And lady goes viral for taking a romantic trip to the sunny Dominican Republic — a month after breaking apart along with her boyfriend of two years.
The final word TikTok twist: He went along with her.
Lydia Hen and Jaeden Lemelin, each 18-year-old Connecticut residents, initially booked the journey to Puerto Plata in January for his or her spring break, by no means dreaming that their love bubble would quickly burst.
Hen posted all about her zany journey in a number of TikTok clips, racking up greater than 13 million views and over 2.3 million likes.
“I ended up breaking apart with him a little bit over a month earlier than the journey,” Hen instructed Jam Press. “There have been quite a lot of causes, however principally issues weren’t working and we ended issues on comparatively good phrases.”
She initially deliberate to cancel the journey and didn’t anticipate any points, nevertheless, after calling the corporate they booked with — the aptly named Low-cost Caribbean — she came upon that there was no solution to cancel the journey and the tickets had been non-refundable.
Hen then determined that as an alternative of her ex, she would take her mom to the island vacation spot — however the reserving firm knowledgeable her that mother must shell out bucks for her personal trip package deal.
After calling Jaeden and trying to repay him for the non-transferrable ticket, he persuaded her to go on the journey with him.
“Though I used to be excited, I used to be very hesitant to journey particularly as a result of the breakup was so new,” Hen admitted. “I'm a agency believer that exes will be buddies, however one month was a short while to make that transition.”
To make issues worse, the flight to Puerto Plata was delayed over 10 hours and each Lydia and Jaeden spent a lot of the morning within the airport nevertheless, the ex-love birds lastly managed to make it to the seaside.
“We spent tons of time on the seaside and pool. Weirdly, after two years being collectively this was our first large journey collectively despite the fact that we had been damaged up,” Hen stated.
The journey was not at all times enjoyable within the solar although. In accordance with the newfound TikTok star, there have been a number of moments that had been powerful.
“Touring collectively this quickly after the breakup was a problem as a result of he and I've been so shut for thus lengthy,” Hen lamented.
“We dated for over two years and it wasn’t a ‘see one another a pair instances per week’ relationship, we spent day-after-day collectively, so we grew to become insanely shut.”
Lydia additionally talked about that she and Jaeden had determined that it doesn't matter what occurred, they need to keep strictly buddies.
Nonetheless, some TikTok commenters selected to view the now-viral footage because the pathway for Hen and Lemelin to get again collectively and stay fortunately ever after.
“Yep, they’re def gonna hook up,” one viewer commented as one other quipped: “$20 they get again collectively.” One seemingly involved viewer requested, “Woman are you alright?,” whereas one other pithily dubbed the journey an “unhoneymoon.”
In the meantime, different TikTok pundits associated to the kids — and admitted they've accomplished the identical with their exes.
“I truly did this as soon as — we referred to as it our farewell tour and it was one of the best week of our relationship, we left on be aware with good reminiscences,” one other consumer stated, spurring one other to chime in: “I went to Disney with mine, it was a $5K journey [so] I wasn’t losing it.”
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