Riele stood against her window admiring how the rays of the setting sun painted the sky in multiple soft hues.
She had slept for a few hours after her crying session, and woke up feeling much better. She was a strong person who never dwelled in too much in the past. Riele had that inner happiness and joy that caused her to be loved and adored by millions, even as a young child star. The fans of the Henry Danger show probably loved her more than they did Jace. Together though, she and Jace were the darlings of the Nickelodeon universe, shipped by half the planet, basically. Their shipname was Jaele, and their TV shipname was Chenry.
Hundreds of sappy fanfic stories were written and published about them. In many of these stories Jace got Riele pregnant, even if she was 15 years old(can anybody spell jail?). Not that it bothered their shippers one bit. They loved it and lapped it up. Riele and Jace pretended not to know of their existence, but truth be told, she had read a few of them. The stories inevitably contained steamy scenes and in most of these scenes Jace was built better than a Greek god and fantastically endowed. That was of course as the saying goes; 'none of her business."
Riele couldn't say for sure when or how she started developing feelings for Jace. What was it that drew her to him? Jace always preferred her company to that of his other co-stars. It was that way from the beginning. He was always leaning or hovering near her, no matter what they were busy with. She was too young at that stage too really care about it.
Thinking back, she realised that Jace was probably infatuated with her from the start. He always used to have this dreamy look in his eyes when he saw her. She sometimes caught him staring and he used to become nervous and fidgety around her.
She remembered the staring contest they had on the After Party. A blush crept over her face And she covered her face with her hands self-consciously , even though no one was there to see. Her heart rate sped up at the memory. Yes, that was probably the day she realised that she had deeper feelings for him.
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She still remembered how her heartrate sped up as he stared into her eyes, grinning. She had to give the plot of an episode called "The trouble with Frittles" while having a staring contest with Jace. They were not supposed to blink but of course they couldn't do it. She told the host, Karen, that they've blinked several times, but Karen just told them to continue because she liked the "eye contact" and thought it was a nice, "intimate" moment. Riele smiled, shaking her head.
And of course there was the haunted house challenge. The Jaele shippers loved that one, cause she was clinging to Jace for dear life, even asking him to hold her "for the rest of her days."
He should be holding me now, she thought. Where did it all go so wrong?
