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Chapter 9

The Reporter from Hell

When Jada woke up the next morning, she was careful not to wake up the others and began to walk towards the kitchen. She walked in and was surprised to see Dougie sitting at the table, staring at his glass of water.

"Hey," She whispered.

He looked up and smiled weakly when he saw her," Hey."

"You ok?"

"Yea, just didn't really sleep last night. I was worried about this whole 'relationship' thing. I don't want people to hate you when this is done."

Jada smiled and sat down next to him, taking his hand in hers and stroking it softly with her thumb," I'll be fine, Pugsly. I'm a big girl, I can handle it."

Dougie's gaze went from the glass to their entertwined hands, watching her thumb move across his hand gently," But you shouldn't have to handle it."

"Are you forgetting that this is my fault in the first place?"

"No, but still he should just put a stop to it now," after Dougie had said this, he looked up into her soft blue eyes and held her gaze for a minute, until they heard the dorbell ring, cutting into moment so abruptly," I'll get it."

He stood up and walked to the door, Jada right behind him, and opened it without looking to see who it was. Both of them got the shock of their lives when a hundred or so sudden flashes went off in their faces, making it clear that almost every gossip magazine and papparazzi people in the city of Manhattan were there. He hurredly shut the door, but not without hearing people shouting hudreds of questions at the couple. By now, the others were up and standing in the hallway, looking at the pair with dazed expressions.

"Well, the madness begins," Dougie said, huffing slightly.

As Jada walked down the hallways of Wilson Central, she couldn't help but notice the looks everyone one giving her as she passed. Everyone was whipering to their friends and pointing like she was some kind of circus act. She felt so uncomfortable with the whole situation and just felt like crawling under a rock. She walked into the office that morning, planning on not speaking a word to Preston, to see that she wouldn't have to because he was already chatting away with a woman she didn't recognize.

"Oh, goody, you've arrived," the woman said, getting up from her seat and holding her hand out as a greeting.

"I'm sorry," Jada said as kindly as possible," Do I know you?"

"Oh, no I'm sorry, excuse my bad manners, I'm Cynthia Ross, reporter for the New York Times."

Jada looked at Preston quickly and then back at Cynthia," New York Times?"

"Yes," Cyntia replied, as if she were a ten year old," Fletch gave me a call and promised our paper and exclusive about you and Dougie."

"Did he?" Jada said," What a shocker. I didn't know a thing about that."

Cynthia smiled the fakest smile Jada had ever seen and said," Well now you do, mind if I ask you some questions?"

"Actually, Cynthia, I have a thing called school that I have to attend right now. So if you don't mind."

"But," she said in a pouty voice," I've gotten you excused from all your classes today."

Jada turned around to look at Mrs. Talbott, only to see her nodding her head enthusiastically and smiling away. She turned back to Cynthia.

"Great," she said, hoping the sarcasm didn't show too much," any particular place you'd like to go?"

"Oh, now that you mention it, I know this great little cafe not far from here, we could gohave some coffee and a muffin or something while we chat."

"Of course," the fake cheer in Jada's voice was really noticable at this point, making Cynthia frown a little.

When the pair arrived at Gillian's Cafe, they ordered coffee and sat down at a little round table for two by the window. Jada waited anxiously for her to start asking the questions she couldn't avoid, trying desperately to remember the story everyone helped create last night.

Cyntia smiled and took her pen and notebook out of her bag," So, how did you and Dougie meet?"

Everyone decided it would be best to tell the truth here, since they had been mentioned in stories about Danny and Paula," We met at Virgin Record store in Times Sqaure. My friend Paula and I were out shopping and ran into Danny and Dougie. The four of us got to talking and have been inseparable ever since."

"Interesting," Cynthia said, taking down notes in her notebook," Paula? The girl who's dating Danny?"

"The very same."

"Have you two been together as long as them?"

"No, we only started seeing each other romantically about two weeks ago."

Jada was getting nervous now. What if everything went wrong? She hated this woman's voice, it was so annoying. That pen was getting on her nerves to. Jada told herself to calm down and breath. Pretty soon the questions started again.

"So, what made you to decide to tell the public?"

Oh, God, Jada panicked, they hadn't thought of this one. What the hell was she supposed to say. She thought about it for a second.

"I think was more of an accident than a decision. I told someone at my school and word spread around pretty fast so we decided to tell the public before rumors got to out of hand."

Wow, that was pretty good. She was getting good at this.

"Well, that was smart," Cynthia said with a smile," I know how vicious reporters can be, I am one."

"Right," Jada said, feeling uncomfortable again.

Cynthia smiled cheekily and said," So, some paparazzi have pictures of you two this morning answering the door in bath robes, care to comment."

Oh, this girl was good. Jada hadn't thought about this one either," I was at his house last night with some friends of mine, trying to figure out what to do about this situation. It was late and they let us crash there, nothing big."

Cynthia got a cheesy grin on her face and said," Of course."

Jada was starting to really dislike this girl. She hated all reporters actually, she didn't think they would be this bad.

"Latley, rumors have been circulating about Dougie and Jojo, comment?"

"Dougie's a little too old for her, don't you think? It was just another reason why we decided to come out with our realtionship. Those rumors were bogus."

Dougie had lunch with her once for Christ's sake! What is wrong with these people? That girl is way too young for him!

"Jealousy's not very flattering hun, just do you know," Cynthia replied.

"Excuse me? I'm not jealous, I know Dougie wouldn't do that. I think this interview is over."

With that Jada got up and stormed out of the coffe shop, furious that this woman who didn't even know her was judging her so quickly. She walked all the way to the McFly house, where she knew Fletch would be, ready to yell and rant about this woman. She walked up to the door, avoiding the paparazzi by the bushes, and started to pound on the wood. Tom answered the door, oblivious as to why someone was trying to knock it down, and Jada accidently hit him on the nose.

"Ow!" he screamed, putting his hand to his face," Jada? What the hell?"

Jada's hand flew to her mouth while she took in a sharp intake of breath," Oh, God, Tom, I'm so sorry! I really didn't mean to do that."

"Nevermind," he said, pulling her into the house before the photographers could get anymore shots of them," What's going on?"

"Is Fletch here?"

"In the kitchen, with the rest."

Tom followed Jada as she stormed into the kitchen, confused by her anger.

"You!" Jada screamed, pointing a finger at Fletch and walking towards him," How dare you?!?"

Danny grabbed a hold of Jada before she could hit Fletch and wouldn't let go, afraid ahe would go off.

"What did I do?" Fletch asked.

"You sent that reporter to my school and told her I would give her an exclusive! That bitch was so...so...ugh I don't even know what to call her!"

"Wait, you did that? Fletch you know she's not used to this, she shouldn't have been interviewing alone!" Dougie started to advance towards Fletch until Harry grabbed him also.

Fletch looked shocked and was shaking his head back and forth," Jada, honestly, I have no idea what you're talking about. I know i can be brutal sometimes but I wouldn't have made you do an interview alone. What newspaper was she from?"

Jada had stopped trying to get out of Danny's grip, likewise with Dougie, and stared at Fletch in awe," She said she was from the New York Times."

"Shit," Fletch said," What did she ask you? You have to tell me all about it.

So Jada sat down and told everyone about the interview she just gave.

"Wait, wait, wait," Dougie said grinning," You were jealous?"

"I wasn't! She just twisted my words around!" Jad areplied.

"Uh huh," Dougie cockily said," You know you had the green eyed monster on your back."

With this, Dougie winked at Jada as she groaned in frustration, bangin her head down on the table," You're impossible Poynter."

"Anyway," Fletch interupted," Jada, I'll try and get this sorted out ok, but from now on, don't talk to anyone unless I tell you directly that it's ok."

"Alright, I'm really sorry. I didn't know."

"I know, it's fine hun."

Fletch walked out, taking out his cell phone, and Jada turned to the others.

Tom smiled at her and said," Really got yourself in trouble this time, huh?"

Dougie smacked him on the shoulder and came over beside her, putting his arm around her in comfort. He felt sorry for her, she had just had her first run in with the press and it was only her first day in the public eye. As he sat and rubbed her back soothingly, he could't help but wonder what would come next.