I'll Be Your Strength - Nathan Sykes (ON HOLD)

Chapter Fifteen

Back home I popped Darren into bed and ran to my room to call Nathan.

“Hey babe” he said happily

“Who have you told?” I snapped at him

“What do you mean?”

“There’s a picture of me and Darren on Celebritain and underneath talking about how I’m dating you and all that…have you told anyone?”

“Just the guys, Kelsey, Shell and Nareesha. That’s it” He explained, “I don’t know how it came about” he sounded flustered, what were we meant to do?

“It’s out there now” I sighed

“I’m gonna have to respond to it soon. Just got it up on the laptop, God” he sighed too, “What shall I say?”

“Might as well come out. I mean, you can’t lie then couple weeks or months down the line say actually we have been dating”

“True…OK, I’ll tweet now” I heard him tap away on the keyboard of his laptop, “Right. ‘Yes, I do have a GF. Here she is @Tinksabell_x. She is lovely and she makes me happier then I could’ve imagined’ ” Nathan read of the screen, “That ok?”

“Is that true?” I smiled, biting my bottom lip, waiting for the response

“Yeah. Course it is. Why would I lie?” Nathan paused before finishing “Send it?”

“Yeah” I waited to see it come up on my twitter feed. I refreshed the page 5 times and then - BAM! - There it was, for all to see. Suddenly, it became real. We were dating. The world now knew, officially. “Shall I tweet something?”

“Yeah, why not?”

I looked at my keys and started typing; ‘Hello, yes @NathanTheWanted is my BF (: We’ve been together for almost 5 months now and we are so happy.’ I hit ‘tweet’ and waited for Nathan to see it on his timeline.

“Got it. Done”

“Done” I said, half happy, half scared.

The mentions rolled in. I saw everything. Good ones, happy ones, positive ones, sad ones, mean ones, undecided ones, cap locked ones, bitchy ones…everything. The fans were already judging me and most of them didn’t know me!

My followers then shot up from 531 to 5,003 in about an hour! I couldn’t believe it! People were asking me to follow them, tweet them, and reply to them…it felt so weird. I’m unsure whether I liked it or not.

Instead of waiting another week to go see him, we all decided to go up that weekend. And I took Darren with me. I hadn’t told Nathan this yet. Darren sat colouring in on the train while the rest of us sat in silence. I was looking round the train and this time, people were staring. I could tell they were whispering about me. My insecurities shot in; why talk about me? Could I really be that interesting? I’m only dating Nathan…What if someone comes up…what do I do….oh god I look a mess today as well…stupid joggers…please, no-one come up to me…oh god someone’s coming up…she’s smiling at me…what do I do!?!

“Hi, are you Tiffany?” she asked me, “Who’s dating Nathan from The Wanted?” she smiled, knowing she got the right person

“Yeah” I smiled back at her. Stacy and Jorgia just watched. Unable to say anything...what would they have said anyway!?

“Oh my God! I can’t believe it is ACTUALLY you! You are like THE luckiest girl ever!” she screeched at me

“Oh…erm, thank you?” I said, a little shocked to be honest. I thought she was gonna scream at me

“Can you follow me on Twitter? Oh, can I have a picture?” She got her phone out ready

“Sure” I smiled. I really didn’t want to but, it was only polite.

The phone clicked and she smiled happily at the photo, “Twitter icon!” she smiled, “Thank you do much. I’ll leave you in peace” she gave me a hug and left.

“That’s something you’re gonna have to get use to now” Jorgia smiled at me

“I know. It’s weird” I sighed as I looked over to Darren, still happily colouring away, “I hope Nathan doesn’t mind me bringing him with me”

“Why should he? I mean, he’s gonna have to meet him sooner or later” Stacy said, not looking up from her phone

“Yeah but, it’s a big deal. For all three of them!” Jorgia backed me up as we debated whether I should have brought Darren with me or not.