I whistled cheerfully as I pulled into the lot of a small tucked away ice cream shop that had the best ice cream I've ever tasted. Clo's Homemade Ice Cream had the best flavors by far, and I pulled Erica into the ice cream shop.

The scooper said with a friendly smile "Welcome to Clo's!" immediately, and she immediately started scooping my usual when she saw who I was. She winked at me, pointing her chin at Erica, "Has Ben got a girlfriend?" she teased. "Something like that," I mumbled, blushing a deep red.

As she handed me our cones, I pulled out my wallet, but Erica saw and raised her eyebrows. "What're you doing?" she asked. "Paying for our icecream?" I said, it coming out as more of a question. "Aww, is Benny a gentleman?" she teased, and I flushed. "Looks like you've met your match, Ben!" Neela, (The scooper) teased. I wasn't really paying attention

HYPERVENTILATING HERE! ERICA JUST CALLED ME BENNY! PANICKING! I really enjoyed it though.

I was thankful when I was finally able to leave the store, sitting on the small bench nearby Clo's. I grinned wickedly at Erica and dabbed the tip of her nose with my cone. "Oh it's on!" she told me and started tickling me. I held on to my cone for dear life as I laughed my head off.

I could almost see Mike making hearts with his hands, and sticking out his tongue. Erica finally stopped tickling me, and I whipped out my phone and took an adorable selfie of Erica and I eating our ice cream, slightly laughing.

As soon as I posted the picture on Instagram the comments were blowing up with things like "NOOOO! I WANTED BEN!" and "I SHIP! PLEASE TELL ME THEY'RE DATING!" I stole a lick of Erica's chocolate ice cream, and she playfully batted me on the shoulder and took a lick of my lemon poppy seed cone. Don't judge lemon poppy seed ice cream is sooooo good.

I ended up sprawled on the bench laughing, our ice cream cones long forgotten. Then I heard the click of cameras, probably the paparazzi, and I straightened up, brushing a stray wisp of hair out of Erica's face. I stared into her ice-blue eyes for a minute and swallowed nervously. I looked away blushing madly.

This wasn't even a real relationship, it was fake, but still, the way Erica makes me feel (like we're the only people in the world) is enthralling.

I tugged Erica into my pickup, laughing. "Oh shoot. They found us!" I whispered and drove madly away. We laughed like the crazy people we were, and I drove back to the cast trailer park.

We settled on beanbags on the green, the outdoor common area. "That was the most fun I've ever had in my life!" I told her. She blushed and looked down. "That was the best fake date I've ever been on," she admitted. 

"But I'm your only fake date, Erica." I reminded her. She looked down at the ground. "Wait, your joking, right?" I asked. She looked up and started laughing. "No Styx Sherlock!" she told me. "Well, you're a professional actress! You're good at acting!" I complained.

We settled back onto the beanbags, just relaxing. We got to relax for two seconds before our agents burst onto the quad excitedly. 

"Ben! Erica! You may as well become Ben Hale because the press and the people are lapping this up!" I blushed, and mumbled, "That's wonderful." Erica's agent spoke up, saying "And Josh seems properly pissed about it. His new girlfriend, a famous gymnast by the name of Ashley Sparks is pissed too."

Erica looked satisfied and settled back down onto the beanbags.

"Ready for tomorrow? It's the first day on set with you guys being a 'couple'." my agent told us. "Born ready.' I replied.