prompt: Jacob and Sarah are actors who hate each other until they don't.

Sarah was in her manager's office, and she was absolutely furious. "I AM NOT DOING A MOVIE WITH JACOB!" She yells, gripping the table so hard that her knuckles turned white.

 "Look, I understand why you're upset, but this movie can be HUGE for you," Alex, her manager, says. Sarah couldn't deny that two of the biggest stars ever in a movie together would be huge; might even maybe win her an oscar. Which of course, Jacob already had and flaunted it every time they met. That was one of the many things she hated about him. Jacob was an arrogant, jugmential, lying hypocrite who just so happened to be attractive. When Sarah first met him, she actually really liked him. His pretty eyes, his charming smile. But then he'd gone around the room, flirting with every single girl he could find. Then, at that moment, Sarah decided he was a jerk, and she's hated him ever since.

"Just think about how you'd be rolling in cash in a film with Jacob. It could probably rake in 20-22 million dollars, and probably win you an oscar" Alex says. Sarah had to agree that what he was saying was right, and she was already 30; an opportunity to make this much money would probably never come again. Her performance, if good enough, would probably win an oscar; she'd already been nominated three times. Thinking about it also made her realize she'd probably get more votes. Jacob had a large band of followers (mostly teenage girls), that practically worshipped everything he did, and her audience might get bigger.

"Okay," She says. "Let's do this," She looks up at Alex, who has a huge smile on his face.

"Great, I'll talk to Sam and Sunny to see what we can do for pr," Alex says and high fives Sarah. "Okay, feel free to call me about Jacob whenever you want to. Also, all of us should have dinner on friday at my house, and you need to get out of here cause you have a photoshoot in less than an hour," Alex says, running out of the door towards the room.

Sarah sighs and starts walking towards her car. Her day was always so long and tiring. She really did not want to do a photoshoot right now.

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Sarah was getting ready for dinner with Alex's crew and Jacob. Laura was doing her hair while talking about her new boyfriend and his 'pretty eyes'. Annabel was doing her makeup while also talking about her boyfriend. It seemed like everyone was in a relationship but her, and Sarah hated it. It didn't help that the media seemed to be on her tail about it all the time, with questions like: 'Is there a new man in your life?' or 'who's the mystery guy with you in this picture?' Stupid pictures, stupid questions, stupid boys.

"Kay, we're done," the girls basically say at the same time. Sarah looks up at her reflection. She looked good. Her hair was tied up in a bun and pinned back. She was wearing a red dress that didn't squeeze her to death.

"Alright, let's go, Sam and Sunny are waiting for us at Alex's house," Sarah says while walking out the door, Annabel and Laura follow her. Walking into Alex's house was fun, but walking straight into Jacob was not.

 "Ow, I'm sorry," he says, and then gets a good look at who it actually is. "YOU!" he snarls.

"Yeah, I'm not excited to see you either," Sarah shoots back.

"Oh, sweetheart, your day just got a thousand times better when me and my Oscar winning face graced your presence!" Sarah was about to say something snarky to shut him up, when she got interrupted with Sam running up to her.

"Hi!" She says and practically jumps on top of her, half squishing her. "LOOK LOOK LOOK!" Sam screams and shoved her hand in Sarah's face. There was a ring on her finger... on THE FINGER. For a second nothing happened then Sarah let out a huge squeal. She tackled Sam into a hug. 

"OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD!" Sarah kept saying.

"I'm going to show this to everyone else," Sam says and runs towards Laura and Annabel, who were now in the kitchen. Then, Sarah realized what happened. Sam had left her alone with Jacob again. He had this stupid smile on his face and he was staring at her.

"Well 2019 really is the year of weddings. Everyone around me is getting married," Jacob says. Sarah avoids this, and instead decides to focus on her dress. Was it always this red? 

"Are you seriously avoiding me right now?" Jacob says.

"No, I just don't want to waste my time talking to you," Sarah says, looking at him. Jacob rolled his eyes.

"Honestly, woman, you are the most complex person I have ever met, but yet there's something different about you. I just can't place my finger on it..." Jacob says.

"Dinners ready!" Alex screams from the kitchen, even though everyone can hear him well enough from the echo of his house. Sarah and Jacob walked into the kitchen and straight into the dinning room. Sarah's breath caught in her throat. The room was decorated in the most beautiful candles you could find. She heard Jacob whisper wow behind her; for the first time, she agreed with him. Finding a place to sit was very easy; as far away from Jacob as possible.

"Okay, so I know you guys hate each other, but we need publicity so the team and I came up with this idea to have you guys pretend to date," Alex says, sinking further and further down in his chair with every word. Everything happened in a blur after that; Jacob slammed his hands down onto the table and started yelling. Laura spit water out of her mouth and was now insanely coughing, and Sam was trying to pat her down like a mother would do to their kid. Sunny was choking on her cheese. Annabel and Simon were talking among themselves. Louis just didn't seem to care, and Sarah just stood there with petrified shock all over her expression. 

"But you can't........we can't......... You can't make us......." Sarah doesn't wanna do it either, right?" Jacob says, looking at her with pleading blue eyes. Okay, so him not wanting to even pretend to date her was sad and insulting. But she could never admit it to him.

"He's right, you can't expect us to just go along with this, it's just not right," Sarah says, folding her arms over her chest.

"With all due respect, both of you are 30. This might be your last chance to make a blockbuster and go down in history, because after the looks fade away you got nothing but talent; we all know that won't get far in the industry. There are plenty of young stars willing to go a lot farther for a lot less. Whether you like it or not, according to the general public, you're now starting to get old. So, you either turn down the role of a lifetime, or suck it up, hold hands, and flash a fake smile!" Alex says, and no one says anything; mostly because they know he's telling the truth.

"Alright," Jacob says, "I'll do it... if she does," He says, now looking at Sarah dead in her eyes. Sarah was trying not to squirm, but his gaze was burning daggers into her eyes, daring her to say no, and die with a mediocre career. And Sarah was not going to let Jacob win.

"I'm down," she says. There are collective gasps and whispers from her friends, and she sees Jacob smile at her. A genuine smile; she smiles back because she just can't help it. Jacob has that effect on people.

"Alright," Sunny says. "I guess since you both agreed, we have plans to start with an Instagram picture, and gradually let you guys comment and like each other's posts and tweets before you go to a coffee shop together." Sunny says, writing all of this down in a diary. Sarah looks to see Jacob's reaction; he looks normal. Sarah didn't realize how long she'd been staring, because Jacob looks up and sees her looking at him. Then he does something unexpected; he winks and Sarah inwardly dies. 

"So, when are we going to start this whole fake dating thing?" Sarah asks.

"Right now," Simon says and hands Sarah her phone.

"Take a picture of you and Jacob together. Post it and watch it blow up," Simon says. Sarah takes the phone from him. "How did you even get this?" She asks.

"I stole it when you weren't looking," Louis says.

Okay, so Laura's boyfriend is definitely a psychopath. "Alright, move aside people. I'm the one who has to be in this picture!" Jacob says and sits right next to her. Since the chair is so small, and two fully grown adults are sitting on it, Sarah's half on Jacob's lap. He seems to realize it too because his eyes widen.

"Maybe we should sit somewhere else-" Jacob says, but it's too late. Laura's already snapped a picture. 

"This one's cute, you already look like a couple. Here, I'll send it to you," Laura says, and Sarah hears her phone chime. She looks at the picture; they look like they're dating. She doesn't know if she should feel happy, or sad, or both. Is that a feeling?

"Alright, I'll post it," Sarah says, and she does, with a caption saying, Dinner usually isn't like this I swear.

"Watch it blow up," Simon says, and as if on cue, Sarah's phone starts beeping like crazy. She's actually concerned it might blow up.

"Woah, that was way quicker than I thought it would be," Alex says, holding Sam's hand and stroking her ring. 

"We should probably leave, it's getting late," Annabel says.

  "Yeah," Louis says. His voice is weird; it has this weird cartoon-like aspect to it.

"I mean, I would leave, but Sarah's still using me as a chair," Jacob says. Right, crap, Sarah had totally forgotten about that. She immediately gets up and straightens her dress, mumbling a quick apology under her breath.

"It's fine, we're going to have to get used to this, right?" Jacob asks, and Sarah shakes her head. Mostly because that's all she can do without mumbling like an idiot.

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Sarah woke up in the morning and her phone was still blowing up. She couldn't sleep at night because the phone would keep beeping. Her post with Jacob was now at 27 million likes, with everyone in the comments talking about shipping them. Sarah didn't care about the comments; she cared about the tabloids and magazines. So, she looked at the number one source for tea, Gossip Mag 28.

Hello, my little gossipers. For today's big news we have Sarah Gallagher and Jacob Marley getting a little too friendly. To say, this came suddenly, and we weren't prepared would be an understatement. These two never really interacted with each other, and an inside source tells us that they couldn't stand each other. On that picture, though, they truly looked like they were in love. so this source might just be bs anyway. Unlike you losers, I actually have a life I have to get back to, so that's all for today. But, if you're looking for news, I'm the most reliable source- Aria

Sarah starred at her phone. Did they actually look like they were in love? Sarah was literally about to lose her mind. Was it too late to go back? As if to answer her question, her phone went off. It was a text from Alex.

Alex - Filming for the movie starts tomorrow, the public won't know about it till next month though

Sarah - kay

Alex - we're going to have to do more publicity stunts

Sarah - kay

Alex - This time you're going to be alone

Sarah - kay

Sarah was not okay. She was dying inside, but she was also an actor, so she could pretend to like Jacob. She's done it a billion other times before, for different people, but this time was different. She had no idea what she was feeling, but it needed to stop. She had to make it stop because it scared her.

AN: Hi I'm back hopefully updates will be more frequent but, I always say that and usually never go through with it but we'll see if this time is different. Sorry if this chapter seemed short more funny stuff coming in the next chapter (I think). I just got 1k reads and i'm like losing my mind. Thank you so much.

Congratulations on 1k reads! -Sunny