I scratched my ichy butt remembering afterwards that I wasn't alone.

I eyed Axel through the corner of my eye, putting my hand back to the side.

Phew, thank goodness he didn't see that.

We stood outside the office leaning against the wall barely looking at each other.

"So..."

"Simon I swear to God, if you say anything stupid I will beat the crap out of you."I said interrupting him.

He chuckled lowly running his fingers through his hair.

I was not amused by this situation.

"I was saying that, since we have all agreed to go on with this-"

"We agreed to nothing!" Axel interjected.

"We! Have been told to become friends unless we want to be scattered to all the corners of the world!" Simon said impatiently.

I bit the inside of my cheek and nodded slowly, processing the bull shit.

"Who said it had to be real? We can fake it!"

"Great idea genius, that's what she told us to do. Honestly why am I here?"Axel grumbled through his gritted teeth.

Right, I have to date him.

I have to date a literal pile of shit.

Why or why?

"Fat chance I'm ever going to date you."I said scoffing and laughing humorlessly.

As if I'd date Axe body spray.

"Are you stupid or something?"He asked out of the blue.

Well there was no actual blue sky so...

"What's that supposed to mean?"I demanded.

Honestly the guts of this ass.

He literally just

"You'd think I'd date you or so much as breathe the same oxygen as you?"

I smirked, "Well, I'd prefer you suffocating."

He raised his eyebrow and continued, "I'd prefer you drowning in toilet water."

Okay, I don't know what happens when he mentions toilets.

But I had this urge to castrate the son of a bitch.

Without thinking I slammmed myself against him and wrapped my hands around his neck and pressed down with all of my strength.

Xanny just popped a lolipop in his mouth and watched as I drained the life out of him.

Well I tried to but he just raised his arms in surrender, relaxed like nothing happened.

He gave me a sinister smirk before his eyes widened.

I freakin' hate him so muc-

"What is going on?!"The voice of Ms Travis shook me.

Before I could act, Axel wrapped his arms around me making me jump in surprise my heart racing.

I asked 'the fuck are you doing?' with my eyes and he answered, 'trust me' with his eyes.

This totally freaked me out.

Telepathy.

I released him and wrapped my arms around his neck.

I turned my head slightly trying not to panic.

"We're hugging of course."I answered the impatient woman.

She narrowed her eyes and nodded; her bag in hand.

"Sure."She said slowly before walking away.

We watched as she left down the hallway and we all sighed a breath of relief.

Hugging his neck tightly for sure.

"That was stupid."Axel said to me abruptly.

Remembering our nasty situation I wiggled out of his hold and moved as far away from him as possible.

I hit my head against the wall as I did so.

"Ow."I said slowly touching the back.

"Oh and another thing!"

I nearly bit my tongue as I made impact with the wall again.

Where did this bitch keep coming from?

"Axel you should pick her up everyday. And you should spend time together like you."She said pointing to me.

"would with Simon. So spend all your time together."

I groaned rolling my eyes once again.

I swear, I saw the back of my skull and it said bite me.

"Anything else?"Axel asked.

"Yes actually.Simon you're off the hook."

"Yes!"

"Wait but that's totally unfair!"

She just shrugged leisurely, "I don't make the rules."

"I think you do."I stated irritated.

"And I've signed you two up for the Glitter ball as volunteers."

Wait a damn minute!

"Nobody's ever volunteered for that! It's the hardest thing to plan why us?"

She grinned, "It's rumored that most planners fall in love. And you'll just be helping out."

"Bu-"

"Bye!" She sang pissing me off even more as she raced down the hallway.

Why the heck would I fall in love with this asshole?!

Is she shipping us?

What the fuck?

The Glitter ball takes six months to plan and the last one went down in history.

But then again we have the 'trip' before the ball.

The annual candle trip.

Every year virginites are lost more than pencils!

Last of last year (covid) eight people got expelled.

You know why?

No teachers were there, no chaperones no security.

Nothing.

Just extremely harmonal teenagers high on fun and grass.

Lil Nas X came to the last one to sing Panini!

How were we supposed to top that?!

For us to plan this one, we'll be at each other's throats fighting to the death.

Maybe that was her plan all along.

To get rid of us.

I bet the principal was going to bury us in confetti and string...

"Fuck!" Axel muttered.

"Fuck!" He repeated this time running his fingers through his dark curls.

Xanny and I began to walk away but we were forced to go in the same direction side by side.

Axel decided to walk next to me like some kind of beautiful bodyguard.

Now that I was looking at him better.

He'd gotten much more gorgeous after quarantine.

Damn.

He was a beautiful person.

Rumor has it that he spent the whole of quarantine in Sweden.

Why?

I have no idea.

But maybe that was what beautified him.

Don't get me wrong.

I am disgusted by his presence; he is the school's playboy.

But I'll admit it.

He was pretty. Puberty hit him like a truck.

Him and his overly amazing body.

I hit a column hurting my already bruised nose...

Jeez... eye-

"Eye-raping me much Anderson?"

I choked on my saliva and blinked many times before fixing my gaze into a glare.

"Eye-fucking my ass much Grey?"I returned.

I noticed his eyes were on my butt before I could begin staring at him.

That was what made me admire him in the first place.

Shut up, he totally did.

"I didn't want to say anything because I was worried it would wound your ego."

He bared his teeth at me but I just replied with the middle finger.

I walked ahead of him still raising it.

"If you wanna fight, catch me outside."

I said venturing into the parking lot.

"Baby mochi wait!"Simon said from behind me.

He called me that because I used to have chubby cheeks.

And because he was a BTS fanboy.

An 'army' as he called it.

He said that it was a nickname that the army calls Jimin, one of the members.

It really depends on which cheeks he's looking at because he also had this thing with Jimin's butt. It's nicknamed the "Jibooty."

Jimin was his bias by the way. And that was a whole other story I did not want to get into.

I didn't really like them but their music is dope.

The lyrics are dope and their visuals are dope.

Just saying.

They're pretty cool guys.

"Let's go home."He said slinging his arm around my shoulders.

"Waaiiiiiit, we spent like 3 hours here getting lectured by the teachers, bandaged by the nurse and examined by the school therapist. We can't possibly go home now."

Well the parking lot was slowly getting littered with harmonal teenagers so, my best guess was that it was time for lunch.

But it would be best if nobody gawked at my ass again.

"Where do you two dorks live?"Axel said as we slowed down our pace.

Wow...insulting us now?

"I'll text it to you."Simon said his happy face turning into one of constipation.

It's the same face he makes when he's constipated.

Looong story.

"Why do you have each other's numbers?"I asked suspicious.

"At some point we were lab partners remember?"Simon answered me.

Riiiiiiight.

"You blew up your frog."

I don't even know how that even happened.

We were told to dicect the frog not to blow it up.

These dinguses really make me lose brain cells.

"Okay spit oath!"Simon announced.

Right, I forgot.

"What?"Axel said as he cringed.

I spit on my upturned palm and Xanny did the same.

"We do it to symbolize our friendship.No betrayals."I explained patiently.

What's so difficult about that?

Honestly this boy.

"I am not doing that!"

" Have you forgotten about Covid?"

Simon and I looked at each other. Oh, I was mad.

"You wanna fight?"

Look at this ass saying we've got covid.

He hesitantly spit on his hand and stretched it out eyes closed.

It was disgusting because he let the saliva drip out of his mouth and onto his palm.

I shook Xanny's hand first, the he shook Axel's then Axel and I shook each others'.

We stared at each other a little longer before we let go rubbing our hands on our pants.

Well I had to do it on my shorts.

Well the cloth that was left on my shorts.

They ripped a lot.

"Fine! Tomorrow then."I said waving at the literal ass in front of me.

He nodded and Simon and I walked to 'our' car.

We bought it together with the money we raised in tenth grade.

It was one chaotic summer of splashing each other with soap water.

I'm never going to drive because I never passed my driving lessons.

Yeah.

Pathetic, I know.