Faked

Chapter one

Natalie
Nat was a no one, she has shitty parents and bad grades, she drank to escape. Maybe that was why she only had two friends, Kevin and van Well, she had her soccer team but she wouldn't consider them her friends, she never went to any parties or "team bonding exercises" as Jackie called them.

Natalie loved soccer but you wouldn't know it, she's constantly late to practice and doesn't eat with the team at lunch. Anyway, she was convinced that half the team hated her. Tai definitely did, she was vans girlfriend and constantly had something to say about Nat.

She used to be friends with all of them. when they were younger they would spend all day playing soccer but then, one day it stopped. And they grew up, and now they were here.

Monday- Nat
Nat woke up with a pounding headache, she couldn't tell weather it was a hangover or a concussion from where her dad through an empty beer bottle at her head, either way it hurt like hell. She considered skipping school but knew that ever since the school started calling her dad, it was a bad idea. Not that she cared about her dad knowing, but last time she couldn't get out of bed for three days because of her splitting migraine and bruised face, so she though that it was best to go.

She grabbed some clothes out of her drawer and threw them on, being careful to avoid touching the huge bruise on her ribs, still purple and painful. Nat was used to being in pain, she numbed everything down by drinking and taking whatever Kevin could get his hands on, she numbed down a lot of things about herself, that was the only ways she knew how to deal with it.

Once she was ready Nat grabbed her jacket and headed to school. She couldn't afford a car so van normally picked her up. They both lived in the trailer park, "the shitty part of the town" as it was known, and since they were  friends it only made sense. Unfortunately for Natalie, Van slept round Tai's last night so she had to walk. Normally Nat didn't mind the walk, just her and her music. she found it peaceful. However today there was a huge storm and Nat knew she was going to get soaked on her way to school. Despite that, she started her walk.

Lottie 
Lottie was someone, everyone knew her, I mean, how could they not, she's tall, has big brown eyes and was beautiful. Lottie loved school, it was one of the only places she didn't feel lonely. She felt lonely a-lot, her parents were always away so she often found herself alone. Don't get me wrong, lottie loved her life, she had great friends and lived in a huge house But something was always missing, her house always felt empty.

That was why Lottie took every chance to stay away from it as long as she could, why she went to every party, every "bonding session" and why she liked school so much, and on top of everyone loving her she was a straight A student so all the teachers liked her too.

Monday-Lottie
Lottie was running late to school, she was never late! She grabbed her bag and ran out to her car trying to avoid the rain. (a big light blue SUV she got for her 17th birthday a-few months ago) and threw her backpack on the seat next to her. She put a cd in and turned it up.

Just as she was driving around the corner she saw someone wearing all black, she slowed down next to the figure, realising who it was and rolled down her window
"Nat, is that you?" 
"It's raining really heavily" shouted Lottie
"No shit" responded Natalie
"get in I'll give you a lift"
"I'm good thanks"
"Please?" Asked Lottie
"Fine."
Lottie stopped the car so Nat could get in and unlocked the door. Natalie pulled the door open and hopped in, lottie moving her bag to the back.

Natalie
Nat was not prepared to get in the car with lottie, this was the last way she expected her Monday morning to go. Lottie Matthews, she knew that she was popular, rich and beautiful, even Nat could tell that. Lottie was on the soccer team too but much like the others Nat hadn't really talked to her before before this.
"You must be freezing, I have my team jacket in the back" said Lottie breaking the silence before reaching back and grabbing her jacket then offering it to Nat
"It's ok, I'm fine thanks"
"It's a spare, I insist!" Lottie replied smiling softly.
Nah reached out for the jacket, Lottie was a lot taller than her and the jacket was oversized, it was clearly not Nat's. She had no idea why she was answering to everything Lottie was offering so easily, it's something about her eyes Nat thought to herself.

They sat in silence for the rest of the car ride, Nat avoiding any conversation, just listening to the music until they parked in-front of the school. That was when Nat realised she had to walk into school, with super rich, popular, pretty Lottie, wearing her jacket... she looked at Lottie as if to question this and Lottie just smiled in response, it was warm and genuine and somehow managed to calm Nat down. She climbed out of the car, her blonde hair still dripping, now on to Lottie's jacket.

They started walking towards the entrance of their high school
"What class do you have first?" Asked Lottie
"Bio"
"No way me too! How come I never see you?"
"I don't really go, I normally just skip" replied Nat
"You should come!"
"I'm good"
"Please?"
"I'll pass"
"What if I make you a deal?" Offered Lottie
"I'll help you study, for any class you want"
Nat didn't want help studying, she didn't want to study at all but she did want to find out more about Lottie, why was she being so nice?
"Fine"
"Good!" Smiled Lottie just as they approached the door to the school.
Here we go.

Lottie
Lottie pushed open the door, everyone stopped. Lottie and Nat walked side by side down the corridor, whispers escaped from everyone around them, Lottie looked down at Nat, she liked her jacket on Nat, it looked good.
"It's ok" she whispers
"They're just confused"
"I'm fine" Nat replies

They walk into the bio classroom and Lottie sits down near the front next to Jackie. She looks as Nat goes to sit at the back instead of sitting next to her. She sort of wanted Nat to sit next to her, she found her intriguing, she didn't know a lot about Natalie Scatorccio. She knew that she was friends with van, and wasn't doing great in school. She knew that Nat got drunk behind the bleachers, wasn't great at showing up to practice and according to Laura lee, is pretty tough.
Just as she was thinking about Natalie the class started, announced by the ringing bell.
"So what was that about?"
"What do you mean?" Answered Lottie
"I mean Nat, I can barley talk to her" replied Jackie
"And you got her to walk in with you?!"
"It was nothing, we just walked to class"
"If you say sooooo"
Just then Lottie's phone buzzes
YJ GC 🥳🐝⭐️
Shauna-what was that about?!?
Jackie- that's what I asked!!
Shauna-awww Jax
Tai- ew guys get a room, that's what pms are for
Jackie- as if you and van aren't like this on here
Shauna- seriously though lot, what was that about?!
Lottie- nothing!! We were just going to bio
Shauna- yeah and she just happened to be wearing your jacket?!?
Tai- what are we talking about?
Shauna- Lottie just happened to stroll into school with Natalie, and Nat was LITERALLY WEARING HER JACKET?!?
Tai- Wtf Lottie
Van- Wait what?!
Lottie- guys it was nothing!
Lottie turned her phone on silent and put it in her pocket. She looked up and started taking notes on the anatomy of a frog or something.
"we are going to be dissecting samples"
Great, dissecting frogs was just what Lottie wanted to do on a Monday morning.
"I will be putting you in partners today as last time you showed that you couldn't be trusted"
Even better, Lottie though to herself. She would be stuck with some random person dissecting a frog
The teacher started reading off pairs until she got to Lottie
"Lottie, you and Jackie showed you could work responsibly together last time so I will pair you together again"
"Great, at least I'm not with travis again, he threw the leg at me the other day" said Jackie
The names kept being read until
"It seems we have an odd number, Natalie, you can choose who you work with"
Lottie smiled to herself, and walked over to Nat, standing at the back looking at the pairs.
"Come work with us?" Asked Lottie
"Uh yeah sure"

Notes:
Hi!! This is my first fanfic so sorry if it's not great, just trying to see what works, hope you like it so far!