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Plays Well With Others: How to Date Your Best Friend
Lauren Blakely · How to Date #2
A newly single woman and her pro-footballer best friend fake-date for a sponsor deal — then it stops feeling fake.
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Am I fake dating my best friend? Hear me out...So I'm throwing myself a breakup party, a glittery fete where I envision I'll lift a glass and celebrate being free and single again.What I actually do: Drink too much champagne and blurt out to my best guy friend that I’d really like to get back on the horse.But what I truly don’t expect is Carter’s answer – he volunteers as tribute.With his sinful brown eyes and too-good-to-be-true body it’d be no hardship for me to say yes, though I certainly don’t want him to feel obligated to, um, service me, just because my failed, loveless marriage was a s-e-x desert.But since the charming and confident pro football star owes five public dates to his dating app sponsor, we make a deal to help each other out.Pretty soon, our public how to date lessons turn into, ahem, very private ones. And I’m a star student, graduating quickly from flirty banter and lingering looks to toe-curling, sheet-grabbing, mind-blowing hours of physical education.The problem? Turns out learning to date again feels a lot like the real thing. Can our friendship withstand all these late-night bedroom sessions?
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