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“Damn, H, apparently we have no chemistry whatsoever?” Alex says from the couch one night. “Why are we even together?”
“I beg your pardon?!” Henry replies, poking his head out from the kitchen. He has a look of confusion and his brows are also knit together in worry so Alex laughs to lighten the mood. He then explains it’s just something people on the internet are saying. “Well what gives them that impression?” Henry asks.
Alex shrugs and turns his phone off, sliding it into his pocket to resume watching TV. “Who knows, people just love to stir up drama.”
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“How dare you not care about the homeless kids of the LGBTQ community!” Henry asks.
“What?” Alex laughs out loud at the absurd question, and laughs even harder when Henry turns his phone so Alex can see the very heated multi-tweet rant about how he’s rarely (if ever) spotted at any of the shelters with Henry.
Forget the fact Alex is extremely vocal about the shelters on his own platform, and forget the fact that he has hosted multiple fundraisers for the shelters. They don’t count because some randos on the internet don’t have visual proof of him going there.
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“Tell me,” Alex says when he returns to the bedroom; a bowl of soup, some water and pedialyte, and a dose of NyQuil Severe PM. “Do you just not care that much ?” Henry slowly lifts his eyes to meet Alex’s, he’s met with a crooked grin and a raised brow. “Why else would you not have been at the banquet tonight?” Alex sits the tray on the bed, and feels Henry’s forehead. He grabs the thermometer from the side table and lays it to Henry’s clammy skin. “Jokes aside. If this fever doesn’t go down you’re going to the hospital.”
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FirstPrince caught in wild abuse and cheating scandal over their Texas getaway.
FirstPrince: Prince Henry moving to New York, sources say he will be sharing a brownstone with FSOTUS.
FirstPrince arrested in bar fight.
FirstPrince: Stalker arrested, Prince Henry identified as one of the victims.
FirstPrince hosts the last New Year’s party of President Claremont’s second term.
FirstPrince: Power couple publicly get engaged in a fancy five star restaurant.
Henry and Alex are in bed looking through the articles, laughing at how the haters corner of the people who follow them are saying they only do these things for attention.
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Waiting to see if HRH even comments on their engagement at all. I’m sure ACD is over the moon and will post ASAP, but I just feel like the Prince is less invested in the relationship. He probably only proposed for the brownie points. - some random twitter user.
“Does it bother you that I don’t post about us more often?” Henry asks, lifting his eyes from his phone to Alex.
“Why would I care about that?” Alex replies. His attention has long since left the internet drama and instead been on the shiny diamond studded ring on his left hand.
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Henry pulls out his phone, and snaps a quick picture.
@hrhprincehenryuk just posted for the first time in a while
Now he’s mine all mine, til the day I die. I love you @theacd ❤️💙 (Image attached)
It’s just a picture of their hands with their wedding bands on, but in four seconds it has half a million likes… and Instagram is starting to glitch.
“Baby, I think you broke the internet,” Alex laughs. He gives the world a moment to breathe before he makes his own post, then they turn their phones off for the rest of the week.