Twisted Reality: The Grace and Katie Project

Starring: Katie Singer (Mischa Barton), Grace Manning (Julia Whelan), Sarah Grasser (Sarah Lind)

Guests Stars: Cori Tyler (Shiri Appleby), Joanna Christianson (Shannon Curfman), Joey Larue (Kristin Kreuk), August "Mr." Dimitri (Eric Stoltz), Julie (Julie Marie Berman), Tad Pincus (James Lafferty)

Katie says...

"Hey K, we going rollin' later with Joanna and Logan?" Cori asked as she came up behind me as I stuffed books into my locker and tried to act like I didn't hear her. "Answer me or else."

"Cori, no" I said finally as I turned and she gave me her patented puppy dog eyes and pooched lip look. She knows how that kills me and uses it every time she wants to get her way with me. "I'm staying home tonight. You and goofy Jo go rollin without me."

"You are one huge party popper" She said as Joanna walked up from down the hall and her and Cori bumped hips. "She's not going."

"Yeah cause you're coming" Joanna said as I laughed, Cori flipping her off. "Now if it was just me and her, she'd be begging huh Katie?"

"And why is it you think she likes you so much, I'm her personal slut" Cori said as I blushed and felt like fainting. Looking around and hoping no one had heard that little bit of 'incorrect information'.

"She's tired of screwin you whore" Joanna said as her and Cori got into a wrestling match as both laughed. "SHE WANTS ME...OH GOD..."

"You two are embarrassing" I said as I spotted 'her' for the first on the day. The 'her' is Grace Manning, I groaned at the sight of Joanna and Cori still play fighting in front of me as Grace walked by and offered a nervous smile before looking away and heading on down the hall. She is so perfect in every way. Her smile melts my heart, those eyes could just draw me in and keep me there and the way she dresses so casually and seems so at ease being her. It's just maddening knowing she's straight and I'd never have a chance with her. I watched her stuff some books into her locker and my heart jumped almost out of my chest when I thought I saw her look back my way, briefly. Me offering the same nervous smile, she closed her locker and right as she took a step or two towards me, Joanna and Cori crashed into the lockers in a fit of giggles and knocked me to the floor as the hallway erupted in laughter. "OWWWWWW!"

"Oh shit, did I do that?" Cori asked as she looked down at me with a huge shit eating grin on her face. Me rubbing my arm and Cori's attention being drawn away by a hard slap to her ass by Joanna. Cori jumped and squealed as Joanna gave her a defiant look and waited until Cori chased after her. The two soon disappeared into the crowd as one chased the other, leaving me sitting in the floor with a sore arm and bruised ego. I groaned and was about to get up when a soft voice asked, "You need some help?"

"Yes please" I said as I looked up and saw Grace standing over me. She gently took my hand and pulled me to my feet. "Thanks."

"You OK?" She asked. "That looked like it hurt."

"My arm is broke I think" I said as she smiled. "You follow me around the rest of the day and carry my books?"

"Well..." She started to say with a shy smile. I swear she was gonna say yes before our drama teacher, Mr. Dimitri, appeared on the horizon and tapped on her shoulder. She grinned as she saw him and I don't know if it was just me but he sure seemed to like the attention as well. "Oh, Mr. Dimitri."

"Ladies, are you coming to class?" He asked as he smiled confidently and glanced at me briefly. I could have killed him in that moment for ruining my moment with Grace. But he was right, class was about ready to begin so it would have been cut short anyway.

"Yeah be on in" Grace said as Mr. Dimitri smiled and headed off into the auditorium. Grace turning back to me. "Does he seem weird to you?"

"Mr. Dimitri?" I asked.

"Yeah he keeps smiling at me" Grace said.

"You seemed to like the attention" I said as she blushed.

"Maybe, he's nice and doesn't seem creepy like a lot of older guys" She said. "I dunno."

"You don't seem creepy at all too" I said and groaning silently at the dorkish nature of my comment. "I'm such a dork."

"I wouldn't know" She said with a sweet smile. "Maybe you should..."

"Grace, come on!" Julie said as she poked her head out of the door of the auditorium. Grace smiled apologetically and turned to follow her best friend. Leaving me to wonder what she was about to say before we were so rudely interrupted once again. God I hate my life sometimes, nothing ever seems to be easy for me. So with nothing left to distract me I too headed into class.

"OK, set down and SHUT UP" Mr. Dimitri barked as we came in and I looked to see Grace, sitting on the other side of the auditorium next to her chatty best friend, Julie. I tried to find a reason to go and casually sit down by her, but knowing Julie, I'd never be able to get a word in edge wise. But me being me, I didn't have the guts anyway. So null and void on that subject. "Today we're beginning a new experiment in acting."

"What? You gonna pretend you know something about it?" Tad Pincus asked as I covered my face to stifle a giggle and the room erupted in laughter as Mr. Dimitri smiled and said, "Yeah Tad and I'm gonna pretend that you have acting ability."

"OHHHHHHHHHHHH" The crowd said as Tad laughed along.

"No seriously, this is what I have planned" Mr. Dimitri, "We are gonna try and pair each of you off with another individual in the class and on this stage you're going to improvise a scene, one at a time from each of you. We'll try several different types of story. Meaning each scene will only have the bare details. You, and your partner, so to speak, have to convince me and the rest of the class what what you're saying is really true."

"Can we do romance?" Julie asked from beside Grace. Pretty blond girl, who doesn't stand out, but has a mouth like no one else I know and speaking of, now that I was looking was pretty hot in her own right.

"I think that's the hardest emotion to fake or act if you will" Mr. Dimitri said as he smiled at Julie, "That is an excellent suggestion. Let's make that today's topic. All of the scenes will be romance. No kissing unless you feel comfortable, but you have to make us believe it."

"Be a great opportunity for me to tell Grace how much I like her without ever having to actually say anything in private" I thought to myself. See I've had a crush on her for the longest time. And now that we are in the same class and I can actually talk to her for a change and it not look weird, I finally got the chance I've been waiting for. What you saw earlier was literally one of the first times we've ever talked.

Look, I know she's straight or so she appears and according to her step-sister Jessie, she's totally into guys. But something is honestly drawing me to her, those eyes (as I mentioned) and that cute smile to start, both are pretty striking. It's not like I don't know her or anything, I've chatted with her online a time or two (she had no idea it was me though), and she seemed so nice. Then one day (last week I think) by my locker she came by and gave me this flirty smile as she spun around and disappeared off into the distance.

I just hope something happens soon that will at least give me another chance to talk to her. It'll probably end up being bad, but at least I'll get to find out for myself. Besides life can't any worse than a broken heart, which I've had for a long time. See, my ex, Sarah Grasser still pretty much has me on her shit list. And no matter what she won't forgive me (more on that later). So I've made up my mind to let her come to me or I'm moving on. Which ever comes first. Suddenly it happened, a break in the clouds.

"Katie?" Mr Dimitri asked to get my attention as I looked up and smiled. Noticing he was motioning me onto the stage, I grinned sheepishly and got up and joined him as a few of the others laughed. Total idiots most of them are. Mr. Dimitri took a moment and looked around as he studied the nervous mass of students. None of them wanting to be paired with me I figured.

"And..." He said as he looked at his student list and found a suitable guy for me to pretend I'm straight with.

"Grace?" Mr. Dimitri said as my heart nearly stopped and she looked up.

"Yes?" She asked in confusion, I'm sorry but it if it's possible, she's even cuter when she's confused.

"Join me on stage?" Mr. Dimitri asked with a charming smile.

"OK, but I thought this was gonna be romance?" Grace asked as she came on stage.

"It is, you are one of my best students and I want you to show everyone what you can do" Mr. Dimitri said as he turned and left the stage.

"Are you nuts?" She asked as she looked down at him in disbelief and the room filled with a nervous laughter. Forcing me to crack a smile myself at her reaction. Not like I wouldn't have reacted that way too honestly, but still it was funny. "Katie's a girl and so am I. In case you hadn't noticed. I'm OK with people being who they are but..."

"WE DID BABE" Tad screamed as the room erupted in laughter. "KISS HER."

"Just a second" Mr. Dimitri said as he turned to the crowd with a determined look on his face and for some reason I had the courage to approach Grace and touch her hand as she smiled at me and it dawned on me in that moment, that she knew my name. Talk about a small but exciting development.

"OK, Tad, out" Mr. Dimitri said in a demanding voice. "OUT."

"What the hell?" Tad asked as he stood.

"You and the rest of the peanut gallery are not gonna ruin this for everyone who comes here to learn" Mr. Dimitri.

"It'll be OK" I said to Grace softly as she smiled at me and seemed to calm down. "I'm scared half to death."

"Me too" She said as she touched my hand, I nearly wet my panties. "You sure you don't mind?"

"I'd rather have it be you...ummm...you know, than someone I really don't know at all" I said. "Besides now I can hit on you and you can't stop me."

"Shut up" She said with a flirty giggle as she pushed me away and I knew then she liked it at least a little.

"Now I'm deadly serious, one more comment from anyone and I will make you the next Tad Pincus" Mr. Dimitri said in a firestorm. Giving me a long moment to think about things. I realized then that my dad, Craig, had gotten tickets to see a band called 'Wylan Keller and the Alley Cats' but he and Mom had decided not to go after finding out he played blues. So they stuck me with the tickets. So thinking quick I made a decision to jump into this 'Grace thing' with both feet and hope for the best. Mr. Dimitri going on as I snapped back to reality. "Two weeks suspension, one month of detention and it goes on your permanent record. And you will not for any reason, no matter how much your parents threaten, get a grade in this class. So before you make that stupid comment you better be damn sure it's worth it. Am I understood and I wanna hear every single one of you say, yes, Mr. Dimitri."

"Hey, weird I know, but I just have to ask" I said as Grace looked at me with that heart melting smile. "I've got some tickets to a club downtown tonight and you wanna go with me? You drive right?"

"So you're inviting me cause I drive?" She asked and I swear she was flirting with me. God she's so adorable.

"If you don't want too..."

"I didn't say that, who's playing?" Grace asked as she touched my arm and Mr. Dimitri turned back to us as I said in a rush, "Wylan Keller and The Alley Cats, blues?"

"I like blues some" She said, "Meet me after and we'll talk?"

"Yeah" I said and could barely contain my excitement. I had a date with Grace Manning, the oh so gorgeous Grace Manning.

"OK, now can we try this?" Mr. Dimitri said. "Please Grace? Please Katie? This is very important, cause I think you two can pull this off without making each other feel uncomfortable."

"OK, I'm in" Grace said as I smiled and shrugged, trying to pretend I was just going along for the sake of not being a party pooper. But in reality about to jump out of my skin in excitement.

"Thank you, OK, any suggestions for a scene?" Mr. Dimitri asked as he turned back to the class. "Remember what I said."

"Katie and Grace like each other" Julie said and I saw her give her best friend a knowing smile and Grace glaring at her. Did Julie know something? "Is what I mean is, maybe Katie has to convince Grace to go out on a date with her?"

"If she won't go out with Katie, how about me Grace?" Joey Larue (a very cute brunette in her own right) asked from the front row as the room erupted in laughter. Mr. Dimitri turning to her and raising his hand and about to say something when Joey went on, "Don't get your thong in a knot D man, everyone knows I'm out, seriously. Besides me and Grace are neighbors. She can kill me later."

"And I will to" Grace said as she pointed at Joey. "Mr. Dimitri it's OK, she's just a class clown."

"OK, Grace, Katie, I think Julie's suggestion was excellent is that OK?" Mr. Dimitri asked. "Anytime you're ready. Katie you start."

"Thanks" I said as I shot him a dirty look as he sat down by Joey and observed. Turning to Grace I smiled as she momentarily looked down at her hands and back to me as I began, "So you know I like you right?"

"Kinda of got that idea" Grace said in a perfect reply and giving me that shy smile that makes me melt into a puddle of Singer goo.

"So you don't like me?" I asked and felt myself getting nervous even though I was waiting on a fake answer.

"I didn't say that" She replied. "I mean...I might have liked you for a long time and you just didn't give me the time of day, you ever think of that?"

"It's eleven thirty" I said as she grinned. "Want the weather too?"

"Sure!"

"Well it was sunny the day I first saw you" I said as her smiled spread, "Rainy when you went out with that loser who dumped you. What was his name?"

"Slips my mind" Grace said as a small giggle scattered over the crowd.

"And if you agree to go out with me it'll be sunny again" I said.

"I dunno, seriously" She said. "I mean what will people think?"

"They'll think you like me."

"I just don't know if I'm ready for that" She said as she looked down and then back up at me as I stepped directly in front of her.

"And if you give me a chance, I can promise you I'll be what you been looking for."

"And what's that?"

"Someone true and honest" I said as I touched her hand. My heart racing like crazy in that moment. "I can promise you we'd have fun."

"I dunno you're kinda dorky" Grace said as I blushed and tried not to laugh. She grinned victoriously. "But if that dork keeps being nice to me I might say..."

"Say what?" I asked as the fire alarm sounded and Mr. Dimitri groaned as he motioned for us to clear out. I swear I hate my life sometimes, I was now in a complete daze at what had just happened. I, Katie Singer, the biggest dork on this planet, had a semi-date with the gorgeous and semi cool Grace Manning. And she even seemed to be flirting with me in front of everyone, even if we were acting. Seriously, if the school burned down right now I'm not sure I'd care as long as I still got to go out with Grace tonight.

I'm literally bouncing around on thin air, just trying to remain calm outside as everyone exited to the parking out and the football field. Being lost in my thoughts as I wandered over to a place where I could think about Grace in peace and losing track of her as we made our way out I could just hope she'd been serious about our earlier plans. I leaned against a post and stood there for a long time thinking, apparently having a smile plastered on my face too as visions of that gorgeous creature on my arm swam through my mind. So lost in 'Grace Land', I didn't hear my name being called.

"Hey, hey" Sarah said as she pushed me gently. "What's got you so happy?"

"I've got a date...I mean nothing" I said as I then covered the gaping hole in my face as Sarah gave me the meanest look she could muster as she asked in a bitter tone, "Who the hell would go out with you?"

"Well you for one" I said as I pointed at her. "I said I was sorry a million times."

"Whatever" She said, "Who you got this hot date with?"

"It's not a date really, just me and a friend hanging out" I said.

"Well you obviously like this skank?" Sarah asked and I swear she loved seeing the smile leave my face. "Or you gonna pretend to be straight now?"

"Screw you, I said I was sorry for what happened with Cori, you sure didn't seem to mind her when she was between your fuckin legs" I said as she got a shocked look on her face and I swear she was gonna smack me. But she didn't, typical Sarah, not the violent type, but she can be mean and cruel when you really hurt her, like I did had done I guess.

"You and that whore got me drunk and seduced me, I don't even remember most of it" She spat as her anger fired. "You know I didn't wanna do it and you made me."

"No I didn't" I spat back in a equally nasty voice. "We all got smashed and she kissed you, and you kissed her back, that's the truth."

"No shit?" Sarah asked as I took a step back at her sudden change in attitude.

"No shit" I said calmly and thinking this maybe my opportunity, I surged ahead. "No one made you do anything, I tried to explain that. You kissed her back, you did and then my hormones took over."

"Damn" Sarah said as she leaned against the bus behind her in shock. "I seriously don't remember. Parts of it, maybe, but not a lot of it."

"If you would just give me a chance..." I pleaded suddenly. "I swear I'd do anything to make it better."

"You can't make it better" Sarah said, "What happened, happened, OK so the sex wasn't your fault. But you did get me drunk."

"Guilty" I said, "Why do you hate her so much and don't say it's because this, you hated her before this."

"Cori's a bed hopping little whore" Sarah said with fire in her eyes and I knew whatever we had going may now be gone. "She just wants to fuckin lay you, so she could claim you as another notch. I loved you, but you're too god damn horny all the time to see that."

"You never gave any of my friends a chance" I spat back and being so angry and just plain tired of fighting with her I crossed the line with my next comment. "And just so you know, the threesome wasn't the first time she'd had me."

"You said I was your...first..." Sarah said as I covered my face and knew I'd gone to far and had really hurt her this time. She backed away and started to cry into her hands.

OK, so I know Cori Tyler is a trouble maker and always has been, but damn that girl is good in bed. Cori took my virginity. We were 14 at the time and just horny teenagers with an empty house and on a quiet Saturday afternoon we went all the way. No one regretted it cause we both liked it and even considered dating. Until I met Sarah a few months later. She was different than all the other girls I had met, I knew she was gay from the rumor mill and she was sweet and nice and we just hit it off. I saw it as a way to change my life for good and for a while it worked. Until that is, Cori hit upon the idea of a threesome.

Well, I'm horny, most of the time and that thought just ran through me like nothing ever had. Having two girls, one being Cori, who is hot anyway and the other being Sarah, who herself is hurt me sexy. It was too much for me to resist. But Sarah wanted nothing and I mean nothing to do with it. But I kept pestering her and on a Saturday night, Cori dropped by with wine coolers and me, her and Sarah got pretty wild. Anyway, long story short, Cori kissed Sarah and then to my shock Sarah smiled and kissed her back and I got to watch my girlfriend make out with another girl for the first time. Knowing they both wanted me and I wanted them I just couldn't stop myself and I gave into the intense desire and experienced a night of sex so good it still makes me tingle.

"Fuck you" Sarah finally spat in a bitter/nasty 'I hate you' tone.

"Well you know what, Sarah, you're to perfect for me" I said, "I'm going out tonight with Grace Manning and I hope like hell she gives me half a chance, cause if she does, I'm gonna jump at it."

To be Continued....