In the moment

Fancy seeing you here

'There's a parcel for you Mr Grealish' the concierge says to jack as he walks passed after training. Jack goes over and collects a small brown box his name and address written neatly in cursive writing.
'Thanks Tom, wasn't actually expecting anything today. How's the family? Ya alright?' Tom responds politely showing jack a picture of his daughters first day at school before having to answer a phone call for a private taxi.
As he reaches his apartment he sets the parcel on the kitchen side and grabs a knife to break the sellotape. Whatever was in there was wrapped neatly in blue tissue paper. 'As if' he said chuckling to himself. Inside the blue tissue was his black Dior T-shirt and a small card that said 'Thanks again, you're a life saver. S x'. He stood twiddling the card between his fingers admiring her hand writing. 'She definitely holds a pen propa' he thought to himself. He hangs his T-shirt back in his walk in wardrobe and sits on the edge of his bed contemplating texting her. Was it to eager? Did he say thanks for not shrinking it? Did he just genuinely ask how she is? He lays back on the bed his head full of thought, he wobbles his head, why did he care so much? He try's to put Soph to the back of his mind and picks his clothes for a night out with his bros.
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Jack was running late as usual, his large Mercedes taxi pulling up outside one of the hottest clubs in Manchester. He enters from the vip side door in hopes he wasn't seen he heads up to the vip balcony to meet the boys. Phil already sat in a both with 3 insta type girls and stonesy talking the waitress trying to order a dozen jägerbombs and a bottle of vodka, the waitress struggle to hear and understand him and gets him to write it down on her notepad.
'Here he is! Fashionably late but with terrible fashion sense as always' Phil teases jack and the girls all giggle with him.
'Ere don't forget I have that dolphin meme of you phillipa' jack claps back, stones approaching behind him attempting to making dolphin noises. Phil rolls his eyes and turns his attention back the girls. Stones and jack now stood at the balcony over looking the dance floor.
'Who ya got your eye one Jacky boy' stones nudges jack breaking his search.
Jack shakes his head 'no one yet mate, just looking at the decor it's abit rascal ain't it' he points to flowers and vines hanging from the ceiling.
'Not my cuppa tea but yknow there's a few lasses that are' he waves his finger towards the dancefloor.
Jack rolls his eyes 'show us then' stones points to a girl near the bar long blonde hair that touches the dimples at the bottom of her back, he knows because she's wearing a really low back tight sequin dress looking like a updated version of Paris Hilton's 21st birthday. 'Yeah she's alright her, ya going down?'
He looks at jack shyly 'only if your coming with me, ya can't steal her though I know you'
'Promise' jack holds his little ringer up for a pinky promise, it's covered in a diamond encrusted ring
Stones shakes his head and makes his way down stairs, jack in tow.

Unsure how to approach her, him and jack stood by her group for a while. Jack hated being down here girls trying to touch him at any given opportunity.
'You look lost, you okay there?' The girl says to stones
His eyes widen with how beautiful she is up close 'Erm yeah kinda, been trying to find you haven't I.' He smirks 'I saw you from up there and well ..' he points to the balcony.
She smirks back at him 'smooth, ya gonna tell me your name or?' She new his name, of course she did.
'John, my names John. Gonna tell me yours? Don't make it up though!' He says as he takes her in.
'I'm jo, it's nice to meet you John' she holds her hand out for him to shake.
He takes her hand but doesn't let go 'you fancy coming up?' He smiles at her hoping she'll accept.
'Maybe, is it a group invitation because some of the girls are just ... powdering their noses I think is the polite thing to say' she looks towards the toilets and back again.
Stones looks to jack who nods and then back to jo 'yeah yeah no bother' he lets go of her hand 'well it was nice to meet you jo, hopefully I'll see you abit later then' he smiles and nods in gesture of a goodbye and the boys head back upstairs.

Around 10.45pm Phil was heavily into another group of girls, and jack awol. The bouncer calls stones over to the vip entrance 'did you invite these girls up John' he points to a group of 5 girls stood on the stairs
A grin spreads across his face as he notices jo 'yes mate let em in' he waves them over. As they approach he notices one girls on crutches and he quickly pulls out a chair for her to rest her cast on where she sat down.
'Thank you' she says but to shy to make eye contact.
'You going to introduce me?' He says to jo as he stands next to her his hand on the small of her back.
She looks up at him 'of course, this clumsy bugger is Ella. Then there's heather, Katie and where's she gone..' she looks around, the last one of the group walking over after talking to the bouncer '.. There she is, this is Soph'
'Hi, nice to meet you' she reaches out for a hand shake and turns her attention to Ella. 'El babe the bouncer said you can use the staff lift to get back down stairs' she sits down next to her and Ella nods in agreement.
'Alright jacky boy' stones shouts as he notices jack coming in from the outside balcony now standing behind Ella and Soph. 'This is jo yknow who we saw earlier, and then this is heather Ella and Soph' he points to girls individually 'I got that right didn't I' he whispers to jo who nods'
'Alright ladies ya having a good night?' jack walks round to the booth and stands next to stones and jo 'oh moi god, fancy seeing you here' he shouts as he notices it's his Soph and walks over embracing her in a hug 'thanks for send my T-shirt back in one piece' he whispers in her ear before stepping back. The faint feel of his breath against her ear giving her goosebumps.
All the girls staring waiting for some kind of explanation about how they know each other when he notices Ella's leg 'bloody hell how'd ya do that?' Ella's face goes a brighter shade of red than the disco lights on the dancefloor.
And then Soph remembers she completely forgot to tell jack the story about how her apprentice fell off a beer garden table trying to catch a glimpse of him!