Chapter Twenty-two: Trouble Ahead

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A/N: First of all, I want to greet you guys a Merry Christmas! I hope you have an awesome Christmas celebration. May you have a great, fruitful and prosperous 2016 ahead!

POV: Ziegfried

I'm off to school. However, I feel something's strange. That feeling of everybody is staring at you. I'm confused at first, but it starting to sink-in in my head. I think everyone now knows or heard the 'bomb.' I'm supposed not to go to school because of it, but I realized it's not it's not worthy to think about it. I need to divert my attention to other things that are more important.

Dayum! I hate being in the center stage. I'm okay with it if people say only positive things. But, in reality, it's not.

Since that bomb exploded, I received a massive number of text messages and private messages to my social media account compared to what I usually received every day. To be honest, I am overwhelmed. Overwhelmed of hatred, curse words, and wild judgments of different random people. I don't know them personally. Do I really deserve those?

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Flashback

"Oh crap, Aims is not kidding. That exists!" I said when I peeped to Zoe while using our computer.

She jumped from her seat for a moment, "Geez bro! You scared something in me!"

"May I see too?" I'm curious. I brought a chair from our stack of chairs and put it beside her.

She teased me, "Say, bro, you are now keeping secrets from me, eh?"

"Even there's nothing to hide?" I contested.

"Explain these to me then?" She is referring to what we were viewing that time.

"I don't know. Seriously. Legit."

We saw pictures of Annika and I roving in different places. These pictures were timely captured, I can tell. If I'm not the person involved in these, I may have the same perception of the majority. But... it's me. It's funny to think that people assumes so quickly, without knowing the truth. For me, these are nothing to be ashamed of. The truth is, I enjoyed the false claims of that paparazzi website in a comical way. But I'm not gonna lie, it tickled my heart and my smile had something, like what Zoe described when she saw my reactions. Imagine being in a relationship with a lovely lady that every man's dream.

In fact, I'm privileged that I always seeing and with her most of the time. But, I don't want to take the situation for granted. I have this urge to protect her no matter what, like what I feel to my dear sister. As much as possible, I want to preserve what we have now. I also promised to Uncle Nikolai, her dad, that I will always keep an eye on her. Therefore, these instances are expected.

But,...

However,...

Despite that,

Even so, I felt bad. When we found out the comment section, the majority of the reactions are so unfriendly. Haters, bashers, are everywhere.

"He's gay. Relax guys."

"He's ugly as f*ck!"

"What a d*ckhead."

"Die bitch!"

"I wonder what sorcery he used to lure Annika like that."

"This guy is a user. Beware."

"Pervy guy!"

"You didn't deserve her. Get lost!"

"Annika is way too perfect for him!!!"

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