Disclaimer: I don't own the Host.
A/N: This one is for Goddess Hestia :) Sorry that it took so long...
Wanda's P.O.V:
I stared across the room at the handsome boy that I had had my eye on for quite a while at this stage. Ian O' Shea, the school's top athlete, the subject of most girls fantasies since Jared Howe was taken my none other than my best friend, Melanie Stryder. Ian was Jared best friend, so I often sat with him at lunch with the others in our group. Unfortunately I haven't said much more than two words to him at a time or else I break out in an outrageous red blush.
You may think that I just have some hopeless infatuation over Ian and that it will pass - but it won't. I swear I have tried, but even obsessing over my favourite celebrities won't work - I always end up comparing to them to Ian, with his beautiful black hair and his piercingly blue eyes and his tall, lean figure and...
Oh my God, am I drooling!
Nope, nope, false alarm. It's just Lacey tipping her bottle of sticky orange juice all over my head, yipee.
"Get your eyes off my man or else..." she threatened. Of course the only thing I would get was another bottle of various liquids in my hair, she never went further than that because if I decided to report her, or her parents found out, they were sending her off to boarding school.
Hmm... maybe I should report her, you know, just to get rid of her, but then Sharon, Mel's cousin, would kill me and trust me she wouldn't hesitate to do so, Maggie thought the world of her little girl.
I didn't know what Lacey's problem was though. She and Ian weren't dating and from the looks of it, never would. She had asked him out many, many times and he had always politely rejected her offer. He had even made a point of keeping his distance from her.
That was another thing about Ian, for one of the most popular boys in the school, he was surprisingly sweet and down to earth. I mean Jared wasn't too bad either but that's because if his head got even slightly big, Melanie would batter it down with her fist... they loved each other really.
I stared at her in shock, like all the times before, but this time it was honest to God real shock. This was the first time she had done such a thing in front of Ian. Wonderful, now I was going to look like a loser in front of him... oh my God.
I ran out of the room with tears in my eyes.
"Wanda! Wanda!" I heard someone call my name as I ran out. It was probably Lily or Wes or someone. Hopefully not Mel - she would beat the living daylights out of Lacey. Trust me, she may not look it but she was more than capable of it.
I ran into the bathroom and locked myself in a cubicle. Why was I so obsessed with Ian? Because he is nice and sweet and not at all like all those other boys.
Great, now I was talking to myself...
But I started to remember all the reasons why I fell in love with Ian. There was many of them, believe me when I say that.
Melanie's P.O.V:
"You see it too right?" Jared asked me randomly out of the blue.
"I see what too? The idiot lying down beside me?" I asked.
"What idiot? There is no here but... oh." Sometimes Jared could be a bit slow, but he knew I loved him. He put on a pouty face, that adorable pouty face.
"Stop." I batted him away with the magazine that I had been previously reading. I sat up properly, brushing piece of grass out of my hair. It was lunch time and since it was a lovely warm day and nobody was using the pitch, Jared and I had decided to lie down under a big oak tree and look at the clear blue sky. "What am I supposed to be seeing?"
"The obvious attraction between Ian and Wanda." He said it as if it was the one thing I should have known.
"Who doesn't? They make it quite obvious. It's a wonder that they don't see it themselves really. They must be quite oblivious - not at all like you and I." I smiled, remembering how Jared and I had started dating. Openly flirting in the halls, creating sexual tension, hitting on each other, we were so obvious. Looking back on it now I realised that it must have been pretty hilarious.
"So you know what I'm thinking?" He asked, the look in his eye told me in all.
"Your favourite thing?" I grinned at him.
"And what would that be?"
"Mischievous matchmaking."
Wanda's P.O.V:
"Wanda, please come out." Lily begged from the other side of the bathroom door.
"No." I answered for about the fiftieth time. "I am not coming out with my hair looking like this."
"Wanda," Lily said exasperatedly. "You haven't looked in a mirror since this morning, and there is certainly no mirror in there unless you are looking at yourself in the toilet water."
"I may not have seen it yet, but I just know that it looks awful." I moaned.
"If you don't come out I will tell Melanie." She threatened.
"You used that one last time." I answered back cheekily.
"You have to come out eventually! Besides Ian is waiting outside and he is threatening to come in and drag you out if you don't willingly do it yourself." My heart stopped for a moment.
"Liar." I whispered. "Like he would break the rules by entering a girls bathroom and be expelled for vandalism by breaking a door."
"I'm not lying Wanda, I don't know what you did but Ian O' Shea is standing outside the bathroom door awkwardly and threatening to come and fetch you for himself." Lily sighed. "I wish I had someone to do that for me."
"You do," I reminded her. "Wes is head over heels for you."
"Maybe so, but that doesn't make him any more romantic... he is severely lacking in that department." She giggled. "Now are you going to come out?"
"No," I refused. "I am not coming out until lunch is over."
"But Wanda, that is ages away - another twenty minutes at least."
"Tough." I sniffed. After lunch I was going to say that I felt sick and wanted to go home. "I am not coming out unless you have bottle of shampoo hidden in your pocket or something."
"You know... that would be the wise thing to do. Wouldn't it?" Lily pondered on the subject for a minute. "But seriously, you have to come out before Ian-" She was cut off because in that very second the door crashed open.
"Sorry..." I heard a male voice apologize. "The door in the boys bathroom is stiff so..." He trailed off. Oh God, Ian was actually in the girls bathroom.
"Wanda, are you going to come out or do I have to break down the door?" Ian asked.
"You wouldn't." I gasp, still in slight shock that golden boy Ian O' Shea just entered the girls bathroom... well really he crashed through but that doesn't matter.
"Wanda dear, I just walked into a girls bathroom, I don't think that if I broke the door that it would be any more surprising." Ian said dryly. I believed him. "Now are you going to come out or do I have to unhinge the door?"
"Alright, alright..." I groaned. Wonderful, my crush was going to see me with red, puffy eyes and sticky, orange hair.
I opened the door. Lily took one look at me and ran over to attempt to smooth my hair down and Ian just stood it the corner with a satisfied look on his face and curious examining the room.
"So this is what the girls bathroom looks like, I have always wondered." Ian smiled, trying to lighten the mood.
"Well we have never wondered about the boys bathroom - you pervert." Lily joked, rolling her eyes for added effect.
"Sure you haven't..." Ian smiled at her. My tummy did nervous little flips. Ian's smile was so beautiful and infectious.
"Well I am going to look for a brush or something." Lily said, walking out of the bathroom. 4
"Well..." I muttered. "I suppose we should either get out of the bathroom or put a wig on you."
"Yeah..." He answered awkwardly.
I began to walk away.
"Hey Wanda!" He stopped me just as I reached the door, I rested my hand on the handle.
"I was umm... wondering if maybe you'd like to, umm... you know, go out sometime...?" Ian looked nervously at his feet.
"I would love to." I answered honestly. I really had no time for playing games like Mel and Jared had.
"Cool!" He grinned, his whole face lighting up. "Well-" He was cut off as someone attempted to open the door. I jumped back automatically. Melanie trudged in through the door.
"What the hell?" She shrieked. "O' Shea? What the hell are you doing in the girls bathroom? Are you actually a girl or just a git?"
"Umm... it's a long story?" Ian answered averting her eyes from her murderous glare.
"Ian asked me out." I blurted, attempting to distract her.
"What?" Mel's eyes went wide. "Oh no!"
She ran outside frantically, Ian and I followed her close on her heels.
"Jared!" She shrieked. "Jared! Abandon the plan! Abandon the plan!" Huh, now I was confused.
"What plan?" I asked Ian.
"I have no idea..." He answered.
A/N: I hope it wasn't too bad and I hoped you like it Goddess Hestia.