In Love and War with Jessie J

(Chapter 2) Minutes turn to hours

In Love and War with Jessie J.

(Chapter 2) Minutes turn to hours without you

I've got news for you all... Whoever said positive thinking always works, lied. It's a big fat lie.

I soon realised this as I rushed to the door and noticed it wasn't Jess. Just my client turning up for our meeting. I ran through the books with him as quickly as possible, then took him to the house he was thinking of purchasing from me. I nailed it. Got the sale.

Life went on like this, I walked Lady every morning as usual, but secretly hoping we'd bump in to Jess and Jackson. Which never happened.

The minutes passed by, that turned in to hours, hours turned to days and days turned to weeks. And I still hadn't seen or heard anything off Jess. But I got by, got on with my life, my work and my fitness remember? I actually had the biggest meeting of my life coming up today. I was so nervous. I had the opportunity to buy a block of land, with planning permission to convert in to apartments. There were several other interests in the development. But I was confident I'd get it. After all, I knew the area inside out. I spent a lot of time there as a kid and knew what this area needed, something that would fit in to the natural surroundings. This land wasn't for sale in West London. It was for sale in Blackpool sands, in Devon. We used to go there for our holidays in the school six weeks. My parents didn't have the money to take us abroad. By us I mean me and my sister. She's younger than me. I do have a brother too but he hasn't long been born so he managed to escape the embarrassing moments on the beach with mum and dad. Anyway, I wanted to buy this land so I could build stunning apartments that overlooked the beach. Plus I knew I'd be on the money. The more I thought about it, the more nervous I got. I'd done all my perpetration the night before so I grabbed my stuff and went straight to my meeting.

The day was long and dragged out. I'd spent 12 hours stuck in a board room, full of men. Too much testosterone for my liking.. The guys seemed intimated by me, none of them were familiar with battling it out, going head to head with a woman. And not to blow my own trumpet, but I knew my stuff. More than most of them put together. But as it turned out, those 12 dragged out hours were SO worth it. I pulled it off and managed to grab my hands on the land. I couldn't wait to get home and celebrate with my girls. I invited them round for drinks and food at mine. I'm not much of a party animal these days, hate to sound so cliche but I've been there, done it, got the T-shirt and probably a whole wardrobe too. Staying in, to me, was the new going out.

As soon as I got home, I put the food on and jumped in the shower. I put my joggers on with a little crop top. The girls said it had to be a slumber party. I scrunched my hair so it was kinda wavy, applied a bit of mascara and was ready. That's my essential, I always had to have mascara on. I'd feel all nude without it. I quickly sprayed my perfume and ran downstairs. Only to find Lady sat staring at the saucepan, she couldn't take her eyes off the spaghetti bolognese I was making. She was such a beg but I only had myself to blame. I'd spoilt her rotten and only fed her the best food, human food. I'd cook chicken, lamb, mince, whatever was on offer at the shops, with rice everyday since she came in to my life.

The front door bell rang so I rushed to the door and greeted the girls. Jenny, Eve and Kate. The girls informed me that Amy couldn't make it tonight as she was out on a date. I teased and pretended to throw up and the girls climbed through the door, throwing themselves on the sofa. Kate had made her way in to the kitchen and brought 4 wine glasses back with her and continued to pour us all a drink. Eve grabbed some things out of her bag and threw them on the table, a few magazines and some chocolate. I weren't really in to reading trashy magazines, but the cover of one caught my attention. It was Jess on the front cover. And the title read "Has Jessie J found love?" I picked it up and furiously started skipping through the pages. There was a 4 page spread in there, claiming she'd been dating some rapper called Tinie Tempah for the last 6 months, but they had tried to cover it up. I couldn't help but feel mad, talk about a party pooper. It changed my whole mood. And the girls picked up on it straight away. Jenny jumped and sat next to me, wrapping her arm around me asking if I was okay. I brushed it off and said I was fine. Then got up and left to serve the food. Unintentionally, I'd left the magazine on the page I was reading... Kate wondered in to the kitchen and started asking me if I knew Jessie J and why all of a sudden I was in a bad mood. I denied it and said nope, never seen her in my life. And said I was interested because I heard Tinie was supposedly dating one of my friends. I'm such a terrible liar, but I think I managed to pull the wool over her eyes. She helped me dish the dinner up, then carry it in to the rest of the girly gang. But just as I sat down to eat my dinner, the doorbell rang. I jumped up to grab it as I shouted back to the girls "maybe Amy's date didn't go so well..." But as I looked out, there was no one there. I wandered back in to the lounge and shook my head, how strange. The girls quizzed me about who it was and I explained no one was there. It was kind of creepy as we had just started watching a horror movie. But 5 minutes later, the doorbell rang again. I jumped up and attempted to be quicker this time to catch the little shite. As I opened the door I went to run out, but on my way I bumped in to someone stood in my doorway, with their back turned to me. They had a long black jacket on, with a hood and skinny jeans. As I accidentally knocked in to them, they turned round to face me.