I was flattening out my dress and checking my hair in the mirror. I was a little nervous for this date. It was my first one, and the sad thing about it was that it wasn't even real. "Well don't you look beautiful?" My mom asked. "What? No no. I'm just like regular pretty...it's nothing." I said. "But you like this boy?" She asked. "What!? No...i detest that statement." I said. My mom laughed. "Look it's okay if you do." She said. "It's why you wanted to go to high school." She said. "Well it's not the only reason! And besides, he has a girlfriend." I said. "So? You're allowed to like boys who have girlfriends. You can't help how you feel." She said placing a hand on my shoulder. "I know that, it's just he can't act on it so I'm trying to make these feelings i get when I'm around him go away. I don't want to get hurt." I said. "Well good for you then, and I'm sorry you still have to spend the week with him i know that can't be easy." She said beaming. "What? Are you actually smiling at my pain?" I asked. "No, I'm not trying to. I'm sorry I'm just glad i can finally talk to you about normal high school problems." She said. "Well good, high school isn't that much fun actually but i think I'd regret it if i didn't go so there's that." I said as there was a knock on the door. "I'll get it my mom bolted for the door." "You don't have to do that!" I said chasing her down. "Oh yes i do, i want to meet your husband." My mom said laughing as she opened the door. "Hi you must be Connor. I'm Shannon Haynes Olivia's mom." "It's nice to meet you." I peeked around my mom. "Okay well you met him now I'm going to go. Have a nice evening. Bye mom."  I said pulling the door behind me. "Oh these are for you." Conner said holding out flowers. "Oh you didn't have to do that." I said smiling and taking them. "Oh well i figured if i was your husband i would do that so..." "Well thank you i said as he led him to his truck. He opened the door and i slid in. "You look nice." He said once he was behind the wheel. "Oh thanks, so do you. So how did Megan take the news of our date?" I asked. He sighed. "Not great, but it's not my fault we were paired together. In fact she's still mad i wouldn't demand to Ms. Roma that we change partners." "Oh you didn't?" I furrowed my brow. "Yea, i spend enough time with her as it is i don't need to know what it'd be like to be married to her. We'd probably be divorced already. I mean i love her but..." "But maybe it would have kept her at bay." I said. "Maybe but she'd find something else to be upset about." He said pulling out of our driveway. "Why do you do it?" I ask. "Do what? Stay with her?" I nodded. "Oh i don't know. I guess i didn't have a good reason to break up with her? Maybe that sounds stupid." He said. "No i get it i do." I said. We pulled into the restaurant. "Shall we my lady?" He asked holding his arm out. He led me into the restaurant. "We have a reservation for Mr. and Mrs.'s Jeffries." Said Conner. I giggled. "Oh yes Mr. and Mrs.'s Jeffries right this way." Said the hostess leading us to our table. Once we had ordered our food and drinks we got down to the assignment. "Okay so we need to have a fight." I said thoughtfully. "Well I'm a doctor...so maybe i work a lot..." "Right and i miss you so we fight about that." I snapped my fingers. "Perfect but how do we fix it?" I asked. "Hm maybe we take a trip...OH Paris is supposed to be the city of love or something like that? Maybe we take two weeks off work?" He asked. "Sure what do we do with the kids?" I asked. "Maybe bring a nanny?" He suggested. "I like it we can spend time with the kids and get some alone time." I nodded. "Right and we have decent jobs we can totally afford that." He said. "Ah yes being rich has it's perks." I said. The waiter brought us our food. "Thank you." I said. "No, thank you. Can i  get a photo with you?" He asked holding out a shaking phone to Conner. "I'm sorry." I said to him. "Nah it's fine." He took the photo and handed the phone back to the guy. "Thank you, uh enjoy your meal if you need anything let me know." He said bowing and walking off. We both burst into laugher once he was gone. "Did that guy just bow?" Conner asked. "I think he did." I said laughing. I took a bite of the pasta and closed my eyes. "I missed this." I said pointing the fork at the pasta. He smiled. "Good, I'm glad you're enjoying it. So next we have to share a secret." He said. I groaned. I had thought long and hard and finally came up with something. "Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words..." I slid my phone over to him. His eyes grew wide. "Is that...you?" He asked. I nodded. "Unfortunately." I said. "Wow, that is intense..."He said. "Yea I'm totally embarrassed by a photo of my boob in a guys mouth. it is what it is i guess." I said. "Does your mom know about this...?" He asked sliding the photo back to me. "No and she'd probably consider killing me." I said. "Right." He nodded. "So lay yours on me." I said. "Okay so...my dad went to school at NYU. He played football there. I got accepted there. I also got accepted to NSU. Both a full ride. But that one is more for academics. I haven't told my dad i want to go to NSU he just assumes i will go to NYU just like him." He said. "Oh boy that's a big one." I said. "It is." "Well don't you think your dad would be happy for you either way?" I sked. "Yea i guess so. But i think it's gonna hurt him." He said. "Right but i think he'll be proud of you. I mean at least you're going to college." I said. "I guess so, and i know i have to tell him. I just worry about how he'll react. Maybe i just don't tell him until i graduate and he'll say see you at the NYU campus and I'll say actually it's NSU." He said. "Yea, don't think that's gonna work." I said. "Ugh of course you're right. I'll tell him, but what about you? Any plans to go to college? Or are you planning on going back to modeling?" He asked. I sighed. "I have no clue. I haven't given it much thought actually. I mean part of me knows i can't model forever. But part of me knows that i should do it as long as i can. Maybe i can try and do both?" I shrugged. "No you totally can i mean if you did online or something?" He asked. "Well I'd like to be able to go to school in person. I don't want to feel like I'm missing out on college and going at the age of thirty and living in a dorm or apartment close to school isn't quite the same." I said laughing. "Well you're right about that." "I'm still trying to have the normal high school experience shoot." I said. "Okay what's on your list?" He asked. "Well i want to go to a football game." I said. "Oh we're playing a game on Friday. You and Lucy should come. We have like spirit day on Friday's when it's home games and we do pep rally's and stuff." Conner said. "What does that mean?" I asked. "Oh that you wear a team shirt or whatever and show your support." Conner said. "Oh." I frowned. "I don't have one of those." I said. "Oh no worries. I have a jersey from freshman year you can borrow. It might be a little big though." He said. "Oh that would be great, thank you." I said. "No problem I'll bring it Thursday." He said. "Thanks." "Okay what else is on that list?" He asked. "Um, oh! To have a sleep over." "Can't help you there. Next." He said laughing. "Go to a typical high school party." I said. "Well some of those can get pretty intense. Like drinking and kissing games." He said. "Yes that's another one." I said holding a finger up. "Drinking?" He asked furrowing his brow. "No silly kissing." I said. "Oh, but you've kissed...guys before...i mean." "Yes but those were staged i want my first real kiss. With a guy i like and a guy who likes me. I also can't wait to go to a dance." I said. "Homecoming, right on! And if you get made queen wouldn't that be something." Said Conner. "Queen? Don't be ridiculous!" I said waving him off. "You haven't seen the board...?" Conner furrowed his brow. "No? What board?" I asked. "The board with the nominees. Your name is on it." "Oh no no no. They need to take that down." I said. "Come on you can add that to your list, being homecoming queen. You know the dance is in two weeks." He said. "Right but i don't even know what that means or why anyone would nominate me." I said. " "Well they nominated you because you're nice and friendly to everybody." Said Conner. "That's because the experience of high school is new to me. I walk down the hall way waving at everybody." I said. "See there you go. So next Friday we'll play another game. The homecoming game. During halftime they'll do homecoming court. You will walk out with your escort usually whoever you take to the dance. Megan and i were both nominated so we'll walk together. I hand her flowers and we walk up to the front where someone will put a sash on us. Then at the homecoming dance on Saturday they'll announce the winners." Conner said. "Ugh i don't even have a dress!" I said. "Don't tell Megan I'm telling you this. But, we are going Saturday at two if you happen to show up." He said. "Oh, I'll do that." "Great, it's at the mall. Tito's dresses and tux's." He said. We finished the meal and got the check. I paid and we went back home. The next day in class Ms. Roma wanted us to talk about our fight and what we did to resolve the fight. "Well Conner and I fought about how much we work as a doctor and a nurse and how we don't see each other enough." I said. "So we agreed to take two weeks off work and go to Paris." Said Conner. "Right, Bring the kids and a nanny so we get some alone time." I said. "And we agreed that taking a trip isn't feasible every time. So we need to work on trying harder at making sure we get time. Date nights and what not." Said Conner. "Very good you two. Megan and Celine?" "Well we fought about my hair. See my locks are gorgeous. But Celine here is a hair dresser and she decided to dye my hair pink one night. And I'm a teacher and that's just a no go!" "Wait wait wait...how did she dye your hair without your knowledge?" Asked Ms. Roma. "Obviously i was sleeping." Megan said almost rolling her eyes. "Wait you were sleeping? How did it get rinsed out?" Ms. Roma asked. "I told you this wasn't a good idea!" Celine said. "Well it obviously was better than your idea." "Okay i see we are still fighting...how do you think we should handle this?" Asked Ms. Roma. "Well i wanted to tell Celine that i was cheating on her and that we should get a divorce." Said Megan. "You what?" Celine asked feigning anger. "Yea with Doctor Conner." She winked at Conner. "Conner is that why you've been so busy at work!?" I asked jumping up from my seat. "What? I would never cheat on you my love. Please believe me. I love you and only you." Said Conner. "How can i not believe this gorgeous face?" I asked cocking an eyebrow. Conner bit his lip. "Hello? Not real!" Megan called out. "Okay that's enough. You are not getting a divorce Megan, now please continue about your fight." Said Ms. Roma. "Ugh fine, well i woke up and i was super mad about the hair y'know because it's pink and I'm a teacher." "You said that." Ms. Roma groaned. "I'll take it from here." Celine said. "Please do." Said Ms. Roma. "I told her that i was sorry and i thought it would be a good look on her. I promised to never touch her hair again without her okay. And that i would help her get her hair back to normal." Said Celine. "Good gravy that was ridiculous. Please just take your seats." Ms. Roma said waving them off. I snickered at the ridiculousness of it all. "Okay homework. I want you and your partner to come up with a problem. Not a fight but a problem and then how you will solve it. Enjoy your lunch my lovelies!" Said Ms. Roma. Once class was over we headed to lunch. I found Lucy. "Hey, um did you know i was nominated for homecoming queen?" I asked. "Yes, didn't you?" She asked. "Well no, Conner told me. So we need dresses." I said. "We?" She asked. "Yea, you're going to the dance aren't you?" I asked. "I hadn't given it much thought." She shrugged picking up a tray. "We have to! It's senior year. We need dates. But Saturday, we should go buy dresses at two." I said. "Two well that's oddly specific." She said eying me. "Okay fine. Conner will be there..." I said. "Come on you know he's unavailable." Said Lucy. "Oh i know that, but it doesn't mean i can't at least look." I said. We walked out to look for seats. I saw two guys start shoving down to make room. We took seats next to them. "Hey ladies thanks for joining us. You made the table a better place to eat already." Said Trey. "Awe you." I said waving him off. "Did you give any thought to the dance?" Trey asked.

"You're really sweet, but i just can't." I said. "No worries, Maybe just save me a dance then?" He said. "I can do that." I nodded. We finished up our lunch and headed out to the commons area.

"Hey, Joel likes you." I said. Lucy blushed. "No, you think? He's cute!" She said. "Oh my gosh you like him!" I Said "so what?  He hasn't asked me out. maybe i want a date so it's special i don't know. But it's not going to happen. He didn't want to ask me out or he would have." She said waving me off. "Well he just needs a push. I can talk to him?" I  asked. "No, don't you dare! We already talked about this. I don't want to embarrass him or me." Lucy said. "Fine i guess i can understand that. But let's promise we go to the dance whether we have dates or not." I said. She groaned. "Fine i guess we can do that." "And Saturday at two?" I asked. "Fine." She said. "One more thing. I wanna go to the football game on Friday." I said. She shrugged. "I guess i could do that. But you're killing me with all this." She said. "I'm pushing you outside your comfort zone it's good for you. Having friends is amazing." I said linking my arm through hers.