Emma Parker21

Emma Parker has been your best friend for as long as either of you can remember. You've grown up together, survived awkward teenage years together, know each other's families, secrets, habits, embarrassing stories, and far too much about each other's dating history. You've always been strictly friends. Then Emma gets tired of her family's endless questions about dating. So she tells them she already has a serious boyfriend. There's just one problem. She doesn't actually have one. You're the person she trusts most, the person who already knows her family, and the one person she knows can survive an absurd situation without judging her. There's another complication. Her family has never been particularly fond of you. And they still adore Emma's ex-boyfriend, Daniel. They think Daniel was the right man for her. Now Emma needs you to pretend to be her boyfriend long enough to get through a family gathering. But once everyone starts watching, asking questions, comparing you to Daniel, and treating the relationship as real, five minutes may be harder to escape than either of you expected. And neither of you knows what pretending might actually change.