"I need to ask you something."
She blurts it out as the opening theme tune of How I Met Your Mother begins, their favourite TV show, turning to him with a worried expression.
"Oh, God." Enjolras looks at her with wary eyes.
"What?" She asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing good ever comes from a conversation that starts with 'I need to ask you something'." He narrows his eyes at her, pausing the TV and turning to her on the sofa.
She shrugs. "Well, what if this is good?"
He raises an eyebrow at her then, clearly knowing the answer already. "Is it?"
She looks to the side. "No."
He puts his arm across the back of the sofa, his eyebrow still cocked. "What is it, Ép'?"
She sighs before turning to him. "So you know Cosette is getting married next month."
He nods slowly at her, still confused. "I'm aware, yes."
"Well, she has not stopped nagging me about blind dates and boyfriends for so long now." She doesn't dare look in his eyes.
"Ép', what are you getting at?"
"She rang me earlier and told me that she has found me a date for the wedding, but I don't to go to my best friend's wedding with somebody called Pierre, so I was wondering if you would be my fake date to the wedding?." She looks at him with wide eyes then, expecting him to laugh at her and shake his head.
"But...why?" He looks so lost and confused, she almost takes it all back. But she knows Enjolras, and can tell that he will not let this conversation go until he has gotten to the bottom of it.
"I may have-well, it's pretty funny, actually, you'll laugh- I kind of told Cosette that you and I are dating."
"But we're not!" He cocks his head at her.
"I know that, Enjolras! I'm not trying to change that!" She explains quickly before he can butt in. "You know I'm totally cool with being single, especially after that shit storm with Courfeyrac, but apparently Cosette thinks I need to find someone now that she is getting married. And the first person I thought of was you when she asked, so now she thinks that you're my boyfriend and, because of that, my date to the wedding."
He just stares at her, his arm completely limp against the back of the sofa.
She offers him a pathetic smile. "I'm sorry."
"So, just let me get this straight. You want me to pretend to be your boyfriend for the next month," he stresses the word, and she swallows, "just so Cosette wont set you up with Pierre at the wedding."
"Yes." She nods, completely understanding the extremity of it now.
"Ép', you do realise that this means we have to lie to our friends? They'll all be at the wedding too."
She sighs. She should never have asked. She'll just have to explain it to Cosette later. Oh, she'll never hear the end of it from the bride to be. In fact, Cosette will probably yell at her for it. "I know. I'm sorry, Enjolras, I know it's a lot to ask-"
"I'll do it." Enjolras announces.
"What?" She actually has to double take as he nods his head at her.
"I mean, we already live together. Our friends always joke about something going on between us, strangers think we're a couple, we could totally pull this off." He's smiling as he speaks, and she sighs with relief.
"Thank you! You're the best!" She throws around him, feeling his circle around her back as he laughs at her enthusiasm.
"Yeah, I know." He grins at her as she pulls back, and she grabs the remote to press play again.
So this is the general fake dating! prompt. Thanks for reading!