BROKEN (Sequel to Behind The Lights)

Zac's POV

What the F***, I can't believe he was going to propose, I mean, how long did they even go out. Jess said she would have said "no", but would she really though? I mean, on paper, they're perfect. He's a lawyer with his own firm, he's so gentle with her. And it's every girl's dream to be married to a man like him. She was obviously gonna tell me, no, but I would never know what's going on in her mind.

"Oh my gosh ZAC!!" I hear her screams coming from the living room. What the heck? I leave her kitchen and run to see what the commotion was about. I walk into her living room, to see her sitting on the couch, staring at her laptop screen with a shocked look on her face.

"What's going on," I ask her, resting my weight on the neck of the couch behind her and peaking into her laptop.

"It's me! It's us at the airport." She says, and I look to see an article with pictures and some videos of what happened. Jess standing there in between her ex and I, then there's a picture of him walking away pissed and then another of her sitting on the floor crying and me consoling her.

"They titled it 'Jessica Red left boyfriend Andre Grey heartbroken for Zac Steele.'" She throws her laptop on the couch and gets up, beginning to pace around the living room.

"Well, that's obviously not true." I say, trying to make her feel better. I pick up her laptop and continue scanning the article. Not gonna lie, the article made me a little proud. I mean, she left someone for me.

"NOT TRUE! That's exactly what it is. Oh gosh this is not good, they're gonna hate me. My fans are gonna hate me." She goes on. The article talked about Jessica having a secret relationship with me and Andre found out and wanted her to chose between the two of us. Where do they even get these stuff. I click on the video and it's an iPhone recording of our airport exchange. This does look bad but it can be fixed.

"We can fix this." I try to tell her, getting up to console her.

"NO! NO WE CAN'T!" She shouts at me. She picks up her phone and begins to do something. I can't believe how this happened yesterday afternoon, and it's already all over the media. I should be used to this by now but it still takes me by surprise sometimes.

"Okay, you're right, it does look bad, but we'll figure it out together." I assure her, as I slowly grip her arm and pull her towards me.

Jessica's POV

"They're calling me a slut Zac." I explain, shoving my phone in his face to see pictures of me and Zac with horrible captions, on Instagram. He grabs my phone and throws it on the couch.

"What the heck!" I scold.

"Look, we're gonna figure this out together. You've been through a lot with the media, this is just another one of those." He says and now I'm mad at him. Stuff like this is normal. But not to me. The worse thing that's ever happened to me was my mess up on the Wendy show. But people didn't hate me. Now my fans think I'm a slut, jumping between two dudes and I'm trying to explain to him but he doesn't seem to get it.

"Stuff like this may happen to you all the time, but not me! Don't try to compare your record to mine." I say, I may have been a little too harsh but he was belittling my situation and I can't have that.

"What's that suppose to mean?" He asks me, his voice dropping.

"Exactly like it sounds." I say, he knew I was referring to his history with women and I may be an ass for bringing that up but I expected him to be more understanding in my situation instead of playing it off like it's nothing.

"F*** you!" He spits and walks to the kitchen to grab his keys and wallet.

"WELL BACK AT YOU!" I yell at him.

As he walks straight out of my house. I didn't bother going after him. I was already too stressed myself.

Great! We've officially had our first fight and we're not even officially together yet. Sometimes I wonder if we're good for each other. What if no matter how much we love each other, we aren't actually meant to be together. Things like that are real right? That happens.

I decide to call Matt to see what he can do to help me clear this mess up. After an hour of FaceTime with him, and he making me feel guilty for saying those stuff to Zac, I finally decide to text Zac.

"Hey... you still mad?" I text him and waited. No reply. It's not like him to not text me back immediately so I text again.

"I'm sorry for being an ass. I didn't mean any of those things I said." I text again

"Of course you did, you're always gonna hold my past against me aren't you?"  He text back and my heart breaks at his statement. I would never do that on purpose.

"Zac I'm sorry. I was just upset and I felt like you were belittling my situation. This is really hard for me." I text back. Instead of a reply, my phone buzzes with his name appearing on the screen. I immediately slide answer.

"Hey," I say timidly.

"I'm sorry I made you feel that way." He says and I could tell he meant it. This was new for me. Zac was never one to understand emotions despite the fact that he can be pretty emotional himself. I was so used to him saying something nasty and walking off when he got pissed or just ignoring the fact he made me upset and then later coming to my rescue at something else so I can't stay mad at him. This was the first time he was genuinely being considerate about my feelings.

"I'm sorry I said that. You know I didn't mean it." I tell him.
I hear him sigh on the other line before proceeding to say, "Honestly Jess, it bothers me to know that at the back of your mind, you still think of me as an ass hole who f****ed girls up." He says and my heart breaks

"No, no that's not how I think of you at all. I know the real you Zac, I love the real you." I assure him. I hear nothing on the other line, it's just silence. "Zac?" I say.

"I'll never get used to hearing you says that." He says in a soft tone.

"Well... I do, I love you Zac." I say again in a sweet and more assuring tone.

"I really need to kiss you right now." He says in a desperate tone, sending tingles down my spine.