Our Fake Relationship

First "Date"

Ding-dong. My doorbell rung and I ran down to answer it before my mother or younger teenage sister could.

“I GOT IT!!” I swung open the door to see Jared standing there in a white t-shirt and gym short. He looked me up and down and smirked

“What?” his eyes went from my body to my eyes.

“Nothing, it’s just… You’re really pretty.” He said slowly. I rolled my eyes.

“Oh, ok” I said not looking at him. I couldn’t take his stare.

“You ready to go?” He asked breaking the tension.

“Yea hold on.” I walked into my house and yelled “IM LEAVING!!”

“Bye, have fun.” My mom yelled back as my 14 year old sister trotted down the stairs.

“Can I use your laptop?” She asked chewing a piece of gum.

“Yea, it’s on my bed.” I said nodding.

“K, thanks! Oh and hey Jared” She said waving at him.

“Hey Amy, How’s school?” He asked leaning against the door frame.

“Good, I’m preparing for a science test next week.” She replied shaking her head.

“Good Luck” He said with a happy smile.

“Thanks” And with that she ran upstairs to my room to retrieve my laptop.

“You ready now?” He asked.

“Yea” I said as he grabbed my hand and led me to his car. It took about 15 minutes before we arrived at our destination

“The beach?” I asked looking over at him. He smiled and took hold of my hand again.

“Yes the beach.” He said looking down at me. “Got a problem.” I shook my head in response.

I left my shoes in his car and let the sand squeeze in between my toes.

“Why the beach?”

“Don’t laugh but we are going to watch the sun set and have a picnic.” I smiled trying to hold back a laugh. “Hey! Don’t laugh!”

“I’m not laughing! I think it’s very sweet!” I said biting my lip to prevent from laughing.

“You think everything is sweet!” He said crossing his arms.

“I think everything you have done today is sweet!” I said uncrossing them.

“Good you’re my first.” He said looking out in front of us.

“Your first what?” I asked lacing our fingers together.

“My first fake girlfriend I’ve ever been this ‘sweet’ with.” He said still not looking at me.

“Seriously? Well I mean I would hope I’m the first fake girlfriend you’ve had.” I said joking, causing him to laugh. “Well I’m honored” I added smiling.

“You better be!” He said looking at me.

“I am.” I nodded. We walked along the shoreline in silence for a while before he started talking

“So we start dating end of the week next week right?” He said looking at me.

“Yea” I said looking down at the sand.

“So you want that public right?” He asked.

“Yea” I said as we made our way down the beach.

“I was thinking we could make us seeing each other before me asking you to be my girlfriend should be public too” He added.

“What do you mean?” I asked looking up at him.

“Well we can be ‘secretly’ seeing each other but have panther pride people catch us. They would have a report on us debating if we’re dating or not. We could keep this little mystery up until I ask you to be my girlfriend. We’d be the talk of the school before we even start dating!” He said, and it was actually brilliant.

“You’re a genius! How’d you even come up with that idea?” I asked shaking my head.

“Well one of the ‘reporters’ asked Jake if we were actually going on a date and he said he didn’t know, but he did know I was taking you to the beach tonight.” He said simply.

“Do you think they are here?” I asked looking around.

“Yea, there is one in that red mustang 4 cars to the right of mine.” I knew what car he was talking about. “You ready to eat now?”

“Yea” he laid the blanket on the ground and set up the picnic. He patted the seat next to him and I sat down. So if we’re going to fake date each other we should know a little bit about the other.

“I guess. What’s your favorite color?” I asked as I picked a strawberry up.

“Blue, what’s yours?” He asked as I put it in my mouth.

“Purple.” I said surely.

“Hmmm, favorite food?” He asked

“Spaghetti.” I said smiling.

“No way! Mine too” He said returning my smile. “Favorite dessert?” He asked.

“Cheese cake. Yours?” I said.

“Ummm chocolate cake” I laughed at the way he said it, like a five year old.

“Favorite ice cream?” I asked, suddenly craving Ice cream.

“Chocolate chip cookie dough” He said picking up a grape.

“Mine too!” I said smiling.

“We have a lot more in common than I thought.”

“Never thought I’d have anything in common with you of all people.” I said smirking.

“Hey!” He said offended while throwing a grape at me causing me to laugh. “You wanna take a swim before the sun sets?” He asked. I looked at the ocean before answering

“Race you” I hopped up and started running toward the water. It took him a while to realize what I was doing before he got up and started running. He caught up to me and lifted me up. I started screaming and laughing at the same time. It was a few seconds before I felt the impact of the water hit me.

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We pulled up in the driveway of my house. I was in Jared’s passenger seat shivering wearing his towel. He got out and opened my car door.

“Why thank you.” I said getting out of the car.

“You’re welcome.” He grabbed my hand and walked me to my door. “You cold?” He asked rubbing my hand.

“Very” I said nodding.

“You tired?” He asked

“Extremely” I said leaning against my door.

“Then go inside. I’ll see you in the morning!” He said smiling.

“No not yet.” He laughed at my childish voice

“Why not?” He asked moving a piece of hair out of my face.

“I wanna give you the kiss I promised you earlier. We might as well. It can be practice for when we actually have to kiss later on.” I said rushing it out.

“You still sound smart in a tired childish voice.” He said. My laugh was cut short by his lips reaching mine. My lips almost instantly molded into his and moved in perfect sync. He pulled out and I nearly stumbled into him. He smirked down at me.

“Go to bed. We have a big day tomorrow” He said his face still close to mine.

“Yea. The all mighty day after the first date.” I said resting my head against the door. The day people asked a whole bunch of questions.

“Yup, so get some sleep and wear something cute tomorrow.” He said winking.

“You too! Don’t worry about me.” I said smiling.

“Night Woods.” He said backing up a bit.

“Night Taylor.” I unlocked my door and was about to open it.

“Hey Woods.” He said as he reached his car.

“Yea?” I asked turning to face him.

“Your not that bad.” He said smirking.

“Your not that bad either.” I said before walking into my house. It wasn’t very late. About 10 p.m. I walked to Amy’s room and knocked.

“Come in” I opened her door “ Your laptop is on your bed…why are you wet?” Amy asked looking at me weird.

“We went to the beach.” I said pouting a bit.

“Oh how romantic! Did you have fun?” She said beaming.

“Yea, I did” I said simply.

“Are you gonna see him again?” She asked.

“Maybe” I said shrugging.

“You two look so cute together! And he’s very cute” She said smiling.

“Yea I guess he is.” I said smiling a bit.

“Did he kiss you?” She asked childishly.

“Yea he did” I replied laughing.

“How was it?” She asked wiggling her eyebrows.

“I’m not telling the details of my kiss to my 14 year old sister!” I replied appalled.

“So it was that good?” She asked crossing her arms.

“How’d you know?” I asked shocked.

“I know you and you’ve told me the details of really bad kisses. You tell me it was fine if it was a good kiss. And you tell me exactly that when it’s a really good kiss” She said matter-of-factly.

“This is the exact reason why I love you and hate you at the same time” I said shaking my head.

“Do you like him?” She asked ignoring my previous statement.

“That’s a question I have to ask myself” I said biting my lop

“Well go to bed. You have a big day tomorrow” She said shooing me away.

“I’m just about to go and do that.” I drug myself to the bathroom and turned on the water. I stripped down before stepping into the steaming hot water. The cold ocean water melted off of my body and hair. I scrubbed the whole of my body down before rinsing it off and placing a towel around my body. Running to my room I left wet footprints on the carpet. I slipped into an oversized shirt before climbing into bed. I quickly drifted off to sleep.

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Ring, ring, ring, at first I thought it was in my dream but soon realized that my phone was actually ringing.

“Hello?” I asked groggily.

“Ash you gotta get to a computer right now” I heard Jared’s voice flood my ears.

“It’s 2 in the morning!” I said grabbing my clock.

“I know but this is important! You have to go onto PantherPride.Com right now!” He said urgently.

“Mmm ok” I turned on my laptop and waited for the Internet to load. I typed in the website and waited for it to load. As soon as it did a picture of my and Jared popped up with a big title that said, “Hate to Date?”

“Do you see it?” He asked getting inpatient.

“Yea. How did you know?” I asked skimming over the article.

“My friend’s girlfriend told him and he told me” He replied.

“Dude it already has over 5,000 views!” I said shocked.

“And plus people talk” He added.

“So the whole town probably knows!” I said yawning.

“So tomorrow is going to be bigger than we thought.” He said with a light laugh.

“Yea.” I said rubbing my eyes.

“Well go to sleep, sorry to wake you” He said sweetly.

“Nah it’s ok” I said reassuringly.

“Night” He said happily.

“Night” I hung up. Many of you don’t know what Panther pride is. It’s a website made by a bunch of nosy teenagers that wanted to meddle in other people’s lives. Well now it’s a website for our school. It’s reporters do articles on the latest gossip spreading around the school.

I looked back at the picture before starting to read: Bad boy Jared Taylor and nice girl Ashely Woods are seen to be on a date. Could it be or is this just a friendly hangout. If it was a date and this is leading to a relationship this is going to be one hell of a power couple. Ashely being the President of student council and captain of the cheerleading team and Jared being the star foot baller and basket baller, this is going to be the next ‘IT’ couple. So the answer is up to you. Have they gone from hating each other to dating each other?

I scrolled through some comments. Some girl said: They are sooooo cute together I always wondered when they were going to realize they like each other.

Some dude said: I’ve seen them argue in the halls and this cannot be true! This has to be a friendly hangout.

Another girl said: Jared’s a player. He can’t possibly have landed such a nice girl

Another girl said: They would make an amazing couple.

I kept reading through some of the comments and came to the conclusion that a lot of people are excited to see how this turns out. This means we’re going to have to put on one hell of a show.