Don’t Tell Our Parents
“You are completely delusional. Even if we hid it from the school, what about home? Do you think our parents are just going to sit back and bless their future kids dating? It’s sick, Lael.”
“That’s why it’s called fake dating! They don’t need to know, we just don’t tell our parents,” he said. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them. We play the happy couple on campus to destroy your ex, you fix my grades in secret at the house, and we keep our mouth shut at the dinner table.”
I stared at him, my heart doing a stupid, erratic flutter against my ribs. The sheer madness of what he was suggesting hit me at once. A total lie at school, a massive secret at home.