Chapter Seven- Mean
After our date, Luke and I spent the rest of the night together at my house before he finally went home. I went to sleep the happiest girl in the world. What I didn’t know is as I was sleeping, the news about Luke and I dating spread throughout the Janoskian fandom.
I woke up at around 10am and grabbed my laptop off of the floor where it was charging. I clicked onto Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook and was surprised with what I saw. I had 500 new friend requests and almost two thousand inboxes on Facebook, I had more than four thousand new followers on Twitter and more than three thousand messages on Tumblr. I quickly began to realise that everyone knew that Luke wasn’t single anymore…and a lot of people weren’t happy about it.
Sure, some people were happy about mine and Luke’s relationship and congratulated me on it, but the negative responses really stood out. I’m always one of those people who try and act like mean comments don’t get to me- I put on a front on the outside to make everyone think that I’m fine…but inside I’m crumbling to pieces. Before I could torture myself anymore by reading the messages I’d gotten, I quickly closed my laptop and chucked on a pair of denim shorts and a hoodie and went over to the Brooks’ house.
I knocked on the door as Gina looked surprised when she opened the door and saw me standing there at 10:30 in the morning.
“Oh hi Dakota- what are you doing here?” She smiled at me and moved out of the way so I could come in
“Sorry that I’m kind of barging in, but do you think I could talk to Luke for a bit?”
“Of course! They’re all still sleeping- just go and wake them up!” I thanked Gina before making my way through the house and stopping at Luke and Jai’s bedroom door.
Before I could turn the doorhandle and walk in- Beau walked out of his room.
“Dakota- WAIT!” Beau whispered really loudly, but quiet enough so he didn’t wake the twins up
“Beau- wtf you scared me!” I playfully hit Beau and he hugged me and said good morning
“Don’t be boring and wake them up normally- lets have some fun!” He winked at me and we began planning what we’d do to wake Luke and Jai up.
Beau got out the camera and began to film as we put our plan into action. We both couldn’t contain our laughter as ‘The Circle of Life’ from the Lion King blared through Beau’s laptop speakers as the boys woke up startled by the noise.
“What the hell Beau?!” Jai was the first to wake up, Luke slowly just fell back asleep.
“Hey Dakota” Jai gave me a hug before walking out of his room and back outside with Beau
I climbed into Luke’s top bunk and lied down beside him. He must have realised that it was me and put his arms around my waist and pulled me closer into him, snuggling his face into my neck. We stayed like that for another ten minutes until Luke fully woke up.
I began to remember why I came to see Luke and my happy mood started fading.
“What’s wrong babe?”
“Your fans hate me.” I looked down and got teary eyed as I remembered what some people had said about me;
“She’s looks light a whore, why is Luke even going out with her?”
“Who the hell would want to date her? Luke deserves so much better.”
“Soon Luke will realise how ugly and pathetic she is and dump her. She’s just attention seeking.”
Luke pulled me into a tight hug once he saw a single tear role down my cheek.
“Don’t worry about it, they’re just jealous- they don’t know how amazing you are.”
“What’s this?” Jai walked back into his room, looking confused and worried about me crying.
“The fans have found out that we’re dating and now they’re hating on Kota.” Luke sounded really mad as he explained the situation to Jai
“No way- I honestly don’t understand how some people can send hate over the internet, just ignore it Dakota- we’ll sort this out.”
“Thanks” I weakly smiled at them
Luke quickly logged onto his Tumblr and Twitter- I’m not sure what he was saying but he looked really pissed off.
Luke’s P.O.V
I cannot believe that my fans that have been so supportive of everything that I do are now being horrible to Dakota. Seeing the tears in her eyes and how upset she got over the whole thing made me even madder.
I wish I could stop anything from hurting her- but you just can’t control the things that people say. I decided to log into my Tumblr account and write all of my fans a message. Nobody deserves to be treated the way Dakota is being treated right now.
For all of you wondering; yes, I am dating Dakota. I’m extremely happy that I can call this amazing girl mine but I’m disappointed in the way some of you are acting. I’ve seen that some of you are sending her disgusting messages and are being outright horrible. Bullying her is only going to make our relationship stronger- if you message her telling saying that I shouldn’t be dating her and that I deserve better then you’re wrong. She’s everything that I’ve ever wanted and nothing will ever change that. You don’t have to like her, but be respectful and stop the hate. But for those of you who have sent her lovely messages I thank you for making her smile through the hurtful messages. Please just accept the fact the fact that I’ve found someone that makes me happy.
Dakota’s P.O.V
I smiled out of thankfulness as I saw Luke’s message regarding our relationship. I went over and thanked him with a hug and a kiss.
I knew that dating someone that thousands of fangirls love and adore would cause friction and hate, but I never thought that I would get this much. Even though Luke wrote everyone a message- the hate didn’t stop. It just kept coming. Most of them were just calling me ugly and pointing out every single flaw that I had. Some of them were them wishing that we broke up and some of them even wished for my death. The words hurt but Luke was there telling me that everything would be okay and that he’d always be there to defend me. I was so grateful that I had him there- without Luke I’d be a mess dealing with all this hate myself.
“You have pointed out my flaws again, as if I don’t already see them. I walk with my head down trying to block you out because I know I’ll never impress you. I just want to feel okay again.”
