I’m still waiting for a fake dating story (that isn’t fanfiction, I’ve read one of those) where one is gay and the other is aromantic
I don’t care who is what, but they’re beards and everyone buys it but the best part is that the ‘twist’ where they fall in love, it doesn’t exist
instead, maybe one or both is caught ‘cheating’, the one who is gay has a partner, and maybe the aro person isn’t also asexual and is caught hooking up with someone (it could be both or it could be one or the other)
and therefore the twist is only to the other characters, not to the audience who watches these characters evolve and develop a deep friendship and appreciation for each other.
then the story goes into them supporting each other as they have to come out and face their families and friends, they have to be there for each other.
it doesn’t have to be a happy ending, rather it could be a serious and sad ending as the duo deal with people abandoning them because of their romantic/sexual orientations. they have to deal with the consequences of lying to so many people as well as the fact that they were thought to be cheating on each other.
the story would be in three acts in total, the first being the fake dating, the second being the ‘cheating’ and reveal arc, and the final act would be them supporting each other and dealing with the consequences of lying