Kimberly’s ‘boyfriend’

"If you want to call just call. You have been staring at that card for over an hour."

"Anton." Kimberly stared at her 'boyfriend.'

"Shhh. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to say. So shh."

"Come on BABE. I'm trying to encourage you." Anton laughed. Kimberly rolled her eyes.

"By the way, help me pick out an outfit for my date. He's hot, I need to look perfect." He got up and went to the kitchen to grab some more food.

Kimberly sighed. She and her 'boyfriend' who is actually gay have been secretly 'dating' for over 3 years now. You ask why? Well, 3 years ago they were the leads in a movie. The director asked them to go on sneaky and secret dates to create the 'hype' and it worked. Usually, Kimberly never accepts such things but it just happened that her grandmother was pestering her about her singlehood.

Anton also had his parent's sending him to blind dates and since he had kept his sexuality a secret for his entire life he never knew how to break it to his parents so he used the opportunity. Eventually they understood each other's situations and became close friends. They started scheming the whole secret dating for the 3 years. They were hoping that if their parents ever brought up marriage again they would just present each other as lovers and they would also have 3 years to back up their lie.

Kimberly had been thinking about calling her but it was too difficult to call her because what Kimberly wanted was to hug her and talk in person. She also thought about calling her to set up a meeting but Adriana could easily decline and make up an excuse. She could not be 100% certain that Adriana would agree.

"Since you are taking this so seriously why don't you just help me pick out an outfit and distract yourself, okay?" Anton suggested with some pizza in his hands and scrolling through his phone. Kimberly glanced at his phone and rounded her eyes. "You are not stalking that dude's insta." She pointed out.

"Shh, he's hot." He defended himself. "Well, he is. Let me see his face. Is this dude the one you are going on a date with?" Kimberly asked, snatching the phone from his hands.

"Yup!" Anton responded with a smirk. He was looking forward to the date a lot. Well not 'date' but he would make it a date. The guy wants to meet him to talk about business matters but he's too hot for him to pass on.

"This guy?!" Kimberly looked at the photo of Chris and she froze. 'He's gay? This jerk! Confessing to me and now going out dating with guys!" She clenched the phone on her hand angrily.

'He's going to annoy me to death one of these days.' She gritted her teeth and went through all the photos. "He has an insta? I thought he was like my brother never meddling in social media and stuff like that." The more she looked the more annoyed she became.

"He's half naked!?" Her eyes rounded even more every time she looked at all the pictures. "Well, actually it's a fan page. They sneak pictures of him and post them online. It's creepy but they get good angles though." Anton shrugged.

"Fan page? They have fan pages huh?" Immediately she started scrolling and searching. She was horrified and shocked at the same time.

'You weren't lying he's hot…." She admitted looking at the pictures. There was one of him walking out of Noah's office with a gloomy expression but it still looked good on him, another of him leaving a cafe, and him eating lunch and many more.

"Funny story they got someone to spill coffee on him so they could take a picture of his abs exposed." Anton informed her. "Wow, you know a lot." She mumbled and he just smiled brightly as if proud.

"You can't date him." Kimberly told him with a very determined and serious expression and she handed the phone back to him after memorizing the name of the fan pages. "Why not?" Anton asked with a frown.

'He's my cousin. My brother's closet friend and surely an iceberg just like him." She responded.

"OMG did you just call your cousin hot." Anton chuckled. "He's adopted, we aren't really cousins and his adoptive parents are distant to our family. Besides, I just stated a fact. And it will be troublesome if you date him. What if we need to expose our 'relationship' one day? That would hurt him and it would get us exposed." She reasoned.

Seeing Anton's disappointed look she felt a pang of guilt. She felt bad but she has beat that man up for lying to her and acting like he really likes her when really he's going out, dating another man and hiding his sexuality. Anyways, not that she was going to tell Anton any of that but still.

"That makes sense. Don't worry there are tons of other hot guys. Plus I already have 5 more dates after this." He winked.

"You damn playboy!"

…..

"Anyay, regarding your situation I think you should create a 'coincidental' meeting between you too." Anton suggested.

"But how? I don't even know where she is. That's the problem." Kimberly complained in frustration. "Right…." Anton sat beside her doing his best to think of a way to help her.

"Let's go to that sweets shop downtown. I'm sure we will come up with something." He offered. Kimberly gave him a hard stare. "You seem more interested in how to fill your stomach."

Anton coughed knowing he had been exposed. Ene so, Kimberly stood up and took the business card with her ready to leave. "So we are going?" He asked. "Hurry up and wear your mask. I don't want the media catching us. I had some paparazzi follow me into the ladies restroom in a mall last time." She clicked her tongue in annoyance.

"Damn…." Anton shivered, remembering the time he was followed by a whole army of fans for hours.

Out of nowhere Kimberly's phone started ringing. She picked it up seeing it was her brother. "Hey, are you doing better now?" She asked.

"I am but I'm staying home for today. I just wanted to tell you that grandmother has been admitted to the hospital…." He trailed off.

"What?!" Kimbelry yelled and started getting her things ready to leave.

"Don't worry,her condition is stable. She suddenly fainted this morning from shock. As to why, let's just say she received some unexpected news from Uncle Wright this morning." Her brother explained, talking more than what he usually does.

"Then there is only one way to put her heart at ease." Kimberly sighed holding onto the business card.

No wonder everyone always called her heartless. She went away from their life's as fast as she came. It was all like a quick light that went off a minute later. It's only obvious that Adriana's bubbly nature had made their home much more livelier. When she left nothing was the same. Now she came back so suddenly and shook the world they were already started getting used to.