Chasing Fans (D.S)

The Hate

After the concert, the boys decide they want ice cream. So, we go to dairy queen. We get a booth and I slide in first and then Daniel, who has a hard time sitting down.

"You alright D?" Jonah asks, sitting next to Corbyn, across from me.

He nods. "Yeah. I just fell earlier."

I just look at him.

"I'm fine, really."

"If you say so." I ask.

"Can we just get an Oreo blizzard cake?" Zach asks.

Jack laughs. "Yeah that's easier. Jonah go get it."

Jonah rolls his eyes and gets out of the booth and goes up to the counter.

Daniel looks at Corbyn, and Corbyn is looking at me.

"What are you looking at?" Daniel asks.

Corbyn shakes his head as if he was zoning out. "Nothing."

"He was looking at your girl." Zach whispers.

Daniel glares at Corbyn.

Jonah comes over a second later with plates and the cake. "I'm starving." He looks around. "Why's everyone so quiet?"

Jack coughs. "Where is Ellie staying tonight? It's too late to be driving in the dark."

Corbyn shrugs. "I have no problem driving in the dark."

"I'll think she'll be fine staying with us." Daniel says. "I'll bring her home before we go to New York tomorrow."

"Is there even enough time for that?" Corbyn asks.

"We'll make time." Daniel snaps back.

By the time we finish eating, its 10 o'clock, so we make our way to their hotel.

Jonah and Corbyn sleep on one bed, Daniel and I on the other. Zach decided to sleep in the tub and Jack got tired of sleeping on the floor so he laid between Jonah and Corbyn.

I couldn't sleep because I have trouble sleeping anywhere but in my bed. I pull out my phone and scroll on Instagram. My mom finally gave it back. Now that everyone knew who I was, I had more followers. Which meant more messages. I was bored so I decided to read them.

"You're using Daniel for fame."

"I get bad vibes from you, stay away from Danny."

"You're ugly."

"Daniel's mine."

"I can see your scars in your recent photo, not cool."

That kind of bothered me. You'd think calling me ugly would but not at all. I put my phone on the bedside table and walk out on the balcony and sit in the chair.

A few minutes later I'm joined by Jonah.

"Hey. Whatcha doing?" He sits next to me in the other chair.

I shrug. "I couldn't sleep. So, I came out here. You?" I look at him.

"Yeah, me too." He looks up at the moon.

"How do you deal with hate?" I blurt out.

He shrugs. "I just try my best to ignore it. That person is normally jealous or unhappy."

"Ever since I met Daniel, people have been really mean to me."

He laughs a little. "Yeah, that'll come with it. My girlfriend, Lily, gets that all the time. From fan accounts mostly. Don't listen to them. Our girlfriends always get the most hate. But if you stick around long enough, they'll start to love you. They love Marie. Jack and she have been together for four years, no problem."

"I don't do well with hate." I say, looking down, playing with my bracelets.

"Hey." He puts his hand on my shoulder. "Daniel told us. Don't ever resort to that. Don't ever think you have too. We're all here for you, you got that?"

I nod. "Thank you."

"Good." He stands up. "I'm kind of tired though. I'm going to try to go back to sleep. I'll see you in the morning." He goes inside. 

The Next Morning

I hadn't slept at all. I was still sitting outside.

Daniel walks outside. "Hey, are you ready to go?"

"Yeah." I stand up.

He smiles at me.

We go to the car and he starts the drive back to New Jersey.

"I think Corbyn likes you." He says, kind of mad.

"You think? I haven't noticed." I say, sarcastically.

He doesn't say anything.

"I don't like him at all, I promise. You have nothing to worry about with me."

"I trust you. It's him I don't trust. We're best friends, and usually we don't fight about anything. I don't know what his issue is lately."

"He'll get bored of it when I don't give in to him."

"I don't understand why he always wants everything I want."

"Maybe he's jealous. You're mega talented. Charming. Handsome. Funny. I could keep going."

He laughs. "He's great too."

I shrug. "I don't know. Have you ever asked?"

"I never thought of it. Maybe I will."

I take out my phone and look on Instagram again.

I look and I have a message from Bailey. I look at Daniel then back at my phone.

I was going to wait to post but suddenly this is doing kind of well so I figured why not. Also, I'm going to start a Jonah fanfic so go check that out if you can or want to. 😋