Reach For The Stars (Dallas Liu & Ian Ousley)

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Dallas' POV

Ian and I settled into our new Vancouver home, which we would be living in for the next twelve months.

My body felt worn out after traveling to Paris Los Angeles, and Vancouver in the span of two days. All I want to do is spend a day in bed since I'm so tired.

Here, Ian and I slept in one bedroom together. It was a roomy enough for two people and quite comfy.

"Sweet bed." Right after my shower, I say, letting myself into it.

"I could sleep for the next two days if I had a choice." Ian says.

"Tell me about it." Burying myself below the covers, I yawn.

"I'm texting the group chat to let Star know we arrived." Ian tells me.

"Sounds good." I answer.

Before going to bed, I use my phone to watch a few Tiktok videos. 

The first thing I hear when I open the app is, "Famous singer Star, gets her hand broken by paparazzi," on my for you page.

"WHAT?!" Ian and I both say at the same time.

I tell Ian, "Call her right now."

I select the hashtag to watch more on what happened. The footage appears to be shot from a paparazzi's point of view.

"She's not answering."

"She's probably at the hospital." I say.

Ian joins me on my bed to watch the video.

"You guys are trapping me!" Her voice gets progressively more terrified.

Her expression showed that she was in a panic. We watch the moment she kneels down then breaks into a pain filled scream.

"This is fucking insane." Ian rubs his temples.

As we watch her sob in pain, Jacob comes in to save her in a moment straight out of a superhero movie.

I put down my phone and look up at Ian. The same is done by him. Our eyes widened as we both thought the same thing.

I say, "That was a set up."

"There's no way that wasn't planned." Ian scoffs.

"I hope she's okay." I tell Ian. "Now I'm worried."

"It's the way it hasn't even been a whole day that we left and crazy shit is already happening."

"I'm not sure how I'm expected to think that after a year, everything will be okay. She's going to keep getting hurt." I sigh.

"What the fuck is Kass thinking?" Ian was horrified.

"I need to tell you something." Sitting up, I say.

"What?"

"I never said anything but I talked to Jacob."

"What? When?"

"The day of the Marc Jacobs commercial." I inform him.

"Let's not forget how incredibly well-planned that whole thing was. Poof! Without warning, he is chosen for the same project as Star, and she is so oblivious. Bullshit." Ian scoffs. "But what did you say? Or do?"

"I completely agree. That day, I felt very annoyed because it seemed like they were playing in Star's face and she has no idea. Since she never notices bad parts of people."

"What did you say? Please tell me; I'm very curious."

"I asked him what his plan with Star is, what his intentions were. According to him he has feelings for her and that it's none of our business."

"I don't believe him. Not one bit."

"Before leaving I told him I would come for him if he hurts Star."

"How did he react?"

"He tried switching it up on us, telling me that we're hurting her."

"He's insane, why would he say that?"

"Jacob thinks one of us is in love with her." 

"I have a weird feeling he's going to try to turn Star against us."

"That won't happen." I give a headshake. "Star wouldn't do that to us."

"I hope not."

"You need to have more faith on her. She would never abandon us, especially not for a stranger."

"I trust her, it's him I don't trust him." He shakes his head. "Now we have to see it all play out from a thousand miles away."