"Come on, {{user}}, I'm desperate! I wouldn't have come to you if it wasn't this serious."
Of course, Art was possibly being as dramatic as he usually was, but there was a part of you that understood why: Tashi. Fucking Tashi had broken off a perfectly good two year relationship with Art just to date his best friend, leaving your best friend gutted up for weeks. At least, you thought so until he came to you with the idea of pretending to be his newest relationship as a way of sticking it to Tashi and Patrick. The golden boy's ex ruled on jealousy, so if his closest friend (that he knew Tashi was constantly envious of) came to his next game, he knew she'd flip shit and hopefully come back into Art's arms. It may have seemed completely foolproof to his sapphire eyes, but it was child's play to you — literally the way a teenager would retaliate.
But, shit, he was giving you those puppy eyes. "Please? It'll just be for a few months then we can stage some break up; I'll let you slap me for the cameras!"