Moving out for the first time, and being independent from your parents after years of being dependant on them was never going to be easy, that was for sure. But when Jess Walker, a 22 year old with a low alcohol tolerance finds her perfect apartment...
I opened my eyes to the sound of the bedroom door creaking open. It was joe pulling his suitcase out the room. Joe was going to LA for a boys trip with Oli and Caspar. Joe must had realised I was now awake as he came in the bedroom and planted a kiss on my lips. Joe- "I'll miss you babe I will text you when I'm at the hotel" I gave him one last kiss and then he dragged his suitcase down the corridor towards the taxi.
I had absolutely no clue what I was going to do with a week on my own in the apartment. I glanced over at the clock it had only been 5 hours since joe had gone to the airport but seemed like days. This was going to be one long and boring week on my own.
*RING*RING*RING My phone flashed on the table beside my on the sofa. It was Zoe. Zoe- "Jess, you finally answered was just wondering if you wanted to come and stay with me for a couple of days as Alfie's out of town and Joe is too so... you wanna meet?" Jess- "sure.." Zoe- "great! so see you in a few hours!!" I went and packed a overnight bag for a few days and then headed towards the train station. The train journey wasn't that bad for a last minute journey, thankfully I got a seat. While I was in a taxi on the way to Zoe's Joe rang. Jess- "hey" Joe- "hey you alright, was just ringing to see how you are and that I'm here safely in LA" Jess- "yeah I'm good heading to stay with Zoe for a few days as both you and Alfie are away" Joe- "awh great.. well Sorry this was quick but I've got really bad signal , I will speak to you soon, love you" Jess- "love you too" --Phone call finished--
Zoe-"JESS!" Jess-"ZOE!" We both hugged and Nala came running in her little tail going mental. "NALA" I said while she was still going crazy around my feet. Poppy, Sean and Mark turned up a few hours later and we order some pizza and had a chilled out and had a movie night which was really nice. I was just about to head up to bed in one of Zoe's spare bedrooms when I saw that joe had posted a picture of him Oli and Caspar out in LA but then what also caught my eye was how I got a private snapchat from joe. I opened it to see a selfie of joe which did make me laugh but you could 100% tell he was drunk 😵. All throughout that night I couldn't sleep just thinking about how Joe could be left somewhere and not know how to get back to the apartment all 3 of them are staying in. However it was 2:30am and my eyes were getting so heavy that they shut in a instant and I fell asleep.
Waking up to the sound of my bus phone buzzing and flashing wasn't the nicest thing to be awoken by. I turned to check and I could see hundreds of tweets about why joe was on holiday with Caspar and Oli which was understandable as they never told there fans but only a few of these tweets were about this one exact photo which one of them must had posted. --(Below)--
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What I and others couldn't understand was that the 2 girls there weren't just any other 'fans wanting a picture' but were girls they had met while being in LA. This is where I turned into a social media starker I googled, looked through twitter profiles, Instagram photos and finally found this one account that matched one of the girls perfectly 'Alexa Losely' she was a YouTuber and had nearly 1million subscribers.! What woke me from my starker stage was Zoe knocking on the door saying that she made us all pancakes. I quickly got changed and headed towards the kitchen to eat. It had been a couple of days me Zoe, poppy and mark had been shopping around Brighton and we had gone out food and was just heading home to watch a movie when my phone buzzed. I ignored it at first but then it kept buzzing. The car pulled up on Zoe's drive and we all hopped out and this was when I finally looked at my phone. I had been tagged in loads of twitter and instagram posts and had missed calls off joe. What the heck was happening. I decided that I would open instagram and twitter to see that accounts were tagging my in tweets and pictures of someone's snapchat where in the background you could see JOE KISSING ALEXA! Before I knew it I felt tears running down my cheeks and I rushed into Zoe's house running straight up to the room I was staying in and slammed the door behind me. I grabbed my suitcase and packed all my stuff back up I needed to be on my own. Even though my phone kept making the annoying buzzing noise each time I got a notification tears were still streaming down my face. While I fanatically run around the room trying to grab all my belongings. I order a taxi to pick me up in 20 minutes. I dragged my case down the stairs and said thanks and bye to everyone. Everyone had the same facial expression that they were confused why I was in a rush to get home and I could tell they knew I had been crying I gave a hug to everyone and headed towards my taxi at the front of the house. I arrived at Brighton train station and still had puffy red eyes from crying I waited for my train when I saw at the corner of my eye that someone was walking towards me. I turned around to see Connor (Connor Maynard) looking concerned and confused. He had been in Brighton visiting family and was heading back to London. Connor- "Jess.... you ok what's wrong?" Before I could answer tears were falling from my eyes rolling down my cheeks. Connor brought me into a tight hug. I sat with Connor on the train and told him everything about the pictures of joe in LA and him kissing that Alexa girl and it being all over social media. My eyes felt so red and puffy making my vision blurred. Once in London Connor gave me a lift in his car back to my apartment. In the car journey I must had fallen asleep as I remember getting in Connor's car and then when I opened my eyes I was in Connor's arms getting carried bridal style to my apartment. He lied me on the sofa and covered me with a blanket from the back of the chair. That was the last I remember as my eyes turned into total darkness.