Love Of My Life

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Ben

"A little to the right," I say, looking at my laptop. It's about 7:30 am and the Late Late Show should be on in America. It doesn't air in London on television, so I FaceTimed Joe to watch it like that. It's not the best idea but it's the best one I had.

"This is ridiculous," Joe mutters, adjusting his phone or laptop. I don't know which one he's on. 

"This is important," I tell him.

A knock on my door startles me. I stand up from where I was sitting on my couch and walk over to the door, pulling it open. Frankie goes ballistic as Lucy and Gwilym walk in. 

"Oh sure, come on in," I say, shutting the door after them.

"I have an HDMI cable," Gwilym says. 

I take my seat again on the couch, Gwil playing with my laptop and telly, and Lucy petting Frankie. 

"Oh hey guys, I'm here too," Joe says from my laptop. 

"Hi Joe," Lucy mindlessly says, while rubbing Frankie's belly. 

"I'm here as well," I think I hear Rami say from the laptop. Lucy perks up and walks over to the laptop. 

"Hi Rami," she says. 

"Hello my love," he replies. 

"How come you don't greet me like that, Ben?" Joe asks. 

"I guess I'll just be alone forever..." Gwilym sighs. 

I shouldn't have invited these people over. In fact, I'm not even sure if I did. I think they invited themselves over and I just went along with it and now they're here. 

"She's about to come on," Rami announces. 

Gwil fiddles with the HDMI some more and then turns on the television. The same screen on my laptop lights up on the tv. It's a little blurrier than It would be on an actual channel, but overall it's not horrible. 

Gwil, Lucy and I fall back on the couch, getting ready to watch the interview unfold. 

"Thanks, mate," I say to Gwilym. 

"No problem," he says. 

"Welcome back," James Corden says once the program comes on after the commercial break. "Our next guest is a good friend of mine and I am ecstatic to welcome her back. She flew in from England and is currently working on a new movie called Bohemian Rhapsody. Please welcome Aria Mercury!"

Aria comes out in a short white dress, her hair curled perfectly. She looks beautiful as always. I can't help but smile a little when I see her. 

"She looks beautiful!" Lucy exclaims excitedly. Yeah she does. 

Aria gives James a hug, as well as the other guy who I am not too familiar with. Reggie I believe his name is. 

"Welcome back," James says once the crowds cheering and applause dies down. "It's been a while hasn't it?"

Aria laughs. "It's been too long," she tells him. 

"So Aria, I want to jump right into it because we have a lot to discuss," Aria nods. She looks calm, but I know on the inside she isn't. "So you're working on a new movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, correct?"

Aria nods. "I am. I can't say too much about it but I'm very pleased with how it's coming out. It'll be for the Queen fans, and I predict we'll see a whole new generation of fans emerge," she says. 

"Now this is the first film you've directed?"

"It is," Aria laughs. "I've worked in the movie industry prior, but this is a whole new ball park,"

"I'm sure if you've had anything to do with it it'll be amazing," Reggie adds in with a smile, the crowd cheering. 

"Now Aria, I do want to ask because things seem to be getting...well we'll say messy, yeah?" James says. Aria gives a knowing smile. 

"Messy in an understatement," Rami comments bitterly. I nod in agreement. 

"There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding you and the former director, Bryan Singer," James says slowly. 

"That's correct," Aria says. She takes a deep breath. "We've had a couple directors in the past for his film but Bryan was the only one who wanted to go through with it. We got along fine in the beginning, until we didn't," Aria laughs. "It went viral how I was a nightmare to work with and that I slept with the cast members to 'get on their good side' but it's all false. I have no reason to do that, and anyone can vouch for me that I'm not difficult to work with. Sure Ben might have gotten frustrated when he couldn't smoke during a scene, but that's a whole other story," Aria laughs. 

"Ooo Ben with the mention!" Joe shouts. My stomach flips when she says my name. Sure we've gone public but we haven't addressed it in an interview or anything. 

"Ben Hardy, right?" James asks. 

"Yes," Aria confirms, her cheeks turning the slightest bit pink. 

James catches on too. He points and smiles at her. 

"Someone's blushing," he says, causing Aria to blush even more. 

"We've been dating for almost four months now," she says. If we weren't official before now we are officially official. 

"That's wonderful! I thought I saw something on the gram about that," James laughs. "But I wanted to hear it from you yourself. How's that going?" he asks, excitedly. 

"It's great. He's really amazing," Aria replies, looking down as if she's shy. Then she goes into how we met and she talks briefly about the other boys and Lucy. James asks a couple questions in regards to Brian and Roger and Aria talks about the initial process of the movie. They don't get into any details - that'll come later on - but she answers enough for the audience and James to be satisfied with.

"I'm sorry, but you don't come across as the same person Bryan Singer and - what's the other guys name, Matthew? Mark? - described,"

Aria waves her hand. "It's all drama. I just want my name removed from it," she says. 

"Well Aria Mercury, your name might never be out of it but I can assure you I think we have debunked this little rumor going around," James says. The audience cheers and Aria thanks him. 

Simple and sweet. It might not have cured the issue, but it sure covered it up for now.  

"Do you think that solved the issue?" Joe asks when they break for commercial. 

"I think the only way to truly fix it is in detail or at press releases," Gwil says. "But I think it smoothed it over at least a little bit,"

I sigh. I really hope so. Aria doesn't deserve this and if I have to I'll fight both Matthew and Bryan.

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I'm sorry this chapter was awful lol