Matters Of The Heart ✔

Chapter Ten

“Abigail, wake up”, Stephnie jumped on her bed, causing her to jolt up from the bed from sudden shock of impact

“What?”, she mumbled sleepily while resting her head on the pillow again to continue where she left off with her sleep

“You're trending babe”, Stephnie screamed in excitement as she knelt on the bed, shaking her friend to gain her full attention

“What are you talking about?”, Abigail lazily asked while rubbing the sleep off her eyes. Stephanie handed her phone. Her eyes widened as her eyes glared on the screen, everyone was talking about her and Ian on social media.

“H-how did t-this happen?”, she quickly got off the bed and stood on her feet as she read the comments

Ian Parker is finally taken ladies

Who's that girl?

She's one lucky girl....

What is she wearing?

He had to go for a red head. Typical Ian.

Omg!! She's beautiful.

They look cute together thou

“Why are some people so mean?”, Abigail scowled as she scrolled at some comments.

“It doesn't matter. They just bitter haters”, Stephanie took her phone and tapped into Ian's Instagram page and handed it back to Abigail. He had posted some of the pictures they took on all their 17 dates, captioned, Finally found my reason to smile.

“Aww”, Abigail cooed adoringly as she scrolled on their pictures but then her eyebrows furrowed in confusion

“I don't understand, why is Ian so famous?”, she asked, mostly to herself

“He was featured on the Template's as one of the sexiest bachelor's a few months ago, and he's also rich, he comes from a rich family-”

“Yes, thank you, Steph, I get the picture, thanks”, she deadpanned in a bored tone as her friend added too much information to what she had asked. Stephanie jumped to stand next to her.

“Do you get what this means?”

“That we're dating, and it's normal to post someone you're dating on social media?”, she quizzed and Stephanie paused to think for a second

“Yes, you do have a point”, she paused to think about it while nodding in agreement. “But that's not entirely the point. The point is he's the first one to officiate your relationship to the public, to the world actually. He claimed you”, she said and Abigail laughed.

Their relationship was official, but he just made it official-official

“Uh, yeah”, Abigail peeled herself from Stephanie tight grip. “I guess that's what this means then”

“Can we just take this moment and just-”, they entwined their fingers together and both screamed as loudly as they could

Abigail had the rest of the afternoon off and decided to surprise Ian at work with lunch. As she walked into the enormous building, she was getting stares from all directions. The whispers starting and people pointing at her. She tried to ignore them, but they were getting to her. She didn't like attention, and it was being dished to her on a silver platter.

“Hi, I'm here to see Ian Parker”, she requested as she got to the young woman at reception

“Do you have an appointment?”, she replied nonchalantly without even looking up at her