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Being Fake is Exhausting
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2026-07-31 03:31:46
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My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival The Girl Who Doesn't Belong
Harper should've stayed home.She reached that conclusion halfway through watching two girls argue over whose designer heels had been copied.Apparently, wearing the same pair of shoes to different parties counted as a personal attack.She sipped her lemonade to hide a smile.Maybe she really didn't belong here."Harper."She looked up.Luca was walking backward through the crowd, pointing at himself before pointing toward a cluster of football players by the pool.Give me two minutes.She waved him away.He looked doubtful.She nodded again."I'm fine."He couldn't hear her over the music, but he read her lips.He held up two fingers.Then three.Like he was bargaining for extra time.She laughed and made a shooing motion.He finally turned around.Someone immediately threw an arm over his shoulders.Another handed him a drink.Within seconds he'd disappeared into the crowd again.Harper smiled to herself.It wasn't that people loved football.They loved Luca.There was a difference.
My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival The Smile That Didn't Reach Their Eyes
The first five minutes weren't bad, actually. It was the ten after that reminded Harper exactly why she'd spent most of high school skipping parties like this one.Nobody told her to leave and nobody laughed in her face, but people looked at her a certain way, starting at her shoes and working up to a smile that never quite made it to their eyes. She drifted toward the drinks table hoping to disappear into the crowd for a minute. No luck."Harper, right?"She turned around. A blonde girl she half recognized from student council was smiling at her, seemingly for real. "I'm Mia.""Hi.""I've actually wanted to meet you." Mia handed her a bottle of water. "You're the one who got a perfect score on the state chem exam."Harper blinked. "You know about that?""My brother's in your class."Something in Harper's chest eased off a notch, the first time all night. "Congrats, by the way," Mia said. "That's genuinely impressive.""Thanks.""I don't know how you did it. I nearly failed algebra ou
My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival The Captain's Party
"If you laugh, I'll leave."Luca leaned against the driver's door and looked me over."I haven't said anything.""You don't have to.""You've already decided I'm judging you.""Because you are.""I'm actually trying to figure out how you made sneakers look formal."I looked down at my outfit.Dark jeans.Clean white sneakers.A cream-colored sweater Mom insisted made my eyes look brighter.It wasn't glamorous, but it was the nicest thing I owned that didn't involve a school uniform."I look underdressed.""You look like you.""That's exactly the problem."He frowned."No. It isn't."I looked past him toward the house at the end of the street.Music drifted through the open windows. Cars lined both sides of the road. Every driveway nearby was full."This is where football players celebrate?""My teammate's parents are out of town.""Of course they are.""You can still change your mind."I looked at him."I thought you wanted me here.""I do.""Then why are you giving me an escape route
My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival Being Fake is Exhausting
By lunch I was completely wiped out. Not from classes. From the fact that becoming Luca Hayes's girlfriend, even a fake one, apparently came with a full-time audience attached.Every hallway felt like a runway all of a sudden. Every classroom felt like a stage. Every time I looked up, somebody was already looking back at me first.Some people smiled. Some whispered behind their hands like that made it subtle. A few weren't even bothering to pretend anymore. One sophomore walked straight into a locker because he was too busy filming us to watch where he was going.Honestly, I wanted his problem. A concussion sounded like it might wipe the last twenty-four hours clean out of my head."You okay?" Emma slid onto the bench next to me in the cafeteria, dropping her voice low. "So.""No.""I didn't even ask yet.""I know what you're about to ask."She laughed. "Fine. Is it real?"I stabbed a fry harder than the fry deserved. "What do you think?""I think you've spent your entire life threate
My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival The Whole School Knows
Twelve steps past the front gates, tops, before somebody said my name loud enough for me to catch it."That's her.""The girl from the post.""Told you it was real.""Wait, her and Luca Hayes? Seriously?"I slowed down without meaning to. Told myself maybe it wasn't about me. Some other Harper, some other post, sure.A phone flashed off to my right. A girl fixing her ponytail with the camera angled a little too obviously at my face. Some guy elbowed his friend and jerked his chin at me, not even bothering to be subtle.Great. Wonderful. My stomach did the thing where it just kind of falls out from under me, and I gripped my backpack strap and kept my head down and walked faster. Don't look at anybody. Don't react. Maybe if I didn't feed it, the whole thing would just die on its own by lunch.Lasted about twenty seconds, that plan."Harper!"I looked up anyway, couldn't help it. Three juniors were camped outside the admin building, and one of them had a smile plastered on way too early
My Fake Boyfriend Is My Biggest Rival Westbrook Enemies Are Dating
"That's it?" Luca asked.I narrowed my eyes at him. "You sound disappointed.""I was expecting at least ten rules, honestly.""I can add more if you want.""No thanks. Four's plenty."He held out his hand. "So. Partners?"I looked at it like it might bite me. "We're not partners.""Fake partners.""Temporary fake partners, and only that.""See, you're warming up already.""I really am not."He wiggled his fingers at me, waiting. "Come on, Bennett."I sighed, dramatically enough that he'd get the point, and put my hand in his. The second our palms touched, his fingers closed around mine, warm and firm and completely unnecessary, and I pulled my hand back almost immediately."Rule two," I reminded him. "No unnecessary touching."He put both hands up in surrender. "Sorry." There was something odd about how he said it, no teasing in it anywhere, no smug grin attached. Just plain and genuine, which threw me more than the joke would have.Before I could think too hard about that, he walked
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