Behind The Cameras (Datalie fanfiction)

Chapter Nine

David's P.O.V

"David, what the fuck happened to you?" Jason asked shocked when he walked in and found me laying in Natalie's bed, probably looking like a dead zombie.

"My love for Natalie happened," I replied, burying my face in Nat's pillow.

"Have you been crying? And where's Natalie? And from when did you start having feelings for her? Zane told me that Liza was back," Jason said as he sat next to me on the bed, and pulled my face out of the pillow.

I sighed, "Jason, I have been in love with Natalie ever since 3rd grade."

"But Liza?" He asked confused.

"I loved her too, but I was in love with Natalie. My feelings for Nat appeared to have never faded away, and when she came to live with me, they kept growing stronger and stronger."

"Oh wow," Jason spoke, surprised, "Why am I only hearing about this now?"

"I couldn't tell anyone, hell I was trying to convince myself that it wasn't that big of a deal," I explained, digging my head back into the pillow.

Jason probably rolled his eyes before he pulled me back out, "And where is Natalie exactly?"

"Vernon Hill?"

"What the fuck, David?"

"I don't fucking know!" I kinda yelled. I was so frustrated, I didn't want to speak to anyone. Regardless of that, I knew I had to give Jason a full explanation, and so I sat up and told him all about what has been going on for the past few days.

"Oh god," Jason managed to get out of his system as soon as I was done.

"Aren't you going to tell me I fucked up?"

"Just cause were honest about your feelings for Natalie, doesn't mean you fucked up," Jason assured me, "But how are we supposed to make Natalie come back?"

"I don't know anything, Jason, I really don't," I told him.

"It's a posting day too," He reminded me.

I mentally screamed.

"Fuck posting," I replied.

He shook his head, "Nat wouldn't be want you acting like that."

"Nat doesn't even want me at all."

"You don't know that," He defended, and I couldn't help but let out a dry laugh.

"If you want someone, Jason, you don't run away from them when you figure out they have feelings for you," I fought back.

"Maybe she was scared?" He asked, making somewhat of a valuable point.

It caught my attention, "Scared of what?"

"Come on, Dave, you know Natalie more than any of us. She may have this strong, sassy face that she shows to the world, but deep inside she's pretty insecure, and gets really upset at people's negative comments about her. She probably imagined how bad the fandom would react if you guys dated and she freaked out so she just decided that she couldn't go through with that nor put you through it either."

He made a lot of sense, not gonna lie.

"But the fans love Natalie? There's literally more people who ship me with Nat than people who ship me with Liza," I told Jason and he nodded.

"You know that, but Natalie doesn't," He explained.

I knew what I had to do, "Okay then, let's make sure she knows."

"What? How?" Jason asked, but I just ignored him and got up to grab my phone from where it landed when I threw it away last night.

I unlocked it and opened my contacts, then I pressed on Zane's name and called him. Jason shot me a really confused glance so I sat next to him and put my phone on speaker.

"Hello?" Zane spoke, he sounded like he had just woken up.

"Hey, Zane, uh remember how you threatened me to leak Natalie and I's photos?" I asked.

Jason's expression changed and he looked like he knew where I was going with this because a smile formed on his face.

"Uh, yeah, why?" Zane asked, probably confused as fuck.

"Leak them."

"David, boo, are you doing drugs?" Zane asked again. I couldn't help but laugh because I was pretty sure his face expressions were priceless at the moment.

"Just do what I told you to, I'll tell you why later," I assured him. He just agreed and asked me when he should leak them, and I told him that now would be a good time. I also told him to choose a caption that would make Datalie shippers go nuts. He laughed and told me that he'll try his best before he hung up.

"David, I knew you were smart but I never knew you could be such a genius," Jason laughed.

I just laughed along as we sat there, waiting for a notification from Zane any time soon.

It wasn't long before my phone lit up and it was a notification from Zane saying that he posted the pictures on his Instagram.

I opened my Instagram immediately and refreshed, then my pictures with Natalie popped up. He put them in a slide, the first picture was of us two days ago in that restaurant when Nat was fixing my shirt and I was staring at her. The next three pictures were different variations of when we were sleeping on the couch all cuddled up.

I couldn't help but smile at the pictures, and I smiled even harder when I saw the caption he wrote.

'Couple tings.'

Hopefully soon, Zane, hopefully real soon.