Viral online

You are trending,” Lisa shouts throwing herself to the sofa beside Aiden who is seated down in front of the coffee table, she opens the can of coke letting the gas drizzle when she takes a sip. 

She looks up resting her head on the sofa to look at Lisa who is scrolling down her phone with an ear-to-ear smile on her face. The excitement on her face drowns when she looks down at Aiden who stares at an empty space her eyebrows furrowed in a deep thought.

“Den, are you okay?” she asks tossing the phone to aside.

After short moment of silence Aiden closes her eyes and inhales a deep breath in and lets it out as she opens her eyes “Nothing,” she sighs running her hand through her hair as she sits straight taking the can and takes a huge gulp of the chill cola letting the gas play in her throat “Why am I trending?,” she asks picking up Lisa’s phone she unlocks it, her eyes squints when the image displays, moving the screen closer to her vision she scrolls down at the multiple images with different titles and new comments keep popping up.

“How are you with him?” Lisa questions her voice comes out loud as she slides down sitting beside Aiden.

“You know him?” Aiden questions puzzled.

“He is my idol,” she clasps her hands closing her eyes like dreaming a fairy tale “He is handsome, charming and, wait!” she alarms opening her eyes facing Aiden who is staring at her with curled eyebrows and unevenly formed lips “How come you are with him?” She exclaims.

“Idol?” she repeats “no wonder many were staring, I just ran into him,” 

“Ran into him? How?” Lisa asks impatiently.

“The job which I applied,”

“Yeah,”

“The son is him,” she explains rubbing the back of her neck.

“Really, Wooooooooow,” Lisa hugs her by the side in excitement “You just kissed him which is the dream of every fan girl,”

“Kiss?” Aiden repeats dryly “It was an accident,” she brushes off.

“Anyways it was a kiss, how was it?” She giggles her mind picturing the scene of the images.

“Girls like you might be cursing me right now,” Aiden turns to her right facing Lisa questionably “Aren’t you mad as the people in the comments because I just kissed your idol,” 

“I would If it was someone but you, now I’m excited on the fact that my friend is closer to him,” Lisa holds Aiden’s arm resting her head on Aiden’s right shoulder, she flutters her eyes “Introduce him to me later,” she blurts.

Moving the can close to Aiden’s mouth she rolls her eyes “We are not close, don’t think too much,” she says dryly as she gulps down the cola.

The ringing of the phone plays in the messy room for a while, groaning aloud his hand makes its way out of the duvet over him, his finger swipes up the green call icon while he stays on the bed, his body arched. He Puts the phone on speaker and buries his face in his hands waiting till the voice on the side hit his ears.

“Are you fucking out of your mind,” Evan yells “Didn’t you want to get back on stage,” he screeches “You are being bashed online,” he growls his expectation of getting another job destroyed.

Riley’s fingers crawl up to his hair pulling it out of its roots as he kicks on the mattress, he cries “I know,” he bawls continuously kicking the mattress “That was my first kiss,” he squeezes his eyes shut replaying the scene in the bus.

“First kiss,” Evan repeats aloud in surprise “Is that something to be worried about now? Your image is being ruined online,” he grunts low trying to calm himself despite the fact that he resigned for Riley as being Riley’s personal manager created a special bond with in them.

Riley lays himself on the bed spreading his arms wide his posture in a shape of a star, he stares at the ceiling and scowls “What am I supposed to do?”

“Try to fix this or,” 

“Or?”

“Let's find a solution together,” Evan hangs up.

Riley closes his eyes taking a deep breath he lets it out furrowing his brows when the picture of Aiden on him flashes “How can she take it so easy?” he lifts his eyelids, staring at the ceiling again “Is she used to kiss….,” he jolts up sitting straight with his legs crossed, he rubs his chin and speaks to himself “Why am I so troubled? It’s just an accident and wouldn’t be taken as my first kiss,” he snaps his finger his lips spreading to a grin “It's not a big deal for me too,” he shrugs his shoulders and gets off the bed. He looks around the messy room and strolls out of his room, he steps back from the entering the washroom when the doorbell rings. He looks down at himself the only piece of cloth is the towel around his waist, despite he answers the door knowing that it’s Evan. 

His eyes widen when he pulls the door open his lips apart, he blinks once and gulps down his saliva moving his gaze to the ground he looks straight “Why are you here?” he asks Aiden making sure that his voice comes out casually yet his mind never stopped replaying the incident.

She stops talking to the caller and moves the phone away from her ear, showing him the screen where is name Mr. Mintz is displayed. 

Riley stares at the screen for a while at the back of his mind agreeing that he cannot escape from her because of his dad, his brain suddenly clicks on something which makes him face her, those eyes ready fall out of its socket. He bites his lower lip noticing her furrowed eyebrows, he follows her gaze looking down at himself.

He holds onto the white towel which is around his waist above his knees and exclaims “Give me a sec,” he steps back slams the door shut resting his shoulder on door “Dad, why am I oblivious?” he sighs feeling ashamed. 

Grabbing the bathrobe from the rack he wears it and walks back to the door, taking a deep breath in he lets out “Be normal,” he orders himself as he pulls down the door knob. Aiden waits outside crossing her hands over her chest tapping her feet to the floor, the noise of her boot tapping on the tiled floor is the only sound in the specific floor of the apartment. Riley curls his lips inside when he looks at her, he moves aside to allow her in, before he utters a word, she steps in rushing to the balcony she looks out checking around ignoring the owner following her. 

“Hey, hey,” Riley calls out as he steps back leaving her place to return to the hall “Who gave you the permission to come in,” he snarls crossing his arms over his chest, he raises a brow at her questionably when she faces him.

“Your dad,” she answers as she exits the balcony and takes her seat on the sofa, Riley follows her and stops in front of the table between the sofas.

“Seriously, did he tell you to barge into my house,” he points his index finger at her curling his eyebrows.

Aiden nods in reply, she raises her eyebrows when his phone rings.

Grumbling under his breath he runs to the room and answers the call of his dad putting it on speaker.

“Why didn’t you tell me that she is coming home?” Riley barks as he grabs all the dresses on the floor and throws it to the corner of the room.

“I called you many times but your line was busy,” Mintz explains.

“From today onwards Aiden will follow you,”

“Aiden?” he mentions her name for the first time as he stops his actions, jumping forward to the cupboard he moves the phone to his ear, he calls out low “Dad,” he sighs “Do you have any idea what’s happening online, if people see her around me again, I’m sure that……,”

“That’s none of my business,” Mr. Mintz cuts off.

“How come it’s none of your business when I’m your son,”

“Keeping you safe from my doing is my business, and now it’s your doing,” Mintz blurts smiling in the other side “It's not like you haven’t been in any mess before and how was the kiss,” Mintz chuckles.

“Kiss! It was an accident,” Riley explains.

“I know that your image is being ruined right now, as you’re my son I’ll give you an idea,”

“What is it?” Riley asks Instantly interested as he sits on the bed waiting till his father speaks.

“Make her your girlfriend,”

“You seriously got the nerve to joke now “Riley grunts under breath as he hangs up the call and tosses the phone on the bed. He hops in the shower taking a long time than usual to piss Aiden, after ages he walks out dresses up and leaves the room. His eyes widen at his surrounding watching three men dressed in blue walking around holding some electrical items.

“Wait, Wait,” he stops one of them who walks pass him and asks “What’s happening here?”

“Fixing the cameras sir,” the technician replies.

“Camera?” he repeats his voice comes out loud in surprise “Who called you?”

“Madam,” he points to his left where Aiden orders one of them to fix the camera at the right angle.

Riley runs his hand through his hair in frustration gritting his teeth he stomps towards her “You’re making me lose my patience right now,” he yells flaring in anger “Who gave you the permission to fix cameras in my place? Are you doing all these for money? You just want get paid for doing your job, how about this. I’ll pay you a higher amount. I’ll pay you three times the amount dad will pay you if you sleep with me right now, I’m sure that you will be fine to sell your body for the filthy money,” he stops glaring at her as she chews onto her inner cheek and keeps a step forward, Riley regrets the very next second of his words his expression softens watching her silent. 

Aiden keeps another step forward; in a blink of an eye, she grips his right arm and twists it behind his back bending him over the sofa head “Ow. Ow,” Riley hisses holding his shoulder with his left hand taken back by her action “Let me go,” he begs struggling in her grip which is strong to keep him still or he is weak to fight her.

“Your words were really rude, you know?” Aiden asks dryly watching him from behind, ordering the workers to continue with their job she looks down at him.

“I know…I know,” Riley stutters.

“So?” she says twisting his arm making him to let out a scream.

“So,” he repeats curiously out of habit “Oh. Oh,” he howls when her grip tightens “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” he apologizes trying to take a look of her “Let me go now,” he requests softly.

Aiden keeps a step back and let's go of his arm when the doorbell rings, Riley holds onto his right arm rubbing over his muscles passing a glance at Aiden who is talking to the worker he hurries to the door grumbling under his breath as he complains that she is a witch.

“What’s taking you so long to open the door?” Evan exclaims the very next second the door opens “You are just in trouble with some crazy girl and I should be answering numerous calls explaining,” Riley raises his brows curling his lips in, leaving way for Evan to enter, he follows him inside.

“Whoever that girl is, I don’t care ask her to apolo…,” Evan stops in his tracks his eyes glued on Aiden who stares at him with her hands crossed over her chest.

From Aiden he turns to his right with the expression of what’s-going-on-here.