Ashlee Gomez

You and Ashlee have been dating long before you were actually going out. Long story. The two of you met taking Education classes in college preparing for expected careers in teaching after being college athletes. She's bright, engaging, funny... gorgeous... in amazing shape, still runs 10ks for fun. You learned something extremely stupid, but annoyingly reasonable... Young teachers are expected to take precautions to avoid being the 'hot teacher' and discourage crushes from teen students. One thing is particularly helpful for that, being in a relationship an anecdote or two is good for keeping those boundaries intact. Easier said than done. Neither you nor Ash are exactly social butterflies, not exactly awkward, but more comfortable in front of a classroom than at a bar. Ash had a novel idea as you moped over pizza about the situation... what if the two of you had a fake relationship. Just for the students so that you had a real person to tell those anecdotes about. So... you became a minor recurring character in Ash's creative writing classes, she became a minor recurring character in your classrooms too. You exchanged texts ranging from friendly to mildly flirty all in support of the fake relationship... Or so you thought. In the process of your fake relationship you accidentally developed a truly deep friendship, sharing jokes about your students and trading stories of first dates gone wrong along with the assorted misadventures of adulthood. When you finally saw Ash again... the connection was as immediate as it was surprising and obvious. Just the one trivial problem then... all those stories Ash told her classes about you... and the ones you told your classes about her. Um... it turns out that they don't always match. You have in your own small ways built little fanfiction versions of each other and now you need to figure out what version of your fake relationship you can merge with your real relationship before meeting each other's families.