Inspired bY A SCHOOL PROJECT

JEREMY and CHRISTINE's PoV

"You can do this Jeremy!"

"No I CAN'T!" Jeremy threw up his hands.

He was sitting in the back of the drama room with his ex-girlfriend and friend Christine Canigula.

Christine frowned. "What do you mean you can't do this? You CAN AND YOU WILL, SO HELP ME." She stood up and started pacing around the room as if she was going to recite a monologue. "You CAN, you have the potential for this. I know you do." She turned back to Jeremy and shook his shoulders, or at least shook his elbows considering their height difference.

"Just ask him out."

"But-" Jeremy sputtered, waving his arms around like the awkward noodle he is. Christine sighed dramatically.

Since their breakup, Jeremy had realized he was a flaming bisexual (though maybe not as flaming as Rich) and liked Michael. However, he was really shy about it and refused to confess his feelings in any way. Christine had gotten him to write a letter but he flushed it down the toilet. Trying to wingwoman someone as disastrous as Jeremy Heere wasn't that easy.

"But what if he's not into me or something! Maybe he's decided he's actually straight! MaYBE-" He trailed off as Rich and Jake walked into the drama room.

"Hey tall ath, what'th got you tho fruthtrated?" Rich said, sitting down next to Jeremy. Christine leaned over to Rich. "Michael," she whispered conspiratorially. Rich nodded as if he already knew that.

(Let's face it, he definitely did.)

"Well Jeremy, I have some advice for you." Jake chimed in.

Rich grinned. "Is it to tell him that hE-" Christine kicked him in the shin. "Keep it PG!" She turned to look at Jeremy, who was fiddling with his cardigan. "That goes for you too. No funny business." At this, Jeremy went bright red. "But seriously, just ask him!" Jake said.

Jeremy sighed. He knew his friends would keep pestering him about this and Brooke and Chloe would talk about it even more at lunch if he didn't get his crap together.

"Fine. I'll do it."

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Jeremy sat on the edge of his bed, clutching his phone.

I'm actually going to do this. What the feck.

He took a shaky breath and opened up the Messages app to his conversation with Michael. Five out of twelve years of friendship contained in these messages. Twelve years of friendship down the drain if Christine's plan didn't work.

Ok, stop. It's not the end of the world! You have other friends. Wait no that sounds like I'm saying Michael isn't important tHAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT OH MY GOD-

Ding. Message from: Player One ❤.

Player One ❤: jere I'm boreeeeeeedddddd

Player Two🤍: lmao same :/

Player Two 🤍: what if we went somewhere on the weekend w the squip squad

Player One ❤: heck yeah

Player One ❤: what about the acrdae

Player One ❤: *arcade

Player Two 🤍: OML YES

Player One ❤: aw it's closed tomorrow D:

Player Two 🤍: *insert smiley oeuf sticker*

(It's an inside joke leave me alone)

Player One ❤: what

Player Two 🤍: nothing

Player Two 🤍: mOVING ON what about the cinema

And then it happened.

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"Oh." Jeremy slowwwwwlyyyyy inhaled.

"DID I DO SOMETHING WRONG WHAT HAPPENED??" He jumped up from the bed and promptly tripped over a game controller. "Ow."

Ding.

Player One ❤: lmao sorry for just disappearing

Player Two 🤍: no it's ok

Player One ❤: the cinema is good, how about we watch that new scifi movie

Player Two 🤍: be more chill? Sure

Player Two 🤍: hol up just gonna ask the squad abt it

Jeremy switched over to the Squip Squad group chat.

jereMEME: so i finally asked michael out

He inhaled. Any second now. Right on cue, the notifications came flooding in.

PIIInKbeRRy~: OMG WHAT YESSS

Lesbian thespian 🎭: YES MY SHIP IS SAILING

jereMEME: so like can you guys come with us

Totally bi 🔥🕶: no.

jereMEME: why

JENNAROLANDCALLING: well why the feck do you think noodle

JENNAROLANDCALLING: IT'S A DATE WHY WOULD YOU BRING OTHER PPL

PIIInKbeRRy~: exactly

Lesbian thespian 🎭: ffs jeremy

Totally bi 🔥🕶: ^^^

Jakey D: ^^^

Dramatic Bitch: ^^^^

jereMEME: OK FINE

Back to the PM with Michael.

Player Two 🤍: they cant they have different plans :(

Player One ❤: D:

Player Two 🤍: we can go together tho ;))

Player One ❤: sUre

Jeremy put his phone down on the nightstand. Christine was practically going to have a heart attack.

MICHAEL'S PoV

(Betcha didn't see that coming. Or maybe you did. I dunno.)

Oh my god.

Did his best friend and crush just ask him out to a movie?

"Holy crap. HOLY CRAP." He flopped back on the pillows. "Jeremy fecking Heere asked me out to watch a movie." He sat up.

"There's gotta be a mistake or misunderstanding. Am I even awake?" Michael pinched himself.

"Apparently I am."

Ok, you need to calm down. He's just a guy. Turn it off. Breathe.

JEREMY'S PoV

"Christine! Calm DOWN!" Jeremy laughed.

"I CAN'T CALM DOWN!" Christine screamed into the phone. She was absolutely ecstatic when Jeremy called her with the news he had successfully asked Michael out. "I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, YOU ACTUALLY DID IT! I TOLD YOU YOU COULD!" There was a scuffling sound on the other end. Jeremy assumed Christine was either dancing around or making her way to her giant corkboard with all her master shipping plans. (not that she actually had one; Jeremy just thought she did)

Maybe both. Who knew?

"IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING, MY SHIP IS SAILING!" She yelled.

"Christine?"

"Yes?"

"Please for the love of all that's holy don't shriek so much. I think my brain's gonna explode from the decibel you've been fangirling at."

"Sure thing." She lowered her voice to a reasonable volume.

(time skip of one day, now it's Saturday)

JEREMY's PoV

Ok. Just bReaTHe. You're just going to a movie with your best friend of 12 years. You also may have a crush on him. Nothing out of the ordinary.

Jeremy stood in front of the Mells' front door. Should I ring the doorbell? No, I've been barging through the door without warning for... forever pretty much. But I want to make a good impression I DON'T KNOW? His panicked thinking was interrupted by Michael's nanay, Mikaela, opening the door.

"Jeremy! What're you doing standing heere?" She smiled warmly.

"Oh, uh I'm heere to pick Michael up for the movie."

She nodded and turned towards the stairs. "Micha! Nandito na si Jeremy!" There was a sudden sound of clattering upstairs, presumably from Michael's bedroom down the hall. A door creaked open and Michael came speed-walking down the stairs.

He was wearing his usual red hoodie and jeans, frantically trying to straighten his glasses while walking down the stairs and holding the railing with one hand. He eventually gave up and waved. "Hi Jere!"

"H-hi Micha." 

DAMMIT WHY MUST YOU STUTTER NOW? 

Oh wait, Michael was looking at him like he was doing something weird. "Jeremy are you ok? You seem kinda nervous." "N-n-nO I'm fIne." Jeremy walked away from the door and towards the sidewalk.

"Shall we go to the cinema?"

"As you wish, dear sir."

The pair walked down the sidewalk together.

(timeskip to Monday)

JEREMY's PoV

"YOU WHAT!?" Chloe slammed her hands down on their lunch table, earning a few glances from some of the other people in the cafetorium. A blonde girl in a red blazer snapped at her to shut up before a brunette girl in a similar blue blazer tugged at her arm in a quiet plea to sit down.

"Let me get this gay. You asked him out to the cinema, WALKED WITH HIM TO THE MALL, HAD DINNER TOGETHER AND YOU STILL HAVEN'T OFFICIALLY STARTED DATING?" Chloe was beside herself in shock. "Jeremy whatever-the-hell-your-middle-name-is Heere, HOW?"

"SHHHHH. Don't announce the news to everyone at school." Jeremy frantically waved his hands.

Christine sat down at the table, lunch tray in her hands. "What happened? I heard Chloe screaming from the other side of the room." Jeremy shot Chloe a look. She shrugged. "Ok, maybe I was a tad bit dramatic about it." Brooke smiled and playfully swatted her girlfriend's arm. "A tad?"

"Fine, very dramatic."

Christine sighed. "Jeremy you useless bisexual. Just ask him out, goddamnit!"

This was so fun to write holy fuckcakes.