Moving On

Chapter 12: You Broke Up With Her, You Idiot

It was Friday night and Tonya had finally sat down to watch the rest of Veronica's scenes, some unaired, and the beach hut interaction. Hashtag Beachgate as her assistant called it, was apparently trending. She hit play.

She watched Veronica smooth things over with Lottie and Marisol, she rolled her eyes. She had hoped that would cause more of an uproar. Then she saw Bobby and Veronica go to the hideaway. She started to hit fast forward because she didn't want to watch all that but instead, they were arguing.... she turned up the volume.

"𝘐'𝘮 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳!"

"𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴. 𝘓𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦....."

"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺! 𝘋𝘢𝘮𝘯 𝘪𝘵 𝘝𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢! 𝘐 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨..."

It looked like the baker guy had some real feelings. No one had told her that. She fast forward. They had made things official the next morning and you could see how happy Veronica was. The footage ended and Tonya put the beach hut DVD in. She hit play.

She saw the girls talking about kids then Veronica saying she got a text for an interview, she had wondered how they ended up in the beach hut in the first place. 𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓. She saw as Lucas watched and followed her, he genuinely looked concerned for her. After a few minutes she understood. That poor girl. Tonya had no idea this is what had happened.

She put in the newest DVD that she received a few hours ago, it was labeled, "footage aired." It showed Lucas kneeling in front of Veronica and she was crying. There were subtitles since they had taken their mics off, you could hear but subtitles made things seem intimate for some reason. The scene was edited to make it seem just like Tonya had said, mysterious.

He kissed her on the cheek

She looked at him with panic on her face. "What do I tell Bobby?"

He looked up at her, "Hey, calm down, It's going to alright," and he tucked a piece of hair behind her ear.

The scene ended. Tonya put a hand up to her mouth and saw her reflection in the TV screen. "What have I done?"

She grabbed her cellphone. It was late but an assistant was supposed to be there whenever they were needed. She text Hunter

𝙳𝚒𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚎𝚠 𝚒𝚜𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚢𝚎𝚝?

She waited for him to respond. If the new ones hadn't arrived yet she could make sure they were told not to mention it. It was the only way to stop it. They had teased it everywhere as the kiss that would rock the Villa. If Hunter didn't answer soon she'd just call his ass and threaten to fire him. She got a text.

𝚈𝚎𝚊𝚑, 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝.

𝑫𝒂𝒎𝒏 𝒊𝒕! She shot back a reply,

𝙳𝚘 𝚠𝚎 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚍?

This was dumb, she hit call.

"Hunter, what happened."

He was still half asleep, "Hold on," he yawned and sounded like he was stretching, "Sorry..... I wasn't there but Rachel said the new girl Chelsea came in  and said something about a sweet kiss with Lucas. He thought she meant between him and Lottie but Jakub jumped in and spilled the tea about the beach hut."