Perfect Harmony

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>They call me the sensitive Thomas twin. The plant-obsessed sentimental too-much one.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I don't let it get to me because my mom taught me to love myself and to nurture the things around me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I haven't quite processed her passing not in the way everyone wants me to. I have my plants my siblings and the quiet rituals that keep me moving forward. And I also have him my best friend Bryce Hampton.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Family having your back is a given. Finding a best friend that has your back is a rare gift. One I'm grateful for.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But my best friend he's nothing like me. He's an ambitious neat-freak and perfectly on-track to make partner at his law firm if he plays the part right. Fiancée included-except he doesn't have one of those.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's where I come in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He has this wild idea that we should fake an engagement.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One photo. One ring. One passionate kiss that doesn't feel like pretend...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm willing to go along with his idea because he thinks people like him don't get to have it all. I think I want to be the reason he's wrong.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The only problem is I didn't expect it to feel this real.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now I don't know if he's falling for me or the perfect version of us that we created to impress everyone else.</span></p>