NovelOnlineChapter 106 Quashing The Rumors
The moment | got to the parking lot, Nicholas called me. “Hey, my fans won't letgo, so | can’t cover.
Can you wait forat my car?”
| went to his car and waited for ten minutes before Nicholas cover in a hurry, then he unlocked the car. “Get
in, on the double.”
| noticed a bunch of people looking around when we were getting out of the place. “Fans of yours?”
“Yeah. Almost couldn’t get away from them.”
Nicholas drove toward South Hill from the hospital. “How's he looking?”
| kept quiet for a moment. “Great. Someone's attending to him 24/7. He's like a king now.”
“What about you then?”
| smiled. “I'm doing great. Just wondering how much gift money | should prepare for the wedding. Can't give
them too little, or it'd be too embarrassing, but can’t give them too much either or I'd be broke.”
“Wedding? Wait, Dominic's?”
“Yeah. I'd probably be getting an RSVP soon.”
Nicholas didn’t bring Dominic up for the rest of the trip. When we cback to the villa, only Jake was still up.
He cup to us the moment we cin, shovingaway at the stime.
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Jake checked up on Nicholas, mumbling incessantly at the stime. Since | had overstayed my welcome, |
bade Nicholas good night before going back to my room.
| had nothing to do, and | didn’t want to scroll through Twitter either, in case | got annoyed. In the end, | started
binging crshows on Netflix, since | needed a ton of gore to cure my depression.
Just when it was getting to the good part, my dad called me. He didn’t beat about the bush and started asking
over the matter.
Look, I didn’t mind the scolding, but it would be bad if he fell sick from this. Not to mention my mother would be
worried for him as well. After sconsideration, I told him it was just rumors and exaggerations. “They're just
jokes, so don’t take it seriously.”
My dad kept quiet for a long while after that. “Lili, your mother and | have been thinking, and well, it seems that
we've been neglecting you all this time.
“I'm not going to berate you or anything, but just remember, if life is getting too hard for you, you can come
hanytime. We'll back you up this time. Not gonna let another Julius happen again.”
| never expected my father to actually say that, so | started bawling. My father started laughing. “You're like a
child.” Yeah, so what? | mean, these guys were my parents. | could be a kid in front of them.
| talked to my mom for a while before hanging up, then | felt a lot more cheerful. Now that | was happier, the
shows looked better in my eyes. All the corpses and gore were pure art to me, and | enjoyed every second of it.
| stayed at Nicholas’ place for three days. The topic was still raising a storm on Twitter, but it was getting smaller.
Then, someone made a tweet about my friendship with Scarlett that night, as well as the trip we went on
together.
It was planned. Scarlett tookaround for a stroll that afternoon, and she ran into the reporters on purpose.
After that, the news of Nicholas and his manager's visit to the hospital made it trending, and this time, there
were pictures to back it up.
One of the pictures was taken during the the beat someone up for me, so after the tweet was made public,
the news of his aggression was less believable now.
On top of that, Scarlett said | was with her all the time, which meant the news was nothing but a rumor. Nicholas
wasn’t Naruto, after all, so he couldn’t show up at two places at the stime.
Melotic, yes, but effective. The public bought the story, and the comments on Nicholas’ tweets got a lot
less abusive.
| asked Shannon to pickup at the villa in case someone were to stir up another storm. She cshortly after
and droveback to the hotel Flash reserved for us.
“The management called me. Liliana, they want you to be more careful with your private life. They can’t control
what you do, but whatever you do, don’t jeopardize the movie shoot, and don’t let anything get in the way of
your comic.”
So the shoot was affected because of Nicholas’ three-day absence, huh? Flash wouldn't bla bigshot like
Nicholas, so naturally, | becthe scapegoat.
It had been two weeks or so since | joined the film crew to up my drawing game, but it had been nothing but
scandals ever since. | couldn't blFlash for givinga warning since | was behind schedule.
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Honestly, all | wanted now was a peaceful life. If Dominic could get off my back for the next two weeks, it'd be
swell.
Apparently, my prayer worked, since he never did show up again. Or maybe he was just sick. Either way, |
managed to finish up my work before the deadline and handed it in to the company.
Just when | thought things were getting better, another unexpected event csmashing into my life. It wasn’t
a big one, but it wasn’t minor either.
| was going to get sfresh air now that my manuscript was done, then | realized Nicholas and Scarlett were
on set. Shannon was watching from the sidelines as well, so | went up to her.
“Shannon.” She was looking enthralled, so I pinched her.
She swatted my hand away, then she turned around. “Why are you here?” she said impatiently. “Done with your
work today?”
“Yeah. Hey, don’t you get bored of this? It's been almost a month, but you still look excited every tyou see
them.”
She shota disdainful look. “Ah, what do you know? | never get tired of hotties. And the assistant director said
this is the first kissing scene of the shoot. It’s gonna be big, so don’t disturb me.”
Well, charmed, | guess? It's the first kissing scene, but so what? Nicholas is gonna kiss Scarlett, not you, | said
quietly. If | said that aloud, Shannon would kill me. She was already mad atbecause | got to stay at Nicholas’
place for three days, so if | were to disturb her, she’d probably tearapart.
Shannon and | weren't the only audiences. The deuteragonists and a lot of the supporting cast were there to see
the kiss. Then, a staff member chased us away. “Hey, stand back. We don’t want to see you in the shoot.”
Remember the unexpected event | said earlier? Yeah, it would ccrashing in three, two, one...
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