I remember when...

4

Wednesday afternoon arrived sooner than it felt, my date with Jack was today. We'd been texting daily and made sure we know where we are meeting and the time. The girls had helped me pick out a perfect outfit; mom jeans with cactus embroidered, from Zara, light pink sneakers from H&M, a white t-shirt that has a tiny sun sewn onto it and day written on the sleeve, I thought it was cute from online, and a plain black bomber jacket to finish the outfit, casual, yet cute.
The date is at 2, it's currently half 1 and I am sat in the hotel waiting for the taxi to arrive to take me to Nandos, where I am meeting Jack.
The taxi pulled up outside of Nandos and I thanked the man and gave him a tip, getting out of the taxi I stood by the doors, 10 minutes early, I hope he's not a late person. I looked up from my phone after texting the girls that I had arrived and saw the dark haired Jack walking my way, "Hey, you haven't been waiting long have you?" He asked, kissing my cheek. I looked at my phone screen 13:55P.M "No, literally 5 minutes, you're early."
"So are you." He replied, "Shall we?"  He asked holding his arm out bent for me to hook onto, "We shall." I said following in beside him.

We ordered our meals and drinks, I had the bean burger and a fanta, Jack had the half chicken and chips. "So what's your opinion on me?" I ask randomly.
"On you?" He asked.
"Yeah." I replied.
"Well, when I first saw you walk up to me so confidently in the bar like you did I thought that was hot and you were beautiful, the rest of the night, getting to know you, was incredible, you was hilarious and you're always cheerful, getting to know you even better the following morning and celebrating your birthday with you was great." He said holding my hand across the table.
I smiled, "That wasn't an opinion..." I said looking down still smiling, trying to hide the blush.
"Yes it was, it was multiple opinions. I like you Ellie."
"I like you too, Jack."

After the meal and a lot more talking we knew each other a lot more, as much as I was enjoying myself, I had to leave to go back to the hotel because the girls had the rest of the evening planned for us. "Thank you for this date, it was great." I said to Jack, smiling as I got out of the taxi, "I'll see you again soon" I finished smiling and closing the door waving to him. He's a great guy.

As I walked through the lobby of the hotel I went to go to the elevator but a security guard stopped me. "Hey what's going on? I want to go to my room." I questioned him. "ID please." He said in a deep voice. It's in my room. I walked over to the desk and asked why I wasn't aloud up and thankfully it was the same man as on Saturday "Marc, it's alright she's staying here I know her let her go up." He said.
"Thank you."
I walked past 'Marc' and continued to the elevator, no one in it? If no one was in it why wasn't I aloud up? I leant against the side and waited to reach the top floor.
As I left the elevator there was a crowd of security stopping me from going further, "oh my god, more?" I sighed.
"Where are you going?"
"To my room! Number 2!" I complained.
"Let her through." I heard a voice in the back say. I recognised that voice. I'd know if from anywhere.
And there he was...
Zayn.
Malik.
I stood there for a moment shocked before running straight past them all and into my room.
"Guys!!! GUyS !! Zayn fricken Malik is in the fricken hall!" I screamed about to pass out. Ok, wow, I didn't know he still affected me like this. I heard banging feet and 3 girls came running round the corner from the kitchen. "Seriously?" Rowan asked excited. "Yes! I'm going to pass out." I said sitting down on the floor. My god.
The girls dragged me along the clean marble floor to the huge sofa and threw me on it.
"Calm down." Nicole said patting me.
"You didn't see him. He, he's so hot." I said flapping my arms around and collapsing onto the sofa again.
"I wanna see!" Rowan shouted and ran towards the door.
"No!" I screamed and ran to stop her, there was no one outside the door though, they must be in his room now.
"You're lying." She said sighing and closing the door.
"What? No I'm not! He was right there, security stopped me from getting here and then he told them to let me through, and I panicked and ran in here." I stated.
"Alright calm down." Eloise joined in.
"I'm not lying." I finished.
Rowan just hummed and walked over to Eloise hugging her.
"Anyway, what film shall we start with?" I asked walking up to the TV to look at our films.
"Chalet Girl!!" Nicole shouted. Couldn't agree more. "ED WESTWICK FOR THE WIN" I chanted. Rowan and Eloise were sat on the 2 seater sofa cuddling, and me and Nicole had a 3 seater sofa each. "Oooo it's starting!" Nicole mimicked a man from the cinema before when we were younger, in a high feminine voice.
We ended up watching 5 more films and ordering pizza and fell asleep watching The Huntsman, at about 3 A.M.

I had been on 4 dates now with Jack and we were nearing the end of the 2 weeks stay in London.
This trip has been amazing for the girls and I, Nicole and Simon never really spoke again after the night of my birthday, and as much as I have enjoyed getting to know Jack, there isn't much else to talk about with him, on our last date, there were many silent moments, where we just didn't know what to say. So, today I have asked to meet him, it's the Friday before we leave on the Sunday. Rowans birthday was on the Monday before, she spent the day and night with Eloise but we gave her presents to her the night before. Later today I am meeting Jack to end things with him, he should understand because we shared the same awkwardness at the meal on Wednesday. I hope he understands.

I was meeting him in the café outside my hotel, in 3 minutes. I walked over and took a seat by the window where he would see me, this shouldn't take long.
He came around the corner and smiled through the window at me, I stood up and went to hug him, he went to kiss me at the same time and we ended up banging heads... See just awkward. "Sorry, hi" I said sitting back down.
"You wanted to talk." He said sitting opposite me.
"Yeah, it's not easy, because I really do like you, a lot, but I think from the meal on Wednesday we can both say we feel the same way..." I said trying to hint at him.
"What do you mean?" Never mind then...
"I think we should stop seeing each other, I'm going back to Basingstoke soon with the girls and starting work, you're staying here in London and it will be hard to see each other and stay in touch as much, and-"
"We never have much to talk about anymore, like we had more minutes of silence than we did of talking at our last dinner date..." I continued, "I'm really sorry Jack, I would love to continue this for so many reasons, but, it's just not right." I said standing up, I walked over to him and hugged and kissed him one more time before apologising again and leaving back to my hotel room.
That was horrible.

I walked into the kitchen of the hotel room, "Where are the others?" I asked Nicole.
"Rowans gone to the train station with Eloise to say goodbye until Monday." She replied,
"Ah alright, so, you know Simon, what actually happened?" I asked sitting on the counter top.
She climbed up and sat opposite eating a chocolate moose, I grabbed a bowl of cereal since the bowl and the fridge were beside me, "After everyone started to go into different rooms me and Simon were talking in my room because I didn't want to go straight into things, no offence, and obviously, that put him off so he didn't talk anymore and he slept on the sofa and never said a word to me again just because I didn't want to have sex straight away." She frowned.
I sighed, "What a dick." I said and put my bowl into the dishwasher. She nodded and put her spoon in too. Washing her hands from the moose.
I walked over to the sofa and threw myself on it, Nicole following suit. "What film shall we watch?" I asked her.
She picked up Deadpool and threw it at me, "That." She said smiling.
"Okay then." I said putting the disk in the TV and getting back on the sofa.

Rowan arrived home after Deadpool finished and as we were cooking dinner, spaghetti with cheesy chips. "You alright?" I heard Nicole ask.
"Yeah" Rowan replied lying on the floor, "I love her" she said smiling and covering her face as she blushed.
Nicole and I awed at that and I threw a napkin at her.
After dinner we sat and spoke about everything together, which we hadn't properly done for a good 3 years, I missed this, I'm going to miss this place.
You know what's weird though... Zayn never comes out of his room. No one is ever in the hall way any more.
This place is strange...
But I am going to miss it. I start an internship in Fashion Design in 2 weeks in Basingstoke, where Nicole and I live. Next week I am helping Nicole move in fully.