at all of corny jokes, he likes how he knows she can beat him senseless and he hopes he never has to find out for sure, he likes how her blonde hair and blue eyes both a this characteristic shine to them that no one else has, he likes her wits and sense of humor and how she really has a big heart. Dios, he's in over his head.

He's not completely sure how he got there, but he's standing in front of Cassie's house. It seemed like a good idea in his head, but now that it's actually happening, he's not too sure what to do; so he goes into her backyard.

He knows what window is hers so he throws a pebble, two pebbles, three. His about to throw the fourth when she slides open the window and pops her head out.

"What?" she hisses into the night, then upon seeing him, she features soften. "Jaime? Jaime, what are you doing?"

"I- I don't know..." he says truthfully.

"Well, why don't you come back when you do." she's about to shut the window when he yells,

"Wait!"

Cassie sighs as sticks her head back out the window, waiting for him to continue.

"How about we change Friday nights from study night to date night." he says, he feels like his heart is on his sleeve... it's either that or it's the voice in the back of his head telling him to stop because he's acting like he walked out of a Shakespeare play.

Cassie looks completely shocked, well from what he can tell from his angle.

"Okay." she finally says, with a smile

"Okay." he smiles back.

That following Friday, don't think that Artemis missed the fact that her little cousin was wearing one of the soccer jackets, you know, like the one that Wally gave to her, the one's all the players give to their girlfriends.

Sorry if I just completely butchered WonderBeetle, it's one of my otp's but there hasn't been a lot of non-team stuff happen to them yet in the show so I'm still kinda getting used to their characteristics and personalities, so I apologize if anyone thinks that... yeah...

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