🎧🎶 "Closer - (ft Halsey / The Chainsmokers)"

This was all so stupid, it was foolish, lame, pathetic, and the lowest you'd ever sunk... but it was done anyway, it was an emergency, according to you... it was only a service after all...doesn't it?

Your cousin's wedding was in a week, and if it hadn't been for a friend of a friend of your coworker's neighbor, you would never have known there was a possibility of hiring someone to be your companion, or worse for you... to pretend to be your partner... but you were desperate. Not for a partner, but because of the stupid expectations your family had of you. Even though you knew it was ridiculous, a part of you still wondered what they would say. It was inevitable; you're only human, after all.

You're a modern woman, successful or at least good at what you do, you have your own apartment, you're beautiful, you're still young, and your biological clock for having babies was perfectly fine...you shouldn't be worrying about such ridiculous and trivial things just because you're still single, right?... Well, apparently, some members of your family were still intrigued by your pathetic love life...screw them.

So that's how you ended up hiring Joel Miller... who, although he works in construction and materials handling, seems to enjoy helping single women in his spare time by charging to pretend to be the perfect boyfriend and save them from stupid questions and awkward conversations. "XoXo Emergency Love Services by Joel Miller, Inc."... It would have been less pathetic to say you met him on Tinder, but he doesn't have an account and takes his job very seriously.

You were packing your things; your flight was in less than half an hour. You had agreed to meet Joel at the airport in time to catch the flight and arrive together at your relatives' house, ready for the subsequent preparations for your cousin's wedding.