It's All About You

July 11th 2013

July 11th 2013

Zoe walked nervously into duty free. Joe had apologised for shouting at her and said that he didn't really mind that much but Zoe was nervous about what Meri was going to say... Joe had said Meri would probably be fine with it.

But she didn't have to worry yet because Jim, Tanya and Meri hadn't arrived yet. She saw Louise. "Chummy!" she squealed. Louise and her run up to each other and hugged forever.

"I missed you so much chummy," Louise said.

"You literally saw each other two weeks ago," Joe said. Zoe hit him jokingly but didn't say anything because she knew he was already sort of annoyed at her.

"So, Joseph. Are you annoyed at Zoe including your little intimate moment?" Alfie teased. Zoe glared at him. He was so childish sometimes.

"No. I'm not," Joe said truthfully. Zoe smiled at him gratefully and then Louise dragged her to the shops.

"Has Meri seen it?" Louise asked.

"Of course she's seen it, chummy. How can she not have?" Zoe snapped. Louise held up her hands in defence. "Sorry... I just don't know how she's going to react when she sees me..." Zoe apologised.

"Don't worry about it. Meri will understand. She knows you didn't mean to keep it in," Louise assured her.

Twenty minutes later, their flight came up on the board and Louise and Zoe went to meet the others. Zoe could see Jim and Tanya with everyone but not Meri. "Where's Meri?" she asked Jim.

"Toilet. She told us to start walking," Jim explained.

"Is she okay?" Zoe asked. Jim looked at her with confusion. Him and Tanya hadn't been on any social media and Meri hadn't told them what happened. "About the vlog..." Zoe continued.

"What vlog?" Jim asked. Hope went through Zoe. If Jim hadn't seen it, then maybe Meri hadn't either.

"Don't worry about it. It's nothing," Zoe lied. They all walked to their gate and waited until they could board. Meri walked over and frowned when she saw Zoe. Zoe noticed and her heart sank. She had definitely seen the vlog. Joe saw as well. And then he smiled and rushed up to Meri.

He brought her into a tight hug and she hugged him back with a grin on her face. "I missed you," she whispered. And then she did something no one had expected her to do in such a public place. She kissed Joe.

Joe smiled when they broke apart. "I missed you too, babe," he said. They were told they could start boarding so did.

Jim, Tanya, Alfie and Marcus all sat together, Caspar, Louis, Jack and Finn were together and then Joe, Meri, Zoe and Louise all sat together. Meri had tried to swap places with Joe but he had just looked at her with confusion and sat where he had planned to.

Within minutes of them taking off, Joe had fallen asleep and Meri sighed. This was going to be a long flight. "Meri, I'm really sorry about that footage of you and Joe in my vlog... I didn't notice it when I was editing..." Zoe said softly.

"It's fine, Zoe. Joe already told me. I don't mind, to be honest," Meri replied.

"But –"

"Zoe, seriously," Meri laughed. "It's fine,"

"Why didn't you want to sit next to me then?" Zoe asked.

"Because I didn't want to ask you about it in case you did it deliberately or you still hadn't realised," Meri said.

Zoe smiled in relief. "So we're cool?" Meri nodded. "You never told Jim about it,"

"Didn't see the point. He'll see it eventually. And if he never does, it doesn't matter," she said.