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Playing For Keeps

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Reads 243
Votes 84
Parts 25
Time 3h 7m

banter contemporary cute fakerelationship flirtatious friendship heartbreak highschoolrival highschoolromance hockey hockeyplayer jock sports sportsromance teenromance youngadult youngfiction

Lola's got a plan. 
Finding out your boyfriend is cheating on you is horrible. Knowing it's with your best friend is heartwrenching. But Lola's got a plan. 

Before she can execute it though, André, the lying, cheating scum of the earth, breaks up with her.

Enter Tayo Adeyemi. 
One if not the best centerman in high school hockey, and André's rival. Plus, he's her ticket to getting revenge. 

If only he'd agree. 

To Tayo, everything else pales in comparison to Hockey. Well, except his nana. He lives, breathes and eats hockey. 

And he's making his family, especially his nana, proud. Too bad. All she cares about is getting her grandson in a relationship. 

Getting into a fake relationship wasn't part of his plan, but any chance to make his nana proud, he'd take it.

But everyone knows that fake dating is just a ploy to get two people perfect for each other to realise their feelings. 

Can Lola and Tayo keep their hearts to themselves in this fake relationship? Or would everything fake turn real as they continue this game?All Rights Reserved

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Conveniently Inspired

Skylar Lin agrees to fake date Kaden Brooks for a deal of a lifetime. Kaden needs to get his ex-girlfriend off his back, and when Skylar pops into life, he sees her as the perfect opportunity. Skylar needs money for college, so when a short story contest with the grand prize of $5000 comes up, she can't pass it up. Only catch is that she lacks any inspiration to write it. Skylar and Kaden strike a deal: Skylar will pretend to be his fake girlfriend in order to get a clingy ex off his back, and in return, Kaden will show Skylar all the ropes to dating so she can write the most epic rom-com story ever. When real feelings run loose, will Skylar be able to get her own happily ever after?