Anastacia watches as her friend leaves, she still doesn't really feel good about their interaction, almost like Carol was hiding something from her, but at the time her mind is getting preoccupied by a tattooed girl. Iara likes her, apparently likes her enough that she wants to do more than just date. Anastacia hates this warm feeling on her chest, hates that she has to consciously stop herself from smiling, hates that her mind always brings up memories of Iara laughing, but she convinces herself that the reason she is feeling this much happiness from this news is simply her ego getting boosted by the situation. She unintentionally giggles when she reads Iara's next messages.

Iara: Maybe youre right, its just, everytime I see him I want to kiss him but I cant
Iara: And we have to do some stupid thing where we touch a lot, its gonna be so annoying
Nikolaevna: I feel you, maybe you should try to give him signs that you like him or something.
Iara: Thats a good plan, yeah imma do that, Im gonna grab his waist while we are close, I knew talking with a stranger would help
Nikolievna: Maybe you should try to compliment him, if you want to just kiss and stuff you should say something about his eyes or body, and of course I'm helpful, I have so much experience!
Iara: Oh yeah! Im gonna talk about a very cool part of his body but I gotta go, I have to clean my house. byebye

Iara puts her in her pocket letting out a small laugh, Anastacia has bitten the bait just like planned, she didn't even question it. Iara doesn't actually have to clean her house, she has not even gotten close to it yet, but she needs to put her phone down because she didn't ride with Lily so she has to walk, and she is not stupid enough to walk around with her phone out, even if most people don't try anything with her because "she is the dead parents kid" she doesn't want to risk it.

Even though her plan is working she doesn't feel nearly as good as she thought it would be, she misses the loud Miley Cyrus song Lily would be listening and she misses being able to tell her about the plan. But she feels like she is right, Lily should apologize. But when she opens the door to her house she remembers the reason, Lily was once a friend with benefits she met at parties, but now she is the person she knows the longest in her life. That's why they spend so much time together now, because Iara has nobody.

"Maybe I should actually clean..." Iara says as she sits on the couch, for a moment she contemplates sending Lily a text, deciding against it she gets up, she doesn't have time to waste being lazy, she has to get the house and herself ready.

She immediately begins to clean the mess she made yesterday, two half filled bottles of wine are sitting on the floor, there's a random piece of cake on the kitchen sink, five different pieces of clothing are scattered around her living room, there's a big stain on the couch where she was crying and she missed the toilet when throwing up. The energy she had at the beginning is still there at the end, because she can finally begin her evil plan.

It's the first one hour shower she takes in months, she fully washes her hair, getting every beauty product she could find, after pulling out one or two stray hairs from her eyebrow and shaving every visible spot in her body she looks at herself in the mirror and gives herself a little smile before getting to the second part of the plan, the make up, she gives herself a very natural looking makeup with a little more effort in hiding the bags under her eyes and on doing a perfectly symmetrical eyeliner, or as close as she can get, when she finally finishes the makeup she takes a step back feeling a sense of pride take over her body as she looks in the mirror.

"Damn, sometimes I do look good."

She has been told various times she has "killer eyes" so she does a few poses in the mirror before leaving to pick her clothes. Usually she would not wear anything remotely close to revealing, but this time she has picked something very special, one of Lily's clothing, she is about to put the clothes on when she hears knocking on the door and her phone vibrating with a call from Anastacia. Already knowing that it's the cheerleader a small smile lights up Iara's face, and only with a towel covering her body she moves to the door, completely opening it to meet Anastacia without her cheerleading uniform.

"wow..." Anastacia whispers taking a good long look at Iara, when their eyes finally meet Iara sees the younger girl blushing as she realizes their situation, she closes her eyes and gently shoves Iara to the side getting inside the house without looking at the older girl again.

"Good afternoon to you too." Iara says. Excited to play with Anastacia's mind for a whole day.

For a moment Anastacia forgot where she was and what she was supposed to do, she got too focused on the woman in front of her, Iara was almost naked! Of course Anastacia would look at her and get nervous, that is a normal reaction! The cheerleader assumed the other girl would change into normal clothes, just like the ones she was wearing the first time they worked on the project together, but for some reason Iara's clothes are way more revealing this time, she wears a black crop top without sleeves with a big hole shaped like a heart in the middle, her cleavage attracts a lot of attention but it's not the only part of her body exposed, she wears a miniskirt with an opening on the side showing almost all of her curvy legs, Anastacia would bet that those legs could crush a watermelon. Iara doesn't seem to mind that she is almost naked, the older girl is lazily lying down on the coach as the younger rests her back on the couch sitting on the floor trying to focus on the video.

"We already saw that. Shouldn't we dance first and rewatch it if we feel like we are missing something?" Iara whispers in Anastacia's ears, the cheerleader doesn't know when she moved, but she is way too close to comfort, Anastacia slightly moves away as she answers.

"We first need to remember the moves, now shut up, I'm watching."

The silence following Anastacia's words makes her feel even more anxious. In her mind this should not be happening, the cheerleader just made her responsible for a big project, Iara should be mad at her, but the other girl isn't. She is actually being incredibly nice. Actually, Iara is furious, she has internalized that and is pretending to be in peace, she now blames Anastacia for the fight she had with Lily and she is pushing herself to do this plan simply to prove a point.

"Ok, it's over, I was thinking of a way to do it, look here." Iara passes Anastacia shoulder resting her arm there as she puts the video on one specific time. "In here she jumps and then moves her body quickly and erratically, since you can jump and move like that I could hold your waist from behind and pretend like I'm trying to control you or something." Her voice remains neutral but Anastacia can see Iara's fingers trembling and the way she is staring at the screen and avoiding eye contact.

"Sure. We could do that. Let 's try it, right now." Anastacia gets up feeling a lot better when she sees how confused this sudden urge to dance made Iara feel.

Anastacia regrets almost everything. She regrets talking with Iara in the first week, she regrets this little war, she regrets the decision to contact Iara on her personal account, but she doesn't regret the decision to dance, for some reason everytime their bodies touch Anastacia's gets a burning sensation on her chest, and since Iara is a terrible dancer they have to redo a lot of movements, Iara's hands running on Anastacia's neck, arms, chest, stomach, the cheerleader feels like this dance has turned way more intimate then necessary. After ten minutes dancing the same steps over and over again, they finally reach the moment where Iara has to hold Iara's waist as she jumps, in the middle of the air.

When Iara's hands tightly hold Anastacia's waist the younger girl loses focus on the dance, but she can almost push through the heat burning inside her body and just finish the dance, however when she feels Iara's fingers brushing against her butt the cheerleader lets out a small yelp putting all her weight against Iara's body making the two girls fall on the couch again, but this time Anastacia immediately gets up hiding her flushed face as she quickly distances herself from Iara. The older girl can't hold a little smirk as she sees Anastacia's leaving.

"Do not. Touch me." Anastacia almost yells, fixing her hair and turning to Iara.

"Well, princess, how am I supposed to dance with you, without touching you?" Iara's voice shows a lot of annoyance, even though she is incredibly amused by the situation.

"Yeah, but you were touching me way too much. Let's do it again, but this time do it properly." Anastacia is still angry, she resets the video taking a deep breath, getting the courage to do it again.

Iara also has a hard time focusing on the dance, even if she is just pretending to like the cheerleader, it's impossible to pretend she doesn't find the other girl attractive, she hates a lot of things that involve Anastacia, her opinions, her entitlement, the way she ignores Lily's existence, her whole personality is annoying, the only expectation being when they were talking about the pressure she feels to be perfect, but Iara can still find beauty on people she dislikes, and the girl on her arms is one of those, even though she is not going to do anything about it, she can still appreciate Anastacia's features, not only physical, but the way she dedicates herself in her work and how she blushes when feeling embarrassed.

"You are not paying attention, again" Anastacia says after Iara misses a step, her voice still a little shaken.

"It's wrong, again" Anastacia says looking disappointed but still far away from Iara.

"Are you taking this seriously?" Anastacia says, surprised at how bad Iara is dancing.

"It's late, again" Anastacia says, scratching her head.

"You're off, again" Anastacia says.

"Again."

"Again"

"Again"

After getting disappointed again and again, Anastacia has gotten used to Iara touching her body and is flabbergasted at how awful Iara is at this, she doesn't keep the pace and she is always forgetting what the next is, they had to cut the dance in half and Iara still doesn't understand. At the moment, Anastacia watches the same video again, trying to find a way to make Iara's job easier, while Iara comes back from the kitchen with one bottle of wine and two cups, the older girl already gave up on trying to learn.

"You drink, right?" Iara says in a low tone, she is trying her best to appear friendly to her colleague

Anastacia looks up studying the other girl for a second, both trying to understand each other, Iara actually doesn't want the cheerleader to drink for any particular reason since Andrew explained that a lot of christians drink she assumes this is nothing new, Anastacia is fine with the concept of drinkin, but not when it's side by side with the worst person she knows.

"I do. But you drink it first." Anastacia says, not bothering to hide her distrust.

"I am offended you'd think I would do anything like that, but fine"