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Last night

"Do you..."

"Nah, she's fine."

"But..."

"What?"

"With what..."

"What happened is in the past. We can't change it, final dot."

"But..."

"No buts... you know it's too late to change anything..."

"She'll know with the 27/4 anyway..."

"I don't think she should..."

I don't remember anything about last night. It's hard to tell what happened after the bathtub. As if I wasn't mentally there. I just woke up leaning on Dan. A jacket is on me and... on his shoulder as well. I shared it with him for... for how long? I think that Maddy and Ash just got back from the party. How did I end up here? It's freezing and starting to rain. I need to wake Dan up. He'll be sick if he stays here and I need to know what happened.

I thought I could stay awake, but it's almost six AM and I can't even walk properly. I think that I'm still on a hangover and Dan needs to transport me to my room... Falling asleep is so easy that I don't even know if Maddy is already next to me...

I'm alone. Alone in the dark. I hear voices from the editing room. I'm not hungry even if I should. All I want is the truth. What happened and why were they so... sorry for me... and upset. A new text message from James makes me stop walking. I didn't reply to his text asking if I wanted to have coffee with him yesterday, so he asked me for this afternoon. I think that I'll accept. It's better than a locked door and secrets after all. Not that I didn't want to at first. I just wanted to learn what happened to me when everyone seems to know but me. I liked having coffee with James and he really seems to care about me unlike them today... They just locked the door in my face when they heard the message tone and my footsteps... I don't want to stay where I'm unwanted.

--Maddy's POV--
Oh, God, I feel so bad. Dan only wants to tell her the facts when I want her to know the whole truth. I can't lie to her and he knows that too. To me, it's even worse than saying anything like Ash wants. When she woke up, she came to the editing room. Of course, she did and he didn't find anything better than locking her out of this mess to buy ourselves some time. Ugh, Ash! Why can't you let her in?! Isn't it already hard enough to live with secrets? Now she has to live with rejection too! If she's gone and doesn't reply to us, I'm serious, I'll kill you. You SHALL NOT keep me away from her by force!

--Back to Amy's POV--
I wanted to walk, but James insisted on giving me a ride when he saw me on the sidewalk.

"Come on! I told you that I would pick you up, why didn't you wait?"

"After what happened this morning, I couldn't stay one more minute in there... I changed my clothes as fast as I could and ran away from them."

"What happened Mystery Girl? You can't handle criticism now that you're famous?" He's ironical, it upsets me to know that he sees me that way now... Why was it so obvious that it would happen?!

"You... you know?"

"I might hate YouTube and think that being a YouTuber is a joke, but I do watch TV like everyone else." Wow... he's worst than the last time...

"I thought that you were too smart to waste your time on TV... It can make you dumb, you know? Maybe it already started to..." I can't even look at him right now.

"What is that?!" This red light seems to last an eternity...

"Did you really have to insult my friends and me in less than a minute?! I might be in their world, but it'll never be mine, okay?! Besides that, what makes you think that I changed or whatever?"