Fake it - Jude Bellingham

Family confession

Jude's POV

After a delicious lunch, we changed and got ready for a wellness hour. When Isabella and I walk to the wellness area, we see Isabella's mother lying on a lounge bed. She looks up and starts to beam when we walk in.

"I'm going to read my script outside," Isabella says as she puts her hand on my arm. "Okay, I'm going to lie down with your mother," I say with a small smile on my face.

I take a seat next to Isabella's mother on the large lounge bed and open my book.
"It's special to see Isa like this," she suddenly begins, which makes me look up from my book. "What do you mean?"
"She's different with you. As you probably know, the previous relationship wasn't very stable."
"Do you mean the one with Lando?" She shakes her head at my question. "That wasn't the right choice either, but luckily she found out for herself." If only she knew.

"Dirk," she says. I try to keep a poker face and pretend I know who that is. "He really destroyed Isa mentally. It's nice to see how happy and confident she is now. And that's because of you," she says as she puts her hand on my arm. "Thank you for that. It does us as parents a lot of good to see how happy you make her."
I nod my thanks to her and look back at my book, but I can't concentrate on the content of the book. If you ask me now what I've read, I can't tell you anything. 'She was mentally abused by him' is the sentence that keeps wandering around in my head.

I stand up abruptly, put my book on the bed and walk outside where I see Isabella hanging over the edge.

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"Hey" I say softly as I close the door behind me. I see her look back and then she gives me a sweet face.
"May I?" I ask softly as I point to the hot tub. She nods and looks back at her papers where the script of the new movie is written.
I close my eyes as I lie in the hot tub and feel the bubbles pushing against my back.

My moment of relaxation is interrupted when I hear Isabella laughing. "What's wrong?" I say in surprise as I look at her.
"Is Jude Bellingham relaxing?"
"As if I never do."
"I've never seen you relaxed," she says softly. She turns to me and sits down opposite me. "Shouldn't you be working on your script Blue?" I say in a mischievous tone.
"That's up to me, Mr. Bellingham."

I start laughing and close my eyes again when she asks curiously "Did you have a nice chat with my mother?"
I look at her and nod "Yes we talked for a while."
Her gaze changes to a searching look. "What did you talk about?"
I stay quiet for a moment "Dirk."

Her eyes widen and I see her swallow. "Oh."
"Your mother started saying she was happy to see you so happy again. And then she talked about Dirk."
"Exactly." I see her get uncomfortable and then she wants to get up and leave the hot tub. I grab her arm and she turns to me "Talk Isa.."
"I'd rather not talk about it."
"I get that," I say softly. "But I would like to know, after all, I am your fake boyfriend."

She sighs deeply and then sits down opposite me again. "Dirk was my first boyfriend," she begins.
"I was 16, he was 20." I try to keep my gaze as neutral as possible, but this is simply illegal.
"He completely won me over with his sweet words. I was 16, completely insecure about everything and his words made me feel beautiful, loved. Something you want when you are 16. You don't want to hear that from your mother or father, but from a boy."
She sighs deeply again and then remains silent for a moment until she resumes her story.
"I was still a virgin and he made a lot of jokes about that, also to his friends." I feel my heart rate increase, this is going to be a very nasty story.
"He eventually deflowered me, more under pressure. I was in a lot of pain, but he said I was putting it on. Then he went on and on about everything I wasn't good at. You're so head over heels in love with someone that you don't see it. I didn't feel pretty, stopped eating, which made me much too thin.." Isabella lets a first tear fall over her and without thinking I get up and sit next to her. I put my arm around her and stroke her arm "Isa.. that you had to go through all this" I say softly. "It's my own fault" she says, sobbing. I grab her hand that she has put in front of her face. "Look at me Isa." I see her watery eyes looking into mine as I wipe a tear away from her cheek with my finger. "This is not your fault. Whether you are 16 or 30, you should never treat a boy like that. And he was even more wrong because you were young, you are incredibly impressionable at that age and he took advantage of that."
I put my arms around her and give her a hug. "Thanks for telling me," I whisper in her ear.

I hear a door open followed by "Oh shit, we have to go inside." I look around and see Sem and Kylian quickly walking their way back inside.
"Come on," I say laughing. They look at each other and then nod, close the door behind them and take a seat in the hot tub.
"Are we disturbing you?"
I see Sem looking worriedly at Isabella, who still has watery eyes. She sighs and then says softly "Dirk."
"What did he do now?" says Sem who immediately stands up and gets a fiery look.
"Nothing," I say immediately. "She only told me about him." Sem's fiery look softens again as she moves through the hot tub and takes a seat next to Isabella.

"Would you like something to drink?" asks an unrecognizable voice. When all four of us look up, we see a waiter from the hotel standing there. You can see that he recognizes Kylian. To have him standing here next to us for even longer. "A bottle of champagne, please."
"Which one, sir?"
"It doesn't matter, pick one."
De waiter nods and walks away.

"I'm going to the toilet quickly" says Isabella as she stands up. "I'm coming with you" says Sem with a small smile as they both step out of the hot tub.

"You and Isa are getting along really well." I look at Kylian who looks at me with a satisfied look. I roll my eyes at him and look at the beautiful view.
"We have to hang in there a little longer, so let's have fun."
"Yes, I would say that too." The satisfied look changes into a loud laugh.
"I know you Jude, I know you like no one else."
"What do you want to say?" I look at him questioningly.

"Your champagne sir." The waiter places the bottle of champagne on the edge of the hot tub and places the glasses next to it before pouring them. Safed by the bell.

"Aawh look how beautiful the sky is getting." A beaming Isabella appears next to the hot tub. "Sunsets" I say laughing after which she gives me an angry look. I put my hands in the air and act very innocent "Hehe, that's your favorite."

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The girls step back into the hot tub and hand us the glasses.
"Cheers to this vacation."