I LIED...
...about "Casual Secret" being a one-shot. Sequel-shot.
I can be the perfect one,
But I'll make you come
And I'm locked in your mind
You can say I don't belong,
That I'm so wrong,
I can tell, tell you lie
Disclaimer: I don't own Faking It or any of its characters.
A/N: AU and mature content. Inspiration: Moments by Tove Lo.
She could've just as easily texted her where and when to meet, but Amy wanted her to know and feel the hold she had over her, the things her appearance alone already did to her. So she kept her in sight, hoping Lauren would return the look.
Until one day, she didn't and texted her out of nowhere, where to meet. Amy didn't reply and decided to show up at the dance studio during lunch, only to find Lauren sitting on the bench with her legs and arms crossed.
"Hey." Amy greeted softly.
"Sit." Lauren didn't even look at her and still Amy chose to sit as close to her as possible. "What are we doing?" Her voice sounded stern.
"What do you mean?" Amy wondered as she kept looking at Lauren.
"This. Us. What are we doing?" Lauren demanded an answer.
Us? Amy questioned as the corner of her mouth curled into a one-sided grin. "Having fun? I thought we both agreed on the rules we made."
"Fuck the rules." Her voice sounded angry now.
Amy couldn't stand Lauren not looking at her when the subject of this conversation was so important to her, because why else would she get so emotional? She got up, walked in front of Lauren and got down on one knee, staring up into fierce blue eyes. "Lauren." Her voice was soft, making Lauren loosen up a little bit as Amy placed a hand on her knee.
"What do you want?" She emphasized the 'you' in her sentence.
"Do you know what I can't stand the most?" Lauren narrowed her eyes.
"No." Amy answered almost instantly.
She finally looked Amy in the eyes. "That you want to fuck me whenever it's behind closed doors, but when you're outside you hold Karma's hand for the whole world to see."
Amy's expression went blank. She could question the act of holding hands with a friend, even after being in a fake lesbian relationship, but Amy knew exactly what she meant. She knew what Lauren wanted by the way she played with her hair after their last hook-up. She got up on her feet and took Lauren's wrist in her hand, dragging her out of the dance studio and into the quad.
"What are you doing? Amy!" Lauren exclaimed as she tried to pry her hand loose from Amy's grip.
She stopped in the middle of the square and pulled Lauren in front of her as most eyes were now focussed on them. She wrapped her arms around Lauren's waist and lifted her up as she kissed her, leaving most of the students in shock and awe.
Lauren broke the kiss soon enough once she heard whispers and murmurs around her. She looked down at Amy with her nails digging in her shoulders. "Put me down." She whispered with discomfort as her eyes glanced to the eyes on her.
"Lauren." Amy warned her. "This is what you wanted, to shock everyone. Well, here it is. And don't think for a second..." Her voice grew softer. "...that I would choose anyone above you. I was afraid to hold your hand in public because I thought you never wanted that or might be ashamed of what we have going on."
"I noticed there was something different about you. You were more tender than usual." Her hands trailed up her neck to her cheeks, caressing her cheekbone with her thumb.
"I can't help it." Amy smiled broadly. "I can't help falling in love with you, Lauren Cooper!"
The people closest to them gasped and awed at Amy's words, but the world around them didn't exist anymore.
Lauren's eyes welled up with tears after hearing Amy say those words. "Put me down." She smiled amazed as Amy let her down on the ground.
The second Lauren's toes touched the ground; she wrapped her arms around Amy's neck and pulled her in for a deep kiss. Amy smiled in the kiss as she held Lauren a little closer to her. Lauren broke the kiss and rested her forehead against Amy's. "I love you." She almost moaned, overwhelmed by her declaration of love.
Now part of the quad was cheering and clapping, though it sounded like rustling leaves in the wind to them.
Amy feigned a shocked expression. "No way, Lauren Cooper in love?" She teased the smaller blonde.
She smiled sweetly. "You continue to amaze me." Lauren whispered as she was about to lean in to kiss her again until the sound of a throat scraping was audible behind her. They both look up to see Karma, Liam and Shane walking up to them as they turned to face them.
"Pay up." Shane said as he held his hand up in front of Karma. The two blondes finally became aware of their surroundings as a few students still cheered and clapped around them. They didn't realize that they were making that big of a scene.
Karma sighed, reached down her back pocket and gave Shane five dollars while rolling her eyes. "So, were you ever planning on telling us this?" She looked Amy in her eyes.
Amy looked at her sheepishly as Lauren blushed furiously. They looked at each other and back at the three questioning set of eyes. "I only confessed just now that-."
"We didn't know there were feelings involved." Lauren cut Amy off, who draped one of Amy's arms around her shoulders as she played with her fingers.
"Aww." The three said in unison until Shane faked a gagging sound, receiving a backhand against the chest from Liam and an evil eye from Amy.
"You're on thin ice, Shane." Amy said as she pointed a finger in Shane's direction. "No more fighting in the group." She pointed towards Karma.
"No more backhanded comments towards each other." She pointed towards Lauren. "I won't have it. I don't want to be forced to shut all of you out." She flailed her pointer finger around.
Karma, Shane and Lauren looked shocked and insulted. Amy looked at Lauren. "Yeah, that includes you too, missy."
"Missy?" Lauren repeated, feeling offended as she looked away in disbelief of what she had just heard.
"Oh, shut up." She said before she pulled Lauren closer and kissed her cheek and neck sloppily.
Lauren giggled and squirmed in Amy's embrace. "Knock it off or I'll withhold!"
"WHOA." Karma threw her hands up surprised. "Did you? Have you two already..?" Karma asked curious as her finger pointed from one blonde to the other and back.
Amy looked up at Karma sheepishly again as Lauren tried to bury her face in Amy's neck. "Uhm, yeah."
"They've been sneaking around for weeks." Liam said as he rested his hands on his hips, being the only one that noticed.
Both hugging girls raised their eyebrows. "Well, casual sex isn't something you hang up on a flagpole." Lauren, being the classy one of the two, said matter-of-factly.
"What she said, but yeah, weeks." Amy grinned at Liam.
"Also, you were wearing Amy's blouse yesterday after lunch. Going from pink and white to red and black does catch ones eye." Liam chuckled with a one-sided grin.
Amy received a slap against her chest from Lauren. "I told you not to do that in school!" She scolded as Amy smiled a wide and proud smile, not regretting what she did yesterday, not once.
"Somebody back me up that she looked amazing in my red blouse!" Amy looked around her friends who nodded and concurred.
"That she did." Shane nodded matter-of-factly, receiving a shy smile from Lauren.