𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐞𝐫

The melody I had written was lingering in my head, driving me insane with that one part I still had no clue what to play in. Maybe if I could get someone to listen to it, they could help me with-
„Soo...I've got an idea...June?" Eve's voice cut through my thoughts and brought me back to reality. I had zoned out again.
Atleast I hadn't missed anything important. We were sitting in maths class, going over the same topic over and over again and nobody paid attention, Mr. Jacobs either didn't notice or didn't care that nobody participated. Or maybe it was both?
Jasmine and Elliot, the couple sitting in front of us, were making loud smooching noises. "This wasn't something I needed to see at 8 am.", I whispered over to Eve, signaling who I was talking about with my eyes. "When I told them to get a room, I didn't mean the maths classroom with 26 other students in it. Please. This is just gross. But yeah, sure, go on and make everyone in here feel uncomfortable."
Eve giggled at my comments, which made Jeremy from the table next to us look up. He had slept in 3 minutes after the lesson started, which was a new record, even for him.
Jaylen next to him was reading one of the three books she had brought to class. The other two were on her desk, hiding her face and book from the teacher. Atleast she was getting something out of this seemingly never-ending lesson. Even the most boring book in the world had nothing on this torture.
Quinn wasn't even attending the class, just another thing Mr. Jacobs didn't notice. There was probably not a single lesson where anyone had been written down as missing when he taught us. Thomas scribbled something on a piece of paper he was probably going to turn into a paper plane anyway.
Jupiter was sketching something in a notebook, and Moriko was talking to him about some art-project they wanted to organize. It sounded pretty interesting, actually.
Mayson was trying to pay attention, but even he seemed bored, and I could see the book he was reading under the desk.
Beau was talking to Mary who was sitting on another desk, they were probably talking about todays gossip.

Just the usual maths lesson.

I turned back to Eve again. She was beaming and fidgeting with her pencil. "Sooo... You know how we have no real plans for the summer? Our whole friendgroup is staying here. So I thought-". She fell silent.
"Why did you-" Eve hushed at me and pointed towards the front of the class.
I turned around to see why she had stopped talking. To my surprise, Mr. Jacobs had turned around and realised nobody was paying attention. I was waiting for him to say something, wake up Jeremy or tell Jasmine and Elliot to stop it. But he didn't say anything, just stared at us.
After a minute of stopping the lesson, trying to make us concentrate again, he just sighed and continued writing something down on the blackboard.

I grinned, trying hard not to start laughing. "He just completely gave up on us."
Eve started giggling. "You're right, he doesn't even care anymore. At this point, we could just leave the classroom and he wouldn't even look up from the board!"
I nodded, still grinning. "Sooo... You wanted to tell me about your idea?"
Her face lit up even more. "I... Okay, promise you won't laugh first"
I wasn't sure whether I should play the offended or just go with it, but I decided on acting offended. "You really think that I, Juniper L. Dayton, would laugh about your ideas?"
Eve just snorted. "We both know you would"
I went back to being serious. "Okay, I promise to not laugh instantly."
"Fair enough.", she answered with an eyeroll. "Okay, so I thought, since, you know, all of us are staying here this summer, I thought we could- I thought maybe it would be a good idea to have a little challenge for our friendgroup. I bet mosy of them would be in."
I nodded. It sounded pretty good so far.
"And...uhm... you know I have a faible for rom-coms and love stories, so, I thought, like, maybe we could make the challenge be that till the end of summer, everyone of us tries to find love. And in the best case, be in a relationship that lasts for atleast a little while."
My face dropped, and I wasn't sure what to answer. This love stuff annoyed me, ever since things had ended with him. I was still hurt, but way too determined on not letting anyone know to actually talk about it. I knew that I was being childish, but I didn't really care.
Eve looked at me with that knowing look as if to say "I know you dislike this because of what happened with him". I wanted to prove to her that it wasn't like that. That I could still do this. That the breakup hadn't hurt me that much. Though I knew it had.
I didn't want to talk about it, so I did what every reasonable 17-year-old in my situation would have done: I downplayed it and acted as if it all just annoyed me.
"Well, I guess we can do that. If you want to do it, then I'm in. Even thpugh those two", I nodded towards Jasmine and Elliot, "really make it hard to believe that couples don't always act like lovesick, brainless zombies."
Eve didn't fully buy it, her eyebrows were still a bit raised, but she did start laughing, as to say she would let me get away with not talking to her about it, at least for now.
"You know, not everyone acts like Jasmine and Elliot. And I told you a million times, you should stop being so mean to everyone." Eve acted serious, but I could still see a hint of a smile on her lips.
"I know, I know. I'm trying not to be mean, but it's just so hard not to make any comments when they act like this. But anyway, I need more details on this... love-thing." The word love sounded even more sarcastic than intended. Oops.
Eve rolled her eyes at my tone, but she started explaining: "Well, it'll be a challenge for all of us. And I think we should plan the rest with the others as soon as they said yes it it, right? Like what's the point of planning if they say no?"
With a knowing look, I asked her: "You already planned the whole thing out, didn't you?"
Eve blushed and, slightly embarrassed, nodded.
"I will show you what I had in mind later, when we're with the others, okay? I just needed to talk to someone about thsi and I thought you would want to know about it before I bring our whole group of friends into this."
"Thanks, I appreciate it." I couldn't help but smile. Eve was always there for me, even though I was always this complicated mess of a person. I wouldn't know what to do without her.
"What do we have next? After maths, I mean.", Jupiter, who was sitting behind us, asked Eve.
She rolled her eyes before turning around and answering: "We have art class, I thought you would know that?" Seeing her this annoyed almost made me laugh, but I wasn't surprised after the whole rejection-drama recently.
Before Jupiter could say anything, the bell announced the end of this lesson.
Mr. Jacobs muttered: "Class dismissed", while half of our class was already out the door. I felt a bit sorry for him, standing there, sighing low-spirited, but we had to get going.
"See you next week, Mr. Jacobs!", I said to at least cheer him up a little. I know, usually that's Eve's kind of thing, but I felt like being nice in that moment.
Somehow he looked a bit happier when he said: "See you, July!"
I didn't regret saying bye to him, but I did feel insulted he couldn't even remember my name after almost a whole year of maths with him.
Anyway, since this was one of the last lessons before summer holidays, I would just kindly forget about it- for now.
On our way to the next classroom I couldn't stop thinking about what this challenge meant for me. I couldn't help but worry. Eve would never let me get away with not being part of the challenge and I couldn't do this. Couldn't talk to someone new and get to know them when all I could think about was him. After how much time had passed, you would think I'd be over it by now, but no. My stupid heart still started beating faster at just the thought of him. After half a year. I was so pathetic.
But walking through the hallway, I realised this whole love challenge thing would only leave me with one possibility.

Guess I would need a fake boyfriend.

𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚊 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚜
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