catradora one-shots

bilingual (high school AU)

Hello, quickly popping up to say three things:

1- the idea of this fic was on twitter, i was gonna share it but i think my draft is shitty

2- my draft is shitty, i'm not proofreading it because i don't want to die of cringe, well more cringe. There's wrong capitalization and wrong punctuation in a bunch of places so sorry for that. (And also general shitty writing, my bad)

3- Catra and adora's spanish (i guess) is based off of slang used in the Domincan Republic, it was more comfortable for me to write.

Enjoy the cringe fest.

Catra POV

There she was, laughing along with her friends as they had just told a joke. I assume. They were making ther way to their sEcRet LunCh SpoT or whatever.

Adora is... a person. A few words to describe her i guess would be cocky, smart, stupid, charming and, well, hot. She's known around the school for being the captain of the volleyball team, and can usually be seen sporting the varsity jacket.

Adora has a heart of gold. When I first arrived to this new school, she quickly became my friend, even as i was tossed around by superiors. We were extremely close friends during the first few years of high school, but we started to drift apart, she hanged out more with her group, and i formed mine. Ever since, i've been silently yearning and hoping to rekindle our once close relationship.

"Catra! Earth to Catra?" Scorpia waved her hand infront of my face, interrupting my thoughts.

"Yea, yea what is it?" I replied, semi-annoyed.

"You know, instead of watching her from afar, maybe you could go up to her and, actually talk to her". She suggested.

Scorpia is probably my closest friend, if we dont count Adora obviously. Ever since Adora started hanging out more with her other friends, Scorpia was there for me. Even if she can be a handful at times, shes still a close friend of mine. She'll never hear it from me though.

"I'm just saying, you could probably even flirt a little, in spanish of course, that way you can get it out of your system and she wont know! Best solution ever if you ask me".

"Good thing I didn't ask you then." I bitterly replied.

After a lot of convincing, i was unenthusiastically dragging my feet over to Adoras designated lunch spot. Her friend squad liked to hang around in more secluded areas. It was behind the labs, where barely anybody visited during break. The area itself was probably the most beautiful spot in the school, there were a lot of tall trees and clean grass, well mostly clean if you ignore the lab scraps. The sun always seemed to hit a specific clear patch in the middle of this forest-like space.

As i was nearing the place, I heard an annoying voice yell "Give me back my muffin, I worked very hard to earn it".

If i'm correct, and i always am, the owner of that voice was Adoras nEw BesT fRiEnD Glimmer, or whatever. I turned around a corner that made myself visible to the "squad".

"Hey Adora" I said in the flirtiest-not flirty way possible.

"Catra! Its been a while since ive talked with you! You guys wouldnt mind if she stayed for a bit, right?" Without waiting for an answer, she continued "I insist, take a sit"

Reluctantly, I made my way to sit next to Adora.

"So, Adora, how have you been?"

"Ive been pretty good! Volleyball practice is going smoothly, my grades could do better but theyre not *terrible* anddd my friends rock. I guess." she finished, signaling to gLiMmEr and crop top boy. "How about you".

"Well, i like to think everythings fine. Mejor aun ahora que estoy contigo" I said with a slight stutter. I awaited for an answer, some sort of response. But Adora only looked away.

Adora's POV

Wow. Catra can be more forgetful than I remember.

Im not sure though, did she say that in like a friend way or, did she mean it more like... It couldnt have been, Its been years since i last spent time with her. Im a horrible person. Cono ya si que me jo-

"Adora?" Im brought back to this realm by Bow's voice, "You OK?"

"I'm fiiine, just trying to decipher what Catra was saying." I replied to him, "Was that portuguese or?" I signaled over to Catra.

I noticed her slight smirk, oh how cute for her to think I'm *that* stupid. I can be smart, but two can play this game.

"No, nada, es que cuando veo gente que 'ta tan buena como tu se me olvida cualquier otro idioma", she said with *a* smirk. She went there.

Trying to keep my cool and not explode, I kept up my stupid act. I really hope Bow and Glimmer dont sell me out on this one, I really hope they didnt pay attention to their spanish lessons, otherwise I'll be teased to death.

"Catra, what are you even saying? You know none of us can understand you." Glimmer stated. Thank you.

"No te apure', this is fun." She stared off, but continued, "so, dime bella, como te han tratado los ultimos anos sin mi? Te he echo falta, o solo soy yo que se siente asi? Aunque no me respondas porque aja tu no me entiendes, yo tengo mucho que estoy de ti, de verdad que si pero na' que va, nunca podra pasar nada".

"Catra tu 'ta ma buena que yo, que tu habla?"

Realizing what I just said, my eyes widened in shock. Catra looked back at me mortified.

"I mean whaaaaaat, what where you saying?" Out of the corner of my eye i can see bow and glimmer giggling. Those bitches pay attention when they want to. I wanna die.

"Perate, que?" Asked Catra

Stupidly, i tried to keep up my act, "Catra I dont speak esp-spanish"

"Oh my god, Im an idiot, I forgot you're Argentinian. Ok bye"

"I literally called you hot dont leave"

She turns around, looking dumbfounded.

"Deadass?"

To quickly clarify, i called adora as argentinian because it seems like a popular headcanon. I dont know argentinian slang soooo sorry for that. Please dont come at me I'm gay and lonely.