𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓, jude bellingham

𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟓

𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐯𝐚𝐫𝐲
𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞

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I'm washing my face while getting ready for the party tonight to celebrate Dortmunds win. Turns out this match was important and they had just won the Bundesliga. I hear banging on my room door. Really, loud banging. It startles me, so I quickly wash the face soap off of my face and dry it before rushing to my room door. At first, I need Gio and Erling staring at me with furrowed brows, Gio looking like he was crying, but also relieved. And Erling looking more relieved than ever. Then behind them, comes Tayma and Jude, who had an ipad with a couple of papers in both their hands. 

"Okay, what the hell is going on?" I say.

The next second I'm being shoved out the way by a hunky blonde man who then grabs my hand and drags me to the desk in the room, picks me up and places me down on the desk. I stare at Erling, confused.

"Oh, i'm not going to kiss you, this is just to make sure you don't run before these two can talk." He says as he points at Jude and Tayma who are trying to organise the papers in their hands. 

"What?" i breathe, completely confused. 

"Maybe we should go so they can talk just them three?" Gio offers to Erling who nods quickly as they rush towards the room door. 

Gio turns around and starts to stare at Tayma who smiles back at him. I think that sent him into orbits because he runs towards her and hugs her tightly before kissing her really aggressively. 

"Okay, 1. MY EYES?!" I shriek, covering them. "And 2. What the actual hell is going on?"

Gio quickly rushes out the room and shuts the door.

"Please, speak fast I need to get ready." I tell them as I fold my arms in front of me.

"We're here to prove to you that the pictures are fake." Jude starts off as he grabs the ipad and starts fidgeting with it. He looked really nervous. "Do we need all these papers?" He asks Tayma.

"No, we don't need these, just this one." She hands him a random paper and he nods. 

Now, tell me why that piece of paper had the police symbol and the name of the police station written on it.

"Um," Tayma says as she hands me the ipad with hands that were shaking. "That's the owner of the pub we were at. He made a statement saying he Ai generated the pictures because he wanted the attention from the public, showing that hes got a famous footballer apparently hooking up with someone in his pub." 

"Wait, these pictures are on social media?" I shriek. 

"No! He didn't get the chance to post them or anything." jude quickly says. 

I nod as i read the statement. "And, how do I know Jude didn't just pay him or something to write this?"

"Okay, 1, I'm offended that you'd think I'd do something like that, 2. i wouldn't lie to you about something like this and 3, i dont pay random pub owners." Jude clarifies, making me nod. "Oh, and here." He grabs the piece of paper that had the police departments name on it and handed it to me. "We got the police to look into it too, the photos were 100% Ai generated, they did some digging and saw that the pub owner did this once or twice in the past to some other semi-famous people. The owner lost the pub, obviously, and got arrested."

I read through the paper and realise they were telling the truth all along. Nothing happened between them. I spent days crying over this without talking to them properly and I spent weeks hating my bestfriend since birth and someone I had strong, strong feelings for. I hear sniffling in front of me as i look up with tears in my eyes, which slowly slide down my cheek and onto the piece of paper. Tayma was also crying. I don't know what emotions I was feeling, but it was making me completely break down. I felt relieved, i felt safer and I felt so peaceful.