Bound To Falling In Love // Sadie Sink

20. Thank You For Being Mine ♡

Perhaps it was the storm outside that woke up Annabelle so early, or her body was still so close to the edge that the nightmare managed to pull her out of her much needed sleep. Regardless, the last thing she needed was her body to be awake at 7 am, on a Sunday morning.

"Morning." She heard Sadie's sleepy voice once her eyes adjusted to the darkness in the room. The weather outside had completely dimmed their little hotel room, for better or for worse.

"Morning. Sorry to wake you up so early." Elle's voice was weak, low, raspy. And in any other case, Sadie would be happy to hear this state of her girlfriend's morning voice, but not now. Not when all of it was created from the panic attack yesterday.

"You really don't need to apologize, Ellie. Blame the thunderstorm outside." The Redhead did an attempt to ease up the mood, but it was unsuccessful. Despite Annabelle's clear suspicion about her words, she still nodded weakly and moved her hand towards her phone. Sadie had made sure to completely turn off all notifications, but it was inevitable to check them at some point.

"Fuck this, my entire family has seen the video." The blonde girl mumbled, tossing her phone somewhere across the room and burying herself closer in Sadie's embrace. She had no clue what else to do at that point, but she knew that the only way to fix this was together. And just being in her girlfriend's presence helped greatly, especially with her anxiety.

"It will be fine." Sadie whispered, but the hesitance in her own voice was clear - she was just as scared as her girlfriend and has been ignoring all calls from her family and co-stars, occasionally picking up if it's Millie or Caleb.

"It won't be fine, Sades. It is one thing to get half naked in front of a camera, but seeing someone record something so private is excruciating." Bella mumbled against her skin, breathing in and out deeply and trying to think rationality. Which seemed to be brand new to her at this moment.

"There isn't much we can do, my love," Sadie closed her eyes tightly, knowing that at this point, the damage has been done. The video was all over the media, probably ending up in some sick porn website for anyone to see. Staying in bed certainly didn't fix the growing tension, nor magically erase the video, but right here, right now, with them against each other it seemed like the best decision to do. "We are in this together, yeah? We can do it."

Annabelle moved her head up to meet her girlfriend's gaze. The blonde girl was perfectly aware that everything she said was 100% correct, but that in no way numbed the mental pain it brought, nor did it help with the still boiling anger inside her.

"Do you think my family had something to do with this?" Bella asked softly, trying to control the shakiness in her voice. She had an idea that her mother would try to do something, but she wasn't sure if she was actually capable of ruining her own daughter's life.

Sadie took a deep breath, calculating all the options.

"No. It must've been that tattoo artist. You know, the one that you kept running into. What was her name again?"

"Autumn. Autumn is her name." Annabelle mumbled, shuffling around and eventually standing up from the bed to stretch. She had no clue how pajamas magically appeared on her body and when that happened, but if she had to guess, it was most likely her girlfriend's doing.

"Can you track her? I mean you have her number, right?" Sadie also stood up, her voice filled with hope. Annabelle was taken aback by that, she never really considered doing anything like that, but she knew it was within her abilities, and with a little help from Google she would be able to know her phone's exact location.

The blonde girl immediately turned around, unzipping her suitcase and bringing out her laptop. Within seconds, an app completely unfamiliar to Sadie was opened, one that had a snake logo on it and the colors of the letters were pink, while the background was a deep shade of blue. With a quizzical expression, she sat next to her girlfriend and watched intently as line after line of something she couldn't for her own life read was written on the screen.