*Picture: Cindy Rendall (Queen B and    Lillian's enemy)
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"It's just math. I can't have the square root of eleven thousand million divided by two billion multiplied fives squared twenty twos ruining my life and forbidding me from going on my football scholarship and following my dreams!" he croaks out and his gaze softens a bit, his eyes pleading with me.

I raise an eyebrow and tilt my head, urging him to go on. I'm enjoying his suffering way too much. Should've brought some popcorn along!

"You know what? Why am I even bothered to explain myself to you? You're a nothing and a plain loser. No one's gonna believe you over me and Miss Pissy anyway!" he scoffs and raises his arms in the air exasperatedly. Coldness wash over his face again. I admonish my weave to stick around for a few more seconds!

"Maybe not, but after they see the video I took of you kissing Miss Pissy they'll surely give that matter a second look and probably a second opinion!" I shot out firmly.

"So now, you are black-mailing me?" he grunts out offended. He eyes my 5'3 petite frame that he's towering over up and down in surprise.

"Karma's a real thing, isn't it?!" I smile back dreamily.

"Fine. I don't wanna get expelled from school just because of a loser with no social life such as you. Tell me what you want from me! Let's get this over with!" he says through pursed lips and screwed eyes, his hands curled up in fists. Hell yeah! Lemme me just quickly gather my spluttered dignity after that first 'socially life-less loser' part! Not that it's not true or anything...

"You know what? I think my good nature and big forgiving heart always gets the best of me. One day it'll even be the end of me. But until then I have 5 minutes to spare you and you're gonna listen carefully to every word I have to say. We're gonna discuss everything like grown children do! And you're gonna agree, because at this point I'm not giving you a choice anymore!"

Silence hangs heavily between us and I suck in a deep breath, before starting my proposal once again: "After no researches it turned out that you're the perfect guy for the role of my love coach. Your job simply entails teaching me how to look and act around guys, so they eventually fall in love with me and I can easily steal everyone's man! You'll be my guide book to the world of dating that you're so experienced with, since you change girls more than you change your own underwear basically. Which I really hope is more than once a week!"

"So, I'm supposed to give you lessons on how to win a guy's heart over?" he inquires and scratches his chin pensively, a bit of a glint in his eyes.

"Yep, exactly! Your job is done once I'm happily settled with the love of my life that you're gonna help me find! And I'm only doing this coaching thing for a month. Take it as a challenge. Or a miracle you have to do. In a month's span you'll have to make sure I'm with someone I love that loves me back. You don't back down from challenges, or do you?"

The gleam in his eyes intensifies. He gives me a strange look and investigates further: "You get the love of your life. What do I get out of this? It's not like you can actually help me with my grades, since you're a loser yourself!"

"I'm gonna pay you for your service, of course! Consider this a real job! No pressure at all! Oh and also, you get to keep your little secret safe between us. Or else the whole school will find out about your little nice affair with a very certain pissy teacher!"

"Fine, looks like you've got yourself a deal, Lillian Watterson!" he scowls at me. I'm internally screaming in glee. The school's bad boy agreed to be my love coach? And wait... he even knows my name? Is Karma on vacation? Is the world okay? Did I miss something?

"Yaaaaay!" Tiana's voice shouts abruptly, as a locker to our side opens up revealing a crouching Tiana that's squeezed inside.
"I thought to give you both some privacy. But not too much privacy, in case you needed my assistance. So I got up in here, was stuck for a while, but I'm okay! Don't worry about me, these back pains will fade away in a few weeks, or months... I hope..."

"Who's that weirdo?" Aiden whispers cautiously in my ear.

"My bestfriend. Don't stress it, you'll get used to her in no time." I chuckle and she attempts to free a hand in order to give him a thumb's up.

"About that video you took though...I don't want any trouble..." he watches me intensely, a lost look passing his face.

"Don't worry, it's in safe hands as long as we both stick to our ends of the deal!" I say calmly, avoiding looking him in the eyes and twirling a piece of loose hair around my finger. I turn on my heels without further notice, grab an aching Tiana by the hand and head towards our next class, feeling the heat of his stare boring black holes into the back of our heads.

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"What video? I didn't know you took any?" Tiana inquires loudly on the next Monday morning, sitting on my bed and munching away on a pizza slice at 6am.

"I didn't!" I just shrug. She almost chokes on the pizza she's chewing on.

"Biotch say what?!" she shrills and her eyes widen, as terror washes over her face, eyes nearly falling out of her eye pockets like a cartoon character.

"What! I needed an excuse for him to hear me out! And after he agreed to be my love coach it was too late already to admit the truth. And this video is the reason he's agreed to our deal, remember? He's just doing this for the sake of this non-existent video not getting leaked! Besides, it's just a tiny little white lie. It ain't hurting anyone!" I mutter and rub my eyebrows tiredly. Fingers crossed!

"Oh, hell no! Bro, you're black-mailing the school's bad boy himself? It even gets worse because you're not actually black-mailing him. You're only convincing him that you are! Have you consumed too much sparkling water lately? Do you even have any idea what he would do to you if he figures out your game?"

"Uh... probably not?" I say, clueless as ever.

"Oh, you better! Cause he'll be ruining your dead-ass on so many levels you didn't even know existed!"

"It's just a month. And he would never guess I didn't take any videos of him with Miss Pissy! I mean, I'm just too good at lying. How would he?"

"I don't know. And I'm not waiting to find out! Break this agreement off with him right away, before Karma kicks both our asses so hard that we have to remove both our buttcheeks. Do you really wanna be buttless for the rest of your life?"

"Now that you've mentioned it... not really. Stop giving me such visuals! Look, it's Monday, the first day of this stupid agreement. Let's just see how this coaching thing goes! C'mon, maybe something good will come out of this!" I pout at her. She looks up at me and leans back into my bed.

"I don't know about this. My instincts have 'bich-this-will-end-up-badly-don't-you-ever-learn-you-idiot' written all over them!" she air quotes with her fingers.

"Tiana, your drama queens of instincts are always at high-alert. When did your instincts ever tell you we're getting into deep trouble and we actually did?" I challenge her.

"No, you tell me when they did and we didn't actually get into some deep shit?"

"I don't really remember..."

"Exactly!"

"Listen up, you were the one who came up with the whole coaching ish. The least we could do after all the time we spent putting strategies is to go with it, even if for a while!"

"Okay." she says after a long heaving breath, but goes on: "This is not me agreeing! This is me respecting your stupid dumb own personal opinion, while I stick to my own sane one!"

"Let's get moving then! I don't wanna be late for my first ever love coaching lesson!" I say hesitantly. I can't help but wonder if he really finds out I lied about taking a video and decides to destroy my sorry-buttless-ass! I gulp in anticipation, thinking about all the glorious possibilities he could do. I'm low-key dead if he figures it out somehow!

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A/N: Who needs a milkshake to bring all the boys to your yard when you can just black-mail them into it instead!
Okay jk, don't actually do that lol
seriously tho DoN't.

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