𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒 𝚑𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚘𝚞𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞 || rini au

blame game

ricky's pov

it's been a few slow days since i got my match, and each day i've gotten to learn more about schtewpid. i mean, i might as well get to know her well, seeing as i'm going to get dragged to prom with her. maybe it isn't the worst thing in the world? i'm not saying i'm falling for her or anything. my views on love haven't changed. we just get along really well. i'm happy alone, and she knows that. kind of. look, i'm not leading her on or anything, i told her how i felt about crush culture last night, but she changed the subject quickly after.

i meet up with red and skate with him to school--as we usually do on thursdays--and hurry into school. the hallway is still covered in all the stupid heart decorations and valentines festivities, which east high takes weirdly serious. i wave bye to him as he greets ashlyn and heads to class, unbuckling my helmet as i get a "good morning!" text from schtewpid. i smile at the gesture, because out of all the things she could be doing right now she thought of texting me good morning.

ew.

what am i saying!?

i start to text her back, but am interrupted when i'm slammed into the body of none other than nini salazar-roberts. again!? how does this happen twice in one week?

"watch where you're going, bowen," she scoffs, expecting me to pick up her light green bedazzled and color-cordinated binder.

ugh.

i slowly lean down and obnoxiously hand it to her.

"sure thing, nina."

i know she hates when i use her full name, so of course i have to use it for effect. she rolls her eyes and walks off. i take a seat in homeroom and text schtewpid back.

unknown

good morning!

good morning schtewpid :)

although it's kind of not good anymore, my day managed to already get ruined

same here

maybe we jinxed it :0

hm maybe

just the NERVE some
people have amaze me

EXACTLY

there's this one person i CANT STAND

ME TOO

i only hate ONE person at
this school and WHAT ARE
THE ODDS i run into them today

ooooh

who?!

well where's the fun in just telling you?

fine then i won't tell u either

but it does feel really good to vent

what if we could do both?

have fun and vent at the same time

im listening

well what do you hate about them?

WAY too much to just say right now

SAME

make a list of everything you hate about them and bring it the first time we see each other!!

it'll be something for us to do when i finally get to see who you are

maybe we're thinking
about the same person?

we'll see ;)

wait how do we know we haven't met up already?

or are going to meet up?

hmm elaborate

are you going to E.J Caswell's birthday party this weekend?

i am now

sounds like a plan :)

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this'll be fun.

i love how playful she is. i mean, she just turned my hatred for nina salazar-roberts into a game. i pull out my notebook and the first--of many--things i hate about nini.

WHAT I HATE ABOUT NINA SALAZAR-ROBERTS

#1 - she ALWAYS just has to color-cordinate all of her things.

i don't know why this annoys me so much, but it just does. if it's not organized perfectly to her liking, she won't use it. back when we were friends she'd always make me help put the little colored stickers on her papers after school. i liked helping her back then, but that was then. this is now. and now, it's the most annoying thing ever.

nini's pov

i don't even know where to start on my hate list, but i'm just glad i'm not alone in my hatred for ricky bowen. well, actually i'm not sure if six flags hates ricky or not, but we both hate someone in this school. the odds of both of us hating ricky are probably high, because what is there to not hate? if my suspicions are right and six flags is E.J, then him hating ricky would make sense. they've never gotten along well. plus, he said he's going to be at E.J's birthday party, so i'll hopefully be able to narrow it down. once class starts, i take out my cute light green math binder and flip to the pink section, which is of course warm-ups and activities. back when ricky and i were friends, he'd always take minutes to get to his schoolwork because he refused to let me help him color-cordinate his things. wait, thats it! i quickly get out my bedazzled notebook and flip to an empty page, making sure the list looks as aesthetically pleasing as possible. (i can't help it!)

*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧
𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊 𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒏
*:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

#1 - he's ALWAYS unorganized

i don't know why it's so hard for him. way back when, he'd make me come over or vise-versa so i could help him organize almost every other day. it's not that he's stupid or anything--not that i'm saying he's smart. you know what i meant.--he just can't stay organized for his life. it was almost like he did it on purpose. but why would he do that?