Adorn • Jamie Redknapp

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Walking into the hotel restaurant the next morning I see my friends already sitting at a table. Joining them I grab a coffee before picking up a menu.

"Morning girls" I say not looking up from my menu.

"I've been dying to know, where did you go last night Ellie? Amy asks and I know she wants to know what I've been up to but they have no idea I even gave Jamie my number never mind the fact I actually went out to meet him.

"Just out for dinner. Nothing to exciting I just grabbed some food after I'd been to the beach" I hate lying to everyone but I don't even know what I'd tell them.

"Okay so forgive me if I'm speaking out of turn here but I wouldn't say dinner with Jamie Redknapp is nothing exciting" listening to Kirsty my head springs up from reading the menu.

"How the hell do you know about that?" I haven't told a soul about meeting Jamie so the only thing I can think of is that Kirsty saw me.

"Ellie there's photos of you two on the daily mail. I mean unless someone knows you, you wouldn't know it's you but we do know you"

"This is a disaster! What if I lose my job? I've worked too hard to lose it over something like this!" I say starting to panic that my bosses will see the photos and know it's me.

"It was your own free time Ellie, you know more than anyone what you do during a layover is up to you as long as you don't tarnish the airlines name. As far as I'm concerned all you did was go out for dinner and that's all it looks like here. I'm going to be honest with you though Ellie, I don't think the big bosses are keeping tabs on this kind of newspaper article" Joanne says and I can tell she's thinking with her managers head on. Looking through the photos I'm relieved none of them are of me and Jamie kissing. I'm sure paparazzi in LA don't know who Jamie is so my guess is that there's been someone possibly British who's seen us and recognised Jamie before taking the photos and selling them.

"Come on spill, how was it? What's he like? How did it go from you saying he was fit when he boarded the plane to you two being out for dinner?" Becky asks.

"He was so nice! Like we actually talked and he was actually interested in finding out about me and not just wanting to talk about himself like some of my previous disasters have done" I don't want to give too much away so I tell the girls about last night giving them the vaguest details "and he just asked for my number on the flight and in a spur of the moment decision I gave it to him never expecting to hear from him"

"The question we all want to know the answer to though Ellie, are you seeing him again?" Mel asks and I feel everyone's eyes on me. I hate this kind of attention. Put me in front of a plane full of passengers to do a safety demonstration and I'm completely chilled, put me in front of a group of friends to talk about me and I hate it.

"Yeah, either when we're back in London or if I'm back in LA before then" I say trying to put a stop to the conversation.

"I'll personally make sure you get scheduled on to an LA flight!" Joanne says looking at me and I know she's serious. Joanne doesn't joke about crew schedules. Seeing Jamie's name on my phone I excuse myself to the hotel lobby.

"What a surprise this is" I say answering the phone biting my lip.

"I just wanted to check on you. There's photos of us that have been taken and I don't take you as a trashy tabloid reader but did you see the photos daily mail have published?" Jamie asks and I think he's nervous.

"Yeah everyone I'm travelling with saw them and asked me about it. I didn't say much just that we'd gone for dinner. Lucky they didn't get photos of us at the end of the night" I say biting my lip harder.