A New Beginning

Jay's Home

After we took Niall and Zayn to the airport the next day, the next couple of weeks went by pretty fast. Jay came home and we saw less of Brea. She even brought Jay with her sometimes, which was a nice distraction from the almost empty house we were in. Jay came over one day without Brea so we could talk about the proposal. We went over what he had planned and I told him I thought it was great the way he had it. It was perfect for her. He had everything planned out and was going to set it up himself. He had already called places ahead of time to plan with them according to however the hunt was going to happen.

“Would you do me one more favor?” he asked me with pleading eyes.

“What is it, Jay?”

“Would you go along on the scavenger hunt with her, maybe taking pictures or record the whole thing?”

“Of course! I think video would be better! It would capture everything instead of pictures just capturing an expression, or I could get Iris to come along too and one of us can video and the other can do pictures!”

“Yea, sure,” he laughed, “Whatever you need to do to get it done,” he smiled. I squealed in delight.

“This is gonna be so much fun. Okay, so when should we start the hunt?”

“I told the manager at Nando’s to expect her around 6PM. Is that okay?”

“Of course! I just wanted to know what time. So this is actually happening?”

“Yea, it is,” he smiled.

“Oh my god, I am so excited,” I laughed.  He laughed with me and I hugged him before he left.

“Remember, leave here early. Nando’s at 6 tomorrow,” he said as he got in his car. I waved at him as he pulled off and ran back to the living room. I went outside where Iris and Tyler were and sat on the edge of Tyler’s lounge chair.

“So, guys, who wants to help me with Brea’s scavenger hunt tomorrow?”

“What do you mean ‘help’ with it?” Tyler asked.

“Well, Jay asked if I would video it or take pictures, so I thought why not both? Each one can only capture so much and it Brea could make a scrapbook of the hunt afterwards.

“Yea, I’ll go. I don’t have anything to do tomorrow anyway,” he said. I looked at Iris.

“If you want me to, I’ll be glad to help,” she smiled. I let out a small yelp.

“This is great. One of us can drive while the other two take pictures and videos it. Ty, you’re good with a video camera, why don’t you video. Iris you’re good with pictures, can you take those?” they agreed and it was settled. Tyler was going to video, Iris was taking pictures and I was diving. This was going to be great. We sat around talking for a while before I went in and up to my room. I lay on the bed staring at the ceiling thinking about tomorrow. She was going to be so excited. My phone dinged and I looked at it.

To Jess: So, Jay says you guys are supposed to take me on a scavenger hunt tomorrow night?

To Brea: Yep, we are. Can you be here by 5:30?

To Jess: Sure, but what is this about? Jay wouldn’t tell me anything.

To Brea: I have been sworn to secrecy. We are only here to help not talk about it. Lol

To Jess: okay. Lol. See you tomorrow!

The next day went by excruciatingly slow. I guess because I was so excited, even though it wasn’t me it was happening to. It was 4PM so I went ahead and got ready so I wouldn’t be running late. I didn’t want to fuss over what to wear, so I threw on a nice pair of pants and a dressy top and by black glitter TOMS. I threw my hair back into a ponytail and put on the other half of the necklace that I had given Zayn. I went to the living room and sat on the couch until it was time to leave. Brea got there about 5:20 and we waited on Tyler to get ready. Iris was already in the living room.