Seeing Red

You reek

My phone was ringing and it woke me up way earlier than I planned to on this lazy Saturday, I had no plans except for getting wasted on a brunch with Aria and couple of her friends.

"What is it Harry?" I yawned answering the phone.

"You really think that deleting social media would mean getting rid of everything?"

"What are you even saying?"

"Open the tweet I just sent you." She ended the call.

The link led me to a tweet that had been shared by hundreds of people. Not me spotting Charles' girlfriend in Nice with another dude. The tweet had a blurry picture of me and Darren from last night.

Oh gosh, hundreds of people were saying vile shit about me. Calling me a groupie, a cheat, clout chaser.

I was destroyed, with every word I read, I felt more pain. I wanted to curl into a ball and cry, I called up Harriet and spilled all my horrible feelings to her.

"You know it's not the truth! There's nothing you can do, what I can do is send you lots of hugs. It'll all be fine, we're coming over on Sunday and we're going to fix everything." She consoled me.

"I'm going to bail on Aria then, I can't possibly go out right now."

"No. You will go out, you haven't done anything wrong. Take care okay? And try and clear the air about this situation."

"Like you said, there's nothing I can do about it." I sighed.

I took a long shower, hoping that it would wash away the disgust I felt. I was mad at myself for letting this happen, and I was mad at him for not doing anything about him at all.

Aria: Good morning Tara! I'll be there in 15

Me: Morning Aria, I can't wait to get to brunch. It's all on me!

Aria: woah okay what's happening?

Me: I need to get wasted today

Aria: At 11 am? You good?

Me: Not one bit I'll tell you more when you get here.

I quickly did my hair and the rest of my makeup and got tidying the place. I know she was going to be here only to pick me up but I still needed to make a good impression.

After a while the doorbell rang, she was here! With a confused look on her face, happy regardless. Ready to go? She asked. I nodded my head, we started our walk to the place.

"You're here!" A woman greeted us as we walked to the table.

"Tara, these are my friends!" Aria beamed taking a seat.

"I'm Daya." The woman who has greeted us first shook my hand.

"Hi! I'm Tara, I started working with Aria recently." I  smiled.

"I'm Esha and she's Inaya." The woman with a pixie cut introduced herself.

"Hi Inaya! Hey Esha! Your hair looks really cool!" I complimented her.

"Oh! Thanks! They said that it makes me look unfriendly." She pursed her lips.

"Far from it! You look so cool."

"Should we order now?" Esha spoke up.

"Yeah we should, also drinks are on me so get whatever you want! I plan on getting embarrassingly drunk."

"Count me in! What's the occasion though?" Esha asked.

"Social media has decided to vilify me." I sighed.