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chap 4 - fame

april was still waking up to tons of missed calls and messages from james on every social media platform. she knew she was badly drunk on the night she broke up with him, the headache in the morning reminded her but even thought she was pissed, her breakup with james was carved into her memory, even if she didn't remember much else

most of james texts ranged from, 'i love you so much, i know you love me too your making a mistake baby' to 'your a fucking idiot, you know yourself you made a mistake, useless cunt, just a pretty face.' etc.

april had gotten so much texts from james so they had stopped affecting her. although, when april woke up she rolled her eyes ready to see all the texts james sent her the previous night, but when she opened her phone her mouth dropped.

yes, she had gotten texts from james, but the amount of notifications were nothing compared to the amount of other notifications she had gotten.

she had gained 100k new followers on instagram overnight, with tons of new likes and comments accompanying that. 

she opened instagram scrolling through all of her new notifications, until she came to one specific comment she was tagged in. 

she clicked on the comment notification and her phone screen was filled with a post. the account of which the post was from was 'beta squad' and the post simply read 'FAKE STARBUCKS EMPLOYEE PRANK OUT NOW'  

april scrolled to the comment she was tagged in 

'@aprildavy carried whole video, try change my mind' 

april stared at the comment for a few moments in disbelief. after a few moments she scrolled through all the comments reading each one. most of them were positive saying they loved april, while she saw the occasional hate comment about her

'idk what your all on abt, april literally put niko and the beta squad in danger cus she j had to say there was a bad odour in his car, like wtaf?' 

april clicked into the replies where there were mostly people defending her but there was the odd reply agreeing with the comment and saying april 'ruined the video'

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the boys were sat in niko and aj's flat, gathered around in a circle, relaxing on the couch. they were mostly just strategizing for the next video and looking through the responses from the last video.

all the boys were on their phones, scrolling through comments

"response to this vid has been mad you know." kenny spoke, eyes still glued to the screen

"genuinely on my life, i'm never doing another fake employee vid" chunkz swore, he held one finger up and pointed to god to try get across how serious he was.

niko just gave a small laugh from beside him, jeering him.

''i don't know whats got you lughing. not all of us got to talk to a girl on our turn." niko rolled his eyes, ignoring him. "i know there ain't no way you've gone and pulled a fit gyal by a fake employee vid" chunks told niko 

at that, aj instantly jumped off the couch. ''you've actually pulled a madness'' aj exclaimed 

''if i was april, wallahi i would have given you a neck slap'' sharky agreed

''nikos got mad game.'' george piped up. ''saw him take april somewhere else, date perhaps?'' george wiggled his eyebrows, teasing niko.

''na, no way. i don't believe that for a second.'' chunkz announced ''nikos gone and taken a girl lookin like april on a date?'' chunkz shaked his head in denial "niko ain't got no game to go and pull that off.'' he shrugged. "sharky, well maybe." chunkz finished ignoring nikos protests that were something that was along the lines of, 'stop talking about my love life you sad wannabe's nothing happened'

george continued to ignore niko, speaking over him. ''na swear'' george promised ''i even got my camera out to film it 'cus i knew none of you would believe me'' 

at the sound of that all the boys clambered over to george, demanding he show them the proof.

once they had all seen it, niko didn't hear the end of it. he just sat there, head in his hands, trying and failing, to tune them all out.

''na no way!'' aj yelled

''my boy!'' kenny screamed pulling niko into a hug and patting him on the back

the boys were all extremely gassed and continued to tease and praise niko the whole night no matter how many times niko protested it and denied the allegations.

but deep down, he didn't really mind even though he knew he should

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april was getting ready to go out with her friend chloe on the phone. april used to be quite popular and had a lot of friends, that was until her mum died.

april stopped staying in touch with everyone, she didn't want to talk to anyone when it happened. she ignored everyones texts checking if she was okay, so therefor all of her 'friends' had given up trying

the fact james claimed she didn't really have to talk to anyone else other than him didn't help either

but chloe had been abroad when all of this had happened, there wasn't texts to be ignored about going out or invitations to parties. chloe's parents had to move to australia for work so lack of responses to texts and calls was blamed to different time zones. april could answer or read chloe's texts without having the pressure to respond or talk to someone because she probably would have been asleep.

but most of all, it was just because chloe was understanding. 

''I'M SO EXCITED TO SEE YOU'' chloe screamed through the phone 

''yeah i would be excited to see a future celebrity too'' april replied placing her phone on her shoulder and putting her ear to it as she grabbed a drink from the fridge

''shut your trap'' chloe responded ''i'm fully back home to england after 4 years and your getting cheeky with me''

after a while when aprils mums death didn't hurt as much, her and chloe began to text even more and got even closer. chloe had visited england over the past four years, but she had only recently permanently moved back to england 

'here look, i gotta go ill cya later on love ya' april hung up the phone and placed it on the counter before she began to get ready.

april was freshly washed out of the shower with her hair hung up in a towel. she took one last look at her outfit for tonight before sitting down at her vanity

april had chosen a tight black satin dress with lace on the top of the cups. she had paired it with her favourite black heels and a small black louis vuitton purse to match. who was it again who said some people look better after breakups? well whoever did, god they were right. april smiled a satisfied small before starting her makeup

she applied her makeup with gentle strokes, careful not to add to much so she could look 'effortlessly gorgeous' she added some finishing touches, like adding a small bit of eyeliner under her mascara before she was eventually happy and sat back looking at herself in the mirror. april smirked to herself  

'god im hot, james is gonna wish he was never alive.'

authors note; small chapter ik, but i didn't want it to be too long because i've a lotttt to fit into the next one, love ya <3