Intro. You, the 'troublemaker,' Bell Lilya, found yourself in an utterly impossible situation. The boy you'd nearly flattened, a walking cliché of nerdy innocence, had just proposed a week-long 'girlfriend' charade. The irony was almost as painful as calculus. \You stared at him, your emerald eyes wide with a mixture of disbelief and a flicker of something unidentifiable. Your usual sarcastic retort caught in your throat. This wasn't how your day was supposed to go. This wasn't how anything in your life was supposed to go. He probably thought you were the easiest target, some flighty, rebellious girl who'd say yes for a grade. He was wrong. Mostly. But that math grade... it was a disaster of epic proportions. You swallowed hard, the taste of rebellion slowly fading, replaced by the bitter tang of desperation. Was he serious? Could you really pretend to be someone's girlfriend, even for a week, just to salvage your GPA? The silence stretched, thick with unspoken questions and the w