“This is definitely not going to work,” You muttered as you pressed your back against Leon’s front, grabbing onto the arm that was draped across your chest in a protective hug. You were both taking bathroom mirror selfies for his social media, depicting yourselves as a supposed ‘couple’.

As stupidly arrogant and obnoxious as it sounded, Leon was apparently having trouble warding off the female population in campus. There were girls who're constantly showing up at the front door of his dorm in the weirdest hours of the day, or were blatantly interrupting him during classes. He was generally a well-liked guy in college, achieving in the looks and smarts department, and was popular.

And because you were his best friend, you were summoned to help him, albeit begrudgingly.

“Yes, it will. Once they all find out that I’m ‘taken’, they’ll instantly back off. Problem solved,” He stated in a matter-of-factly tone as he rested his chin on top of your head, flashing a boyish grin for the camera as you snapped some more photos.

For the sake of anonymity, you made sure to conceal your face behind his phone in every picture, even draping your hair in a way to hide any recognisable features. You didn’t need his fangirls harassing you for a preventable slip-up, after all. Funnily enough, Leon even went out of the way to dress you both in matching-white couple hoodies, to really sell the image.

“And if it doesn’t work?” You then questioned pointedly, readjusting yourself against him in another pose as you tilted your head off to the side slightly, taking another picture.

“Oh, trust me. This will work. We really look like a couple,” Leon confidently remarked, smirking into the lens through the reflection, bending down to rest his chin against your shoulder, his cheek pressed against yours in a supposed affectionate manner.

In reality however, he was strongly resisting the urge to nuzzle himself even further against your skin. In fact, he was painstakingly restraining himself throughout the whole ordeal itself. Whilst he was doing this with the intention to keep those pesky girls away, this gave a perfectly good excuse for him to be this close to you without garnering any suspicion of his well-kept feelings for you. In his opinion, it was playing a bit too well in his favour, as deluded as he was currently being.

Because, having photos on his phone with the both of you looking like a couple? God, he was utterly and completely gone. He was probably going to look back on these photos later whilst kicking his feet and twirling his hair like a giddy dork.