"Hey, Jeikeh!" Mexico exclaimed, secretly relieved as the true love of her life picked up the phone. She could envisage him right now, his messy hair falling over his eyes, the dark orange colour of his neck, his bumpy jaw line... and never the least his just-growing-beard with approximately seven hairs in it.

"Hey, Mex. How are ya?"

"Our, erm, study date went so well last time, I was wondering if you wanted to revise some English together?" Mexico asked, twirling a strand of hair around her finger.

"Uh, yeah, sure." Jeikeh replied eagerly. "But I have maths homework to do, could we work on that instead?"

Mexico couldn't helped but be turned on by the prospect of Jeikeh teaching her to solve maths equations (it was possible that her admiration for Mr Navis had given her a slight student-teacher fetish).

"Oh, sure!" she giggled.

Jeikeh nodded slowly, like he was trying to make sense of something, but then he said "I'll see you after school then? We can go to my place."

"Perfect." said Mexico, biting her lip (maybe a little too hard as she could taste blood) flirtily. "I'll see you tomorrow, Jeikeh!" It was such a shame Jeikeh couldn't see how sexily she was biting her lip. It was a sight to behold.

"See ya, Mex. Bye."

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It was the most perfect afternoon. Jeikeh's parents were out, and Mexico and Jeikeh had spent an unusually long time getting out their maths papers and calculators, laughing together as they did so. She could sense something in the air. Love, love, it must be love. It might also be Jeikeh's manly deodorant that smelled of peppermint tree bark, but it was probably love.

Mexico looked up at Jeikeh's stunning crystal blue eyes. They were glistening orbs, swimming pools she'd love to dive into (naked). She was lost in the wonders of his pupils that she didn't notice him lean forward to gently brush some crumbs off the side of her lip with his thumb.

She blinked as she felt his touch, falling out of her trance, and gave him a lusty look. This had to be it. He'd initiated contact - semi-sexual contact, too. Mexico licked her lips, leaning forward slightly, expecting him to take over and just kiss her once and for all.

"You had something on your lip." Jeikeh said in a suave, low, husky tone, the one you normally only read about in fanfiction. He also leaned closer, and when their lips were about to touch, Mexico felt a strong urge to sneeze.

She gasped, taking in a sharp breath, but couldn't hold it back, and sneezed in Jeikeh's face.

"Jeikeh!" She wailed. "I'm so sorry!"

"Oh my god, you have cooties!" Jeikeh shrieked, running into her bathroom. Mexico heard the water running and Jeikeh emerged a moment later, with a soaked t-shirt.

Mexico was internally punching herself - how could she have done that? Seconds away from making out with her one and only true love and she had to ruin it? She might as well give up all hopes of marrying him now. She thought bitterly of the list of their children's names she'd prepared and how that would no longer be of any use.

"Jeikeh, I'm so sorry, honey!"

Jeikeh wiped his face vigorously with his t-shirt (giving Mexico a tasty look at his torso, which was underwhelming to say the least) then sighed, shaking his head. "It's okay. I washed it all off."

Mexico nodded quickly, smiling widely. She'd almost lost her chance, but maybe she could still sneak in a kiss. Jeikeh, however, seemed to be turning back to his papers, ready to concentrate.

She couldn't help but huff annoyedly. Why did everything always go so wrong for her? Why couldn't she just make out with Jeikeh like a normal girl would? Her life was a true mess, a complete disaster. She hadn't even kissed anyone before!

Were you meant to sort of suck the air out of their mouth whilst gently licking their lips? Or bite their lips? Or bite their tongue. Or maybe just latch onto him and let him lead the kiss - yes, mature, experienced, sexually-advanced Jeikeh would be able to help her.

Mexico turned back to him to find him puzzling over 23 plus 46.

"It's 84." She said confidently, even though she had no idea.

"No, it's 69." He replied, then sniggered. Mexico raised an eyebrow.

"What's so funny about that?"

"It's a sex position." Jeikeh replied, sniggering further, then whipping out his phone to announce this discovery to all of his friends. Not only could he show off that he'd done the maths behind it, he'd get a few laughs out of people for his amazingly witty joke-making. Everyone knew the 69 joke was still completely relevant and utterly hilarious.

"So shall we finish the sheet?" Mexico looked down at the sheet of differential equations, not understanding a thing but knowing deep inside that Jeikeh knew the answers to all of them. How quickly he had solved that addition - a double digits one, too. How effortlessly the answers rolled of his tongue. She simply had to kiss him today.

He turned to look at her. To her, it seemed like that single glance pierced her to the core, making her shiver. "Yeah." he breathed, flicking his hair. "Let's finish the sheet."

As he said this, he gave her such an unbelievably death-drop sexy smile that she couldn't help herself. It was now or never. She wanted them to give in to their primal desires, she wanted them to be barely human in their lust for each other. Didn't Jeikeh's body language indicate that he wanted exactly the same thing? Of course it did.

Mexico almost jumped on him, and then pressed her lips against his, not moving them, but instead jerking her body wildly, copying the movements that she'd seen in films and music videos. Her lips stayed put against Jeikeh's, and for a moment he thought this was some new kind of kissing he hadn't heard about. Meanwhile Mexico continued dancing around beside him, shaking her hips like they didn't lie and twisting her shoulders like she was having a seizure.

Jeikeh was slightly confused at all this attention (and at Mexico's twisting body), but then decided (probably against his better judgement) to not yell for help and/or call an ambulance as Mexico was still kissing him, and if she were truly dying, that wouldn't exactly be possible. Plus, she was letting out loud cries of pleasure (or at least that's what he thought they were, it was kind of hard to tell because she was sort of yelling). So Jeikeh decided to just kiss her back. At least this meant he didn't have to do math.

With this in mind, Jeikeh settled his hands on her hips and kissed her properly - or what he thought was properly, anyway, which mostly consisted of licking Mexico's lips and touching the tip of his tongue against hers before rapidly retracting it in a mixture of exhilaration and disgust.

Wow. Jeikeh had opened her eyes to a whole new world. Mexico pulled away, gasping dramatically for air, running a hair through her hair and performing her sexy eyes on Jeikeh. He moved back slightly, as Mexico hadn't had enough time to practise getting quite the right look and she just looked like she'd frozen mid-blink.

"Would you like to go on a date?" Mexico let out in a rush like a fart she'd been holding in for too long, her cheeks still tinted from the physical effort their kiss had taken.

Jeikeh shrugged, then nodded. Mexico let out an ecstatic exhalation. "Oh Jeikeh, really?! You have no idea how long I've been waiting for you to answer that question with a yes. Oh, Jeikeh!"

She looked like she was about to burst into floods of happy tears, so Jeikeh, not knowing how to deal with this emotional female, just awkwardly patted her back.

"Calm down please." he said, like he was slightly scared.

Mexico took deep breaths, wiping her face on her sleeve. "Ok. I'm calm." Then she waited for a second, as the fact that she had an actual date sunk in. "OH MY GOD I NEED TO TEXT BARBARA-ANN RIGHT NOW!!!!"

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"Hey, er, boy!" Barbara-Ann exclaimed, hurrying after one of Jeikeh's friends. He turned, then raised an eyebrow when he saw who it was. "You're a boy, great, a boy." She smiled. "Do you want to go out? As a couple. Totally not as friends. Like, as a couple that holds hands and stuff. A boy and a girl." She said.

The poor guy looked utterly confused as to why he was being picked on here - and if Barbara-Ann really wanted a boyfriend, surely she could do better?

"Er, I have a girlfriend." He lied quickly, his cheeks tinting pink, and then he turned and practically sprinted away. Barbara-Ann sighed. It was going to take a few practises, obviously, before she could trap one of these creatures.

"Hi, you're Roy, right?" She called suddenly. He nodded, coming over slowly. She immediately went red, and that angered her as she didn't want her embarrassment to be interpreted as actually liking a boy. Ugh!

"Heya."

"Are you looking for a girlfriend?" Barbara-Ann said. "I volunteer. I mean, I'd totally love to date you. To go on a date with you. No kissing though, please." She latched onto his arm.

"Um, Barbara, are you okay?" Roy asked. They weren't friends but they'd taken French together for four years and knew each other relatively well. Roy had watched Barbara-Ann grow and develop over that time and he'd quickly realised that Barbara-Ann... well, wasn't your typical girl.

"Yeah, I just think you're-" She paused to gag. "Really hot, and er, you probably need a girlfriend, so..." Barbara-Ann giggled, putting an arm around his waist. "I mean, everyone needs a girlfriend, right? Well, not girls. Duh." She went red.

Roy rolled his eyes, then leaned in to whisper something to Barbara-Ann. She blushed effusively, then rolled her eyes, then blushed harder. "I never realised." She said after that. Roy chuckled, then pulled away. "Say hi to her for me, then!"

"I sure will." Roy smiled kindly at her before departing, chuckling good-naturedly to himself.

Barbara-Ann sighed, half in desperation, half in pure annoyance. She was good looking enough to get a boy - she'd been complimented on her looks by most She never realised getting a boy would be this hard, or this time consuming. Boys sure were complex beings.

She'd have to find someone in Maths, or she'd be screwed. Mexico already had a date, and although the bet didn't mean as much to Barbara-Ann as she knew it did to Mexico, she needed to find someone, even if it was just to prove that she could.

A/N  hope you're all doing well xox