Short Character Stories (Mainly about Johnny Depp)

[Johnny Depp] Supportive Boyfriend (Part 60)

You had a really rough few weeks since yourself and Johnny made your relationship public at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. A lot of people were obviously happy and supportive of you guys being together, but there were around 15% of Johnny's fan who disliked that he was dating someone new. Partly, people had issues cause of what his ex wife did to him, but others had issues because they were jealous of you and Johnny being together.

Johnny had been at work today. You and him were is Paris since Johnny had some work to do with Dior. He filmed a new TV ad for them and was in a photoshoot. It'd been a really busy day for him, but you stayed in the hotel most of the day. These days you were very scared about going out with Johnny or just being seen by photographers in general.

Every time you went on Instagram or Twitter you were flooded with hundreds of messages and comments on all your recent posts. Even posts that didn't have anything to do with Johnny and posts that were posted years before you'd even met him. You felt so sad about it. You felt like the whole world was against you.  People would say really nasty things and even though you deleted the extremely mean comments people still kept commenting mean stuff on all your photos. Today this all became a little bit too much for you. You'd had enough of the bullying and wanted to put your foot down, except, you didn't know how. Johnny wasn't really aware of the mean comments other than a few Gina, his friend, told him about when you and Johnny first made your relationship official. 

Today you decided to post a picture of yourself with a really long caption discussing how bad you felt. You picked a somewhat old picture from your photo gallery and added a caption.

Hello everyone. I'm sure everyone has seen that I've been a little bit AWOL on social media recently. I'm sorry about that, but there has been a really big issue in my life that I want to solve. Online bullying seems to have taken over my social media accounts. Every time I go on my phone I get flooded with nasty comments about my romantic relationship with my boyfriend. Mine and Johnny's relationship is nothing to do with you guys. I will share whatever I want and if you don't like it then please unfollow or block me. All that should matter is mine and Johnny's happiness and that's it. Nasty online trolls can't dictate my life and I won't let them, ever. Johnny and I's relationship is private and will remain that way. If and when we do share photos of us that will be when we feel like we can and want to do that. We will never just show off about our relationship because it isn't who we are. We are both very private people and will remain that way.  I love Johnny and I really hope everyone can finally accept that. If you have nothing nice to say about us then please leave now.       love from, Y/N

After you wrote everything you felt out and felt a whole load better. You double checked what you wrote and made sure it made sense then you published the Instagram post.

It only took a few minutes before comments and likes started flooding in. For the first hour or so people seemed to be really nice. You lost a few hundred followers, but you didn't mind, but after an hour people started being nasty again.

Eww like we care about Johnny Depp.

Johnny is a wife beater

Screw Johnny Depp. You can do so much better than him, Y/N.

Eww I thought you were cool. #unfollow.

It didn't take long for you to regret making the post. You turned you phone off again and looked up at the clock which was above the hotel door. It was 7 o'clock. You assumed Johnny would be home soon so you got started with dinner. Since you were in a hotel you could only really cook something simple with the few ingredients you had. You poured some water and pasta into a cooking pot and added some creamy cheese sauce. Not long after you started cooking Johnny came home and threw his jacket and hat onto the sofa as soon as he walked in.

"...Damn, I'm fucking tired." He stood by the sofa and then threw his sunglasses off and took his black boots off. He then smelled the food. "Is that dinner?"

"Hmm." You were actually lost in thought. You heard Johnny walk in, but you didn't really turn to look at him. You were busy thinking about the nasty messages.

Johnny carried on taking his boots off and then laid back on the sofa while relaxing.  After a few minutes he smelled burning and heard a sizzle. He sat up and looked over at you while you stood by the stove. "Honey, the water has boiled over and the pasta is burning..." He walked over to you and pulled you away while he turned the heat down and stirred the pasta in the pot. "What's wrong, babe? Has something bad happened? Is it your parents? Are you missing home?" Johnny left the pot alone and hugged you. You still seemed distracted. "Huh, baby?"

"What?" You snapped out of it.

"Are you ok?"

"Yes. I'm making you dinner. I thought it'd be a nice surprise!" You stepped back towards the stove and started stirring the pasta again.

"But you seem distracted. Has something happened to one of your family members?"

"No."

"A pet?"

"No."

"Then what's up with you?"

You didn't want to explain it. "Nothing."

"Hey, babe, I know that isn't true." Johnny's smile weakened. He became pretty serious now.  Do you not like me anymore?"

"I do like you."

"So why are you so... absent?"

"I'm not, I'm fine."

"But you clearly aren't fine! Please tell me if I've done something wrong."

You looked at him in the eyes and sighed. "It's the stupid people on Instagram!"

Johnny smiled, "What did they do?"

"They said mean stuff to me. Every time I go online people are making nasty jokes about us being together. It's been going on since Cannes."

"You told me all of that was over. You told me that people moved on and forgot about it-"

"I lied. I didn't wanna worry you, Johnny. Gina said everything would be ok so I trusted her. I guess it seems that she was wrong."

Johnny squinted his eyes. "Fuck. Babe, you could have told me this was all worrying you. No wonder you've been so tense and no wonder you've wanted to just stay here in the hotel and not visit me at work."

"I just didn't want any photographers to spot us hanging out in public and make people  say even more nasty things to me. I just wish it'd stop!"

"Can't you stop all of the comments?"

"I can, but I shouldn't have to. I should be able to post whatever I want without feeling like people are going to bully me for it."

Johnny smiled, "I know. Anyway, this pasta is fucked so why don't we go and order some Pizza Hut pizza?"

You instantly smiled, "Yes, yes yes!"

"Great. Please just smile though the pain, darling. I know it fucking sucks, but it'll get easier with time. Turn the comments off and please don't be afraid to leave the hotel with me. None of those nasty losers would ever have the guts to insult us to our face so they don't matter. We should only listen to the opinion of the people we love, not the ones that upset us, ok?"

"Ok. Do you want me to order you a spicy chicken pizza?" You felt a little better now.

"Yes, and a diet pepsi AND some garlic sauce."

"Yes, sir."

The end. - I've been a little emotional recently so I wanted to write a story about Johnny being a nice and supportive boyfriend to make me feel better.