Espresso • Love Island 2024

Chapter Seven

It was nearing the end of Emmie's second full day in the villa and she was pissed off.

As the girls hurried up to the glam room to get ready, Mimii had pulled her to the side and informed her of some comments that Patsy and Harriet had made.

"I thought it would be best for me to tell you because I would want to know if those things were being said about me."

The blonde girl gripped tightly onto the foundation brush that she was using and applied a little more force than was needed — which earned a couple of concerned glances from Samantha and Nicole.

"Ems, are you alright?"

Emmie placed the brush down with a slight huff and turned to face Samantha.

"Yeah babe. I'm just pissed off honestly," she began. "I'm sick and tired of immature people thinking they can strut around the villa acting like their words hold no weight."

Harriet paused her makeup briefly and nervously fiddled with the eyeshadow palette in her hands. She knew Emeline was talking about her but she would never admit it unless she was confronted.

Her eyebrows furrowed upwards into a feigned look of concern and her voice came out as a very forced coo.

"I know how you feel babe." She blurted out as she resumed the process of applying eyeshadow to her other eyelid.

"You don't actually, or you wouldn't be spreading bullshit about me though.. would you?" Emmie exclaimed, her voice was laced with an unfamiliar venomous tone.

Silence encompassed the room as Emmie glared at Harriet.

Truthfully, the esthetician had had enough of the older blonde girl who had done nothing but make her feel unwelcome in the villa and Emeline was sick of her shit.

Mimii watched on in a mixture of amusement and concern from behind her hand-held mirror as she sat on the other end of the glam room near the lights in an attempt to fix her lashes that had loosened from being in the pool for too long.

"I've said nothing about you though Hun."

"Stop it with the Hun, stop trying to sound concerned about me when you talk shit as soon as my back is fucking turned Harriet!" Emmie exclaimed once again, though this time her voice was slightly raised as she struggled to keep her composure.

"Yesterday it was you having a problem with me getting to know Ciaran and today it's you making sly comments about me getting to know Sam as well?"

Harriet sighed and rolled her eyes in an immature attempt to convey the discontent that Emmie's words brought her.

"I'm allowed to have a problem with you getting to know Ciaran because up until you coupled up with him, I was!"

"That mentality on the first day is inanse and you know it, it's love island for god's sake."

"Well I just think your actions aren't matching up with your words... It's giving game player." Harriet proclaimed, a subtle smile made its way onto her face as she noticed Emmie's demeanor becoming more and more tense.

Samantha scoffed and looked at Mimii; both girls wore a look of incredulity.

"Harriet I think enough is enough now. You're just making things up for the sake of creating something out of nothing." The Liverpudlian tried to ease the tension between the pair but it only fuelled Harriet's need to be the centre of attention.

"Everything I say is true because I'm an observer and what I'm seeing from her is untruthfulness." She shrugged her shoulders once more and rolled her eyes.