BETTER ── .✦ Beau Maxwell

BETTER! (𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗰) ── The deal makes sense on paper. He needs a fake girlfriend - something convincing enough to get his ex off his back. She needs proof, mostly for Allie and Hannah and, who have been laughing that laugh at her for weeks now. The one that says sure, Tessa. We'll believe it when we see it. Six weeks. Public appearances. Completely fake.

She just didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to. Didn't expect the way he looks at her in public to start bleeding into the moments when no one's watching. Didn't expect to start wondering, quietly, whether the life she's been so carefully maintaining is one she actually chose - or just one she never thought to question.

It was supposed to be simple.

It was supposed to be fake.