Action (DNF)

Chapter 24: Cheating

Well what could that mean? ⬆️

To anyone who can't see that photo... Don't read past this until you can or I will steal your kneecaps and feed them to Ezra.

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Just kidding, the picture isn't essential. No need to pay it any mind(?)
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Clay POV.

There was another interview this afternoon, and so to pass the time I had decided to just scroll through Twitter aimlessly. Occasionally I’d stop to like or retweet a random post, perhaps a meme for instance, and then maybe I’d leave a comment but that was all. I was content with doing that.

Sure, I’d rather be spending this time hanging out with Sapnap and Karl, or maybe with George, but I decided not to bother them. Sapnap and Karl had posted on their Twitter about how they were going to a theme park somewhere for a romantic date.

George on the other hand didn’t have plans I knew about, unless he was working today. The two of us had also been hanging out every day for the past couple days. We met at his house on Saturday. The dinner on Sunday with me staying the night after. The mall on Monday, going to the bar, and him staying the night. Finally, we watched a couple movies yesterday morning.

By this point in time he was probably sick of me, at least for a while. My fame-focused life was foreign and weird compared to his much more interesting one. So I had decided that for a while I’d just keep my distance, perhaps I’d message him but he has other friends who he probably wants to hang out with in person.

So that is why I was just here, on the large couch in my hotel room. After a while I switched from using my main account to an alt. It was one which I made so that I could follow my interests without being judged. I switched over to that account before beginning to scroll again.

When I got to something retweeted by Monica, my ex who I had decidedly not blocked on my alt account, I froze. She’d retweeted and commented on a post by a user called Pinky_Kitty15. I read the post that Pinky left and it honestly left a bad taste in my mouth.

It read ‘OMG! CLAYS BOYFRIEND WAS CHEATING ON HIM AT THE MALL!!!!! CANT BELIEVE HE WOULD GIVE UP CLAY FOR SOME RANDO!!!’. And at the moment it had over twenty thousand likes. Monica’s had the top comment, which read: ‘well it’s good to see that Clay finally got a taste of his own medicine. Good one George 👍’ which also had several thousand likes.

Immediately these two comments, plus the numerous comments in agreement with them made me confused, and it made me confused as well. George was cheating on me? With who? Why is he at the mall? How could she possibly know that he was cheating on me with who he was with? Was he kissing somebody at the mall or something?

Then I had to remind myself of the fact that George was in fact not dating me. We had been on a date, possibly two if you squinted at it, but that was all. Other than that we were just friends. I then went on to wonder about the rest of the questions I had, and tried to work out the answers to all of them.

But most of them I didn’t need to, under the original post, Pinky_Kitten had replied to someone’s comment. That person was saying that they wouldn’t believe George was cheating on me without proof, and so Pinky told them to check out her TikTok account for a full explanation and had left a link.

I clicked on it without thinking twice and only wanted to get some information on what was happening. After taking a couple of seconds to load I was on a video which had a similar amount of likes and comments to what the twitter post had. A brunette girl with short hair and rounded glasses was sitting on an armchair and rambling to her phone in her hand.