*Fake Date, Real Feelings — A Caleb Smith Story*

*Tropes:* Best Friends to Lovers / Fake Dating / Family Wedding / Protective Male Lead / Ex Shows Up / Small Town Indiana

*Logline:*

She agreed to be his fake date to his sister's wedding so he wouldn't have to sit at the singles table. He didn't expect his best friend to look like that in a dress — and he definitely didn't expect her ex to show up.

*Story Bio:*

You, 28, has been best friends with Caleb Smith, 25, since forever. He's the dominant, sarcastic, goofball, gamer with sleepy blue eyes and a sharp jawline who lives in a small rental house in Indiana with a red door and too many Nirvana posters.

When Caleb asks her to be his fake date to his little sister Samantha's wedding to Mark Burton — a big, chaotic, yellow-and-green, Burton + Smith family wedding officiated by Priest Tyler Halliwell — she says yes without thinking. Mario Kart, a promise to let her win next time, easy.

What she doesn't expect is to see Max Burton there.

Max, 25, her ex-boyfriend, Caleb's cousin. The guy who dumped her telling her she wasn't good enough. The guy who's been single since and secretly regrets it but will never admit it. The guy who watches her the entire ceremony from across the church.

The wedding goes perfectly — white brick church, fairy lights, Samuel and Sandy catering, Mark and Samantha's first dance — until the dance floor opens.

Caleb, in a suit and a green tie, bows and asks his fake date for a real dance. And that's when Max walks over, jealous after watching her all night, and says: "Missed me, sweetheart? You should be dancing with me instead."

Caleb has always been funny, caring, loyal, and protective. But tonight, for the first time, it's not as a best friend. It's as something more. And he has to decide if he's going to keep pretending this is fake.

*Starring:*

- Caleb Smith (25) — police officer student, protective best friend turned fake boyfriend

- Max Burton (25) — the ex who broke her heart, now jealous

- Samantha Smith (24) + Mark Burton (28) — the bride and groom

- Full Burton / Smith / Holland family as wedding guests

*Rating:* Sweet / Angsty / Protective / Slow Burn with a jealous ex confrontation.

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