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Ongoing, First published Jul 13
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It starts with an interview. Ends with fake dating, shared toothpaste, and possibly falling in love.

Ella never planned to crash into Erik Wick, literal hockey star and walking chaos in a backwards cap. But when her cousin needs a last-minute favor, she steps in for an interview - and somehow ends up face-to-face with a charming, too-hot-for-his-own-good athlete who immediately decides she's fascinating.

She thinks it'll be a one-time thing.

Until she keeps running into him - at the hockey rink where she picks up the kid she babysits, at her college party on a boat, and eventually... in her own kitchen.

Because after one too many drinks and a full emotional breakdown about her life (psychology deadlines, nowhere to live, and an impossible class project), Erik offers her a solution that sounds completely insane:

Fake date him. Move in. Use him for her psych research.

In return, he gets to keep pretending he's taken - a lie he told months ago that's starting to unravel.

Erik is spontaneous, loud, and disarmingly sweet. He likes cats, knows exactly when she needs a distraction, and doesn't stop pushing until she calls him on his BS - even if she looks terrified after.

Ella is quiet, cautious, and barely holding it together. She bakes when she's overwhelmed, overthinks every word, and never expected the most chaotic person she's ever met to feel like her safest place.

They promised no feelings. Just three months of pretending. But some lies feel a lot like the truth... and some people are impossible to unlove - even when they were never supposed to be yours.
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''There is only one thing crossing my mind right now. If he hates me so much, then why the hell is he kissing me back?'' ----------------------- Emma White has always been kind of a loner. Her mother died giving birth to her and her father never really cared, always working in his successful company. That's why she decides to go to a college away from home, something she's been dreaming of since she can remember. However, what happens when at her very first day on campus, she crosses path with Noah Allen? He is rich, popular, cold, rude and a player just to start with. No surprise she calls him Mr. Grumpy. What is driving her insane though is that he's only too cold when it comes to her. After some not so pleasant moments and lots of glares, she tells herself that the best is to stay away from him, but it won't be that easy. After a disastrous kiss and hidden jealousy, she finds herself deeply involved into what is this frustrating boy. Add to that the fact that he is her roommates' childhood best friend and you can see drama from miles away. Noah claims to hate her ever since they met, and he doesn't mean her first day of college. He remembers her just fine from a couple of years ago and all the feelings are back. He knows she doesn't remember him and he'll use this as his leverage to do what he has to do. It's what he promised his father and himself, even if it means he has to pretend to care for her. All he cares is his family business. At least it's what he tells himself, until the feelings start getting too mixed and he ends up thinking of her more than he should. Maybe it's not all about business after all. He knows their history started before she even knows, what he didn't expect was for her to be so different from what he has always believed.

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