Chapter Forty-Three

                                    

                                          
SURPRISE!!! I UPDATED!!! ENJOY!!!!
                          

                          

                          

                          
anyways, i don't know if i thanked you guys yet, but thank you guys for 9k reads lol
                          

                          

                          

                          

                          

                          

                          

                          
Jack Gilinsky mentioned you in a tweet.
                          
 
                          
My heart beat sped up right away, like some old habit that I couldn’t get rid of. I didn’t want to feel anything after everything he’s done, and my heart chose to betray me like he did, and go against my wishes. I mentally cursed at myself for reacting the way I do towards him. I didn’t want to feel anything, because if I do, then it means that he could still hurt me. If I don’t feel anything towards him then nothing he says or does can affect me. But here I am, my hands shaking and getting sweaty just from a notification from him.
                          
 
                          
I braced myself before clicking on the tweet.
                          
 
                          
Up popped a picture of me and Jack, a very old picture of us in fact. It seems as if it were just yesterday though, when everything was still okay with us.
                          
 
                          
The picture showed Jack putting up a “rock on” sign and sticking out my tongue, and I was also sticking my tongue and winking with my right eye.
                          
 
                          
It was before he had told me he loved me and we were at the studio that day, all of us actually. Jack and Jack, Sammy, Nate, Casey, and I were all recording a track together, for the tour. It was suggested by so many fans, management was literally shoving the piece in our faces and forced us to finish it early for the fans, to please them and the media.
                          
 
                          
I smiled slightly when I remembered how we kept on having to retake the picture, because I didn’t like how the other pictures turned out. I made him delete all the other ones, and continue to pose for the picture, until I was finally pleased with this one. He got so frustrated with me, I could tell, but he played it off. The team got frustrated with me too, because I was determined to take the right shot and refused to record anymore until I had it.
                          
 
                          
My eyes skimmed over to the caption, and then I understood why I was mentioned in his tweet and why it was this picture.
                          
 
                          
It was simply because it wasn’t him that posted it. It was mangement. I could tell right away, because the caption said, “Had fun in the studio with this girl,” indicating that this was today, when it wasn’t.
                          
 
                          
It was just promotion, probably for the song we recorded that day. Promotion from management, nothing else, not Jack tweeting me sorry or anything. It was also probably a tweet management wanted to put up to show that we were still “friends” or whatever.
                          
 
                          
I should have known that it was all management from the moment I got that notification. But I had to, just had to, wish so much that it was actually Jack.