Chapter 13. Social Media

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When I'm not at work all I literally do is spend my time on any and every social media site out there. Twitter, Instagram, snap chat, tumblr, every social media you could think of. So I do my normal routine and open my laptop to Twitter to see a lot of subtweets. I decided to read some of them because I was curious as to what they said.
@ Hemmingsbaby: you don't deserve Luke.
@ penguinLuke: How are you even dating him you ugly twat?
@ somebodyyouusedtoknow: Take that picture of him down. We all know you're just faking it.
I continued reading all of them because I knew they were true. I never responded to them because I basically didn't know how to without sounding like a complete attention seeker which I'm not. I just don't understand why they're pointing out the obvious. Don't they think I know I'm ugly and worthless? I am dating Luke though that's one thing I know is not a lie. I looked at the hashtag and the number one trending was #stoplyingnicole. I just don't understand. So I just log out of Twitter and had a moment to think.
Why do they think I'm lying about Luke? They don't know me, that's probably why. I reasoned with myself. I hope that Luke isn't seeing all this although he might actually be getting a lot of tweets about me. I don't know. I just don't know. Out of curiosity I look on Luke's Twitter account. The last tweet I saw from him was:
@ Luke5sos: tour is great I love meeting all of you :).
Nothing about me. So I wonder why they think I'm lying about dating Luke or even found me. I mean, Luke did ask me to be his girl friend at a show he had but that was when he wasn't as big. The videos probably lost somewhere on YouTube. I don't want to get to into this stuff so I just left it alone.
__work day__
I was working the cash register today so I had to actually talk to the customers today. I see a girl walk in and when she actually saw my face she gave me the dirtiest look I've ever seen someone make. "Welcome to Starbucks! what would you like?" I acknowledged her ignoring the fact that she's dirty looking me. "I want for you to leave Luke alone," she retorted walking out the door. I watched her leave dumbfounded at the fact she told me that. I don't understand this at all and it's making me sadder than I already am.
All day's been full of mean people, some were nice and actually got something. Others just death looked me and either said rude things or smear in my general direction. I just don't know.
Luke's POV
People have been going after Nicole. I don't know what for though. Did they see something. I never made it official that we're dating. Well there's a video of me asking her out but that was 2 years ago. What's happening here? All I know is that this'll stop soon and I'll put an end to it. Nicole doesn't deserve to be called all those names I've seen my fans call her. I started out with really nice and accepting fans and now the hole fandom is rude to any girl I remotely talk to. I want to state it on Twitter or Instagram or any other social media cites but I can't just yet. I had a plan to begin with and I'm going to stick with it.
So for now I'm just gonna stay here and watch the fan base get mad because I have a girl friend. They probably know I do and don't want to admit it. I hate to think this way about them but they're tearing down my girlfriend who I adore. I almost canceled the whole tour for her. She's the reason why I'm even here, and some of it is the realisation of how mad everyone would get. I sigh aloud and I guess Michael heard me. "Are you okay?" He asks me. "Yeah, yeah. Just our fans are mean," I explain to him running my chin with one hand and scrolling through the horrible comments on the hashtag that's been trending for over 2 hours. The hell's wrong with people these days? "Oh yeah..." Michael trailed off, "I saw that and hoped you wouldn't," he tells me making a sizzling noise through his teeth. "Well I did and I'm going to tell them to stop without an explanation," I explain to Michael pressing the quill and paper icon to type what needs to be said.
@ Luke5sos: stop sending hate to Nicole!!!
    I type out and send without thinking. Immediately I get notifications back asking why. I then respond with:
@ Luke5sos: because it makes me sad that my fans are going after one person
    I explain. I decided to ignore the rest of the notifications and just lay down and breath out. "It'll pass over soon then there will be no more negative hashtag," Michael tells me attempting to comfort me. "I don't know man," I say, "I have a plan to tell the world that Nicole and I are a committed couple and nothing could change that," I explain to Michael. He didn't respond leaving me to my thoughts. I hope she's okay   I hoped.
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This chapter kinda sucks and most of the hashtags in this chapter aren't actual hashtags I think. They probably are. Luke's is the only real one.
Also sorry for such a short chapter I've been busy practicing for MPA I have a duet with someone and they're actually trusting me to not mess up and get us an A in the piece.
Anyways thanks for reading if you want you can vote for my book. Or comment. Either or works.

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