As I pushed open the door to The Maple Nook the morning after the art exhibition, the bell above the door chimed a greeting. It felt like a spotlight was on me, accentuating the new, somewhat infamous status Liam and I had inadvertently cultivated. I had already confided in Katie about the fake relationship with Liam, so she was privy to the behind-the-scenes of this whole charade. 

When I first told her, her eyes had widened in shock, almost comically so, before morphing into an ...