#cheere

Okay so idk why some people in the BMC fandom think Christine is even remotely popular, the poor girl is never once seen with one friend. Not even one. For most the beginning of the show, she's seen alone and the only interactions she has are with Jeremy. Christine is just as unpopular as Jeremy(hell, Jeremy at least has ONE friend). They are literally in the same like...social class. You think maybe this is why Jeremy liked her? Other than just actually having a genuine crush on her. Like, Jeremy obviously does not like the popular girls that much(I mean Brooke is sweet but he clearly doesn't feel right dating her, even if it was fake and meant to attract attention). He likes Christine. Heck, he clearly reassures to the Squip that Christine is the only girl he wants.

I think maybe Jeremy realizes she's kind of alone and that's why he finally gets the guts to talk to her. Because he gets her and understands that kinda...need for companionship, romantic or not. So he finally signs up for the play. And the first time he feels a social disconnect(when Christine is joking about the swim team), he goed to leave. But Christine is fast to tell him she was joking, which gets him to stay. She wanted him to stay because she was lonely. The entirety of "I Love Play Rehearsal" is her rambling to this boy she just met about her passion. She's never had a person to ramble to before. This is kind of a first for her. And Jeremy just listens and takes it all in(also his legs are crossed during the entire song but I think you are smart enough to figure out why). This is kind of the connecting moment between these two. Because Jeremy is clearly a rambler from the beginning of "More Than Survive". He literally rambles to himself about the option of walking or taking the bus to school. Something so insignificant to others, but not to him. Christine is rambling about play rehearsal, something to significant to her because it's her only place to shake loose any anxiety and just be herself.

And over the progression of the show, you see Jeremy only really be himself around two people. Michael and Christine. Aka the two most important people to him. And even still, he's sorta awkward around them both, and one of them is literally his childhood best friend so that says a lot. But on Halloween, when Jeremy doesn't know what to say and Christine tells him to "say what's on your mind", the first thing he does is replicate what she did at play rehearsal, and makes a weird ass noise. He remembered that little detail that seems kinda insignificant to others. In return to his noise, Christine makes a noise. And they just kinda make silly noises for a short while. This whole scene is Jeremy expressing he's a good listener. This is the first time since Jeremy got the Squip that we see the REAL Jeremy. And assuming he hasn't gotten as much time around Christine as he would like, this moment must be HUGE for him. So huge he gets the guts to ask Christine out. He finally asks this girl he's crushed on since, supposedly middle school(the mention of "you've known him since seventh grade" implies Christine has only been going to Middleborough schools since middle, and Jeremy's crush seems a long time standing so...plus Jere thought she was talking about him so it could imply he first saw her in seventh grade), and he sadly gets turned down. Note, the "Christiiiine" is brought back, and we haven't heard that melody since "Upgrade"(which I like to assume is a few weeks before Halloween due to the play being a day after Halloween and "you ignored me for weeks". Thank you Michael for giving me a time frame to work with). We haven't heard that little medley since Jeremy stopped being himself. That pining just kinda hid in the shadows.

Christine rejects Jeremy but in a really polite and sweet way. He asks her "aren't we friends?" In a rather panicked voice and she tells him that they are, but she feels she can't be in a relationship until she finds herself.

Also, before the events of "The Play", Christine tells Jeremy that the Squip sounds awful. This is when he realizes that the Squip is bad. Not when Michael told him. When Christine told him. Jeremy's eyes are opened up to reality becaude this girl he is so in love with, the girl who kindly rejected his confession, told him. This is when Jeremy becomes frantic to shut the Squip off.

But then he sees Christine get Squipped and I will say, his "No!" Is really emotional because his voice is cracky and full of worry and sadness for Christine because he doesn't want her to go through what he did. So he literally sacrifices the mental sanity of himself and all the other students JUST to save Christine. He didn't know all the Squips would shut off. And he wasn't ready to let Christine suffer so they could be together. He sacrificed his own happiness so she could be safe.

And Christine(along with Michael, Rich, and Jeremy himself)remembers what happened with the Squips and doesn't believe it to be ecstasy. She only knew for a brief moment what caused Jeremy to do the things he did and decides she needs to get to learn the real Jeremy.

She didn't go on the "date" with him because she had fallen for him. She went to lunch with him so she could get to know him. She didn't know Jake when they dated. And it was clear that was her first romantic relationship. This is her not making the same mistake twice. She isn't going to blindly date somebody again just because she thinks she likes them.

And Jeremy isn't gonna let somebody else tell him how he should get somebody to like him. Because he shouldn't have to make them like him. They should like him for himself if they're going to. So he's gonna allow Christine to learn who he really is. The first step to that is hanging out not during school. And lunch was the best idea Jeremy had.

Them having lunch together doesn't mean they end up together. Joe Iconis even said he didn't know if they did end up together. But he said it wasn't the ending for any of them.

((As for the kiss, platonic kisses exist okay. Can't say too much about that))

The point of this is

A) to prove these two are actually compatible

B) to prove that they both grew as characters over the course of the show and are learning from their mistakes

C) to prove Jere actually DOES like Christine

And

D) to prove that Cheere/Stage Dorks is actually very much plausible and possible in the realm of canon.

-Christine is passionate about everything she likes, that includes her boyfriend

-she can and will gush about him all the time, happily showing pictures of him and them together to everybody

-Jeremy thinks this is adorable and while not as avid as Christine he still loves his girlfriend

-Christine may be shorter than Jeremy, by a lot, but that won't stop her from trying to pick up her boyfriend and sweep him off his feet

-Jeremy goes to all of Christine's shows and practices where he brings her flowers for right after the show

-Jeremy's cardigan is big on Christine and when she borrows it she will flap her arms around in it

-she shows a lot of affection for Jeremy in front of everybody, randomly kissing or hugging him making his face turn a bright red

-Christine has so many socks and they're all amazing, Jeremy ends up borrowing the socks a lot

-his favorite to borrow being a pair of cat knee highs

-she came to school wearing cat ears to match the socks and Jeremy was extremely uncomfortable about that

-Christine already had suspicions about Jeremy but seeing him react to the cat ears only confirmed them

A girl of nineteen 

With a nervous marine 

Feel her head begin to lean 

As the melody soars