La Bruit De La Pluie || PG10

|3|What Did I Ever Do To You?|

The next morning, I woke up to my phone blowing up out of nowhere. I opened it, only to find that my Instagram followers had leapt up, the same for my Spotify followers. The listens on all of my songs had also sky rocketed compared to what they were when I went to bed. 

I quickly found out why. Pictures of Pierre and I kissing outside of the café yesterday morning were plastered all over the tabloids and gossip magazines. My Instagram was flooded with DMs from random people, asking if we were dating or if he was my boyfriend. 

I checked the comments of my latest post as they had quadrupled. Most of them were nice comments, calling me pretty or that they enjoyed my music. Others were not so nice... People called me a gold-digger and said I was just doing it for attention. They said that I 'wasn't good enough' for Pierre and that I should leave him alone. 

The articles were so much worse though. They somehow found out a lot about me, mainly focusing on my 'failed attempts' to sign to record labels over the years and how the exposure I would get from being with Pierre could boost my chances. I knew it wasn't true, but people would believe anything the news said. 

The most annoying part was how they painted me out to be this washed out failure of a person who would do anything to be successful and get out of my shitty job, not someone who has feelings. They didn't even consider the possibility that I could genuinely like Pierre. Some of the titles included, 'Leonide Poirier's 101 Guide to Getting Famous', 'Failed Singer Starts Dating F1 Driver', and (the worst one so far), 'Leonide Poirier: Who Is She? Nobody Cared Until Now'.

While I was scrolling through the scathing comments and DMs of people telling me they hated me and they wanted me to die, a notification at the top of my screen told me that Etta had messaged me.

Etts ❤
last seen: 30 minutes ago

Hey babe, I've seen the articles and
stuff... I'm really sorry people are
being so awful. Are you OK? 

Hey Etts. I'm alright I guess.
It's just a bit shitty that they
can't accept that we're happy. 

I know its still early on and
everything but yeah...

You really like him? 

Yeah, I really like him.

He's taking me to the Belgian
and Italian GP the week 
after next

Oh my god he is totally
head over heels for you!

I've been going out with Will
for nearly 2 years and he still
hasn't taken me on holiday 😢🙄

He will Etts, he will.

Anyway, ignoring all of the
disgusting people in the world,
is he a good kisser? 

Antoinette! How could you
ask such a thing?!

But yes. He is.

He looks like he would be tbh

YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND
STOP

I am simply speaking the truth,
my dear Leonide

Unbelievable 🙄