Our Star-Crossed Kiss

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She's got two strikes against her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Her name is Erickson and her parents own The Bagel Place.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It wasn't always that way. When we were nine we were best friends. But then a feud between our dads ripped their successful business apart-and my best friend was ripped away too.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our paths were bound to cross again. When both our families vie for the same spot on a Food Channel's reality show the producers decide to change the format aligning us as allies.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In order to get our parents to agree to work together Evan asks me to pretend to be her boyfriend but I dare her to up the ante-be my fiancée. Fake fiancée... obviously.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As usual I didn't think things through. Turns out our parents have a lot of demands neither one of us expected. And all those demands lead to things feeling more real than fake.</span></p>