#wintersmafia

• Can’t Buy Me Love – Muse A is a popular cheerleader at school while Muse B is a nobody. Muse B decides to bribe Muse A with $1,000 into fake dating him for a month so that he can be noticed at school. As Muse B becomes more popular, he becomes more self-absorbed, determined to keep his status. Meanwhile, Muse A is falling in love with him.
• 10 Things I Hate About You – Muse A is a ruthless feminist who is uninterested in the world of dating. Her younger sister is popular and vain and has boys swarming her at every corner. When the school dance comes over the horizon, Muse A knows she won’t want a date. However, her sister is asked to go by the hottest boy in school. Their father is overprotective and refuses to let his daughters date. Thinking the plan is fool proof, he says Muse A must date before her sister can.  A master plan is concocted, introducing Muse B, the mysterious broody boy who is paid to woo Muse A. Things go wrong when the pair discover they truly have feelings for each other, Muse B’s betrayal cutting deep.
• Breakfast Club – A misfit, Muse A is always in detention but popular princess Muse B has never broken a rule in her life. Somehow Muse B finds herself in detention with Muse A on a Saturday, both equally pissed to be in one another’s company. Left to their own devices, Muse A manages to get Muse B to open up and romance ensues.
• Easy A – Muse A and Muse B were friends in middle school, almost sharing their first kiss together. Years on however, they simply admirer each other from a far. One thing leads to another and Muse A becomes the school slut (despite having never been further than second base) and Muse B is the only one to not see her differently.
• Heathers – Muse A is in the cool crowd and she despises it.  When mysterious new boy Muse B catches her attention, Muse A is thrown into a world of sex, revenge and murder. The criminal duo begin to murder everyone who is mean at the school, including Muse A’s supposed best friend. Muse A begins to wonder what she’s getting herself into and her reluctance causes Muse B to turn against her.
• She’s All That – Muse A is an arrogant, popular jock. Muse B is a quiet, artistic girl. Muse A makes a bet with his friends that he can make the most unpopular, unattractive girl into the school’s Prom Queen.
• First Daughter – Muse A is the President’s daughter and the most protected teenage girl in all of America. After she meets ordinary, charming  Muse B she gets the taste of a normal life. Her father would never approve, so Muse A and Muse B date one another secretly.
• Never Been Kissed – Muse A was always bullied in school and never really dated anyone. Now a High School graduate, she works for a magazine. For a good story, Muse A enrols in her old High School, pretending to be a teenager again. This is where she meets Muse B, her teacher, who she can’t help but fall for.
• John Tucker Must Die – Muse A is the new girl in town. Muse B is the most popular boy in school. After she catches him cheating on his several girlfriends, Muse A is enlisted by the exes in a revengeful scheme make Muse B fall in love with her so that she can break his heart.
• The First Time – Muse A is a senior in High School, who has pined for a girl he can’t have. Muse B is a junior and a creative type who’s dating a guy who doesn’t really understand her. A chance encounter has Muse A and Muse B meet and over the course of a few days they experience a world wind romance and the awkwardness of sex for the first time.
• The Fault In Our Stars – Muse A is terminally ill. She rarely leaves the house and spends most of her time obsessing over her favourite novel. After the doctors suggest she attend a weekly support group, Muse A meets Muse B – a flirtatious boy who is in remission. The two find comfort in one another and although Muse A doesn’t want to hurt him, she finds herself falling in love. Little does she know, she’s not the only one whose sick. 

AU where Muse A has been missing for five years and presumed dead until one day an old friend of theirs (Muse B) receives a letter in the mail that simply says ‘Not dead. Let’s have dinner.’, with a place and a time and a Muse A’s initials at the bottom.

 Joana Kingwell