Our little Fairy Tale

Chapter 7: The fake girlfriend.

*Riley*

    "You want me to what?"
                "I need you to be my fake girlfriend for 2 weeks."
                            "No James."
I close the door in his face. Is he crazy? Be his fake girlfriend ? I can hardly be around him without wanting to punch myself in the face, and he wants me to be his fake girlfriend? Is he out of his mind? But I wonder why?Out of curiosity I open the door to see a grinning James. "Loverboy what are you still doing here?" I ask with my eyebrow raised. "Because I knew you would come back."
"How did you know I would come back?" "Because I know you would want to know why." I roll my eyes. This is one of the moments I feel like punching myself in the face. "Ok Loverboy,why?" He smiles the way he smiled at the party. From ear to ear.
"Well because my ex-girlfriend is coming to stay with me and my family and I want to make her jealous."
"Why is she coming to stay with you if you guys broke up?"
"Her family and my family have been like family for years. So when we starting dating my family was really happy. But when we broke up because of distance I still had feelings for her. I want her to convince her family to move over here when I win her back. And I'll win her back by making her jealous. And trust me she is the jealous type. She still is like family to my parents so I didn't tell them that we broke up yet. But now she is coming tomorrow and I need someone pretty enough to make her jealous. And that someone is you." I look at him with a blank stare
"No."
I try to close the door on him but he sticks his foot I between the door and the door frame. I look at him with an annoyed face.
"Why should I do this for you?"
He sighs and then looks at me like what he's about to say is hurts him. He says, "I'll stay away from you."
   Do you know that feeling you get when you hear someone you love die, or when your crush has a girlfriend, or when you left your phone on the bus? Horrible isn't it? Like a slap in the face. A stab in the stomach. That's how I felt that very second he said that. Stay away from me? Aren't I supposed to be jumping up and down from excitement? Joy? No, I just stand there with this confused look on my face. "What?" I ask .
"I will stay away from you. I won't bother you. I will only talk to you when I have to, like in class. You won't have to worry about me anymore. Well at least after the 2 weeks are over. Well it might be a little more like 5 weeks. But still, you won't hear from me ever again." Ok. I know James annoys the living heaven out of me but it doesn't mean I don't care about him. It dosnt mean that occasionally and I mean occasionally, I don't enjoy his company. But do I want him to know that? No I don't. "Ok Loverboy, we have a deal." He grins a little bit and then says "Ok,Good. Well our fake relationship starts tomorrow. Meet me outside my house at 4:30 pm." And with that he spins around and walks away. Oh.My.Gosh. What did I just get myself into?

                    "He asked you to what?"
"You heard me." Luanna starts smiling so hard. Why did I tell her this for? Well it's better than her finding out. That would be so much drama.  I'm just not in the mood for Luanna's conspiracy theories about me and James being together. Because I'm telling you it's NOT gonna happen. Not only am I helping Loverboy making his ex jealous but after these 2 to 5 weeks we are not gonna talk to each other so Luanna's fantasy of me and James is NEVER gonna exist. But no matter how much I try to tell her she always says "Ok, but don't be mad when I say I TOLD YOU SO!" or she'll say,"It's gonna happen one way or another." So I gave up trying to bring reality to her. I roll my eyes at Luanna. She laughs and says,"You guys are totally gonna fall in love."
"Whatever Luanna, you have you beliefs and I have mine. Anyways here is the work that you missed and the homework that is due on Monday." She groans. "Do I have to? I really just wanna keep talking to you about this little fake-girlfriend thing."
I give her the if-we-don't-do-this-now-we-are-gonna-forget-and-then-fail look. She gives me the pretty-please look. Then I give her the I-promise-we-will-talk-about-when-are-done with-our-work look. She just sighs snd says,"Fine." And we start on our homework.
                        ~2 hours later~
"Ok Riley, I'm done can we talk now?" I sigh and say "Whatever." Then Luanna smiles and says "Ok good. So have you figured out what your gonna wear?" Why does this make matter? I will just wear a normal t-shirt and normal blue jeans. "Luanna, I'm just gonna wear something casual. It's really not a big deal you know." Luanna then gasped like I said that I hate puppies or something. "How could you say that Riley? Do you know how important it is about what you wear? You not only need an outfit to make James ex jelly, but also to impress James!" Oh my gosh, this girl never quits. I have to deal with this every day. I love her to death, but this is getting annoying. My outfit doesn't really matter,it depends on how I act. It's weird cause you would expect her to be a "I don't care" grunge thing. But no she is so funny and fun to be around with. Also very caring. I don't know what I would do I if I didn't have her here. So instead of arguing with her I take a deep breath and say "Ok." Luanna starts jumping up and down and then goes to my closet to look for clothes. Tomorrow is gonna be a long day.