The Hook-Up (Part Two)

Chapter 259

"Bruno, are you okay?" the DJ asked.

"Oh yeah. Everything is fine. When will we be on air?" he asked trying to not let what he just found out get to him.

"In a few seconds. Are you ready?" he asked.

"Yep. Let's do this..." he smiled setting his lukewarm coffee off to the side of his microphone hearing the intro music start.

He finished a round of interviews with the same DJ for several different stations to be aired later in the week. They went over the same questions about the album and mentioned the babies very briefly when asking how his life was. He said "fine. Everything is good." to the question.

"Bruno!" he heard Brandon yell at him on the way out of the room. "What the hell is this?" he asked handing him his phone with a tweet about a sex tape. "You are making this harder and harder for me to deal with."

"I know." Bruno said sitting down on a chair. "I know. It's horrible. I didn't think this would ever ever ever get out. It was just the two of us. We were being stupid."

"Well you need to figure it out because this is out of control now." Brandon told him. "Let's get to the office to figure this out." Brandon said pulling Bruno up to walk out the door to several cameras that were not interested in his current affairs, but just interested in getting a photo of him.

"Can I call Lauren?" he asked Brandon.

"Call her now and get it over with." Brandon said leading him to a car. Brandon watched him dial the phone almost shaking. "Laur..answer the phone."

"Brunz, I'm in the car driving to work." she answered the phone without a response. "How were the interviews?"

"Lauren. I did something really wrong." he said to her. "I really messed it up for both of us."

"What?" she asked almost yelling. "What happened? You didn't see her after I fell asleep, did you?"

"No. I haven't seen her. But she gave someone something that she shouldn't have..." he tried to get out. She didn't answer waiting for him to tell her what it was. "It was taped...."

"Oh my god! Bruno! You did that with her? And you didn't keep it? She has it?! What were you thinking?" she yelled at him feeling him pull the phone away from his ear. "What were you thinking?!"

"You were yelling at me about the twins. I wanted to see them and you wouldn't let me. So we might have like done some things I should have forgotten about...."

"There's not much worse that you could have done than make a sex tape with the girl you were fucking when we were separated..." she said to him. "What else did you do?"

"There might be some of us smoking..." he told her.

"And?" Lauren was confused.

"And not cigarettes." he told her.

"I don't know which I'm more upset at you about, Bruno. The sex tape we'll get over. But the drugs. The drugs, Bruno! You already got in trouble for that. Oh my god." she said almost dropping the phone. "I don't even know what to do right now."

He let her yell at him for a few more minutes unsure about how to answer her rant. "Lauren. I'm going to fix this. Don't say anything. It will be okay." he finally got out. "Please trust me. I will make it better."

"Bruno, it's not you that I'm worried about. You need to take care of Damaris." she told him.

"You want me to kill her?" he asked after watching too much TV.

"No! Oh my god!" she laughed out loud at him. "No! I mean. Yes. But no! Like keep her away from us. And anyone that is related to you."

"Like a restraining order?" he asked. "Like Dre isn't enough?"

"Bruno. I don't know. But I don't trust her anymore. I thought I could trust her to keep her mouth shut about the two of you. But it obviously isn't enough. If she's dropping shit like this what's going to be next? Her claiming that she's having your baby?" Bruno didn't answer her last question. What if I did. "You didn't Bruno! The last time you saw her was March. And you saw her yesterday. With her little body you would have been able to tell. Plus she would have told you. She wouldn't hold shit like that back."

"But, Lauren..." he said getting out of the car following Brandon lowering his head wihle on the phone.

"No, Bruno. She's not pregnant. Don't worry about that. Just find a way to keep her away from us. I worry about your safety. Not about anything else. We'll get through it." she said looking in the mirror feeling more tired than she usually did. "Ugh. Bruno. I'm so hot. I need to go. I've been sitting in the care the whole time."

"You need to go to the doctor, Elle. You've been feeling this way for a few days." he said suddenly changing his tone to a caring normal voice from the upset almost frightened voice he had before.

"I'll go when you get home." she answered.

"If you don't feel better by then I'm going to the doctor with you." Bruno said.

"I will be fine. I just need to get to work." she said to him. "Call me later today when you find out more. I love you, Bruno. It will be okay. You made a huge mistake. We weren't together then. We know that and she knows that. That's all that matters."

"Okay, Lauren. I love you too." he said hanging up the phone.