Just Friends

CHAPTER-3

AUTHORS NOTE:-
This chapter is dedicated to @Second_Kisses for the amazing cover!!! Thank you so much I absolutely love it!!

THE TWINS

Unfortunately Jade's luck with forgetting about Alec's visit was not that good.

On Monday morning she woke with a churning feeling in her stomach. Not even the thought of spending the whole morning with the twins helped Jade to get rid of the churning.

And her talk with her mother the previous day had made matters worse.

Sunday afternoon Jade had been interrupted again while she wrote by her mother's call.

"Jade, did you get a call from Mrs Carter yesterday?" Amanda Tucker exclaimed in a way of greeting as soon as Jade picked up the phone.

"Hi mom! I'm doing good. How are you?" Jade had replied sarcastically while she moved away from the laptop, preparing herself for a long conversation.

"Being sarcastic is not lady- like, Jade." She said, but Jade could here the smile in her voice, "But answer my question. Did you hear from Susan?"

"Yes I did mom. I know Alec's coming for a visit." The thought was still making her shudder.

"But do you know the reason why he's coming?"

Jade had mentally gone over her full conversation with Mrs Carter trying to remember if she had mentioned the reason for his visit. But nothing came to her mind.

"Not really."

"Well, I was speaking to Susan and she told me that Alec is coming back home to introduce his girlfriend to the family. Isn't that sweet? And if he is coming back all the way from Thailand, their relationship must be pretty serious, right? Alec in a serious relationship. Nicole married with adorable twins. When are you going to get settled and give me the grandchildren that I deserve?"

Amanda had been rattling on but Jade had stopped listening at the mention of Alec's 'serious' girlfriend.

"Wait.... Alec's girlfriend?" She managed to croak out.

"Yes. Her name is Emmaline Burns. She works in the PR firm which does all the publicity for Wanderlust. Isn't that cute?"

Amanda being a librarian, living in the world of romance novels, found a lot of things cute and adorable.

"Uh... Yes..."

The rest of the conversation had been carried out solely by her while Jade had been thinking about the development in the case of Alec's return.

She had just made agreeing noises in the right places till Amanda was satisfied.

Now as she remembered the conversation she groaned and buried herself under the covers once again.

Today's dinner was going to be bad. A nightmare.

At last, after groaning, mumbling and just simply complaining for half an hour, Jade got up from her bed and went for a bath.

She was supposed to pick up the twins from the Bradshaw house in a hour and a half.

She quickly took a shower and changed into jeans and a comfortable tank top.

Comfort was on top of the list while deciding on what clothes to wear when going out with the twins, because she knew she was going to spend most of her time running after them.

She locked her apartment and left for Nicole's house in her car.

Nicole lived practically on the other side of town.