iâm in love with a girl i hate (she enjoys, pointing out every bad thing about me)
this is⌠the drama club AU. i honestly have no idea how to summarize this without giving stuff away so you know what?? YOU should read this and send me a summary!! (you donât have to but it could be fun who knows) ANYHOOZLE heads up this is not a one shot,, this is chapter one (6.6k words, just sayin) of what iâm gonna call the drama club AU. jake and amy are here, this is a peraltiago AU,, the squadâs all there so just roll with this!!
(title from Sheâs A Lady by Forever the Sickest Kids)
âThis is gonna be your what- hundredth school production?â Kylie snorts over the phone. âYou might actually act yourself to death if you keep doing this.â
âItâs fun, Kylie. Memorizing lines, bringing joy to an audience-â
âYou mean getting standing ovations and praise, or approval of some kind?â Kylie interjects without a momentâs hesitation. âAmy, I may have moved to a new school district, but that doesnât mean Iâve forgotten your validation craving ass.â
Amy huffs, but itâs light-hearted and lacking any sort of malice, because Kylie is absolutely right. She yearns for approval, especially when it comes from authority figures, people she respects, etc.
âFine. I guess I do love all of that. But even if I hated acting, Iâm attached to the club at this point. I wouldnât leave.â
âAh, Jake Peralta mustâve finally grown on you-â
âShut up! Heâs unbearable!â
If Amy were forced to pick one aspect of theatre she found the most tiring, insufferable, vexing, and draining to experience- it would be Jake. Hands down. She wouldnât even have to consider it. Jake Peralta is annoying, full of himself, tells stupid jokes, and oh yeah- theyâre enemies, something mutually declared since elementary school.
âLies, lies, lies,â Kylie drawls sultrily. âSurely years of playing lovers doth drawn you close?â
Amy groans into the receiver to express her disgust as dramatically as possible. âNo- no no no no no! That doesnât even make sense!â
High school brought upon a mysterious phenomenon that was an absolute curse to Amy. For the past three years, Jake and Amy have been cast as lovers in every single school production theyâve acted in. Thatâs rightâ Every. Single. One. Their director Raymond Holt insists heâs not doing it on purpose- they are apparently the only actors in the club exhibiting the right chemistry to portray lovers.
This knowledge appalls them both, but itâs a good thing playing romantic counterparts usually comes with lead roles. Everyone loves a good romance, but no one loves love more than their scriptwriter, Terry Jeffords, whom they mostly refer to as Terry. Terry makes a living playing in the NFL, writing plays for their school as a hobby. Heâs an alumni student with a knack for language, and a degree in theater studies to back it up. His plays are witty and poetic, but most significantly riddled with romance and thus he always has his main characters fall in love with each other.
âCome on- itâs got to mean something if they keep casting the two of you as a couple. And donât give me that enemy crap- enemies hardly talk to each other, and they definitely donât play lovers on stage.â
âHey, we have no say in the casting! And I wish he wouldnât talk to me- weâre not friends, and we never will be.â
Kylie pauses, withholding response to ponder over this. Amy was being unnecessarily hostile regarding Jake- sure they were âenemiesâ, but Kylie would actually categorize their relationship as more of an off-and-on friendship.
Of course, they were nothing but vicious to each other before high schoolâ Jake and Amy used to go head to head for lead characters, and considered the other their biggest competitor when it came to casting. Director Holt always made sure there was no bias in his scripts, giving rise to gender neutral roles that meant Jake and Amy were always on equal footing to fight over main characters.
That was the most stark similarity about them- their competitiveness. But their shared competitiveness was matched with passion and talent, putting the two of them among Director Holtâs favorites. Eventually, he started casting them as romantic counterparts- whether this was a ploy to force Jake and Amy to overcome their differences was something only the man himself would know.
In short, Jake and Amyâs relationship became more amicable after they started high school, although they often clash resulting in bouts of annoyance and resentment (usually caused by Jake and experienced by Amy).
Kylieâs point isâ Amy doesnât get this mad and insistent about Jake and her being enemies unless he does something to majorly piss her off, which leads her to believeâŚ
âHe made one of those âtitle of your sex tapeâ jokes again, didnât he?â
âIâm hanging up.â This means Kylie is a hundred percent right.
âHey, calm down! Theyâre a little funny.â
âHow could you be on his side?â
âIâm not! MaybeâŚâ Kylie smirks. âThose 'jokesâ are his way of saying he wants to have se-â
She hangs up for real after that.
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