You’re My Music- (Chapter 43) SCANDAL
“Excuse me… Ma’am…Um hello.”
“Sorry sir the bathrooms are around the corner and to your right.” Jackson piped in behind me.
“Thanks.” A middle aged bald man wearing a green suit shirt gave me a condescending nod and followed the way Jackson’s hand pointed him.
“Whoa! Earth to Rian, anyone home?” Jackson dramatically waved his hands in front of my face.
“Sorry I just have a lot on my mind.” I said shrugging in angst. I couldn’t keep my mind on work for one second. The coffee shop was extremely slow for a Tuesday morning and I was drifting.
“Anything you want to talk about? Some tea you want to spill? How is that boy you dumped?”
Jackson was the only person I really enjoyed working with.
“I didn’t dump him, it was comp-”
“I know it was complicated—aren’t relationships always!”
“And what do you know I haven’t heard about any boys on your end.”
The coffee shop door swept open and Rocky walked in.
“Ugh yes, your hot friend is here.” Jackson said under his breath. I laughed and shoved Jackson to the side of the counter.
Rocky walked up and put his elbows down and his chin in them. I mimicked him and got face to face with him my elbows parallel to his.
“What’s up?” I tilted my head and cracked a smile. He cracked a similar half smile.
“I was bored so I thought I would come visit my favorite barista.” We both stood up.
“You come all this way just to see me?” Jackson gushed. Jackson set an iced americano on the counter.
“You remember my drink and everything thanks man!” Rocky put his hand up for a high five, but a disappointed Jackson just cringed and walked to the back room.
“So, what do I owe you?” Rocky asked fumbling with his wallet.
“Uhh…” He sighed. “What did I do to deserve you!”
“I’m just in my everlasting quest to feed your coffee addiction.” I said half chuckling. Rocky put his hand on top of mine on the counter and gave it a squeeze.
“Ri, I love you! I’m going to use the bathroom quick.” Rocky set down his coffee and walked around the corner to the restrooms.
“That man just keeps getting more gorgeous.” Jackson said.
“Well I hate to shatter your dreams, but that man is straight and too old for you.”
“Oh, trust me I know he’s straight, he is extremely into you.”
If I had been drinking something I would most likely would have expelled it from my mouth
“Excuse me what? You think Rocky is into me?”
“Yea I always see the ways he interacts with you, it’s right under your nose. He practically professed his love for you.”
“He professed his love for coffee. You are seriously out of it, we’re just friends.”
“You’re too close to the situation to realize it, but your best friend is in love with you trust me. Maybe you have some feelings for him too and that’s what’s really upsetting you.”
“Trust me I am not in love with…ROCKY!”
I jumped as Rocky came back around the corner.
“Dudeeeeee you have to look at this!” Thankfully Rocky was distracted with something more pressing. Rocky showed me his phone lit up with a tweet from the celebrity gossip account: “LA Tonight!” The tweet read “RIKER LYNCH’S EX-GIRLFRIEND PREGNANT!! CLICK THE LINK TO GET ALL THE DETAILS ON THIS PREGNANCY DRAMA!”
My breath got caught in my throat and my jaw dropped. This was the first leak of the news and the first we had heard from Estella in weeks.
“What is the video?” I asked frantically.
“I don’t know I haven’t looked.” Rocky tapped on the link and opened a YouTube video.
“Jackson, I think I’m going to take my break now.” I said already undoing my apron and hanging it on the hook.
“Do you girl.” Jackson shrugged and went back to cleaning the espresso machine. I ran around the corner to Rocky and pulled him towards a small table. We sat down and clicked play on the video.
I anxiously listened to a blonde girl flip out about Estella being pregnant and spew a bunch of twisted details about her life. What really grabbed me was the first mention of Riker’s name.
“Estella has confirmed her ex Riker Lynch is the father. She told LA Tonight:Her tone switched when she started using the quotes from Estella.
”I am quite nervous for the future and for single motherhood. Riker has not been supportive and has rejected that he is the father.
At that point I quit listening. My mind wondered from his screen to processing all of what had been said and what was happening. My mind was a cluster of nothing until Rocky started using a number of expletives. My vision was clouded until I focused on the screen. There was a number of gossip news companies that were tweeting about the incident all claiming to have a different inside scoop. Another in particular caught my attention.
MUSICIAN RIKER LYNCH CHEATING SCANDAL flashed across the screen.
“What the hell!” I reached across and tapped the link on his phone and he didn’t have a say otherwise
“You all may remember the lovely relationship that fans coined RiStella well it turns out that RiStella may not have been the dream love we all remember.”
Pictures of Riker and Estella when they were dating showed up on the screen and a big broken heart was stamped over the picture as the gossiper talked about the demise of their relationship.
“Estella told Celeb Weekly ‘The relationship Riker and I had was sweet at the beginning I started to think he was the one until I found he was cheating on me.’”
The quotes appeared in large black letters over a blue background on the screen.
“‘The girl he was cheating on me with tracked me down physically assaulted me. Riker then dumped me for her and until he found out I was pregnant and has been trying to cover everything up. He’s completely shut me out and refuses that he is the father.’” The celeb gossiper read.
“How do you guys feel? Were you a RiStella fan and are you shocked with the news of Estella being pregnant? Let us know in the comments below!”
I buried my hands in my face and knocked my head against the desk. A few seconds later the clatter of a mug sat made noise in front of my face. Jackson set down a mug with steaming liquid in front of me.
“B, it sounds like you’re going to need this.” He said cringing and stepped away slowly.
I took a sip of the steaming chai latte and took a breath. I couldn’t deal with this. I didn’t have the emotional stability I was already at a downwards slope.
“Yea?” he called from behind the counter.
“Is there anyone in here?” I stood up and checked for myself as well.
“AHHHHHHHHHHGGG.” I screamed.
“Feel better?” Rocky chuckled a little placing a hand on my side.
“This. Isn’t. FUNNY!” I emphasized funny like I was about to snap. I sat back down and buried my head in my hands. “I’m sorry.” I apologized.
“Look Rian it’s been dead all day and you only have two hours of your shift left. I can cover you!” Jackson called.
“Thanks.” I smiled lightly at him. I brought my cup up to the counter and ruffled his curly brown hair. “You’re sure?”
“Of course! Get out of here.”
I opened the door and met a gathering of pillows and blankets.
“Whoa what’s all this?” I asked the body behind the pillows. A blanket slipped from his hands. I reached down and grabbed it before he did.
“I thought you were at work?” he responded moving past me to get to get outside. I followed him with the blanket he dropped.
“I got off early, I was a little stressed and it was super slow.”
“You saw all the gossip articles I’m guessing.” He mindlessly responded stuffing some of the blankets and pillows into his car never making contact with me. He seamlessly grabbed the blanket from my hands and stuffed it in as well.
“I did. Are you okay?” Riker slammed the car door and stood up walking towards the house.
“I didn’t realize it mattered how I feel.”
“You’re kidding me, right?” Riker swiveled around and glared at me. His hair was a scrunched mess his eyes were red and droopy with bags under them. I wondered how much he’d slept the night before. “I get that you’re stressed. Maybe you should just cool it for a bit thing will die down.”
“Yea uh…avoiding problems is your thing. I need to handle this.” He turned around and stumbled back into the house.
“What are you even doing?” I followed after him. He was growing aggressively annoyed.
“I don’t think I should stay here. I thought I’d might go slum it at the folks’ place for a bit.”
“You know you don’t have to do that.”
“I don’t know how it’s going to look if people find out I’m still living with my ex-girlfriend.”
“Why does it matter what people think? Just let this all blow over it’ll be okay.”
“I can’t just sit here and let Estella ruin my career. I have an interview with celeb weekly tomorrow.” He sounded exhausted and agitated. I don’t think he was making the soundest decisions.
“Riker you shouldn’t just fight fire with fire!”
“YOU DON’T GET TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO. I THOUGHT WE ALREADY HAD THIS CONVERSATION.” He yelled in the middle of the living room. I saw him regain his cool and shake away the urge to explode. “I’m going to my parent’s place to get some space,” he started. “Please do not follow me.” He said in a low almost whisper. He grabbed his keys from the shelf leaning against the stairs and walked assertively out the door.
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