The Christmas Playbook

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>One cabin. One week</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. One fake relationship.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winter break was supposed to be easy: one last trip with my best friends a little snowboarding maybe some hot cocoa spiked with something stronger. No drama no strings.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Then my cabin got double-booked.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Enter Mira Winters-my childhood neighbor and crush. And somehow the girl managed to get even prettier since the last time I saw her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's got one problem: her family makes mine look like a walk in the park and she'd rather fake a boyfriend than deal with their constant judgement. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guess who she asks to step up? Yours truly.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's supposed to be for show. Hold her hand. Steal a kiss under the mistletoe. Pretend I'm head over heels for her.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Easy. Right?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Except the more we play this game the more I want it to be real. And suddenly I'm less worried about the score her family is keeping and more about what happens when the week is over-because for the first time in a long time I'm all in.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This Christmas I don't just want to win the game.
</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I want the girl.</em></p><p></p>