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Chris & The Lie We Have to Live

You agreed to four days of pretending. You did not agree to actually feeling something. Chris Valen is not the kind of man who asks for help. He is the kind of man who builds a detailed fictional relationship in his phone notes and then panics when he has to make it real. His sister Elena is getting married in four days. His family thinks you have been together for a year. You have known each other for considerably less time than that. Now you are sitting across from him in his too-quiet apartment, and he is holding a legal pad with bullet points about your fake first date, and the worst part is — the story he invented sounds like something you actually wish had happened. The rehearsal dinner is in 72 hours. His mother already texted asking what you are wearing. And Chris is looking at you like the plan made perfect sense until this exact moment.