Mia's POV

I guess everyone's falling in love today. And it's not even Valentine's Day or anywhere close to the prom. Not that sophomores like us are even allowed to go to the prom.

I'm hard crushing on Evie Shubert, even though it's obvious I'll never get her. Why? She thinks I'm straight and she's asexual aromantic. Yeah, this is not happening. 

I was on my way to lunch when I saw Grace Khatri bend down at a girl's feet and pick up her books. And that girl was the new student at our school, who got in on a lark. She's from Vietnam, and her name is Harley Phan. And I was pretty sure Grace had a crush on her. I obviously haven't mentioned it though.

"Grace is being oddly helpful lately." Lars Sua said, throwing his arm around me. "Did she get in trouble? Is she on probation for something? What teacher is she trying to butter up for good grades?"

"Lars. I don't think Grace is worried about winning over a teacher." I laughed. Lars looked at me with confusion and said, "What are you talking about? Grace is on the brink of failing math."

"No. Have you noticed the way she's been acting ever since that Vietnamese girl in our biology class came here? Harley?" I lowered my voice to a whisper. "I think Grace may have a crush on Harley."

Grace turned to us and winked. Crap. She overheard everything I just said.

"How did you know?" Grace asked softly. I giggled and said, "You have all the signs of crushing on someone. And you and I both know that you would not help out someone if it didn't benefit you in some way."

"Who has a crush?" Evie said, walking by. The shock of seeing my crush walk right by me and actually talk to me startled me so much that I dropped my glasses on the ground. Evie giggled and picked them up. "Here you go, königin."

"What the-" I said, and I noticed Grace immediately type it into Google Translate. "Mia, she called you 'queen.'"

"E-Evie?" I asked. Evie turned towards me and I started stammering. "I-I know you're a-acearo b-but you're l-literally g-gorgeous and u-uh...crap." I composed myself and continued. "Hi, my name is Mia Fernandez and you're my gay awakening I'm queer now surprise!"

Evie laughed and I noticed her blush. "I've had a platonic crush on you since...since the day I met you apparently."

"WILL YOU PLATONICALLY DATE ME EVIE SHUBERT I DON'T GIVE A CRAP THAT I HAVE TO GO BACK TO CUBA IN JUNE YOU'RE VERY CUTE." I screamed. Evie giggled and hugged me. "Of course! But, it's December. We have over six months before we have to go back to our home countries for the summer."

"YES!" Grace and Lars squealed at the same time. "Where's Sunny? We have to break the news to her!"

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Grace's POV

Mia and Evie are platonically dating now. Sure, I'm happy for them, but my crush on Harley Phan was growing bigger and bigger by the day and I wanted to confess my love to her. Has she spoken a word to me? No. Does she even know my name? Probably not. But I wasn't fazed by that, this was an international school. There were bound to be some language barriers.

I looked over to her in biology class, when we were asked to do some partner work. My teacher pulled me aside and said, "Grace, you do know Harley's deaf, right? You're going to have to pass notes or text if you want to talk to her."

Now this was news.

"Oh. No, I didn't, ma'am." I said, then getting a bright idea. I was going to email her after school and confess my love to her. 

There's no way this could go wrong. Right?

That was all I could think about while having my first actual conversation with Harley Phan, even though we were passing notes to each other the entire time.

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"PLEASE! TELL ME WHEN YOU'RE DONE!" Sunny Kobayashi said while dangling her feet off of my bed. "I'm getting impatient!"

"I know that's a lie, vale. That means 'idiot' in Samoan, by the way." Lars said. "When you get impatient, or mad, or basically any negative emotion, you screech in Japanese."

"That's not true! Guresu isoide!" Sunny screeched. Lars laughed and said, "There is it."

"Grace, since you can't understand Japanese, I was basically telling you to hurry up." Sunny said.

"Geez, I'm writing it! Okay, how does this sound?  'You don't really know me cause you've never actually spoken to me before today but my name is Grace Khatri, I'm that Indian girl in your biology class. You're really pretty and I kinda have a crush on you sorry if this was awkward I'm a chaotic bisexual XO, Grace'"

"Send it. Send the darn thing." Lars said. He pulled out a ridiculous sailor hat and saluted. "I ship."

"Oh my lord." I said, and sent the email.

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"Guys! She answered back!" I screamed an hour later. My friends crowded around my computer as I opened the email.

"What'd she say? What'd she say?" Mia screeched.

"'You're kinda cute too. I'm a polysexual. Wanna date?' Oh my God, she likes me back!" I squealed.

All four of my friends started screeching and attacking me with hugs. "SAY YES, SAY YES, SAY YES!" Sunny squealed.

"I'm sending it right now!" I yelled. Once I sent it, I flopped back on my pillows.

"I have a girlfriend." I said as Lars hit me with a pillow.

AN: Everything that wasn't in English in this chapter was translated with Google Translate, so it may not be accurate. That's it, hope you enjoyed!