Ella My sister is getting married to my ex, well, he wasn’t my ex yet when they decided to hook up behind my back, so you’ll understand when I say I’m not exactly rational about the whole affair.In fact, it is safe to say, I'm pretty irrational about the whole thing.It’s not because I still want that treacherous, lying, faithless, excuse for a real man. No, she’s welcome to him.It’s just their betrayal that still really hurts. I trusted them.Now I have their wedding to attend. I can already imagine the scenario with my family, relatives, and friends pretending they don’t pity me.Poor Ella. She lost her man to her younger sister.There were a few rational solutions to my problem. One of which would have been to simply absent myself from the occasion. An excuse of ill-health, last minute transport problems, a fractured hip, any old excuse would have done, but what did I do?The most irrational thing possible, obviously.I accidentally got drunk at the Christmas party and asked my totally dishy boss to be my pretend boyfriend for the wedding!Guess what's even more irrational than that?He said yes! A Standalone Office Romance

Elena Woods and I went to the same high school, but we're from completely different worlds. Her family is old money, so rich her father knew the President. My family was the opposite. We were dirt poor. My dad left us when I was just two years old and he never came back even to see me. My mom worked three jobs just to keep a roof over our heads, and the only reason I got to attend the Franklin School, a private school full of Elenas, was because I got a scholarship through a program for gifted students.My mom made sure my clothes were always clean and well pressed, but they were hand me downs, sourced from charity shops, or as the years went by, from the well-meaning mother of an older student, which shamed me immensely. I was the poor kid, the charity case, and I knew I would never fit in with my peers on their level. I made myself the dare devil rebel, always misbehaving. It made me popular, and I soon forgot I had nothing in common with any of my friends.