teacher's pet

twelve

//stephen// (a/n: ooo focused on stephen now!)

stephen walked into class and began thinking more about what dec had asked him under the stairs. he has always been scared to ask emma out because he doesn't want to ruin their beautiful friendship.

then emma purposely bumped into stephen's arm, causing him to stumble a little.

"what got you thinking so much stevie?"

"what? nothing, it's nothing i swear."

she skeptically looked at him, "right, who's the totty?"

stephen nervously laughed, stumbling over his words.

"pft, what? who- what? no... there isn't a girl. it's- what- why do you say that?"

emma rolled her eyes at him, giggling at him. she placed her arm around the taller boy. "stephen! what a catch! you have to tell me now. there's obviously something going on in that head of yours." she moved away from him as they entered class.

"come by my house after school. you are going to tell me, mulhern, you haven't got much of a choice at this point."

he sighed. he was defeated and he knew it. he agreed to go only if she would leave him alone for the rest of the school day. emma accepted and zipped up her lips.

flash forward to after school

stephen quickly tried to find dec before he left to emma's house. he managed to catch up to him as he was at his locker.

"DEC!"

dec looked up and curled himself up, scared that stephen was going to bump into him. it was close, but stephen bumped into dec's locker instead, falling to the ground.

he groaned and held his head with his hands.

"what'd you expect to happen?" dec chuckled, helping the taller boy to his feet.

"ha ha, dec. very funny. anyways, i'm going to emma's house in a little bit and she's going to end up knowing that i like her. she saw me in deep thought as i was headed to class and asked me if it was a girl that was on my mind."

they walked out the front door and walked to dec's car, "i stumbled all over my words and now she thinks something is up and she's basically making me go to her house to tell her. what do i do?!"

dec looked at stephen, it was obvious that he was sort of scared. he doesn't want to ruin things with emma.

"just tell her the truth. if i know emma, she'll most likely say yes. i don't know if you know this, but she really fancies you, mate. i was walking her to her class once because you were sick." dec went on.

"you had texted her and your name popped up as stevie with a heart emoji and a wedding ring emoji. trust me, mate, she'll most likely not deny it."

that made stephen less scared and more confident that he could do it.

"right, i'll tell emma. i'll work my way up to it. thanks decs. i'll let you get home, you look like you need some sleep. bye decs!" he said making his way to emma's car.

once he saw her, she was talking to a friend. he walked up to her and the friend giggled as she saw stephen walk towards them. what was that about? he thought.

"i guess i'll leave you to it, then. bye emma! i'll see you later." said her friend.

"ready?"

"ready as i'll ever be."

"well, let's go then." emma said as she got in the car.

the whole car ride was filled with laughter and loud singing to backstreet boys and *nsync. it was like old times.

upon arriving, emma wasted no time in dragging stephen up to her room, not even letting him greet her parents.

"you better keep it pg up there emma!" shouted her mum from the kitchen.

"spill it." she sat stephen down on her bed, and she sat next to him.

stephen sighed, "alright, fine. so there is a girl and she's the most beautiful girl i have ever laid my eyes on. as of now, she is a friend of mine and i don't want to ruin our friendship. i don't even know how she feels, but dec told me that she likes me too."

emma felt a little hurt inside. she thought for sure that stephen liked her.

"well..." she started, "you don't have to tell me who it is, but i can help you to get her to be your girlfriend."

she didn't know why she was helping him, but he was her friend and she would do anything for stephen. they looked at one another and smiled. "tell me then."

she got up and grabbed a pen and some paper. on it she wrote her idea of the perfect date.

"here, this would be perfect for her. do this and it's guaranteed to make her fall in love."

emma handed the paper to stephen and he read it to himself.

"a bouquet of roses with a haiku about her,
dinner (but not too fancy),
a walk on the beach,
walking her to her porch,
goodnight kiss."

he made sure to put it in a safe place and turned to emma. "thanks, emma. she'll love this." stephen gave her a tight hug and she returned it.

soon after they were on the floor doing nothing but chatting the day away while a movie marathon played on the tv.

stephen checked the time and figured he should head home before it got too dark out.

"i should get going. bye ems. i'll see you tomorrow and thank you again."

he gave her a smile and she returned it. he was somewhat glad that she didn't acknowledge the fact that he said that he would see her tomorrow.

"anytime stevie."

and with that, stephen made his way out the front door and began his walk home, calling dec to tell him everything.

"mate, you have to let me help you get everything set up. for the walk on the beach, you should have a dining table there. give her the roses and afterwards, come down to the beach for your walk and dinner. i'll make it and set it up. you just have to show up."

dec sounded like he knew what he was doing, which was kind of weird because he hadn't been on many dates.

as stephen put on his pajamas, he told dec what an amazing idea it was. he loved every bit of it.

"i'll be at your house around 12 pm to help you with the food, and then go pick up the roses at 7:30 so that i can be at emma's at 8. i'll make the haiku right now and then everything will be perfect. if you can, try to get the food and table set up around 7:50 so that it doesn't get too cold."

dec said okay and they said their goodbyes. stephen was so excited for tomorrow and he couldn't wait for emma to read the haiku.
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woo-hoo! i finally updated a story!

question: which type of bear is best? (if you get this reference, message me because i wanna be friends)

more updates to come for...
- one shots! - ant and dec
- this is NOT a love story
- Teacher's Pet
- i love you, can't you see?
- sweets can kill