Joseph met Lucy and her future husband, Oliver, when they all began studying drama together at LAMDA. They were the best of friends and an unbreakable trio from day one. Joseph has never told his best friend however that he's been in love with his w...
Wow. Just wow. Seeing Lucy dressed up, those long legs on display and those boots? Damn. I was in trouble. I was seriously developing a massive crush on this girl. And I LOVED her flat! It was full of colour, you couldn't move without tripping over a plant and Thing was adorable! He scared the shit out of me at first but he was actually quite cute. For an enormous hairy spider. Ollie refused to go near him and stayed on the opposite side of the room until Lucy placed him back in his tank and secured the lid.
"Soooo, Luce" "yes Joe". "Ollie and I were talking on the way over. You wanna pregame with us?" I pulled a cheeky joint out of my pocket and waved it at her. She smirked at us, Ollie and I both grinned at her. "Yeah go on. We're only smoking one though. I'm not getting cross faded tonight."
She led us out to her little balcony, again covered in plants with a small furniture setting, and threw me a lighter and placed an ashtray on the table.
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"Harris you've got more fucking plants than a wholesale nursery. This is a serious substance abuse problem" Ollie teased her. "What can I say. My mum is a mad keen gardener. I caught the bug. Most of these I started growing in high school before Nikki and I moved out together."
I lit the joint and inhaled a drag, tilting my head back to blow out the smoke, holding the joint out for whoever wanted to take it next. I felt Lucy's soft fingers brush against my callused ones as she took it and I felt a blush take over my cheeks slightly. Quinn get it together. You're friends. Great friends. You can't do this mate. It would ruin everything between the three of you.
Lucy inhaled the fragrant smoke and grinned, blowing it out through her nose before passing it on to Ollie. "I haven't done this for months. Last time was with Nikki the night before our first day at LAMDA. I was a bag of nerves so she whipped it out to calm me down." Ollie took a drag and passed it back to me. We continued this way until it was completely burned down, I took the last drag and stubbed it out in the ashtray. Ollie jumped up excitedly. "Right mother truckers let's go!"
He began bounding towards the front door, I followed him as Lucy closed and locked the balcony door. She grabbed her bag and a jacket before turning to talk to Thing. "Thing! You're in charge my fuzzy little friend!" She kissed her finger tips and placed it on the glass of the tank near where he was munching on some crickets. He raised one front foot almost like a wave. I chuckled and said "he really does wave doesn't he?" Lucy grinned and said "Nikki and I like to think so. He's Nikki's really but I've all but adopted him too."
Ollie stood at the front door shaking his head. "I can't believe two smoke shows like you and Nikki let that thing crawl all over you" He shuddered. Smoke shows? I mean he's absolutely not wrong. Lucy is the most beautiful woman in London and Nikki is stunning but.....is he flirting with her?
LUCY POV
After getting a nice buzz from the weed Joe supplied the boys and I left the apartment and began to short walk down to Fitzgeralds. I'd been told it was tradition to start the night with Guinness and oysters. No idea why but that was the boys tradition which I was told was non negotiable. Then Ollie made the mistake of asking if I could handle a dark beer. "I mean you can have a white wine spritzer if you like Harris. You don't have to try and drink Guinness just for us." "I'm sorry what?" "Oh shit" Joe said with a smirk. "You saying I can't handle my Guinness Oliver Blake?" He raised his eyebrows. "Did you just use my legal name Harris?!" "Challenge accepted! £100 says I can down a Guinness faster than you can!"
