Pretentiously Simple | Kleo ✔️

11 | eternal sunshine

a/n: i have to say, this chapter was very boring to write. but anyway, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind is the greatest movie after titanic and i encourage you to watch it at least once in your life. this chapter is so short (and a bit boring), so here's a poem from alexander pope from the movie. i hope my next chapter is published soon. (this is not edited yet. i will edit it later because i hate this chapter right now)

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~ how happy is the blameless vessel's lot.
the world forgetting by the world forgot.

eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. ~
each prayer accepted, and each wish resigned."

~ alexander pope

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that night i mustered up all my strength to pull out my laptop and search my name on the internet. the task itself was simple. kate winslet was only three syllables. but everything else was not.

holding my breath, i hit the return bar on my laptop and exhaled when the plethora of news articles finally loaded. the top newspapers and stations, yahoo, the washington post, the new york times, were reporting about today all the way from when leo and i were at the red carpet. articles on our interview, the paparazzi after the interview, even articles and photos of knotts berry, and everything in between were published and were the top story for majority all these sites.

the latest news was my hysteria today, where so much of the press caught me ugly crying while trying to hurry into my car. but even photos i never would've thought to exist were caught and there for everybody to see. photos of leo and i walking around los angeles were among the thousands of new photos within the last few days.

i needed to go further and see what everyone was saying, because looking at photos was not enough. i clicked on the top websites and articles under my name, and everything i expected and then some were shown just by reading the titles.

"are 'titanic' stars leonardo dicaprio and kate winslet dating? everything you need to know about the alleged couple." yahoo wrote.

"kate winslet weeps at 'the reader' premiere after interrogation of current relationship with leonardo dicaprio. 'i'm just as confused as everyone else.'" the washington post stated.

"'we're closer now than ever.' actor leonardo dicaprio says about co-star kate winslet in a recent interview for 'revolutionary road.'" the new york times noted verbatim. i heaved a sigh, clicking the article which included photos of us turned toward each other with a loving grin.

every article i read said the same thing. almost all of their predictions were correct. the good news was that none of the paparazzi caught us kissing and nobody around us spoke up about seeing us do so. but though nothing was truly confirmed, it didn't take a genius to put the pieces together, especially after i've cried twice over the same matter in public.

i wondered how leo was handling the situation, if he heard about the news. i wondered what he was thinking, what he felt like at this time. bar most likely knew everything. i guilted myself for not keeping it together. i despised the fact that even though we separated ourselves from each other, i still managed to make it worse.

i closed my laptop and set it on the table after i was led to three conclusions. first, that america thought leo and i have been secretly dating for about a year. second, that he's broken up with bar. and third, i lived with him.