All in the Game

Chapter twenty-eight || Hospital fights

𝐀𝐛𝐛𝐲

Me and Aria have been enjoying our girls day. We started out getting our nails painted hers pale blue and mine a soft cream, then upon Aria's request we went to the bookstore aka her favorite spot on this earth. Currently we're sitting in some overpriced coffee shop. 

"What are you looking at?" Aria asks coming back with two caramel iced coffees that look almost identical except one's made with oat milk instead of regular. "Just some sports blog. It's blowing up with hilarious rumors about Nathan and the boys." 

"Really? Let me see." Sliding my phone in the middle of the table so we can both read the crazy articles that people have already started posting. Really it amazes me how people have the time to come up with this stuff. One reads:

𝑴𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒙 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒂𝒓'𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒚?

𝑻𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒆𝒙 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒂𝒓'𝒔 𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆. '𝑾𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔.' 𝑺𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒖𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒆𝒙𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒍, 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕? 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒐𝒓 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈? '𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓.' 𝑨𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒖𝒔. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒇 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏. 𝑬𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒙-𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔? 

Damn this makes It sound worse than it really is. Done reading we look at each other both laughing at how ridiculous it is. "Do people seriously have nothing better to do than gossip?" Shrugging she says, "you knew there would be gossip when you started dating him." 

She grabs my phone scrolling through more articles. "Check out these comments." The phone is handed back to me and I scroll through the numerous comments flooding from the article we just read. 

'𝑴𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒕'𝒔 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒖𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒅𝒔. 𝑺𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏...'