Perfectly Imperfect // TheCampingRusher FF [complete]

26

*Nicole's POV*

I was pissed, and it was obvious that everyone in that house knew it. I had given Jordan a glare and almost snapped.

We split into 2 Ubers, and of course Brayden and I had to not be in the same car. I was so sick an tired of this. Couples shouldn't have to hide their relationship, even if ones they love don't like it. Hell, for all we know all of them would totally be happy about it.

Whatever, time to go enjoy myself at this meetup.

Once we got there we spread ourselves throughout the park so fans would create little lines around us. Ryan was to my left and Dul was to my right, then next to Dul was Brayden.

As fans started showing up, a little group in front of me started to form.

I signed so many foam diamond swords, shirts, phone cases, faces even.

So many great hugs were exchanged and pictures as well.

But then one fan brought a picture to my attention. She pulled it up on Twitter, it was from Bee.

The fan told me Bee had deleted it, so no one could see it anymore. But she screenshotted it so I saw it.

The tweet read:

@HeyImBeeYT: @fxck.nicole How about telling your friends your secret before they find out from someone else? ;)

I was infuriated.

Why the hell would she tweet that? Does she seriously hate me that much? What the hell have I done to her?

I went the rest of the meetup trying to forget what that fan showed me. It was hard, but somehow I managed to brush it off for 3 more hours.

After the meetup we all headed back to the house to chill and maybe order pizza.

Now.

"Guys, can we all meet in the living room for a sec?" I shout to everyone so they hear me from rooms upstairs.

Brayden sits next to me on the couch.

"What are you doing?" He asks me looking concerned.

"I can't take it anymore, Brayden. I want to be able to be with you without feeling scared, or like I'm hiding a piece of me. It's not right." I tell him grabbing his hand. We release once people start filing into the living room.

"What's up?" Kevin asks sitting down next to Jordan and Graser.

"Yeah, what's going on Nic? Everything okay?" Julio asks looking concerned as well.

I swallow hard and take a deep breath. I delay my answer once everyone is sitting down with their attention on me.

"No." I begin.

"Wha-" Devon starts but I cut him off.

"No, I'm not okay. I have something to tell you that I've been terrified of admitting because, well I don't even know." I say looking down. I feel all their eyes on my face.

"Brayden and I have been together for 8 months now."

I hear a few gasps and people sit back in their seats. Brayden takes my hand and rubs it. I tighten our grip.

"I don't care at this point whether you guys like it or not, because if you're true friends you'd support us. And I have gotten a lot of shit and threats just because I wouldn't tell you guys. People threatened to spill our secret and spread rumors about me, I don't know if anyone did but if there are some I can guarantee they aren't true." I say trying to sound confident.

It goes silent.

"Why would you be so afraid to tell us?" Will asks.

I make eye contact with him. "I don't know. Sometimes when hundreds of thousands of people already know 90% of your life, then sometimes you feel like keeping the last 10% to yourself and family." I shrug, not knowing if what I had just said made any sense.

"I'm not mad personally, but I wish you would've trusted us sooner. Thank god you told us now rather than later, because things were really fishy between you two this whole trip, and people were suspecting things." Devon says.

I smile and take a deep breath and lay back. I guess I didn't have much to worry about after all.

That was us Canadians last night at PAX. The next morning, we leave to go back home.

And hell was I excited to go back home.

A/N
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