Ben raised an eyebrow at Art. He might have been right, and he did have a fair amount of experience being covered in Witch Weekly for stupid shit that wasn't true. Ben, however, had a much longer track record of being covered in Witch Weekly for stupid shit that was true, and it had pretty notably fucked his life up, once. When they'd started speculating about him and Bella Scrimgeour, her father had gone crazy, she'd gone missing, and he'd gone and gotten himself arrested. He still had the Unbreakable Vow to show for his troubles, too (had he ever told Art he'd had to swear an Unbreakable Vow to get off of the charges for impersonating Aldous?)

And that was the trouble with this article. Too much of it was true, which was going to give credence to the rest of it. Melody was sick, and he had been with Ellory and Bella, both recently and in the past. So what if people thought that bit in the middle, about him wanting her to — what if people thought that was true, too?

"Melody's going to lose her shit," he said, under his breath.