Summary:Edward Cullen and Bella Swan are actors who have been working for Volturi Entertainment together for a long time. Summit's owner, Aro Volturi wants them to pose as a couple in front of the paparazzi for the sake of publicity. But what happens as their feelings for each other begin to change? What happens when the line between reality and pretend is erased? What happens next?

DISCLAIMER: I do not own The Twilight Saga. It belongs to Stephenie Meyer.

Bella

Considering that I'm the well known actress: Bella Swan, I always thought that I wouldn't ever have to care about getting late to an appointment but this afternoon, I was really late for an important meeting with my publicist.

I all but ran in to the office building and rushed towards my booking agent and publicist's office. I entered without knocking and raised an eyebrow as I realised that my publicist wasn't alone. My co-star Edward Cullen and his agent, Emmett McCarthy sat on chairs in front of Rosalie Hale's desk.

"This better be important, Rosalie. I was really busy when I got your call", I warned. Then I turned to greet the two other men in the room.

Rosalie gestured for me to take a seat in between Edward and Emmett, which I instantly did.

"Edward, Bella, so I bet you're both wondering why McCarthy and I called you here", began Rosalie, looking at Edward and me with meaningful eyes.

Emmett cut in and quietly said, "Hale and I had a meeting with Aro yesterday…"

Edward and I both cringed as we heard Volturi Entertainment's owner, Aro Volturi's name pop in to the conversation. He is our boss and no one particularly likes him.

"And he doesn't like the kind of publicity the two of you are bringing in", finished Rosalie.

"What do you mean by that?" asked Edward.

Rosalie sighed. "You're both huge stars of the Moonlight Saga by Carmen Meyer and you know that your fans love you as much as they love Carmen's books. In fact, they love you so much that they hate to see either of you paired off with someone besides each other."

"The fact that Bella spends so much time with her home town friend, Jacob Black", interrupted Emmett. "And that Edward has been recently pictured with a blonde mystery girl isn't liked by the fans."

"So what does Aro want us to do?" I wondered out loud.

Rosalie and Emmett shared a look. Then Rosalie shook her head. She slowly said, "Umm, you guys have to pretend that you're dating."

"What?" shouted Edward and I shouted.

"Are you serious?" asked Edward. He snuck a peak at me and I'm sure I looked a bit worried. "I mean, Bella and I are good friends but I don't think it's fair for Aro to force us to date!"

"This isn't a joke", confirmed Emmett. "And don't think of it as dating. Think that… you're acting."

I took a deep breath. "So why do the fans' reactions matter so much to Aro? He never cares about what our fans think."

"Well," said Emmett. "All the fans saw Edward's pictures with the mystery blonde. Then they saw pictures of you with Jacob at your house a while back. I don't know where the paparazzi got those pictures but they were in every magazine known to man-kind. Your third and last Moonlight film is about to release soon and Summit can not afford any bad publicity."

"The fans' reaction wasn't pretty", added Rosalie, wincing. "They already think that you two are a couple and when they read the horrible articles that followed with the pictures, they went crazy on twitter, Facebook and MySpace. It's a terrible situation."

"And soon, they'll start sending you hate mail. They'll ambush you at meet and greets and you won't like it. At all", said Emmett. "So come on guys, it's not forever. Please just pretend for a while."

I silently considered this. There were two alternatives before me. Either I would have to pretend to date Edward or suffer at the hand of fans and the media. I shut my eyes and knew that there was only one thing to do.

"I'll do it", I said boldly.

Edward looked surprised that I'd agreed so easily. He shrugged and nonchalantly said, "Me too."

"That's great!" exclaimed Rosalie.

Emmett smiled at Rosalie. "See that Hale? I told you they'd agree", he said confidently.

Rosalie shrugged. "I knew that too. I just thought that it would be hard to convince them."

After the meeting finished, Edward and I went outside the office building and in to the parking lot. Edward walked me to my car and held the door open for me to get in.

"So, I guess we're pretending that we're a couple", he muttered.

"Yeah, we are", I replied awkwardly.

"It'll be hard to but we'll have to manage. After all we've become friends after working on three movies together, haven't we?" he smiled crookedly.

Suddenly Emmett ran out of the building and hurriedly made his way to where Edward and I were standing. He stopped for a second to recover himself. Then he said, "Tomorrow night at ten Jane Volturi's having her 18th birthday party at Club 18 and you both are coming together. Edward, you know where that is. Just pick Bella up from her place and arrive there together. Let the paparazzi picture you together and just act normally. OK?"

I smiled wryly. "Geez Emmett, it doesn't seem like we have a choice, do we?"

"No. You actually don't", replied the tall man, trying to look serious.

"We'll be there", sighed Edward. "Don't worry, Em."

"Good", replied Emmett. He patted Edward on his shoulder and nodded at me, and then he went back inside the office building.

"I'll pick you up at 9.30", said Edward casually.

I shook my head and waved good bye. I started my car and headed back home.

A/N: Well, there you go guys.

I'm not sure whether I should continue this as a multi chapter story or not. Should I leave it as a one shot or do you want to read more of this?

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