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Chapter Seventy-Five

"What's wrong now?", I sigh.
"I thought he was over it, he better not start some shit right now, I won't let him hurt our relationship anymore."
I shrug: "I wonder what he means by that though."
Dan sighs, texts him asking what he means and puts the phone down.
"I'm so sorry, love. I hate seeing you go through all of this.", he says and strokes my hand.
I nuzzle my head into his chest: "It's okay, it's not your fault."
He kisses my head before we hear my phone going off in the back, probably the reply from Alfie.

I go to grab it but Dan takes it for me and reads out loud:

Alfie: She wasn't the one who told the press. It was her boyfriend, or her bitter ex which is a better way to put it.

"What the fuck", Dan mumbles, dials his number and puts it on speaker.

Alfie picks up right away: "Hey Y/N, I'm really sorry ab-", he begins but Dan interrupts him quickly: "Hello, no this is Dan. Um- what's going on?"
"Oh.", Alfie sighs, "eh, yeah, so basically, Louise boyfr- ex boyfriend, I mean, told the press. Louise told him about everything and after they broke up, he was really bitter and decided it would be best to take out his anger on you, on us."
"I didn't even know they broke up...", I mumble.

Louise was my really good friend but recently we grew apart because of everything that happened.

"What an ass. Thank you for telling us but- how do you know?", Dan says.
"Louise told me that she covered for him because she didn't want him to get any madder than he already was. Louise had nothing to do with this."
"Oh my gosh, wow. That's insane but thank you again for clearing this up, I guess.", Dan says and hangs up.

"Why the fuck is literally everyone against us.", I say and bury my head in my hands.
Dan pats my back while comforting me: "I don't know, love. I really don't. I wish I could stop all of it and turn back time, back to when everything was fine. And I kind of wish no one knew you, I want you all to myself."
I smile and kiss him: "Thank you, love. It's okay don't worry."

***

The next few hours were spent talking to everyone about the situation, resulting in us agreeing to not talk about it online and handle it privately. Now that I know that it wasn't my friend, I'm a bit more relieved.

Dan makes me feel a lot better about the whole situation by reassuring me that everything will be fine.
All we can hope for is an apology from Louises' ex and final peace in our friend group.

I definitely have more important things to worry about.