It's Just Pretend ✔️

Chapter 26

There's a phone buzzing and my curious instincts just tell me to look. I see it's Damiens and look around for my boyfriend. He came to work with me again, but he had disappeared.

"Work?" I look at the contact and panic. The panic becomes worse as I have seen there were already four missed calls. I pick up the phone and answer it bringing it to my ear.

"Damien Royce! This is the fifth time I've called you!" A man shouts and I open my mouth to talk. "I-" he doesn't let me though. "I don't want to hear it. We need to have a serious talk" he sighs and I look around hoping I'll find Damien. "You sh-" I try once again to tell him it's not Damien.

"It's about you and Mr. Tatton. I'm starting to think this is a real relationship. You are having too much fun and I don't like it one bit. You're going to ruin my business!" He yells and I roll my eyes.

"I'm not-" he lets out a grunt into the phone. "I don't want to hear your excuses, I can't have you hoeing around with some celebrity! Get serious! Your mother left me with you saying you were a well-behaved boy- this is not what I wanted!" He yells and my heart breaks.

I shouldn't be listening to this it's getting too personal now. "I wish she would have just kept you- you disrespectful boy! I don't know why I agreed with taking you on. Twenty-something and you still can't live without me" he chuckles as I spot Damien walking over.

My eyes were wide as I waved him to hurry up. "May I speak now?" I ask absolutely pissed. "Damien?" He stammers and I bite my lip. "No Zachary Tatton" I answer and listen to him suck in a breath.

"Did you hear all of that sir?" He asks and I chuckle. "I answered after seeing so many missed calls because your employee had to go to the bathroom" I explain and he hums a response.

Damiens walks over with a confused face and I mute the phone before talking. "It's your work- I'm sorry there were just so many missed calls I panicked" I explained and he goes wide-eyed trying to grab the phone.

"Well then tell me, Mr. Tatton is your relationship real?" He asks and I sigh. "Of course it's not, I just needed him to help me get out of the drama" I explain and he lets out a loud breath. Very angry breathing, showing he didn't know what to say.

"How! It's very obvious there are feelings involved I've seen all the pictures!" He yells and I twist dodging Damien's grab. "I'm an actor- it's called acting, now I have to get back to work but I suggest you treat your employees a bit better because I'm extremely pissed off by you right now and I'm not scared to make your life a living hell. Do not call this number for the rest of the day" I warn him.

"Yes- of course. I'm so sorry sir. Really I am awfully-" I hang up before handing Damien his phone. "Is that your boss?" I ask and he nods desperately trying to call the number. "Damien stop" I pull the phone back down and he shakes his head.

"Dad's going to be upset" he mumbles and I stop. "Dad!? That asshole was your dad- sorry" I immediately apologize and he puts his phone in his pocket.

"Damien I'm sorry. I'm so sorry" I mumble and he shakes his head. "It's fine, you probably just saved us some time. You were just trying to help" he chuckles sadly and I shake my head.

"I feel so bad. I shouldn't have even looked at your phone. I'm so sorry" I repeat rubbing my eyes angry with myself. "What you said was pretty convincing" he laughs once again a sad laugh.

"What?" I ask standing awkwardly. I didn't know if he wanted me to touch him or not. "I'm an actor... it's called acting" he smiles and I scrunch my face up confused.

"Damien. That was a lie, you know none of this is acting. I love you" I whisper grabbing his arm. "Can you just never say that again?" he asks reaching for me. I let him pull me closer and nod.

"Whatever you want. Damien, I love you so much, you know that right?" I remind him as he wraps his arms around me loosely. He nods and I give him a small kiss. "I love you too, I guess I just never realized how easily you could have just been faking it" he murmurs and I move my hand to his face to make him look at me.

"No I hate being used, why would I go out and use someone" I sigh and he shakes his head before grabbing my hand to kiss it. "I don't know I think the thought just popped into my head to scare me" he sighs and I nod. "And it's just a thought nothing but a bad thought" I whisper.

"Can we kiss?" He asks and I give him a concerned look but nod. "Of course my teddy bear" I get him to grow flustered before pecking his lips.

"I'm really sorry though" I lay my head against his and he rocks us back and forth. "It's okay. You were just trying to help" he tells me and I nod. "Where did you go anyways?" I ask interlocking our fingers.

"Just went to the bathroom, they said you had a few more scenes I wasn't expecting you to be done so quickly" he admits and I chuckle thinking about it. "Valerie had to pretend to slap me because I accidentally said something offensive without knowing and the bitch actually got me with her nail. Anyways she broke her nail scratching me and went on a fit about it, so they have to go fix her nail" I explain and he nods before examining my face.

"Where did she get you?" He asked looking me up and down I turn my head to the side pointing to my neck. After pretending she brought her hand down dragging it down my neck.

"Just a little scratch" I shrug and he nods but leans forward kissing the spot anyways. "And now it's all better" I laugh. "Did she at least apologize?" He asks and I shake my head. "The poor girl was going into cardiac arrest over her nail, she didn't have time to worry about me," I tell him and he shakes his head before moving my head to re-examine the scratch . Kissing it again, I tighten my grip on him.

"You're so sweet" I whisper and he smiles proud of himself. "That's so cute- you guys are so cute. I'm obsessed with your relationship. Like I want to third wheel everything- I mean not everything but many things" Jadyn pops in and I laugh now noticing he had been by us. I don't know how long though.

"Where's your Mylo?" I ask as Jadyn starts tapping away at his phone. "My Mylo is working at the moment just because Valerie decides to have a diva moment doesn't mean we all get a break... I didn't mean my Mylo!" He shouts the last part and I chuckle separating a bit from Damien. He held my shoulder keeping me closer to him and I smiled at this.

He's so cuddly and I'm absolutely in love with it. "Any progress between you two?" I ask as he starts to tap away at his phone. "Um... nothing much just us talking. I flirt with him. I think he flirts with me. I stare at him way too much. That kind of stuff" he waves me off and I nod.

"Done" he mutters and I give him a confused look. My phone suddenly buzzed and I grab my phone from my pocket. "Jadyn Dames posted" I look over to him and he smirks.

I open my phone and tap the notification. "Really?" I sigh and look through the photos of me and Damien rocking back and forth. There were a few of me giving him a concerned look and then me laughing before he moved my head to the side to look at the scratch. The last one was of him kissing my neck lightly.

"We got offset and they both immediately do this, they make being single awful" I read the caption out loud and he nods proudly at it. "Hashtag Dach or Hashtag Zamien" I continue and he nods again.

"I'm currently digging Zamien more" he admits and I roll my eyes before liking the photo and going to the comments. Typing the words, you are a stalker, in all caps.

I send it and read a few of the comments about turning his account into a fan page for our relationship.

I put my phone away and Damien starts to mess with his hair. "Do you need a hair tie? I have one in my wallet for you" I remind him and he nods.

Walking over to my corner of stuff I crouch down and search through my things grabbing the hair tie out of my wallet.

"Here you go" I hand it to him and he kisses my forehead with a smile. "Thank you darling" he hums.

Suddenly Jadyn is holding his phone in my face. "Welcome guys to my now fan account for Zamien or Dach. We just missed Z say that he keeps a hair tie in his wallet at all times for his long hair lover... how romantic" he swoons and I roll my eyes.

"Don't make me get Mylo"