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exhausted from the night, ethan falls down onto his bed after getting home from his pretend date with rey, eager to just fall straight asleep and be left alone for a while, however his twin brother is thinking otherwise. "eth" he says tossing himself on top of his half asleep brother "how did it go with wideload banks?". ethan doesn't reply using words but instead groans and buries his face in his pillow to avoid talking to grayson. "c'mon dude I want all the gross little details....was she boring? creepy?" his younger brother pokes at his shoulder blades, preventing ethan from sleeping peacefully. "Its obvious she's never gone on a date before..." ethan mumbles "now piss off gray, I need to sleep", he shoves grayson away, he doesn't want to think about rey or the date right now or the fact he has to do this every damn saturday until prom in order to win over his brother. "oh shit man" grayson chuckles, not listening to his brother's demands "you're gonna drop out of it, I can see it". at these words ethan finally lifts his head from his pillow to look at grayson, his tired eyes narrow and his mouth a straight line, "I am not dropping out of this bet" he says lowly "rey isn't my type of girl and its difficult having a conversation with her because she's so weird and awkward but I'm gonna keep this up till prom because theres no fucking way you're getting my car, now please get the hell out". grayson shrugs his shoulders and shakes his head, "fine bro" he chuckles getting up and walking to the door "I'm telling you ethan, you won't last faking a relationship with her till prom night". ethan just looks at his brother, flipping him off as he walks out of the room. "fucking smartass" he grumbles to himself and rests his head down on his pillow, two months...he can definitely keep doing this for two months.

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monday morning at school, ethan steps out of his truck with grayson, who spots some good looking girls walking their way and smiles. "yo heads up" he says to ethan "some babes coming our way...oh wait...you can't talk to them because you're supposed to be dating that hottie rey". ethan mouths "fuck you" at his brother, growing tired of his antics, the girls flash their pearly white smiles at the twins and look them up and down seductively. "hey grayson" giggles one of them as she tucks a strand of her highlighted hair behind her ear, "hey baby what's up?" grayson smiles at her licking his lips. ethan can't help but roll his eyes at how cliché his twin acts around girls. grayson has a reputation at school as the pinnacle fuckboy, he spends his time flirting with cute girls and leading them to think he has feelings for them so they hook up with him before breaking their poor hearts and ditching them for some other girl. ethan may not be the nicest guy in the world but he's no where near as awful as his twin and he's secretly proud of it.

"hey ethan" one of the girl's friends is now standing in front of him, ethan is instantly attracted to her with her short light blonde hair, striking blue eyes and peachy lips all topped off with a smoking hot body, "hey" he says cooly. "you're good at history right?" the girl asks smiling sweetly at him, behind her grayson playfully taps on the other girl's nose which makes her giggle like a little girl, "I'm average I guess" ethan replies seeing where this is going. "well I'm like totally below average and I really need to pass so I was wondering...." the girl's eyes drop down ethan's body and she steps closer to him, her strong expensive perfume filling his nose like its part of her spell "maybe you could like come over to my place this saturday and like tutor me or something?". ethan bites his lip, he knows that by 'tutoring' this girl actually means she wants ethan to add her to his body count, he thinks to himself how it would have made more sense and been funnier if she had asked him to help her out with biology but that would be expecting too much from this girl. he automatically finds himself considering this offer for a moment, he finds himself close to giving a 'yes' when he suddenly remembers he's busy this saturday...and every saturday until prom. "ahh shit sorry, I can't" he tells the girl sighing, "and why's that?" the girl scoffs, probably not used to guys telling her no, "I....." ethan trails off when he spots her, rey with her mismatched outfit and wildfire explosive hair sticking out in the crowd like a sore thumb. ethan watches as she nearly trips over her undone shoe lace, she's the reason he can't hook up with this beauty this saturday, he sighs and looks back to the girl whose staring at him dumbfound waiting for an answer. "I have other plans" ethan tells her and sticks his hands in his pocket, "ugh whatever, your loss" the girl tuts flicking her hair and strutting away. ethan rolls his eyes, grayson and the other girl have already gone into school, ethan slings his bag over his shoulder and heads up to the entrance door.

walking up to his friends like he does every morning, grayson with his arm wrapped around the girl from before and the other boys laughing and talking loudly as per usual, ethan prepares himself for their queries and annoying comments. "here's lover boy" nate grins as soon as he sees ethan. "how did your sweet little date go, tiger?" kian asks softly punching his friend on the shoulder. "It was manageable" ethan replies crossing his arms "nothing I can't handle". "well can you handle passing on all the hot girls that are throwing themselves at you for two months?" nate smirks, looking over at grayson who matches his expression, "if it means wiping that shit eating smirk off that asshole's face then of course" ethan retorts gesturing to his brother who stops grinning and flips ethan off. "oooh there's your girl now e" jc sings, looking over at rey who has just walked out of the bathroom, accidently colliding with some cheerleaders who respond with some harsh insults alongside one of them knocking her books out of her hands. "ughhh how are you doing it ethan?" jake asks looking pitifully at rey being reduced to gathering her books up off the floor, "I have no fucking idea" ethan sighs looking at rey as well "but I seem to be doing it pretty well".

rey tucks her hair behind her ear before stumbling to her class, "wait? rey banks is your girlfriend?" the girl standing next to grayson suddenly asks, a look of confusion mixed with disgust on her face "but she's so...gross!". "Its a long story babe" gray tells her smiling and the guys chuckle "and its gonna end with ethan losing bigtime". "losing what?" the girl asks getting more confused by the second. "his pride mostly" nate says ruffling ethan's hair, "the only thing I'm close to losing is my patience with you guys" ethan ducks away from nate's hand "and remember part of the bet involves her falling for me? well that girl is inches away from falling in love with me, she is in full belief that I'm interested in her so I think I have pretty strong chances of winning". the school bell brings their conversation to a close, the boys start to head to all of their classes, ethan has literature and to his surprise when he walks in he sees that rey is also in his class. how has he never noticed her here before? the fact that rey has gone from being pretty non existent to someone he has to pay most of his attention to astounds his simple mind. she looks up from her book and sees him walking in, she moves her arm as if she's about to wave at him but then quickly retreats it, as if she's unsure to make it known that they're associated with each other.

ethan notices this and he smiles at her putting on his fake persona for the bet, rey feels a sense of relief that ethan's noticing her in school and mouths "hey" at him, her eyes widen as ethan casually strolls over to the seat next to her where another outcast called alex is sitting. "hey man I need to sit here" ethan tells the boy confidently, rey wonders how ethan can be so....relaxed and comfortable talking to people like he does, alex looks up at ethan with his mouth open, completely unsure of how to act around one of the most popular boys at school. "I...I'm sorry?" he stutters out meekly. "I...need to sit....next to....rey" ethan repeats slowly as if it'll help alex understand it "you can take my old seat". "oh...oh umm...okay" alex clumsily gathers his books and bags and rushes over to where ethan normally sits. ethan shakes his head at him for a few seconds before looking back to rey, whose smiling at him with bright eyes. ethan smiles back at her and cooly sits down in the seat next to her, he leans over to her and winks. "jey babe" he says in a deep smooth voice to charm rey a little bit more. "hi ethan..." rey says, her voice brittle and weak, she's not used to guys talking to her like this at all so her responses are poorly constructed and rather inelegant.

"you excited for saturday?" ethan asks her raising an eyebrow "last saturday was so fun babe". rey can feel her whole body swelling up with heat like a hot air balloon, she opens her mouth to give a reply but the teacher's high pitched voice surrounds the class room and stops her. "okay quiet down everyone! I'm sure whatever you slackers got up to over the weekend is interesting but not as interesting as hamlet so please find where we left off...".

rey picks up her copy and quickly scans through to the right page, literature was one of her favourite subjects because she felt it was peaceful besides the loud annoying jocks in her class or when she was made victim to reading out loud. her eyes start to concentrate on the words on the page when she spots a small slip of paper on the corner of her desk, her eyes swivel over to ethan whose laid back in his seat and facing the front, not looking at her. rey slowly picks the paper up and hides it behind her book to read it.

saturday @ four, oasis Café, gonna be better than the last baby-e x

rey smiles at the note, a happy giddy feeling that makes her feel like she's on air coming over here. ethan is smiling to himself too, thinking about how he has rey right where he needs her and so has this bet in the bag.