Fake it 'til you make it has been the motto I live by since my mother died.

I'm also doing a really bad job at the making it part.

The night we met, I was at my lowest.

But you gave me a reason to feel happy again.

For the first time in over a year, I was optimistic.

You and I? We're the same. Don't form attachments. Follow the rules. Don't dream of a future.

Too bad our hearts wouldn't listen.

And this storm we're going through? The one that threatens to rip us apart?

It doesn't care that I'm falling for you.

Falling for You is created by Jennifer Van Wyk, an eGlobal Creative Publishing author.

Falling for You

"I’m dying here," Olivia whines at my doorstep.


"Uh, what do you think I’m doing here?"


"Exactly," she beams, pushing me aside to make room for her to bully her way inside my house. She plops down onto my couch with a huff. "So? How’d it go?"


I don’t know how much to tell her. If I explain that I didn’t get home until after three am, she’ll latch onto it and assume I slept with her. Not that it matters, but, nah. It actually does matter. If something does come of Chloe and me, which I hope it does, I don’t want Olivia having the wrong impression of her from the start. So rather than giving her half-assed information, I go for complete honesty.


I sit down in the chair to the left of her so she doesn’t have to twist to face me. "Our date was a little, um, different than I had planned."


"What? What happened? Rex, I swear if you just hooked up and left in the middle of the night, I’ll punch you in the gut."


Chapter 26: She's So Nosey