#this question brought to you by The Rec Center and Fansplaining both covering the trope this week

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Reverse fake relationship fic?

Has anyone read any fic where characters who are not in a relationship have to pretend to be siblings, or some other platonic relationship, and in the process realize how hard it is to act truly platonically, and that they want more?

Or about members of an established relationship who have to pretend to be platonic and keep having to explain away absent-minded affection, and have to keep sneaking around to have secret sex? (Edit: a couple people have rightly pointed out that this one is a Secret Relationship, which is indeed an existing trope!)