Why didn’t Elite pair Nadia with Lu if they were so concerned about making a Islamophobe bigot x Muslim girl ship 🧐 Imagine Nadia and Omar bonding over liking the same sex 😭
Gooseman is so crusty and has issues and I’d rather see Lu’s white feminist ass be redeemed tbh 💀🤨
Both noooooo they let Lu have no depth for 2 seasons and follow Gooseman’s crusty ass...then she lusted after her brother 🤢
And I’d like to see Nadia be paired with someone she’d actually have chemistry with 😤
30 Days of Élite Fic ♛
Day 25: Secret
Pairing: Lu x Nadia
Rating: G
Notes: AU - Lu and Nadia are secretly dating during high school! If you think this is ooc that’s your problem, these two will forever be soft girlfriends to me and no one can change my mind
“How did you do on the test?”
Lu’s voice surprises Nadia, and she turns to see Lu peering over her shoulder nosily, trying to sneak a peek at her score.
Nadia quickly folds over the corner of her packet, obscuring the score from view. “It’s none of your business,” she says coolly, turning back to face her. “For me, tests are an opportunity to demonstrate my abilities and my knowledge, not to prove that I’m better than anyone else.”
Arching her eyebrow cynically, Lu smiles in that condescending way that Nadia has seen oh so many times. “Well, I got a 10,” she announces loud enough that everyone around them can hear. “And I don’t see any point in being modest about it. You know, sweetie, far too many women learn throughout their lives to diminish their abilities just so they don’t come off as intimidating, but I believe in challenging the patriarchal values of society. Actually, I wrote my essay about that...you might want to take a look, maybe you’ll learn something.”
Nadia chuckles, unimpressed. Lu’s snide remarks used to light a fire under her, one that made her work harder and harder just so Lu wouldn’t always have her way. But now, she’s learned to become more self-assured in her abilities, and she doesn’t feel the need to constantly compete against Lu.
She’d gotten a 10, too. Even though their classes used a curve system, a lot of their teachers had discovered that both she and Lu were too outstanding to place one above the other.
Things had changed between them, once it stopped being a competition.
“You should pay attention to the lecture,” Nadia whispers, jerking her head toward the teacher. “Or else you’re going to have to spend extra time going over this after school.”
This time it’s Lu’s turn to laugh, but Nadia recognizes this as a different laugh than her normal I’m-better-than-you pity laugh. It’s genuine. “I have better things to do after school,” she replies.
At this point, Rebe nudges Nadia in the arm. “Hey, fara, look…,” she says under her breath, “I don’t really care about listening to Professor Mustache ranting on and on about whatever he’s talking about, but he’s looking over at you, so you should probably zip it.”
Nadia turns back to face the front of the classroom so she doesn’t get in trouble. But as she does so, she smiles, ducking her head so no one sees. She knows exactly what it is that Lu is going to do after school.
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“How much longer are we going to keep this a secret?” Lu says as they leave school through the back entrance. She’d called her driver and told him to pick them up over there, so they could escape unseen.
“It was your idea in the first place,” Nadia objects. “You didn’t want everyone to see that you’d gotten soft for me.” She relishes the way Lu glares at her.
“Sometimes it’s not so hard for me to pretend that I despise you,” Lu says, feigning anger, but she takes Nadia’s arm between her own and snuggles up to her.
It still makes Nadia’s heart flutter when Lu is so openly affectionate with her. It had taken a lot for Lu to show this side of herself, the clingy, lovey-dovey side. As it turns out, Lu isn’t just the bad bitch she makes everyone else think she is (although she definitely is that, too).
The two of them climb in the backseat of the car, Nadia sliding all the way across even though Lu has told her countless times that her driver can open the door on the other side. Her stubbornness is something to be admired, Lu supposes.
Once they’re both buckled in, the driver pulls away and Lu darkens the window between him and them. If anyone suspects there’s something going on between the two girls, Lu’s driver is definitely the most likely to figure it out. But he always maintains his professionalism, never saying a word or even letting a questioning facial expression betray his thoughts. Every day he opens the door when they get to Lu’s house, and if Lu’s lipstick is smudged or Nadia’s hair is messy, he simply nods and closes the door behind them.
“I don’t want to have to hide this anymore,” Lu says today. Nadia’s hand is resting lightly on top of hers in the middle seat.
“Lu…,” Nadia sighs. “Don’t you think it’s easier this way? Don’t you think it’s easier not having to explain ourselves to anyone? We’re good like this, aren’t we?”
“But what if I just want to kiss you good morning in the hallway, like all the other couples do?” Lu says, and it makes Nadia bite her lip.
Nadia can’t deny that she likes the idea too. She’s grown to care so much about Lu, and it pains her to pretend she doesn’t. She would love to have a normal relationship. But it’s more complicated than that. Lu’s suggestion is still just a daydream for Nadia.
“I just don’t think I’m ready for that yet,” Nadia says. “Regardless of us finally admitting to everyone that we aren’t arch-enemies, I...it’s just, I know everyone will see me differently. And for now I’m just more comfortable keeping it quiet.” She says all this without looking Lu in the eye, afraid to see the hurt there. She doesn’t want to be a coward, but this whole breaking out of the perfect mold she’s always lived inside is a process, and it’s happening little by little.
But instead of being upset, Lu leans over and rests her head on Nadia’s shoulder, an awkward position considering the space between them, so Nadia appreciates the gesture even more.
“Okay,” Lu says. “It’s okay. I don’t want to pressure you to make this—us—public before you’re ready.” She’s learned the hard way several times that she can’t make everyone do things the way she wants them to, and she’s making peace with it.
“Thank you for understanding,” Nadia says softly, laying her head on top of Lu’s. She reflects, not for the first time, on how ironic it is that their relationship has evolved into this.
“One more thing,” Lu says, sitting up to look Nadia in the eye. “I...I just want you to know that, whenever you are ready, I’ll be here for you and I will stand by you. Because, well, I love you. And that’s what you do for someone you love.”
Nadia’s eyes widen, and she searches Lu’s face for some kind of further explanation. “You...what?” she breathes.
“Oh come on, Nadia, you don’t have to play dumb, you know exactly what I said,” Lu deadpans, slapping her playfully on the arm.
Nadia laughs, loosening up. Then she falls quiet again, shyly looking at Lu with her head down. “I love you, too,” she says. And it feels so, so good to finally let it out.
Lu might not make her life easy. But she knows now that that’s not a good enough reason to give up on love.
Cupping Nadia’s face with a velvet-soft hand, Lu plants a quick and emphatic kiss on Nadia’s cheek, and Nadia’s fingers immediately go up to graze the spot she’d kissed, still feeling the warmth of the contact.
“You’re right, anyway,” Lu says, and Nadia furrows her brow in confusion. “The school wouldn’t be ready for us to be a couple. Together, we’d be way too powerful for their little brains, don’t you think?”
At that moment, the car pulls smoothly into Lu’s driveway, and her driver opens Lu’s door. Nadia doesn’t get a chance to respond, but she follows Lu into the house, smiling the whole way.
The way Lucrecia was the Qween of white feminism 😭 the writers really gave her a friendship with Nadia like she deserved it 💀 Can you imagine if Nadia was black and the type of names Lu would call her lmfaoo “barbie negrita” 🤢 no gracias 🙏
I’m sorry it’s just so funny that Nadia was used as another Islamophobe’s “character development” to make them look good and less of a bigot 😭💀
But let’s not lie, Lu x Nadia would probably have more chemistry than guznadia 😭
