𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 , drew starkey

two

—𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐄'𝐒 𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓
𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐀

—𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲

Valerie is definitely not the type of person to get pissed off by haters and trolls on the internet. But right now, she was more pissed than ever.

It wasn't a problem for her before she started dating celebrities. Before she started dating Kelly Oubre, there were only nice comments. Sure there were a few mean comments, but the nice comments canceled it out.

She has been scrolling through the comments for the past hour, that's right, hour. No matter how hard she tried to stop reading the comments, she couldn't.

Valerie is not the type of person to care, but something about this time was different. There were only mean comments. Yes there were a few nice comments and Valerie was grateful, but she couldn't help but focus solely on the hate comments

"Ugh!"

At the sound of Valerie groaning, Kendall and Madelyn came running into the room.

Madison was at her girlfriend's house so it was just the three of them at Valerie's apartment in LA.

"Everything okay?" Madelyn panicked as Valerie threw herself on the beanbag, almost falling off trying to do so.

"How can people hate on me when they don't even know the whole story?" Valerie asks while Kendall and Madelyn slowly walk closer to Valerie.

"Did you give her the phone back?!" Kendall asked, panicking, as she turned to Madelyn with a worried look on her face.

"No! I thought I hid it pretty well!"

"You hid it in the kitchen cabinet, Mads." Valerie rolled her eyes, looking at her phone once again, looking at all the comments pouring through.

"Olivia is so much better than Valerie. There is something about Valerie that ticks me. It might be her attitude or her face." Valerie read one of the comments out loud as she threw her head back, groaning.

"Let me take this real quick." Despite her protests, Kendall snatched Valerie's phone out of her hands and gave it to Madelyn who put it on the coffee table next to her.

"You shouldn't be on social media. Not right now at least." Madelyn said as she gave Valerie an apologetic look.

"What?"

"I think she's saying that you should maybe get off of social media for a bit." Kendall said whilst biting the inside of her cheek.

To say that Madelyn and Kendall were worried for their friend was an understatement. Valerie has been gloomy for the past week and the two would do anything to get Valerie to do something. The other night they went out but even then Valerie was slumped.

Valerie wouldn't admit it out loud but the breakup hit her like a bus.

"You're crazy," Valerie scoffed. "Why should I get off of social media? I can deal with the hate. Stop trying to make decisions for me."

"No, you can't." Madelyn replied. "Look Vals, we want what's best for you and what we think is the best is getting off of social media. But if you don't want to then you don't have to. Just please don't get mad at us."

Kendall silently agreed while Valerie couldn't help but feel guilt creeping up on her. She couldn't have been that mean to them? Valerie would never.

But the thing is, which Valerie.

The old one or the new one?

"I'm sorry." Valerie said, grimacing as her voice began to crack.

"I can't help it. I'm getting so much hate for something I didn't do. I wasn't the one who did anything. I'm not a snake for breaking up with him. I did nothing." Valerie struggled to keep her eyes open as tears began forming in her eyes. She couldn't help it. She closed her eyes and let the tears fall freely down her face. Madelyn quickly took her thumb and began wiping every tear that fell from Valerie's eyes.

"That's what people do." Madelyn spoke up after a few moments. Sitting next to Valerie on the bean bag, she began. "They will keep on bringing you down in hopes of seeing you fail. But you just got to ignore them because at least you know that you did nothing wrong."

"But what I did—what if he cheated on me because I did something—"

"Val—please." Kendall exhaled, cutting off Valerie. "You did nothing wrong, and I know you did nothing wrong because I know you. The people on the internet don't know you. We know you."

"Someone should start keeping track of how many times you said know." Madelyn laughed.

"Shut up."

Valerie smiled at her two friends. They always knew how to cheer Valerie up no matter what the circumstance was, and Valerie will be forever grateful for that.

"Could this have happened at any other time." Valerie groaned for what it felt like the hundredth time. "My brother is coming to Los Angeles, here, for his spring break and he wants to go around the city. I'm scared that the press will come and start attacking me and him with stupid questions."

The only reason Valerie said this was because she remembered the last time she and her brother went out after her breakup with Kelly. The paparazzi would not leave them alone, and asked way too many inappropriate questions, at least questions her 14 year old brother should not be hearing.

"Don't worry Val, nothing will go wrong when Jacob is here." Kendall reassured Valerie as she squeezed her shoulder.

"If it makes you feel any better, I know that Drew went back to Charleston for a couple of weeks." Madelyn said with a smile as she tried to maintain Valerie's messy hair.

Valerie cringed at the sound of his name. She hasn't heard anyone say that name in the past week. Sure she hated him, but there is a part of Valerie that could never forget him or the damage that he did to her heart.

Maybe it was because Valerie was too kind, and maybe it was her kindness that made it easy for Drew to cheat on her.

Being cheated on wasn't new to Valerie. She got cheated on by her boyfriend before Drew as well. That's why it was so hard for Val to trust Drew before they started dating.

But there was something different about getting cheated on this time. Was it because it was the second time? Was it because it was with her best friend? Sorry, ex-best friend. Or was it because Valerie was slowly starting to fall in love with Drew.

Ew, as if.

Valerie could never love Drew, not after all of this.

Right?

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