I Still Love You (a Smoleman Fanfic)*completed*

Chapter 16

Jenna raised her eyebrows at herself in the mirror, opening her bottle of foundation one-handed. "Another party?" she asked Karen skeptically, speaking into the phone.

"yeah, they're fun! Don't ya like 'em?!"

"Well yeah, but you've hosted like 5 of them in the past two weeks! Don't you get terrible hangovers?"

Karen laughed. "Yeah but they go away pretty soon..."

Jenna put her phone down and clicked on 'speaker'. "Oh Karen..."

"Please come! I'll invite Matt and Lily, and you bring Richard! 'Kay?"

Jenna opened her mascara container. "Fine, I'll come. But only cuz you want me to. And you gotta let me go. Richard's taking me out tonight." She finished putting on her eyeliner and zipped up her makeup bag.

"Oooo where to?"

Jenna rolled her eyes- she could practically see Karen wiggling her eyebrows energetically. "That one place in Cardiff on 11th street."

"Oh, the one where we went to with Matt and Arthur?" Karen asked.

"Yep, that one."

Karen giggled. "Oh my gosh, well have fun!!! Tell me EVERYTHING when you get back. I'm so excited!!" she squealed into the phone and then hung up.

Shaking her head, Jenna slipped into a pretty red dress that she had worn a while ago when Matt had come over to her house. She could still smell the faint traces of his lightly applied cologne as she pulled it over her head. Then she grabbed her sparkly silver purse, pulled on a silver pair of 4 inch heels, and stood at the door patiently, waiting for Richard.

A knock came at the door and she opened it immediately. "Hi!"

"Hey Jen." Richard smiled and bestowed a light kiss on her pink lips.

Jenna grinned back at him radiantly.

"Ready to go?"

She nodded and followed him to his white convertible parked outside.

"Lets go!"

She laughed as he pulled the cover down and the wind whipped through her hair. "Oi! You're gonna mess up my hair!" she giggled as he sped through the night.

"You're beautiful even when your hair is fucked up Jen. Don't worry." He slowed as they reached a red light.

"But-"

he cut her off with another kiss. "Just stop complaining. Lets have fun tonight, okay?"

"Okay." (Hahha TFIOS reference!!!)

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"And what would you like to eat, Ma'am?"

"Ummm... How 'bout this one? The, uh... Tan-duh-ray chicken?"

"Tandoori," Richard whispered in her ear.

She blushed. "Oops, I mean the Tandoori Chicken."

"Of course, Ma'am. Anything else?" The waitress's eyes swept over their small table for two, confirming that they didn't need refills on their water.

"Um, nothing else, thank you." Jenna politely refused.

The waitress nodded and moved away to another table behind them. Jenna's eyes followed her idly as the waitress paused at the table. But the waitress had moved to reveal something she had previously been blocking with her slightly obese body.

A flash of dyed blonde hair with brown roots, the owner of the hair facing away from Jenna.

And across the blonde's table- dark floppy hair swept off to one side, piercing green eyes, a terribly sharp and pronounced chin...