The Accidental Dating Experiment

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>I've spent the better part of eight years resisting my best friend's little sister. What's one more week?</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The hardest week ever when it includes a proposition to be her dating coach.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Eight years ago I fell into a secret summer fling with the bright big-hearted Juliet before our lives went in different directions. Now I'm the grumpy to her sunshine on a popular dating podcast we host and when a wealthy fan gives us a charming coastal cottage as the biggest thank you ever we head to the town where I grew up to give it a makeover.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>And find the house has only one bed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Located under a mirrored ceiling.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>To make matters even harder the woman I've been pining for tells me she wants to try to find</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> the one</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>would I please be her dating coach for the week</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Like hell I'll let her date other men. I'll coach her on three dates </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>with me</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>But the second I take her out I don't feel like her teacher. I feel like she's mine especially when the first night ends with us tangled up together in that bed.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Each night we grow closer but this dating experiment forces me to face my greatest fear - whether a man like me is worthy of her love.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Even though I'm already head over heels for her.</span></p>