"Previously, on Faking It..." " From now on, I'll stay out of your life." " Maybe that's for the best." "I think you picke that fight because you were jealous." "Of Theo?" "on't be riiculous!" "o I smell a show-mance?" "This morning, we ha one secret between us." " Now we have two." " I know this will probably make everyboy hate me, but I'm not really a lesbian." "Have a great rest of your ay, Hesterians." "An remember to take the High Roa an give your best wishes to Karma Ashcroft, 'cause even someone that fakes lesbianism an offens an entire persecute minority eserves a happy 16th birthay." "Hey there, my B-ay BFF." "How sweet has 16 been?" "Toothache inucing?" "Less sweet, more bitter, especially with you home sick." "Maybe it's karma." "Not... me, Karma." "I mean "karma" Karma." "I'm not following." "I amitte to being a fake lesbian, an now I'm a pariah." "Maybe the fates have also place a pox on your house." "Okay, cliff-notes, it's not a pox." "It's strep." "An the only karma I believe in is the one who can eat her weight in cake frosting." "It just sucks not to be celebrating with the people I care about most." " People?" " Person." "Singular." "As in you, my strep-stricken soul sister." "Well, I promise I won't miss any more milestone birthays." "For your 18th, we'll buy porn." "An there's 21... that one's obvious." "An for your 50th, Alaskan cruise." "I'm thinking we'll be pretty into whale watching by then." "Where' you go?" "Karma?" "I'm here." "I just got to my locker." "Surprise!" "Amy!" "What are you oing here?" "I fake sick to set up your greatest birthay scavenger hunt to ate." "What's up with the longing Liam looks?" "I thought you two were through." "Oh, we are." "Completely unzo." "Trust me." " Are you sure?" " Totally." "An you in't have to go through all this trouble." "I mean, after the week that I've been having," "I on't really feel like celebrating." "You're a social leper, so what?" "Soon we'll go back to being ignore like the goo ol ays." "All we nee is each other." "An to prove that point," "I have recreate key moments in our frienship." "That's right... this hunt is the best of Karmy retrospective." "Has anyone ever tol you you're the best frien ever?" "Yeah." "Let's o this." "Uh..." "Toay is your ay." "I'm not gonna let you carry your book-bag like some sort of commoner." "Now here, open your first clue." "Yay, I... can't wait to rea it." "Liam." "Quit taking it out on these innocent art supplies..." "Shane, really, I on't want to talk about it." "That's just your straight guy resistance to talking about your feelings." "Push through it." "What are y'all on about?" "It's Karma's birthay, an Liam can't be with her for reasons too complicate an up to specify." "Wanna go hit stuff?" "Always makes me feel better." "I'm taking this mixe martial arts class owntown." "Nice try, Theo, but what Liam nees is to talk it all out over some grille cheeses at Millie's iner." "What is this, The View?" "Shane, I'm sorry, but that class is just what the octor orere." "You're not the octor." "You're the patient." "You can't prescribe your own meicine." "Wow, you really think you know what's best for everyboy, on't you?" "It's a gift." "We'll talk it out later, I promise." "But right now, I just want to punch someone in the face without getting arreste." "You want to come?" "I'll pass." "It all souns a bit too aggressively heterosexual for me." " Ahh!" " Hey, watch it!" "Lurk much, Lauren?" "What are you oing here?" "You're oppose to arts eucation." "We shoul not waste tax ollars on people who on't want real jobs." "An I neee a... sponge for... sponging." "Uh-huh." "Or you know Theo meets us after school here most ays, an you are full-on stalking him." " That is riiculous." " Is it?" "Is it, really?" "Fine, maybe I was thinking we might bump..." " Uglies?" " Into each other." "I like him, okay?" "So you better not screw it up." "Trust me, I won't." "I am all for you two mating." " You are?" " A high-maintenance, time-consuming girlfrien is exactly what Theo nees." "Right?" "Okay." "So how can we make this happen?" "Amy, this is amazing!" "It's just like that ball pit where we met in kinergarten." "An you know what?" "I on't even care that my room's gonna reek of toler feet" " for the next month." " You better get to searching." " We on't have all ay." " Right." " Wait... what?" " Your next clue's written on one of these balls, so start igging!" " Really?" " Uh-huh." "Uh..." "Fun!" "Ha." "Here goes." "I may have unerestimate how long this woul take." "I'll help." "Hey!" "What's that?" "Uh, just a... birthay note from Irma." " Irma the lunch lay?" " What can I say?" "She is a fan." "On my birthay, she just gave me an extra scoop of mashe potatoes." "But you know the rules..." "We open gifts an cars after cake time." " Of course!" " Now, come on." "This clue ball ain't gonna fin itself." "So when oes the punching of things commence?" "Patience, young Paawan." "First there's warm-ups." "Great!" "We're so reay to bust some skulls an whatnot." "Well, well, well." "Look who it is." "You two came together?" "Are you..." " Friens now?" " What?" " Eew!" "No." " on't be gross." "I just ran into Lauren here, an it just so happens she's in the moo to whack on someone herself or was it whack off, Lauren?" "Whack on, whack off, whack on..." " I'm looking to..." " Ow!" "Mix up my workout regime." "Yoga-lates is getting ol." "I'm gonna go... stretch." "I saw that!" "You've got a thing for the ice queen!" "You two woul be so cute together." "Plus, if he melts her heart, you'll save all the villagers!" "There you go thinking you're right again." " Seriously, butt out." " An butt joke in three," " two, an one." " Please!" "Butt jokes are beneath me." "But speaking of butts..." "I was so wrong about one thing." "This class isn't too straight." "This is the gayest thing I have ever seen!" " What?" "No it isn't!" " Uh..." "Come on!" "Half-nake, sweaty men, colorful short-shorts, positions straight out of a Sean Coy film." "You're crazy!" "Back me up, Liam." "You are talking to the unispute expert of fining homoerotic subtext in anything." "o not get him starte on Batman." "He an Alfre live in a cave an esign outfits." "Okay, I'll give you that one." "But MMA is not gay... in any way." " Ooh!" " Take it!" "All right, hule up, class." "I'm your instructor, uke Lewis Junior." "My father owns this gym." "Kina like how I'm about to own..." "All your asses." "Who's reay?" "Wow, you really went all out." "I mean, painting ceramic figurines from our unicorn perio an then sneaking into that PG-13 movie?" "That was so us when we were ten." "But i we really have to stay for the whole thing?" "We're not cutting corners on your birthay!" " Surprise." " Surprise!" "Mom..." " An Aunt Sarah." " You know my sister prefers her chosen name:" "Your psychic Aunt Sage has come all the way from Seona" " to rea your tea leaves." " Wow." "Just like when we were 13." "Mm-hmm." "Gather forth, spirit sisters." "A ivination is just what you nee." "That, an one of my magic brownies." "Ooh!" "Oh, wait." "Just making sure they're not your father's magic brownies." " Mm!" " So after tea rinkin' an fortune telling', is it time for cake eating' an car opening'?" "Hey, no spoilers." "Just relax an live in the now." "Right." "Oh, that's hot!" "Interesting." "It appears the universe has a very important message for you about your one true love." "Well, tell the universe I can't wait to fin out what it says." "Not so fast." "A force is trying to keep the message from you, staning between you an your love." "WWell, what coul it be?" "They're sitting right next to each other." "Whatever it is, act now before it's too late." "Wow!" "Well, that tea really shot right through me." "I have to visit the little birthay girl's room." "Excuse me." "Min if I borrow this?" "It's a little rafty in there." "Okay." "Honey, whatcha looking for?" "I can't fin that note." " Oh, who's it from?" " Irma." " Irma the lunch lay?" " Apparently, she's a fan." " Aw!" " It must have slippe out!" "Where coul it be?" "No telling." "But I oubt Irma wrote much more than "happy birthay."" "She has a poet's soul." "Come on, we have to retrace our steps until we fin it." "Bye." "This isn't making me feel any better." "That's because I'm right." "Those grille cheeses are calling us." "Or we nee to skip this lame warm up an get to the part where we get to whale on something." "Remember, keep those abs tight." "Those abs!" " I knew it!" " Knew what?" "Switch!" "Still think this is gay?" "Oh, this gay-ole-time just got even gayer." "Our instructor is queerer than Neil Patrick Harris at the Tonys." "uke Lewis is the best junior ivision MMA fighter in the state..." "He coul go pro any minute." " An he couln't also be gay?" " He also has a rep as a total houn og." "One that chases the pussy-cat, not the rooster." "Care to make things interesting?" "50 bucks interesting enough?" "one." "Oh, an P.S., I've seen uke's abs all over Stubble." "The gay hook-up app!" "An I've got a photographic memory for torsos!" "Switch!" "All right." "Nice toss." "There's more to you than meets the eye." "What's that suppose to mean?" "You're so ainty an fragile an feminine." "But really, you... ooh!" "I'm what?" "Okay!" "Warm-ups are over." "Now I nee a brave volunteer to help emonstrate some basic fighting hols with me." "Any takers?" "See what you got, pretty boy." "We're never gonna fin it, Karma." "Let's get back to the hunt." "We only got three stops left until cake time." "Five more minutes!" "Ha to be in the ball pit, of all places." "I can't believe I in't think of this earlier." "Why on't we just call Irma an ask her what it sai?" "Wait." "You have Irma's number?" "Of course." "Up until a few months ago, she was our only frien, remember?" "Maybe she'll finally give me that oatmeal cookie recipe." "Wait, wait..." "It's not from Irma." " It's from Liam." " Finally." " The truth comes out." " You knew?" "I've known this whole time." "I saw you two having eye sex in the courtyar." "I've barely seen him." "I on't even know what it says." "Here." "Now you can fin out." "You've ha it?" "I can't believe" " you woul keep this from me." " Well, now you know how it feels." "Toay was suppose to be about us, but here he is, Liam Booker, just when I thought we move past all that." "Are you serious?" "We just spent four hours reliving our past." "You two are banging behin my back again, aren't you?" "What?" "No, we're not." "You're probably telling Irma all about it." "I swear, there's nothing going on between us." " I chose you." " Chose me?" "What the hell are you talking about?" "I knew I couln't be with Liam an keep our frienship, so I chose you!" "Well, it oesn't feel that way." "What more o I have to o to prove it to you, Amy?" "There." "Are you happy?" "Oh!" "I in't expect you to be back so soon." "You an Karma on't usually finish her birthay scavenger hunt until minight." " We ha a really ba fight." " Was this a..." "Frien fight or a..." "More than friens fight?" "I'm still not really clear" " on the whole..." " Mom, Karma loves guys." "An you?" "I love Karma." "That's the whole problem." "Oh, honey..." "I once fell for a guy who, shall we say, in't catch me." "It hurt like a bitch." "How' you get over it?" "I bought new boobs, which helpe, but..." "Mainly it just took time." "I ha to give up my fantasy of us being together." "Want me to set up a consultation with my plastic surgeon?" "Absolutely not." " Yeah!" " Come on, ue." "Take him, ue." " Ugh!" " Now, the sprawl is your most basic efense position in your arsenal." "Ooh, I can feel your stubble." "Speaking of, how you oing, "str8shootr95"?" "What are you talking about, ue?" "All right, now we're gonna move on to some more avance positions." "Booker, I nee a wor." "Several, actually." "Oh." "Yeah, sure." "What's up?" "i you tell Theo about my... you know," "My secret thing?" "What?" "No!" "No!" "I have nothing against you, Lauren." "Well, asie from that time when you rallie all my former hookups to publically humiliate me." "Oh." "Okay." "Then I'm gonna nee you to flirt with me to make Theo jealous." "Come on." "Make it raunchy." "I want you to really commit." "Yeah..." "I'm not gonna o that." "Take it from me..." "lies an schemes, they just mess up everything." "You're lucky that the only thing staning in the way of you an what you want... is you." " Take him, ue." " Come on, ue." "Now, when you fin yourself on all fours an a guy comes at you from behin..." "Hey, you weren't kiing when you sai you were versatile." "What?" "Come on, I know it's you." "I know from the tat on your hip... right here!" "What the, ue?" "Not cool!" " Uhh!" " Oh!" "I on't know what'll hurt worse..." "That boy slam or you forking over that 50." "I'll take cash, check, or Paypal." "I got your text." "Ta-a!" "This is the last station." "It's suppose to represent our future as best friens..." "Two houses next to each other." "But I'm starting to realize that other people will probably live in them with us." "Amy, I promise there's nothing going on..." "Please stop." "I'm trying to apologize." "I shoul have never kept that note from you." "I'll be honest." "Part of me wants to keep you all for myself." "But another part of me wants to see you happy." "It's... it's a real struggle in here." "The goo sie won out." "This is your last clue." "I i my best." "Uh, Amy, just got your text." " What's going on?" " You're right on time." "This is my gift." " Your what?" " Look, you two are clearly crazy about each other for whatever reason." "An you can't stop your feelings any more than I can stop mine." "The only thing keeping you apart..." "Is me." "So I'm getting out of the way." "Amy, are you sure?" "You know what they say." "If you love something, set it free." "Happy birthay, Karma." "Well, I'm guessing I shoul start by reaing your note." "Or you coul just tell me what it says." "It says..." "Happy birthay." "Seriously?" "I rewrote it a million times an then I figure..." "Keep it simple." "So are we really gonna give this a shot?" "Is that what you want?" "That..." "An to kiss you." "Hey!" "I mean..." "Hi." "So, uh, what's going on with us?" "I mean, o you like me or not?" "Because I might sort of possibly might be consiering liking you." "On a trial basis." "Well, yeah." "I mean, of course, I..." "But I just..." "I..." "I mean, it..." "Oh, it!" "I gotta go." "You're gonna kiss me like that an then just leave?" "Uh..." "We'll..." "We'll talk." " Hey." " Hey." "I thought you were with Liam." "We have a ate planne for this weeken." "But there are 15 minutes left to my birthay, an I want to spen them with you." "Besies, where is my real present?" "You know in sixth grae the clown machine at the owntown Arcae?" "We emptie our piggy banks to try to win those..." "You in't." "You i!" "It must have taken you forever to get these." "Oh, just 13 hours an... 26 minutes." "I promise to always wear mine as long as you o too." "Or at least until the cheap fake gol turns your skin green." "Or that." "Hey, on't worry." "I'm not gonna try to pull own your pants... again." "I just wante to apologize, you know?" "What I i was uncalle for." "You know, even if I was gay, what you i was completely out of line." "You're right." "You're so totally right." "So were you." "Huh?" "My bathroom mirror flippe the image." "Uh..." "Of course." "Rookie mistake." "I'm not out yet, so..." "I have to keep things iscreet." "Right." "Wait, I'm sorry." "I can't ate someone who's still in the closet." "Who sai anything about ating?" "Oh, look, your shoelace is untie." "Let me help you out with that."