When in La Jolla

Batman and Cinnameg Sprinks

I knock on Zoe's door and she tells me to come in. Her room looked the same as mine, I hopped on her bed. She looks at me and asks, "so have you seen his TikTok's yet?" I shake my head and she gives me a concerned look, "oh god okay I'll show you." What would he even post? She pulls out her phone and searches for his name then passes me her phone. I start with his latest post. It is a video of him shirtless mouthing words to a song, I scroll and the next one is him with a towel hanging low around his waist fresh out of the shower. I look at the comments and start to feel my cheeks burn up. He has a million likes on almost all of his videos and so many girls seem to be obsessed with him. Zoe laughs and says, "I can't tell if it's embarrassing or hot." I explain what he told me, how he said he doesn't like making them but he has to if he wants to make money. I continue and ask, "but don't you think he has to like all this attention? At least a little bit right? I mean hundreds and thousands of girls telling him how attractive he is daily." Zoe agrees and says, "I feel like it could be nice at first but imagine the crazy fangirls that he has that are obsessed. I would hate that. What if they find out about you and get angry? That wouldn't end well." She says it in a joking manner but it honestly scared me a little bit. I told her to pull up Charli's newest video, I clicked on the comments and the top one with 12,000 likes read, "who tf is the new girl? And why is Vinnie's arm around her!?" All the replies had agreed and said awful things like they wanted to kill me or I wasn't good enough for him. I immediately broke down and thought how do people deal with this every day. I started questioning if I even should have stayed here and if things are just going to get progressively worse from now on. I tell Zoe I need to go to the bathroom and when I walked out of her room I started crying. I texted Vinnie and told him to come downstairs. I waited sitting on my bed, frantically tapping my foot. I wanted to look at the comments again so badly. It is like an itch you are dying to scratch but you know if you do you'll just keep wanting to. I didn't want to get more upset about this so I just had to sit with my thoughts. I heard a light knock on my door and Vinnie popped his head in, he was wearing a wife beater tank and grey sweatpants. Immediately all the bad thoughts went away, he instantly lit me up and made me feel better without having to do anything. He sat down and I think he could tell I was crying because he look concerned. He asked what was wrong and I pulled up the video, "read the comments." I passed him the phone and he looked upset, "Fuck I should've told Charli not to post that." Don't listen to those comments these girls are insane, this is the worst part about it all. They act like they know me and my life when they see maybe 3 minutes a day of what actually goes on. Nothing they are saying is true or means anything. All that matters is that I like you, we can keep this off of social media so that you don't get any hate because that's the last thing I want. I've been there and it's not fun." I nod my head, it does seem like the best thing to do. But I don't know if he is doing it to protect me or himself. If no one knows about us girls will keep liking him and he can keep making money off of thirst traps. I don't want to start a fight so I decide not to question it. He asked if he could sleep in here with me tonight, I got a little nervous but of course told him yes. We put on one of the Batman movies and had a little bit of fun for while before falling asleep.

I wake up and Vinnie is gone. I walk upstairs to see where he would have gone. He was sitting on the couch with Baron and Zoe. Zoe told me to come sit down, "Hibba look Vinnie brought us all bagels and coffee!" There was an asiago bagel and medium iced Christmas morning chai with 2 shots and extra cinnameg sprinkles on top. I had only ordered my coffee once in front of him but he had memorized it just from that. I think Vinnie is the most perfect man I have ever met, straight out of a fanfic or romance movie.