This is a story about the bond Colleen and Rachel Ballinger share. When Colleen goes through the hardest moments of her life, who will have her back through everything? Disclaimer: this is a story about something that did really happen. The event...
A/N sorry, this is pretty shady 😂 *June 11th 2018*
Colleen's POV "Lovey, come here," Erik says, pulling me to his lap as I'm a crying mess. Once again, I'm finding myself in a mess of drama, completely un intentionally. I announced Erik and I are dating and it was amazing. The response was overwhelmingly positive. However, just three days later, Josh announced his engagement. It's hard for me to see, but that's not the issue. I'm engaged! People don't know it, but I am engaged! The issue is all the shade I'm seeing now. I'm an idiot and I go through photos I was tagged in. They're not photos that Josh tagged me in, obviously. They're screenshots that kids idiotically tagged me in. I appreciate it to an extent because if they didn't, I'd never see it. I feel like I need to see what's going on, since it is my life after all. But it is hard to read, still. Erik kisses my head through my hair. I say, "oh my god, I'm so pregnant!" "Correct. But that's not what this is about. This would be happening if you were pregnant or not. Do not invalidate your anger." "Rachel's coming over," I say. "Good." he says. I think he knows he doesn't have this social media thing conquered yet.
Rachel's POV "Listen to me," I say to Colleen, calmly but sternly, "you need to calm. down." "B.b..but it's not fair!" she says through tears, collapsing back into Erik. I'm scrolling through Colleen's tagged photos on Instagram and it's some pretty nasty stuff. Not from her though! Not even from her fans!
A/N hey, it looks like I did something to this, but I didn't. Mostly...all I did was cover the tagged person and name of the person he mentioned later. I know anyone could find it online, but it just felt wrong.
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" 'I found out what she did.' " I read aloud. "What? What? What did she do? Please enlighten me, because I don't know, and I'm her sister! And let me tell you, bish, I was with her every moment of everyday from September 2016 to November 2016 unless she was away with Kory and my mom. And let me tell you, there was no confrontation!" Erik keeps reading, and I can tell he holds Colleen tighter. "Like, I just wanna get online and be like, 'bitch, Erik and I started dating in 2017! December! I did not have an affair!' But I can't. I can't do that. Because I'm a classy lady!" "Ha. This is my favorite." I say, looking back at her phone that Erik handed me again. I read aloud a comment he liked " 'Colleen wanted the divorce and left him to have a baby with her gay best friend." "I'm sorry!" I say, cracking up, "I just can't. The irony! It's too much!" Erik smiles down at her and she puts her hands on her stomach. "Oh this ones pretty good too," Erik says, scrolling on Instagram. " 'She manipulated all of us. Enjoy babies with Erik... or whatever flavor of the month she thinks will bring her views' " he reads in a silly, stupid voice. We're doing our best to cheer her up, and it's working a little bit. Several of these comments are old, and she's probably seen them before. However, the baby stuff especially, it's more sensitive now. She's pregnant and he doesn't know it. Nobody but the family does. I know she's absolutely terrified to announce her pregnancy because of shit like this. Yes, she is pregnant, and no, she's not married, but just deal with it. Colleen is in no way still wrapped up in all this drama. She isn't obsessing over it, and she isn't obsessing over him. Sometimes, there are hard moments, and Erik knows that. Colleen is over Josh and even more so with all the shit he's giving her. Erik is there to support her. He knows he's supporting a woman who's divorce was very much public. She doesn't ever talk about Josh unless it's really bad. Unless she's at her breaking point.
