Saving Eddy

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I told Eddy I was sick so I can excuse myself from today's filming but I surely didn't expect him to visit me at home.

"Bro, you told me you're feeling sick. I'm in your house right now. Your brother said he didn't even know that you were sick. What's up with that? BTW, He's eating the congee I got you right now."

"Yeah, bro I just went out to get meds and bubble tea. I'm actually feeling a lot better right now."

"That's cool, I guess. Gotta run. I told my mum I'm gonna visit her since we have free time today."

"Alright, see ya tomorrow, tell her hi for me.."

"Are you sure you're up to filming tomorrow? We still have back up vids I can post."

"Yeah. I'm sure today's just a fluke. I'll be there tomorrow, I promise."

I put my phone back inside my pocket.

"I'm sorry officer. That was Eddy."

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"Are you telling me that you're famous?" The officer asked me incredulously.

"Well, I can explain again." I sighed. Why is it so hard to explain internet fame to boomers?

I pulled out my phone and showed him our YouTube and Facebook page.

"You see sir, Eddy and I are violinists and we post stuff on the internet. Here we have almost 3 Million people following us."

"And what are you complaining about now? It's your fault that you posted online. Back in my days, children were taught not to talk to strangers and here you are kids posting stuff for the whole wide world to see."

"Sir, I'm almost 30. I'm not a kid anymore." It took me too much strength to stop my eyes from rolling.

"Okay, okay. Let's do this paperwork. Can you explain to me exactly what happened."

So I told him what happened..

"I was going through some posts and comments on Reddit and I found some photos posted by "LingLingIsMe". It was an edited photo of Eddy as the groom and the bride's face was blurred and an arrow pointed that she is the bride.

It's weird you know, but we're already so used to that. We even see fans in the streets somewhere or in our concerts telling us they're our girlfriends. No harm done, right? But this one sat differently on me.

A few days ago, I saw that she posted on Instagram a photo of Eddy drinking bubble tea at the mall. Alright, this person must've accidentally seen Eddy at the mall but then the next photo this person posted was of Eddy parking in front of my house that same day. That's an impossible coincidence. This person surely followed Eddy from the mall to my house.

Yesterday, I saw another photo with a caption: Sweet Eddy bringing home bubble tea for boyfriend Brett. UwU. This post got at least a thousand likes. The photo was Eddy going inside my house with bubble teas and his violin on the other hand. When I saw this, I made a dummy account posing as one of the fans and followed LingLingIsMe on all accounts."

"Are you in a relationship with this Eddy?" The officer inquired.

"No sir, it was just a figment of their imagination."

"OK then, continue"

"This morning, Eddy was with Janelle, one of our team members in twoset violin who works behind the scene. Then I received a notification that LingLingIsMe posted. I opened it and it was a video/IG story of Eddy and Janelle walking together. You can hear her voice this time. "Who is she Eddy? Are you cheating on me? You can cheat on me with Brett but never with a random bitch!"

The next story was a still photo of Eddy and Janelle, with the caption. "So hurt right now. Jumping off a bridge now."

And another post. This time just a text saying. "Lol. jk. I won't jump off a bridge. But I might push some bitch off a bridge..."

And that's why I'm here officer. To report that someone is stalking Eddy and that our staff may be in danger."

"Alright, I can file a paperwork about this. Unfortunately, we still can't do anything about this unless this escalates. You yourself said that you're internet famous. Just make sure to report any new updates regarding this to me, okay?."

"OK. Thanks officer." Well, that's an utter complete waste of time. But what did I expect anyway? It's not that they can assign a bodyguard for Eddy, right?"

It's half past 4pm when I finally got out of the police department. While driving home, I get another notification from LingLingIsMe. I immediately swerved my car to the gutter to see the new post.

This was now a photo of Eddy with his mum at Ikea.

I called Eddy, "Brett, I'm kinda busy right now. I'm with my mum."

"Where are you exactly right now?"

"I'm at Ikea with my mum. Do you need anything?" Shit. So this post is really current but what can I do? I don't want to scare Eddy and his mom.

"Nah. Nothing, just take care buddy."