A/N: Hi so uh I made this complete and utter mess cause I felt like it djekbvekhbvhekf. Remember the Ref who's good at writing? Yeah well if you've found her please message me cause idk where she went. Nah I'm kidding she's still here but she was lazy so she just didn't try and idk I kind of love it but it's also ridiculous nonsense so uh...

ISTG IF I WIN THIS WEEK I'M GONNA CRY LMAOOOO

Okay so also but you kinda need background though. Basically, @chronic_dreamer (aka Aeney) wrote this amazing book (go check it out!!) called Aron, Not Aphrodite. Also, she's one of the admins of soulsistvrs so I may or may not be appealing to her good side hAhAhAhA. But I digress. In Aron, Not Aphrodite, there's this character Mara who I'm constantly fangirling over so Aeney made me her girlfriend in the story. Which thank youuuu!! Also, I'm Ref. Also, you kinda need to read A,NA to understand this, or at least the epilogue.

Also, Gnarly is Sexy Nora (sexynora aka my irl best friend) x Charles (mushroom-boi) which gorgothehexwolf wrote an amazing fanfic about. And Subway Cow is my boyfriend.

I'm so sorry. About everything.

Prompt: Write yourself into your favorite fandom! Write a oneshot with you third-wheeling your OTP. Write about how you're discovered as a demigod or a wizard. Go to town and have fun!

Noref Unds yawned, stumbling into the other room without bothering to check the time. "Good morning, Reffy," she murmured to herself, before plopping down decisively on the ugly, semi-comfortable couch, wrapping herself in the fuzzy, soft blanket so that she vaguely resembled a navy burrito with red glasses, and promptly falling asleep.

Then she decided it was time to find a new OTP. (Her old one, Sexy Nora x Charles, aka Gnarly, had split up a few days prior.)

So she checked Wattpad. The first thing she noticed was that @chronic_dreamer had finished Aron, Not Aphrodite! "Dude that's epic," Ref squeaked excitedly. "Maybe Taycynski can be my new OTP!" She frowned. "Eh, too hetero."

(It was never addressed why Gnarly had been her OTP. Guess that's just one of life's great mysteries.)

She started the chapter, eyes glazing over Athletic Content and Heterosexual Fluff to find her favorite character and fictional crush: Mara "Mar" Milan, absolute QUEEN! (Also, she was bi! Just like Ref! So they actually had a chance! Or. . .they'd have a chance if Mara was, y'know, real. . .)

It took a moment for her to realize it was her own name next to Mara's.

Alarm bells were ringing in her head. Was it a dream? Why the absolute HECK had Maia just said, "I'm glad I dragged Mar and Ref over"????

Oh yeah. She'd been targeted specifically to be featured as a character. Probably because of her insistent, annoyingly punny comments. To be honest, she'd thought Aeney had forgotten about that.

Hm. Who knew. Ref dropped a quick "Wait hold tf up when did I show up-" comment before continuing to read.

(What follows is her train of thought as she read:)

Blah blah yay she won tennis people are congratulating her blah blah. . .

Hold up.

Hoooooold up.

HOLD UP.

OMG.

EYBFEUKBEJFBBEHFJGGHFKJDK.

AAAAAAAAAAAAH.

What caused this internal panic?

A paragraph about how cute and attractive Mara was. . .followed by this sentence:

"Next to her, clinging onto her hand, was her girlfriend, Ref."

Mara's GIRLFRIEND? HER? Ref could feel her mind spinning so acutely she thought she would be sick.

Wait, it wasn't just her mind spinning. No, her entire body was spinning, in a way vaguely resemblant of a Oz-style tornado.

And the second she'd made that observation, she was on solid ground again, staring wide-eyed at the brown curls and heavily made-up face of Mara Milan.

And, holding her hand, an exact copy of Ref herself.

Minus the fuzzy navy blanket Ref had somehow managed to drag with her into the fictional world. (How did she DO that?)

"Uhh," Ref stammered, "what the HECK is going on?"

Ref Numero Dos turned towards her. Strangely enough, it was only once she was facing Ref (the real one) that it became clear that this Ref Numero Dos was actually Ref Numero 2.0, complete with contact lenses and photogenic hair.

Also she was like seventeen. So that was a slight increase in age.

And then Mara made eye contact with her and Real Ref couldn't function anymore.

Mara grinned, squeezing Ref 2.0's hand. "Aw, is this the little sister you were telling me about? She looks just like you!"

Real Ref wanted to screech, NO I'M NOT MY OWN LITTLE SISTER WHAT THE H E C K IS GOING ON. But, as previously mentioned, she couldn't exactly function anymore. So instead she just sorta stared, gape-mouthed, at the two of them.

Ref 2.0 appeared to be staring gape-mouthed back. So that was a small relief.

"You good, Reffy?" Mara asked, turning to the girl beside her.

NO THAT'S THE WRONG REFFY JKLEFNNEBGJRHEJHR.

"Uh, yeah, I'm totally fine," Ref 2.0 managed in a high-pitched, semi-hysterical tone. "That's definitely not me as a [insert age here] year old. Definitely. Ahahahaha!" At which point a burst of maniacal laughter overtook her words.

Mara frowned, concerned, and placed the back of her hand on Ref 2.0's forehead. "Do you have a fever or something? You feel fine."

Before Real Ref's mind could stop her, she blurted: "WeLL yOu LoOk fInE, gIrL!!" directly at Mara. And then promptly wanted to run away and scream and also die. Mortification will do that.

Mara laughed, patting Real Ref's head awkwardly. "Aw, you're cute!"

Condescending as hell, but she'd take it.

"Mar, Ref, random Ref lookalike!" Maia called from someplace in the background where she had been silently doing nothing for Plot Purposes. "We're going out for Thai food, do you guys want to be in a car together?"

"Sure," said Mara, who seemingly had forgotten that she was surrounded by Refs in various states of dying.

Real Ref died a little more.

Then Mara and Ref 2.0 started randomly kissing. (This was also for Plot Purposes. The experienced reader will find that most things are.) Real Ref was struck by a single thought:

The enemy has invaded. The enemy has invaded. The enemy has invaded.

Because apparently 'the enemy' was older, alternate dimension Ref. And no one is going to judge the author's mental process in deciding that, because tHiNgS hApPeN. And apparently sometimes tHiNgS include the aforementioned enemy alternate dimension identity theft situation. Case closed. Anyway.

"DO YOU LIKE CHEESE," Ref screeched, trying to think of something random enough to distract Mara and the evil imposter from their Romantic Activity. "IT'S GOOD. NO. THAT SOUNDS LIKE I SAID 'CHEEZ-ITS GOOD'. CHEEZ-ITS NOT GOOD. CHEEZ-ITS BAD."

Weirdly enough, it actually worked. Mara stared at her, and blinked, and then the evil imposter stared at her, and blinked, and then they all got into the car without saying anything else and Mara started driving and Ref started mentally fangirling about how badass Mara was and the evil imposter stayed evilly silent, probably evilly plotting how to evilly steal Mara away from the epic one who actually deserved her, and then they got to the Thai restaurant.

Mara and the evil imposter started flirting, which usually would be terrible and bad and not at all good, therefore warranting all of Ref's attention. However, the one thing more important than alternate dimension yous stealing your fictional crushes to Ref was food (it was her jam!), so she was instead immersed in the menu.

Once everyone had ordered, Aaron started talking about how awesome and perfect and wonderful Aron was and then Aron's dad started talking about how proud he was for her winning and Ref just stared at them like bruh no one cares lmao and waited for the food to come.

Also for some reason she could read minds now so she listened to Mara's mind which was saying something about how cute Ref's little sister's crush on her was and how she loved the baby gays. It was then and there that Ref decided to name her future baby Gay. Anyway.

At last, the food came, and all of Ref's troubles and boredom were forgotten. She got ready to take a big bite. . .

And then she woke up on the couch with an intense craving for Thai food.

Oh well. Mara was too old for her anyway. Plus she had a boyfriend named Subway Cow she'd weirdly forgotten. So Ref would stick with him.

Then she checked Wattpad to see that Aeney actually HAD posted that epilogue? With that content? Only. . . not really? Because it was all slightly altered?

I'll leave you readers with one last excerpt.

"After a few minutes more of bickering, we settled on the restaurant and headed for the cars-- my family loaded into one, Mara and her girlfriend into another, while Maia proudly slipped into her own car. Oh, also there was this random girl with red glasses and a navy blanket who bounded into the car with Mara and Ref in it. Kinda weird."

A/N: WHAT WAS THAT

11/04/20 update: i no longer ship maref she was toxic and i'm now dating her sister