My buddy Paul and I have been friends for years. He’s a really nice guy, but not much of a ladies man. In our group of friends he’s the guy that always gets friend-zoned. He’s had one long term girlfriend a few years ago, but after she dumped him for a guy at his job and broke his heart, he didn’t really date much.
While hanging out with our friends in a bar one night over the summer, it came up that Paul wasn’t going to the wedding of a friend from his job because he knew that his ex would be there with her now fiance and he couldn’t face her knowing he was still single and alone. We tried to convince him it doesn’t matter and that he should go, but he didn’t want to show up alone when everyone else was bringing a date. I had a simple solution to that and offered up my girlfriend to be his date at the wedding. Before he could dismiss it, I called her over and asked her if she’d mind playing his girlfriend for a night to try to make his ex jealous. She was up for it and said she’d love to be his date for the wedding. We decided that she would be flirty and all over Paul at the wedding so that his ex would be jealous or at least know that Paul was over her.