Faking It

Chapter 1: "Deal?" "Deal."

Chapter 1

I sigh and look at the clock. 1 hour and 7 minutes and I was out. I slump down in my seat and set up my book so Mr. Fun-ruiner- excuse me Mr. Furier- won’t see me. I close my eyes and begin to drift off when I hear a voice on the staticy intercom, “Hope Davies please report to the principal’s office.”

I Stand up and mutter, “Damn it. What did I do this time?”

I walk down the familiar halls to the office I’ve been to so many times. I open Principal Effie’s office and say, “I swear I haven’t done anything-“

“Take a seat.” She says sternly.

I sit in the all too familiar chairs and prop my feet on her desk. She gives an irritated sigh and pushes my feet off with a pen.

She throws the pen away as if I had passed on some kind of disease to it and says, “I’ve dismissed your detentions for the rest of the year.”

I stare at her in shock. There is a knock on the door and Principal Effie waves them in. I’m still in shock but I hear a familiar voice say, “I’ll take her now.”

My head whips around and a smile lights up my face. I jump out of my chair and throw myself into his arms. Liam pulls back and smiles, “Hey, jelly belly.”

I smile, laugh, and hug him again. “I’ll take her now.”Liam says with a smile.

Principal Effie nods and Liam takes my hand and pulls me out into the hall.

“Go get your stuff. We’re going home.” Liam says.

I smile, run off to my locker and return quickly. Liam takes my book bag for me and tosses it in the backseat of the car. He starts the car and we pull out of the school parking lot. My apartment is a few minutes away so we arrive quickly. I unlock the door and Liam sits on the couch in the middle of the room. I walk behind the bar into the kitchen and say, “Want anything?”

Liam props his feet up on the coffee table in front of him and says, “Dreamsicle.I know you have them.”

I laugh and take two out of their box and say, “Of course I do.”

I sit beside him and we eat our dreamsicles in content and he breaks the silence, “So, how’s senior year?”

I shrug, “Same as the last.”

He nudges me and says, “Hey, I know moving to America while I was gone was a big change but now that you’re back you need to make sure you graduate this year.”

I take a bite and stare blankly of into the distance and say, “Why is that?”

He sighs, “Because repeating your senior year for the third time wouldn’t look to good on a college application.”

I get up and throw my trash away, “Who says I’m gong to college?”

Liam chokes and says, “What?!”

I look at his deep brown eyes with my bright green ones, “Liam, let’s face it. What college is going to take me?”

He throws his trash away and leans against the counter looking at me, “Just because you repeated your senior year once doesn’t mean your life is over, Hope.”

I look away from him and say, “A lot happened while you were gone, Liam.”

“Like what?”

I put my face in my hands, “A whole lot.”

“Hope,” He pauses, “What happened?”

I say nothing and just as he opens his mouth my phone rings. I reach for it and answer, “Hello?”

“Hey, where are you? Did you ditch again?” My friend Faith says on the other line.

“Oh shit. No. I’m sorry. I’m coming. Don’t do anything stupid till I get there.” I say grabbing my keys.

I hang up and turn to Liam, “I’m sorry I forgot about Faith.”

I turn to leave but Liam grabs my arm, “Hope, I need a favor.”

I look at the door and back at Liam, “I need to get Fa-“

“It’ll be quick. I promise.” He says with pleading eyes.

“Fine.”

He takes a deep breath and says quickly, “I need you to be Zayn’s fake girlfriend.”

“Wait, what?!”

He sighs, “Well, you know the whole thing about how he said he had a new girlfriend on twitter right?”

I nod and he continues, “He doesn’t so-“

“You need me to fill in?” I say crossing my arms and raising my eyebrow

Liam scratches the back of his neck awkwardly, “Well… yeah.”

I just stare at him.

And stare…

And stare…

Liam sighs and says, “I’ll buy you 5 boxes of dreamsicles.”

I motion for him to continue. He rolls his eyes and says, “10?”

I smile and nod.

I stick my hand out with a raised eyebrow.

Liam laughs and takes it, “Deal?”

“Deal.”

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