Flights

Seven

"You guys can't go home. It's not safe." Cam said once everyone had cleared out and we were left to pick up the confetti and popped balloons on the floor.

"We're fine" Jack said as he stumbled over to pick up a cup from the floor. 

He continued to stumble until he fell straight onto the floor and dragged me down with him as I had a tight grasp on his hand. I landed on top of him and we instantly started laughing hysterically.

Cam laughed as she shook his head. "Okay guys, you need to get some sleep - you can stay in the bottom floor guest room; just past the bar." 

We picked ourselves up and Jack went ahead to the room. I stopped and got my thoughts together. 

"Thank you, sweets" I said as I placed my hand on Cam's cheek. 

He winked as he nudged me in Jack direction. "Get some sleep." 

I walked into our room to find that Jack had taken his hoodie off and was close to falling asleep in his baggy Nebraska Soccer Team tshirt. He heard me enter and looked up. He smiled as he patted the space beside him. 

  I jumped into bed with him and threw the covers over us. I took off my denim jacket and put on Jack's hoodie as he wrapped his arms around my torso and we immediately fell asleep. 

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"Hayley" I heard vaguely. 

"Hay, wake up" It was Cam. 

I groaned as I pinched one eye firmly shut and opened the other.

"Sorry dude but it's 2 in the afternoon and we all just woke up and realised my parents are going to be home in three hours. We need to get this place cleaned up and everyone out." He explained.

I groaned again as I rolled over to wake Jack up. I rested my arm on his chest and whispered his name until he started moving. "Wake up, ugly" I shook his chest.

He began to groan as well as he lifted his hand up to his head and pressed it firmly.

"Oh my god my head." The raspiness of his voice overpowered the sentence. 

"Come on dudes wake up." Before I knew it, Cam had jumped on top of us. 

We both yelled as he landed on us. "I'm never drinking again." I confirmed.

I got out the vaccuum and began to tidy the place, phone in hand as I scrolled through my latest twitter interactions. I was getting the usual hate until I scrolled down far enough to find people replying to someone's youtube link. I stood upright and turned the vaccuum up as I pressed play. It was a video of the dance battle last night. My jaw dropped as you could see me dancing around Jack. I looked like a mess and I couldn't stop thinking about all the girls that would have seen the video and those who would have already saved it and reuploaded it. I dropped the vaccuum and put my free hand over my mouth. 

"What's going on?" I heard Jack running up behind me. He looked down at my phone screen and laughed. "Hey you totally made it onto youtube."

"This isn't funny Jack." I turned around to look at him. My head was still pounding but I continued to shout. "Jack, your fans are all mainly younger than us, they're going to see this and think that this is the kind of thing you like."

"Well it is the kind of thing I li-"

"Jack! I am being deadly serious right now, if you think the amount of hate I get now is shocking, wait until the entire fandom sees this."

"Just ignore it, ba-" 

"Ignore it?? Jack. It's like you don't even understand." I started. "Jack. I can't deal with it anymore, I'm so sick of it. I get told to kill myself everyday a hundred times."

He stared at me blankly as I continued. 

"I'm living with constant guilt, okay? I feel guilty for going out with you. These girls make me feel like I shouldn't be; that I shouldn't have feelings for you, and you can't understand that." 

I picked up the vaccuum, unplugged it and went into another room to clean up.

"H-hey" I heard a soft voice.

I looked around to find Jacob had entered the room.

"Oh hey." I said kind of glad to see him.

"I uh, saw the video.. and the comments." He explained.

"Yeah.." I tried laughing it off. "Those fans are.."

"Yeah" He interrupted me. "I know." 

I tilted my head as if to ask what he meant.

"A few weeks ago I went to a Magcon meet up with Aaron and.. I don't know, I guess I was being a bit too clingy to Mahogany and some girls started complaining about me." He began. "I nudged it off but when I got home, people were claiming that I was trying to take over Magcon." 

My eyes widened as he went on.

"For the next few weeks after that I gained fans, but also gained a lot of haters." He leaned against the wall. "I tried to.. I don't know, act like I was friends with all of them by making jokes and tweeting about them, you know, jokingly throwing shade; but Matt, Carter and Taylor didn't really take it too well and now half the fandom hate me." 

"Aw.. Man, I'm sorry.." I said. "That sucks, I didn't even realise."

My phone started buzzing as my tumblr notifications started to blow up. I wasn't sure why as I made my tumblr look as different to me as possible - I didn't have my name, my picture - or anything to do with me or magcon for that matter - on it at all, but suddenly I was receiving anonymous hate through my ask box. I don't know how they had found it, but after two minutes my inbox was full and fans were spreading my URL across all social networking sites. I quickly deleted the account and sighed as I sat down and leaned my back against the wall. 

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