Acquiesce

Chapter 21

I didn't talk to anyone else but my Dad. I didn't want my Mum or anyone to know yet and I didn't have the heart to tell them.

It didn't take the media long to get a hold of the story. There were suddenly reporters outside Dad's attempting to hound us for information. I stayed inside, hid from them but Dad had to go out to work, he acted like they weren't there.

Aaron and Jared came over in the morning as the first of my family to demand answers.

Jared thrust a newspaper into my hands, we'd made front page news. "You lied over and fucking over, right to my face."

"And me." Aaron added but he wasn't angry, not like Jared was.

"I'm sorry."

"Sorry's not..."

"Please don't make me beg for your forgiveness." I cut him off. "You're my brothers, I need your support, not your anger."

"What did you expect? Why didn't you tell me the truth?" Jared questioned. "I'd have been fine with it. Don't you trust me?"

"I couldn't go around telling people, could I? I was in denial, it's not like this is what I wanted."

"Not people, your brother who asked you directly a load of times. Why'd you pick my favourite band's singer out of all the people you could've done this with?"

"I'm sorry! I didn't know who he was when I met him and I didn't know you liked Oasis... I got him to meet you and your mates at Glastonbury."

"Denied knowing anything about him then too."

"You should be happy, you got everything you wanted. You get to be related to Liam and Noel, you get to see them way more than any normal fan would."

"You think they're going to do the whole family thing?" Aaron asked.

"Right now, not a chance. I'm still some whore who's after their money and fame."

They accepted what I'd done much easier than Mum did. She was upset for my marriage, for Enzo, for the fact that I'd told Dad and not her.

...

After the news that Enzo had thrown me out because Liam was the father had made it's way around every tabloid and magazine and everyone I knew, Bex and Travis visited.

"Hey." I smiled as I let them in. "The twins are asleep so you're probably not going to get to see them this time."

I was so happy to have people over, people who weren't my family or the press. Bex and Danielle had visited as much as they could since the twins were born.

"That's alright." Bex said, sounding off. "We're here about work more than anything."

"What? Is there something about the maternity leave?"

"No." she sighed, reluctant to say what she had to say. "You're sacked, we don't want you to work with us anymore."

"What? Why?" I questioned, almost panicking, I loved and needed that job.

"With everything that's happened we don't think it's right that you come back after the maternity."

"You can't sack me cos I had an affair."

"We're not, it's because we can't trust you, you lied to us for ages."

"I'm really sorry but that's got nothing to do with my job..."

"It has when you didn't come back from lunch cos you were with him."

"Please don't sack me, I'm sorry I hid it from you. How am I supposed to look after the twins if I haven't got a job to go back to?"