Stepbrother | bws✔️

20. "I can't take this anymore."

We've just landed in London and I spent the entire flight asleep on Brad's shoulder. Like I said before I'm really bad on flights and I stress out loads but for some reason this time it felt different. I felt more at ease than I ever have on a plane.

There's a car waiting outside the airport to pick up me, Ella, Con and Brad as we all need to get back to Birmingham. We say our goodbyes to Tris and James and briefly say hi to Kirstie and Ana who are waiting for them at the arrivals gate before the four of us get in our car.

It's a black Range Rover which has blacked out windows. Brad jumps in the front of the car to join the driver who he knows well and me, Ella and Con all go in the back. Con sits in the middle and me and Ella spend the whole journey asleep on Connor's shoulders.

Me and Brad are the last in the car as we've dropped Connor and Ella off at their places on the way to my house.

We arrive at my house and Brad takes our suitcases out of the boot and waves goodbye to the driver as we knock on the front door.

"You're back! We've missed you both so much!" My mum says excitedly as she opens the door and pulls me and Brad into a big hug.

"We missed you too Claire." Brad says to my mum.

"Come on in, food is almost ready." My mum says to the two of us as we lift our suitcases into the house.

"Mum I'm not really feeling like eating. It's been a long day of travelling and I think I just need to sleep." I say to my mum

She gives me an understanding look and I head on up to my room.

Since we landed I haven't checked my phone yet. In fact it's still on airplane mode, so I switch airplane mode off and wait for my 3 (if I'm lucky) unimportant notifications to come through.

Before I know it my phone is buzzing like crazy as it connects to the WiFi and I notice many of the notifs are Instagram ones. I wait for my phone to calm down before putting in my password and going onto Instagram.

"Oh my god." I say to myself as sit bolt right in bed.

130,000 new followers?! What?!! I was literally on 500 followers before I got on the plane and now I have this many? I look more into the people who have followed me and I notice that almost all of them are vamps fan accounts.

I start to feel sick to my stomach as this must mean that something has got out about me and Brad.

I open the messages app and start texting Brad even though he's only downstairs.

To Brad:
Come up to my room. We need to talk. Now

From Brad:
Urm okay 2 mins x

I chuck my phone to the end of my bed and curl up in a ball under my duvet just wishing none of this ever happened.

*knock knock*

"Hey can I come in?" Brad says in a soft voice from outside my bedroom.

I get out from under the duvet "Yeah" I say to him.

Brad let's himself in and shuts the door behind him.

"Hey what's happened?" He says as he rushes over to give me a hug as I have tears rolling down my cheeks.

"Pass me my phone and let me show you." I reply as I'm sniffling in between words.

Brad does as I ask him and I log into my phone then open Instagram and hand him my phone.

Brad's eyes suddenly widen as he sees all of the followers and I can just about see the screen and 26 more people have followed me in the past 3 minutes.