Quarantined with Dylan O'Brien

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Madison Brooks

I hope he's not bothered by the post, he stared at me for a while after he read it, it sort of worried me about what he was thinking in his head.

I thought as I ate what we made, a simple salad and some pasta.
We sat next to each other on the couch and put the food out on the small table in front of us.

I didn't know how Dylan felt after reading the comments, I don't care how I was seen as but I just cared about Dylan and how he thought about this.

The last thing I wanted to do was ruin his reputation.

I was in really deep thought, my hand was just stuffing food in my mouth and my eyes were set on the TV but my mind not actually paying attention.

This also made me ignore the fact that Dylan was staring at me the whole time with a weird look on his face.

"Uh- Madi? Hello? You okay?"

He asks waving his hand in front of me as he finally caught my attention.

"Oh sorry- did you say something?"

I said quickly facing him.

"I just wanted to ask if you were all right. You seemed to be in a different dimension though."

He said laughing a bit.

"Oh yeah I'm good, I'm good."

I said as I started watching the TV again.

After a good minute Dylan said,

"You're bothered by it aren't you?"

He asked without making eye contact, probably to stop me from reading his facial expression.

I looked at him a bit surprised but also not, he probably assumed from me spacing out but I could have been thinking about anything.

You stayed silent for a second thinking about what to say.

"Well more like I'm worried about you."

I said as I faced back to the TV.

"Worried about me for what?"

He asks as he faces me.

"How you think about this and all. I don't want to be ruining your name and I don't know if I already did or not by being present there. All these girls are now upset because they know that someone was with you."

I say as I faced him.

I was slightly at the edge already, today was exhausting for some reason and this wasn't helping at all.

"Look, you're overthinking this. It's not a big deal, we can just let them talk, do whatever. If I stay out of it everything will die down quickly since I never proved anything and they don't have any proof. They don't even have a single picture of you and don't know you anyways."

He says with a warm smile.

"Are you sure?"

I ask needing reassurance. I always needed multiple reassurances since I couldn't move on from something if I started worrying about it.

"Mhm, one hundred thousand percent."

"That's not a percent but sure."

You say as you both giggled and happily turned back to watching TV and eating.

Dylan O'Brien

So this whole time Madi was worried about me.

I think chuckling at the irony.