📱🔥 RHEA WENT LIVE 📱🔥 - PART 8
Rhea laughed harder.
Then her phone rang.
Keys.
She declined.
Again.
Declined.
Again.
Rhea switched it to silent.
Shan looked impressed.
“Wow.”
“I know.”
“Who are you?”
“I don’t know.”
They reached the end of the road.
Then Rhea’s phone buzzed.
A message from Tia.
Thought so.
Rhea read it.
Stopped smiling.
Shan saw.
“No.”
Rhea typed.
Shan grabbed the phone.
“NO.”
“Give it.”
“Absolutely not.”
“She said thought so.”
“She wants you to reply.”
“I know.”
“So don’t.”
“I want to reply calmly.”
“You don’t know how.”
“I do.”
“Give me an example.”
Rhea thought.
“Fuck your mother.”
Shan stared.
“That is your calm version?”
“I didn’t use capitals.”
“Rhea.”
“Fine.”
She exhaled.
“Delete the message.”
Shan deleted it.
Rhea drove home.
For twelve whole minutes, she said nothing.
Then:
“You know what pisses me off?”
Shan sighed.
“I knew peace was temporary.”
“I’m being serious.”
“What?”
“Keys saying I’m not his girlfriend.”
“You’re not.”
Rhea looked offended.
“Whose side are you on?”
“Reality’s.”
“I know I’m not his girlfriend.”
“Then why are you angry?”
“Because he said it publicly.”
Shan rubbed her forehead.
“You hear yourself?”
“Yes.”
“And?”
“It makes sense to me.”
“Of course it does.”
Rhea smiled.
Then went quiet again.
They got back shortly after one.
Amari was asleep at Keys’s mother’s.
Keys had sent six messages.
Tia had sent two.
Mum had sent nine voice notes, all unopened.
Rhea put her phone face-down on the kitchen counter, made tea, forgot the tea existed, poured wine, remembered she had promised herself she was cutting down and poured the wine back into the bottle.
Shan watched.
“That is the most responsible thing you’ve done all night.”
“Don’t ruin it.”
Rhea sat down.
Without the Live, the flat felt strange.
Too quiet.
She opened Instagram.
Shan groaned.
“I’m not going Live.”
“Promise?”
“I’m checking something.”
Reaction pages had already posted clips.
RHEA CONFRONTS KEYS LIVE
TIA RESPONDS TO RHEA DRAMA
KEYS FINALLY SPEAKS
RHEA DRIVES TO TIA’S HOUSE
The last video had been posted fourteen minutes earlier.
It already had sixty thousand views.
Rhea clicked.
Somebody had filmed her Range Rover arriving.
Caption:
SHE REALLY PULLED UP 😳
Rhea stared.
“See.”
Shan leaned over.
“Bloody hell.”
“They filmed me from outside.”
“Yeah.”
“Before I even got there, people were waiting.”
“Yeah.”
Another page had uploaded a split screen showing Rhea shouting earlier beside a clip of Tia sitting calmly.
The caption read:
WHO DO YOU BELIEVE?
Rhea laughed softly.
“Look at that.”
“What?”
“She looks sane.”
Shan hesitated.
Rhea pointed at the screen.
“They always use clips of me shouting.”
“You do shout.”
“I know. That’s not what I mean.”
She scrolled again.
Another video.
Rhea saying:
Are you fucking her?
Cut directly to Tia calmly saying:
I’ve moved on from friendships that no longer serve me.
Rhea shook her head.
“Editing.”
“Yep.”
“They make me look fucking insane.”
“You occasionally assist.”
Rhea gave Shan a look.
“Sorry.”
Then Rhea stopped scrolling.
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