A/N:
Hey guys, so this is my first fanfic so I am sorry if this isn't very good. I actually wrote this back in April 2019 after watching 'I Dream of Danger,' and learning about Joss. So I finally got the courage to post this. Any and all errors are mine.
I have most of it written out and it will be a total of 8 chapters. I don't know when exactly I will be able to post the rest of the chapters, but we'll see.
One last thing, for reference this story is canon up until 'I Dream of Danger.'
When Charlotte had imagined going out on a date with Henry Hart (not that she's imagined it before. . . ok only one time) she never would have imagined she would be in Montego's with Joss Moss and her date, Jasper.
Charlotte had absentmindedly agreed to go on a double date with Joss because she had been doubting the realness of her relationship with Henry.
She didn't expect to be in this situation, where she was saying that she's been having sex with Henry. A lot of it.
Which was far from the truth. Because she wasn't actually having sex with him and she wasn't actually dating him either. She was just trying to help Henry to get Joss to leave him alone and move on.
She had expected this to go as a dinner between friends who just wanted to have a good time. She didn't expect to feel like she was being interrogated for a lie she was telling. Which she was, but Joss didn't know that. And this girl was getting on her nerves and she was really close to jumping the table and choking the hell out of her.
Charlotte was now wondering how the hell she let herself get dragged into this situation in the first place.
Oh wait, now she remembers, this was all Henry's fault. And when she got done with Joss, she was gonna go after Henry.
It was a normal day in Swellview, Charlotte and Henry were in the Hart's household on a Sunday night watching Walking Orange, a favorite show of theirs. They were sitting on the couch with a bowl of popcorn between them, and eating handfuls in between laughing at the jokes on the show.
This had been a current development they've come to have, where they would spend one day a week relaxing and for an hour or two goofing off, watching tv or a movie on Redflix. They would sometimes invite Jasper but tonight he was visiting his nana, so it was just Charlotte and Henry.
"Would you guys keep it down? I am trying to study here!" Piper exclaimed from the dinner table, where she was with her tutor, Joss Moss, who was helping her with her algebra homework.
Joss was a senior at a different high school. Henry's mother decided to hire a tutor after Piper kept complaining about how hard her math classes were getting now as a high school freshman.
The Hart's had tried to get Charlotte to be the one to tutor Piper, but with school, her participating in L.I.M.P, and her after school job she just didn't have time. So they had to look for someone else.
One of Kris', Henry's mother, friends had a daughter Henry's age, that was more than happy to help Piper out. Joss was a beautiful light skinned girl with brown hair and hazel eyes. She was class president and striving to be valedictorian, and she was in a buddy program that required her to be a tutor, which she was more than happy to do.
She had been coming over to help Piper with her homework, and to study for her upcoming test for the last three weeks.
"Yeah, Henry, it would be better if your sister could concentrate so she can pass her test on Wednesday," Joss spoke up trying to help out her student.
"Oh come on Piper, we are not being that loud, right Charlotte?" Henry said looking at Joss first then turning to Charlotte.
"Huh, oh right sorry Piper. We'll try to be quieter," Charlotte replied, too entranced by the show to pay attention to what was being said.
The couple on the couch went back to their tv show, while, unbeknownst to them, they were being watched closely. Joss had been observing Henry and Charlotte's interactions very closely for the past few weeks trying to decide whether they were just friends or more.
The first time she came over to tutor Piper she wasn't expecting her to have such an attractive brother. Joss was instantly attracted to Henry and was hoping to get him interested in her, when another girl walked in, Charlotte Page.
Henry introduced her as his friend, so Joss at least knew that this Charlotte girl, wasn't his girlfriend, if he had one. And if he didn't, well, she just had to make sure that she won that title herself.
But she wasn't doing much to win Henry's attention because Charlotte was always with him, which is fine, but it was like they never went their separate ways. And every Sunday that Joss came over so did she, it was irritating.
She was starting to think that maybe there was something more to Henry and Charlotte's "friendship," but so far she hadn't witnessed them hold hands, cuddle or even kiss, so maybe she was looking too deep into this.
"Hey, Joss you still with me?" Piper asked as she waved a hand in front of the girl.
"Huh? Oh sorry," Joss answered sheepishly, "Yeah what do you need?" Getting back to the task at hand.
"I need help with question 9."
Joss decided that at this moment she needed to do her job that she was getting paid for instead of investigating a relationship that wasn't any of her business. But she wanted it to be.
She needed to win Henry over and make him forget Charlotte, but she was gonna need some help with that and maybe her student was just gonna be who she needs to help her.
At that moment Henry's watch started beeping. Charlotte and Henry looked at each other and got up turning off the TV and saying they were needed at work.
Piper didn't even look up and barely acknowledged her brother's departure.
"Umm, are they allowed to leave like that?" Joss questioned.
"Huh? Oh yeah, they do it all the time, Henry has a watch that lets him know when he needs to be at his job," Piper explained half-heartedly, turning back to question 9.
"But you don't find it suspicious that on a Sunday night Henry would need to be at his job?" Joss insisted.
"Not really. I don't think about it much and I don't really care what my brother does," Piper answered.
"But why did Charlotte go along with him?" Joss said with a hint of disdain that Piper didn't catch.
"Oh they work at the same place."
"Really? Where do they work?" Joss asked. This was perfect if she kept asking Piper more about Henry then maybe she can figure out if Charlotte is his girlfriend.
"At this junk shop called Junk n Stuff," Piper answered as she finally figured out question 9.
"Why all this interest in my brother?" Piper looked up forgetting her homework.
"Umm, well I am kind of interested in him," Joss answered, seeing as there's no need to hide this from his little sister. If she was gonna be Henry's girlfriend she might as well get Piper to like her.
"What? Eww. You can do so much better than him," Piper said in disgust.
"Oh c'mon Piper, your brother is cute and I would like him to be interested in me. Do you think I have a chance?" Joss said.
"Well if you really want to do this, right now I don't think Henry is all that interested," Piper answered honestly.
"Why? Does he have a girlfriend? It's Charlotte isn't it? I knew there was something more between them," Joss concluded. It was obvious. God she's stupid.
"What? No, he doesn't have a girlfriend, or at least as far as I know. And why would you think he and Charlotte are dating? They are just friends," Piper explained.
"But they are together all the time. She is always here when I come over. Also they sit very closely on the couch together, I just thought that maybe they are dating," Joss explained.
"Charlotte and Henry have been friends for a really long time. They met in elementary school, I think, and they do everything together from what I remember and also there's Jasper. Like I said as far as I know they aren't together," Piper continued.
"Ok maybe I'm just imagining things," Joss said feeling silly for jumping to conclusions. "Like you would even want Charlotte to be Henry's girlfriend, anyway." She looked at Piper to see her reaction.
"I don't know, Charlotte is like a sister to me," She thought out loud. "I wouldn't mind them being together to be honest."
Joss couldn't believe what she was hearing that Henry's sister was on Charlotte's side. How dare she. She was supposed to help her. But then again they don't know each other that well, so why would Piper be rooting for her and Henry to be the winning team.
"Well, I guess we'll see who wins," she muttered to herself.
"What was that?" Piper asked.
"Oh I said, we should get back to studying," Joss spoke clearer.
Both girls went back to Piper's homework.
Her little chat with Piper had revealed a lot. So according to her, Charlotte and Henry are just friends. Joss could work with that.
And as far as Piper knows Henry is single. So all she has to do is ask Henry out next time she saw him and done and done. She'll be Henry's girlfriend in no time. It was just that easy. Like Henry would be able to resist her charms. She is totally way better than Charlotte, in every single way and she was gonna prove it.