Fiona hesitated a while outside the door of the student council office; inside, Holly J was holding some sort of bright yellow flier and a pink sheet of paper; she looked back and forth between them studying carefully.

Fiona thought of several different things to say to announce her presence but her words stuck in her throat. Suddenly Holly J looked over to the door and when her eyes landed on Fiona, she let out a defeated sigh before placing the papers on the desk.

Fiona took a step into the office. "Hey."

"Yea, hi," She replied in a cautious voice. Fiona hated the way Holly J looked so disturbed. She only hoped the other girl was frightened for her, and not of her.

But to hell with it anyway-she was here on a mission. "I wanted to apologize about Friday. I didn't really sleep at all and then I had to get to school early, you know I was just exhausted and stressed out. When I don't sleep enough my emotions always get the better of me, and I don't want you to worry about me."

Holly J kept looking at her with that same vaguely frightened look. Finally she smiled halfway and shook her head as if she believed. Fiona knew better however; Holly J knew how to convey what she was really thinking while acting as if she was trying to hide her true feelings. Fucking brilliant girl.

"Did you talk to your mom yet?"

Super—straight to the point. "Don't you love this jacket; I designed and made it myself." She really hoped the obvious attempt to evade the question would give Holly J the hint to let it go.

And, as if she needed more reason to love this girl, Holly J let it slide. "Impressive. It's really beautiful."

Fiona smirked and stepped closer until she was in the girl's personal bubble. "You're also really beautiful."

She thrust her head forward to connect their lips. Holly J stiffened predictably, yet Fiona was prepared and grabbed the back of her head. Not hard enough to force her to stay, but strong enough to convey, 'give it a chance, please'.

She was just starting to lose herself in the kiss when they were startled apart by a third voice.

"Holly J?" And of course said girl pulled away as if she had just been touched by fire.

"Chantay? What are you doing here?"

Fiona turned around as well, her eyes narrowed when she saw the notorious gossip. Shit. It had to be fucking her didn't it?

"We're supposed to discuss the power squad presentation scheduled for lunch tomorrow?"

Holly J looked uncharacteristically at a loss for words for just a second before masterfully collecting herself. "Uh…right. Yes, I'm sorry I forgot. Fiona, why don't you head to class and I'll see you at lunch."

"Alright." She gave Holly J a peck on the lips. She noticed with annoyance Chantay's purposefully obvious reaction.

As she walked to the door, Chantay grabbed her arm to stop her. She curled her lip at the idea of some peppy gossip girl like Chantay touching her. She allowed herself to shift her arm away and grimace, uncaring if it offended.

"Hold on, I am not just going to let you go without an explanation. Don't tell me that not even the perfect Holly J was able to resist the allure of the exotic Fiona Coyne."

Both Fiona and Holly J vaguely found it so ironic that Fiona rolled her eyes at Chantay's whimsical histrionics when she herself was infamous for it.

"It's not your business. I know you think it's your right to dig up and spread the details of other peoples' life, but has it ever occurred to you that you're the only one who is this obsessed with gossip. Maybe if you had a life of your own-"

"Fiona!" Holly J yelled her eyes wide in warning. She turned her attention to Chantay and did her quirky head shake thing, which, even when at her expense, Fiona thought was unfairly adorable. "I'm sorry Chantay; Fiona didn't mean to be so rude, right Fiona?"

Fiona barely held back a snotty retort. As if she needed Holly J to look at her like that to get the point. "Right, sorry".

Chantay waved her hand dismissively, "whatever. So what's going on?"

"I'll tell you Chantay but you have to promise to keep it to yourself. I know you love gossip, but you can't talk about this. Seeing the lack of sympathy on Chantay's face she horridly thought of a half-truth that would win her over, "It's not about embarrassment; remember all the sexist pig jerks at this school, they'd torture us if they found out". Fiona thought the look of sheer desperation on Holly J's face would fool no one, but then again she had no right to judge.

Nonetheless, Chantay made a disgusted face. "Ugh, you're probably right. All right—I see your point. But you have to fill me in."

Fiona wanted nothing more than to bang her head against the wall next to her. She caught Holly J's eye and rolled her eyes, making sure to come across as highly annoyed rather than playful.

Holly J's schooled expression didn't shift but Fiona noticed the brightness of her eyes and the more defined than usual lines around her eyes that spoke of her irritation. "Go ahead and go to class. I'll take care of this okay."

Put out at the thought that she was now missing out on time with her girlfriend, Fiona didn't bother to fake cheeriness. "Alright." She really hated that interested, smug look Chantay always- always got on her face. Wasn't inquisitiveness supposed to make people look more intelligent?

And who the hell does she think she is? Doesn't she understand how badly she could ruin someone's life by spreading their secrets? What an idiot. I should write an opinion piece about how stupid Chantay is, and ask people to write in about how she has hurt them. Maybe then she would fucking get it.

She stopped her enraged inner voice when she arrived at her next class. The door was closed, and there were only two or three other students in there this early. She flung the door open and stomped in the room. She shot the teacher annoyed look when she cheerily said, "good morning, Ms. Coyne", and sat at a desk in the back. The teacher raised an eyebrow at Fiona as if to ask how she dare disrespect her so she but did not reprimand her.

The room was nearly full and class was close to starting before Holly J finally walked into the room, a sly and satisfied looking Chantay following behind her. Holly J smiled conspiratorially (and thereby sexily) at Fiona before taking the seat in front of her, this was almost enough to make her forget her annoyance. Almost.

"Well?"

She turned around and smiled that cute 'I'm totally confident and in control but I'm going to act unsure for your benefit' way-god how she loved this girl. "I took care of it."

"What did you say?"

"Don't worry about. Chantay and I are good friends she wouldn't say anything if I asked her not to."

When she turned back around Fiona rolled her eyes and muttered, "Yea, right"

Holly J turned around; her eyebrows were raised in exasperation. "What?"

Fiona deflated, knowing her confidence would forever be outshone by Holly J's inborn authoritativeness. "Nothing".

Holly J sighed, "Just don't worry about it, okay?"

"Mhmmm."

"You're ridiculous sometimes."

Only sometimes—that's a new one

When lunchtime rolled around Fiona once again found Holly J in the student government office, she was thankfully alone.

"Hey." Fiona greeted uneasily.

"Hey." Holly J repeated happily.

Fiona, having felt frustrated all day, walked up and with pseudo-confidence kissed Holly J on the mouth. Holly J flinched back only a bit, not enough to disconnect their lips, before she kissed back.

When Fiona pulled back Holly J looked very awkward and cute.

"Still not comfortable with it are you?" Fiona asked. Inside she was a bit disappointed—or maybe she was scared—but she looked at Holly J with a playful smile.

She smiled and this time it was shy for real. "No, I guess not. But I 'll get there."

"I've been thinking about this thing with Chantay…'

"Not this again! Seriously, she is not going to put us on her blog! She's human too you know. I explained to her how bad it could be for us and she understood, okay?"

She could feel her head clouding as her heart starting beating more quickly. Why was Holly J so confident about this? Chantay is notorious for being a ruthless gossip and when was the last time Chantay had ever shown any sort of human compassion for anyone—not ever in front of Fiona that's for sure.

Oh, she wanted so much to just scream and run to somewhere she could be alone…but there was no use further ruining her image in front Holly J.

"Okay. If you're sure then I trust you're judgment."

"Smart girl", teased Holly J.

Fiona laughed sarcastically and placed a swift kiss on her girlfriend's cheek.

"So um, what did you tell her about us?" When Holly J looked annoyed she hastily continued, "Cause, um…I'm not entirely sure myself what's going on here."

"Oh. Well, I just said that you had asked me out and that I really like you. I sort of told her that I'm not really strict about which gender I go out with. I said this was like an experiment for me" At Fiona's unconscious horrified expression she hastily explained-"but I just said that for her benefit. I really do like you, Fiona."

With that, she placed her hand on the far side of Fiona's face and planted a kiss-near her mouth Fiona noticed. But it was glorious nonetheless, and Fiona's heart melted a bit. Vaguely she felt the beginning of tears on her eyes but ignored it until the feeling disappeared and she sat eating her lunch with her girlfriend bustling from one task to another. Watching her girlfriend work and making a comment on how she really should at least take a break to eat something made her feel so normal that she spent the rest of her day feeling very light and happy.

This has been written for months and I've been too lazy to proofread it…so, now you get two.