The Stress He Caused Her

"Kimmy.." to say that she was surprised would be a lie. She somewhat expected that sooner or later she'll be getting a visitor and of course it was none other than her elder cousin, Kim Wilson.


The elder gracefully made her way towards Aria, while in turn the other took a few steps back. She still didn't know what her cousin thinks about what's on the news, added onto the fact that she hadn't been answering her mobile phone and home phone. Her cousin is probably upset with her so it's better to be safe than sorry.

Kim gave her a pout, "Why are you distancing yourself from me Ari?"

Aria had to look away. The elder always made such an innocent face but deep inside she knew how dangerous that look could be. How deadly it can be. "Kimmy, if you're here because of what's on the news…." She began but was soon interrupted.

"Yes, Aria. What exactly does the news mean?" Pouting face now gone and replaced with a blank look.

Aria puffed her cheeks making her look like a cute child, "That idiot Henry, Kimmy! He's lying!"

Kim couldn't help but lightly pinch her cheeks. Aria was usually the mature one out of the two of them but when it involves a certain actor, her cousin could get quite childish. Put the two of them in the same room and you'll feel like you're back in kindergarten. She's been experiencing their attitude for years due to the fact that they all belong in the same circle of friends and more so on the fact that Aria is her younger cousin.

"Ari, why haven't you been answering your phone?" Kim decided to be gentle with her adorable cousin.

With a sigh Aria made her way to her couch, "You and I both know that you're not the only one wanting answers, Kimmy."

Kim made her way over and sat on the ottoman right in front of Aria, "So you're planning on not answering whether you're in a relationship with Henry Campbell? Letting the media think what they want?" She shook his head disapprovingly. "Ari, you know they'll never drop that. Worse would be they making up different stories about you guys."

The younger of the two grabbed a fist full of her light brown hair, "This is so troublesome, Kimmy!"

"Do you want to see false claims that Henry's the one providing you with this sort of lifestyle?"

"No but-"

"That he bought you your luxurious condo-"

"Hey, this was a graduation gift from my parents!"

"and your Corvette."

"Ugh! I saved up for that!"

Kim suddenly placed both his hands on Aria's shoulder. She gave her cousin a serious look, "Then how about when they start making up dirty rumors about the two of you?"

The brunette rolled her eyes at her cousin's drama, "Come on Kim. Not like Henry's new to those."

The grip on her shoulder tightened, "Not when it involves you."

"Ki-" Aria began but was cut off.

"You are probably in an open relationship. That's why he's been seen with all those women."

Aria raised an eyebrow.

"You get off on seeing him with other women. Or maybe you guys are into threesomes."

"Kimmy! I would never!" Okay these ideas were starting to piss Aria off.

Kim pulled him to stand up as they both stared at each other. One serious while the other began to fume.

"That's why you need to defend yourself, Ari!" She tried to convince her cousin. "This just won't blow over like those usual scandals!"

Aria shrugged her cousin's hands off her shoulder and she made her way towards her kitchen. She needed to drink something as her mind was going haywire. She opened her refrigerator and grabbed a carton of her favorite strawberry milk.

Kim was quick to follow her and made herself comfortable on one of the stools on the island table. She watched as her cousin walked back and forth in her own kitchen, obviously stressed about her predicament.

"You're making me dizzy, you know." She called out, as Aria had been like that the past couple of minutes.

"What should I do Kimmy?" the younger turned to her cousin with a frown.

The elder reached for a banana on the counter, "Get your speech ready?" she lazily answered.

"Can't I just wait it out?" Aria groaned. "Henry's company would probably release a statement soon?"

Kim took a bite of the banana, "I doubt they're gonna deny it."

"They can't do that Kimmy! Henry and I aren't dating!"

"Either that or admit to that scandal with Kristen Woods." The elder placed her cheek in her palm as she leaned on the table.

'Kristen Woods' Aria's expression turned a bit dark after hearing that name.

Noticing his cousin's face Kim gave a deep sigh, "You never did tell me what happened with that vlog of yours."

Feeling upset she decided not to finish her strawberry milk and so she placed it back into the refrigerator. 'Can't let that idiot take away the few pleasures of my life'

She turned back to her cousin and prepared to tell her of what happened that night two days ago.

****

Flashback

"AC my love is so sweet! Art thou ready?" a voice called him and soon a tall model like man with wine-like red hair stood at her doorway.

Aria was in front of her vanity table just finishing her eye makeup as the other called out to her, surprising her a bit and causing her eyeliner to smudge a bit. "Mimi!" she screeched at the intruder.

The tall man walked over to stand behind him. Hiding his chuckles by covering his mouth. "Come on Ace, you already look good with or without the eyeliner. Plus we're just gonna do the shoot on starting on our way until we leave Liam's house."

Aria chose to ignore him as she fixed and tried to complete his make up, "Even so Mikael, do you know how gorgeous Liam Rushton is? The man is like this century's version of a Greek God."

Mikael gave Aria a smirk that she could see through the mirror in front of them, "So I guess you're trying to seduce him?"

"Ugh. Yeah right." She replied with a scoff. "Not my type at all."

"Then why?"

Aria stood up, "This city's top celebrities live in that building Mini." She made her way to her bedside table to grab her iPhone 12, "I wouldn't want to be seen in the same cut as them looking like…hmmm." She gave Mikael a look and dashed out of her room.

"Like what?!" Mikael yelled after her.

"Like Squidward!" She answered back with a laugh and made sure to exit her condo first, "Don't forget to lock my door!"

"Hey! Aria Davis!" she could hear Mikael calling after her.

She quickly got on the elevator but before she could close the door Mikael was able to get in. The other gave her a quick pinch on her side as he stood next to her.

"Are Kim and Lyla waiting for us in the car?" She asked Mikael.

Mikael gave her a look and shook his head, "Lyla is but the boss said she'll skip this one out."

The younger nodded her head, understanding. 'I guess she's still avoiding Lyla'

Kim and Lyla Miller had not been on speaking terms for almost two months now. It was more of Kim avoiding meeting or having to do with Lyla. The main reason being the younger of the two being in a relationship with the elder's ex-boyfriend. Though Kim was her cousin she could not feel any dislike or bitterness towards Lyla. After all, it had been more than two years ago and the reason for the breakup was her cousin Kimmy getting married to a man her parents arranged for her.

'Maybe she still loves Scott after all' Aria thought to herself but quickly shook her head.

Scott Jones was a famous balladeer. Lyla had been best friends with Scott since their middle school days. The two were a year younger than Aria. They were the same age and Scott was the one who helped her become more confident in herself and helped her lose weight and become healthy. Sure their relationship changed when Scott started dating Kim who was older than him by three years during university, but they were still there for each other. Especially after Kim broke Scott's heart. Though they were together for three years, two years ago Kim choose to follow his parent's wishes and marry a man ten years older than her named Samuel Wilson. All throughout the heartbreak Lyla was there for Scott, making sure he took care of himself as well as helping salvage the singing career that he just began.

Aria couldn't help but pout, 'They stayed best friends for a year and ten months after the break up and only began dating two months ago. Kimmy shouldn't be upset.'

The girl couldn't help but feel bad for Lyla. She's known them since high school and knew that Lyla had been fancying Scott even before that. She was glad when the two began dating. It just makes it hard that Lyla's been part of SP Association for years, even before Scott and Kim's break up. SP Association is after all a small company Kim owns which acts as a safe community for Internet celebrities such as them.

Ding

Aria was forced out of her thoughts as the elevator arrived at the parking lot floor. She and Mikael made their way to the latter's car, a Jeep Wrangler. She could see that someone was already waiting inside.

The window opened and an excited girl waved at them, "Ari!"

Aria couldn't help but smile at the adorable act, "Hi Lyla! You seem excited?"

"I am Ari! Liam lives at S.F.T, it's the most luxurious residential building in the city!" Lyla beamed at her.

Aria couldn't help but want to tease the girl. "And Scott being one of the residents there have nothing to do with it?" She teasingly wiggled her eyebrows.

Her teasing seemed to work and the younger quickly turned red. "Ari~" the cute boy whined.

"Just kidding Lyla!" she ruffled the others red hair.

Beep Beep

The sound of the car's horn quickly caught her attention. Mikael, who was already in his car signaled for her to get inside. Since Lyla was already seated in the passenger's seat she made her way to the back seat.

"Alright so let's make sure we know what to do." Mikael began the preparations, "Each of us we'll go live through our InstaJam's as soon as I drive out of this building. My phone and station are already set up in front of me so it won't be difficult as I drive." He motioned towards his phone located at his left side, most probably angled towards his face, "You guys ready?"

Both Aria and Lyla checked their gadgets and made sure everything will be all set. It might disappoint their viewers if some technical difficulties were to occur during the middle of their live.

Mikael began to drive, while Lyla held her fingers up as a count down to when their live should start. Once out of the building all three turned on their cameras.

"Good evening my loves!" Aria began, "AC here as you already know, cause why would you be here if you didn't know that! Pyung!" she gave a flirty wink towards her camera but broke into a fit of chuckles knowing how ridiculous she sounded.

"There she goes again." Mikael muttered to himself but knew his camera captured his insights.

Lyla on the other hand laughed heartily at the two elders' antics, "Lyla here everyone!" she waved at her camera.

Before Mikael could make his introduction Aria already began, "So guys as you know we are doing multiple lives through our InstaJam's! Please inform your friends, families, that ajumma who lives across your house, and those who have an InstaJam to stream Lyla's and my, AC's, live!"

"Hey!" Mikael protested.

Lyla continued her chuckles but added to her own live, "Please stream our sister Mikael's account too!" he said cutely.

"You don't have too if you don't want to!" Aria added.

"Meanie!" Mikael pouted.

"Anyways! The three of us are having one of our once in a blue moon collaborations!" Aria went back on track, "All three of us will be live as we go visit one of this town's bachelors!"

"Can we tell them who it is?" Mikael piped in.

"It's best if we keep them guessing until we meet him!" Lyla answered.

Through their comment box they could see a number of their viewers begging to know who they visit later on.

Aria wiggled her right index finger, "Nope we want to make sure we'll surprise you guys with who our guest would be."

"Well technically aren't we the guests?" Mikael asked. "We are the one that's gonna visit his house?"

"It does make sense doesn't it?" Lyla added.

They started a little debate about it throughout the ride. It was a good thing that Aria lived in the well off part of the city meaning that she was just a few blocks from S.F.T residences, making their ride a bit shorter and it only took them about 15 minutes.

"So we are here at our guests parking lot, but before we go up we just wanted to inform our viewers that two days from now our company SP Associations will be posting our complied vlog at our company's YowTube Channel." It was a good thing that Mikael remembered what they were ordered to say.

"But make sure you stay with us during our live shows because we can't promise that some awesome scene's won't be cut from the compiled video!" Aria added knowing that some viewers might leave and choose to watch the compiled video instead.

The three all fixed their gadgets and prepared to get out of the car.

"So far we have 110,000 viewers!" Lyla chirped.

Aria was happy with the results as she prepared to get out of Mikael's car. Her phone accidentally fell as she saw a familiar figure from afar. It would've been hard to make out who the figure was but with her 20/20 vision as well as her asshole radar she could tell right away. The figure quickly made his way into a tinted car. It was darkly tinted from the sides but if you were to stand in front what was inside could be easily viewed.

Quickly fixing her phone and setting it up. She began walking out, Lyla and Mikael already a few cars ahead of her on their way to the elevator, focused on their own lives. She, on the other hand, began to walk a bit slow paced.

"Sorry about that guys! Mikael's car is a bit on the elevated side and not all of us can be giants." She gave his viewers a sheepish smile. "Wow this place is really filled with high end cars! So we can definitely think that our guest is top star level, no?"

She slowly twirled in one place making sure to hide the plate numbers of the cars but made sure her viewers got a glimpse of the brand of these cars.

"Now let us go meet our guest guys!" she gave a smile at the camera as she made her way inside the elevator.

****

"Then we made our way to Liam's place and had a nice dinner which he personally prepared." Aria finished her story.

Kim gave her a suspicious look, "And by no means did you think that you'll catch Henry Campbell and Kristen Woods in your live."

Aria growled internally at the mention of those two names, "No Kimmy. I didn't expect that I'd catch idiot siting on the passenger seat of that bitch's car, eating each others face!"

The elder gave her a look that said she didn't believe her, "Listen Ari, if that was revenge-"

"It's not!" Aria tried to defend herself. She grabbed her phone on the counter and saw the numerous texts she got from her friends.

"I can't blame you if you ever do." Kim tried to approach her.

Aria was pouting at the accusation, "Not everything is about hi-", the vibration coming from her phone informed her of a new text message and seeing who it was caused her to raise her eyebrow in confusion. It was an unknown number.

We need to talk. Meet me at Liam's. –HC

'Shit how did he get my number?', Aria felt another headache coming in and she felt a wave of anger.

Kim didn't notice as she continued their conversation, "I'm proud of you Ari. You're right not everything is about Henry." She gave Aria a pat on her back not noticing the other change in mood, "Not everything is about your ex-boyfriend."