Excuses
Summary: Chrissy's grades start to drop so the school guidance counselor suggests a tutor. Chrissy forms a little crush on her tutor and finds herself making more and more excuses to be around her
Pronouns used: She/her
Warnings: Mentions of hallucinations and insomnia, i've never had a tutor so idk what it's like, not proof read, lots of fluff, cheesy re-creation of hopper asking out joyce to Enzo's, internalized homophobia
A/n: I'm so glad more Chrissy fics are being made. My prayers have been answered. we're gonna ignore the fact Jason exists.
Ever since Chrissy started seeing things, she's started having sleepless nights. And those sleepless nights caused poor academic performances. And poor academic performances cause poor grades.
The school guidance counselor, Ms. Kelly, suggested one of the best students of the school to be Chrissy's tutor.
Now that it's free period, most friend groups would be hanging out with each other, but for this free period, Chrissy had to visit her new tutor in the library.
As Chrissy was entering the library she scanned the area for her tutor. Then she realized she had no idea who she was looking for.
"You're Chrissy right?" A voice behind her asked
"Ah!" Chrissy yelped in response.
"Woah! Sorry, didn't mean to scare you."
"Um, no it's okay. Not trying to be rude but, how do you know my name?"
"I dunno. I mean, you're like the queen of Hawkins High so..." The other girl said, shrugging.
There was an awkward silence between the two. The other girl slightly rocked her body back and forth, waiting for a response from the cheerleader.
"Anyways", the girl said breaking the silence. "I'm your tutor, Y/n."
"Nice to meet you Y/n."
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They're a few minutes into their tutoring session and everything is going pretty normal. Chrissy realizes she's seen Y/n many times around school, but never really talked to her. She takes a few second to look at her.
'I never realized how pretty Y/n was'
Those few seconds turned into a minute. Y/n got the feeling she was talking to herself and looked to her side and realized Chrissy was staring at her.
"Um, Chrissy? You there? Or am I just talking to myself?"
Chrissy blinked many times to recollect herself and realized she was staring at Y/n.
"Oh, sorry." Chrissy nervously looks down at the books and paper Y/n was using to tutor her.
"It's fine."
They carried on with the session but it became a little more tense and awkward.
Since free period was starting to come to an end, the two girls had to wrap up their tutoring session. The bell rang, indicating it was time to get to their next class.
"Well, I think this is a good place to stop. See you tomorrow Chrissy!" Y/n said while collecting her things and starting to get up from her chair.
"Bye!" Chrissy said while doing the same as Y/n.
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The next day at school, Chrissy was walking to the library for her second day of tutoring. She saw Y/n walking down the hall with a group of friends also approaching the library. Y/n didn't seem to notice Chrissy and walked into the library. Chrissy hurried in to catch up with her. She scanned the room and found that Y/n was seated in the same place as yesterday.
She approached the seat and pulled out the chair next to the other girl to sit down.
"Hi Chrissy, ready to start?"
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After a few sessions, the two girls start to become closer. Chrissy continues to admire the other girl from afar. Y/n also started to call the cheerleader "Chris". Chrissy would never admit it, but she would purposefully fail classes to be around Y/n.
'I'm struggling with Math, could you help me a little?'
'I don't really understand what we're doing in Biology, do you have a little time after to school to help me?'
'Maybe during Lunch you could help me with this book report?'
These were some of the excuses Chrissy said so she could hang out with Y/n just a little more than during free period. But Y/n had to admit, she liked being around the cheerleader. She came to every cheer performance, helped with anything she needed, and would even hang out with her after school.
One day, Chrissy had to skip one tutoring session to go to a cheer practice her coach requested for the team.
"I'm so sorry." Chrissy genuinely apologized
"No, why are you apologizing? It's fine if we miss one session, plus you've had a lot of extra tutoring outside of free period as well."
Chrissy thought for a few moments and said, "How about you come watch this practice? And to make up for missing the session we could do it after school."
"Of course, I think I have time."
"How about at Enzo's at around 7:30?"
Y/n slowly realized she was being asked out on a date. The thought of that made a blush creep up to her cheeks.
'Wait, two girls going out on a date? Romantically? No way. But Chrissy is very pretty... But there's no way the queen of Hawkins High is asking me, of all people, out on a date! Maybe it isn't a date, just two friends hanging out and studying. Right?'
"Uhm, sure! Do you want to meet there or...."
"I'll pick you up at 6" Chrissy said eagerly.
"Well, see you at Enzo's!"
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