the summer I turned pretty |au

the summer i turned pretty| six

Belly

a week went by and pretty much everything has gone back to normal.

I heard a honk outside my house signaling that jere was here to take me to school.

"hey bells" he smiled as I got in the car.
"hey jere" i said putting my backpack down.

Jeremiah had picked me up earlier than usual so we could go get coffee.

He pulled into the drive through as we talked about random things.

"thanks babe" jere smiled as he took our drinks from the barista.
He has a way with charming girls.
"here sis" he said extra loud making sure she heard.

Seriously jere?

We got into the car.
"do you have to flirt with every girl we come across?" I asked
He just smiled.

We eventually got to school two minutes before the bell rang pretty much finished with our coffees since it was about a 15 minute drive.

The first half of the day went pretty well.
That was until I was walking to my class and was pulled aside

"hey can we talk?" They said.
Math boy? Seriously.
I blinked a few times...

"sure?"

"hey so please listen to the whole thing before you answer" he started

oh gosh.

"okay so me and my girlfriend broke up yesterday. We didn't do it because we wanted to, she dumped me out of anger and i know she regrets it, so I came to you, since we had that kiss, maybe we could" he said before taking a breath.

Right as I was about to ask
"-fake date? And I know that sounds crazy and it will only be like three days, and also don't you have someone you want to make jealous too?" He asked speaking as quick as he could.

At first my instinct was no, absolutely not.
but-
Conrad has been looking at me different.
He's more interested in my life.
I just- i don't know.

Maybe this would make him see me than more of jeres best friend.

I sighed realizing it had been a few seconds.
"fine" i frowned.

He smiled big. "oh my gosh thank you" he said out of relief.
"can i put my number in your phone?" He asked.

I nodded handing it over.
He pressed a few buttons before handing it back over.

"thank you again" he said putting a hand on my shoulder before walking away.

I looked at my phone.
Cory.
The math boy officially has a name.

I hurried to class which was right around the corner, entering just as the bell rang.
Thank gosh for six minute passing periods.

the rest of the day went by quite slowly.
Math was a bit weird knowing how the next three days were gonna be.

I pretended to smile as Cory every few minutes.
A few people had noticed.

Including jere.

On the way home he gave me a whole talk.

"belly you can't be getting your heart broken by some geek"
"you think you like him but it's really just the attention you're receiving"
"fine then tell me everything you love about him!"
"who even is this guy?"

and that's not even half.

Belly are you going to tell him it's fake?
No. No I am not.

First it will be fun to see him lose his mind
And second, of course he would tell Conrad that it's fake

It's this weird thing with jere he takes so much pride in knowing me more than conrad that he blurts little things about me.

The only reason Conrad would even know my last name is because our moms go on beach trips yearly together.
and I practically live at their house

I got home that night and talked with Cory for a little bit about everything that would happen.

I fell asleep quite early, but it's okay, i needed the rest.

These next three days would be a piece of cake.

Unprepared was an understatement for what happened

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