A Love to Remember h.s

Three

    "JESS! JESSSSSSS! I'm hungry!" Lucy whined waking me from my slumber.

    "Ugh," I grumbled, "Just go get something from the fridge." I stuffed my face back into my pillow.

    "Jess! Did you forget we just moved in today? We don't have anything in the fridge... We don't even have a fridge!" Lucy ripped the blanket off of me and pulled me out of bed.

    "Well what time is it?" I questioned.

    "It's 9:30, and I think most places are open until midnight," she said pulling out her phone.

    "Well then let's go get ready I guess," I said finally getting up off of the floor.

    I threw on some sweatpants and put my hair up in a bun. I thought I was ready to go as I exited my room, but Lucy stopped me with a look that said, "are you kidding me?"

    "What?" I asked her, clearly confused as to why my attire concerns her.

    "No, no, no. Jess, if we are going out tonight, we are going to spend our first night in London in style! We're going to Veno's! Go get that cute little black romper that I know you have hidden in one of those boxes." She ordered.

    I groaned and stumbled back into my room. I knew I wouldn't be able to fight it. I found a small box labeled "Date Night." I sighed thinking about Tyler.

    "Hmm," I said to myself, "It's gotta be in here." Just as I suspected, it was sitting right at the top of the box, waiting to be worn for perhaps a different occasion, but this will settle. I trashed my other outfit and threw this one on with a pair of my signature red pumps. With a swipe of mascara and some lipgloss I was out into the living room for my outfit to be approved.

    "O M G Jess! You look incredible! You should dress up more often!" Lucy complimented.

    "Aw Luce, you look amazing too!" I blushed at my best friend.

Lucy and I had never really gotten into a fight before. Other than the time we met in kindergarten when I found her on the swings with Timmy Turner, the boy of my dreams; or so I thought. Turns out that boy was playing hide and seek with Alyssa over the weekends, so we joined forces and ditched him as a game of our own. We've been inseparable ever since.

We walked a couple of blocks from our apartment until we reached an expensive looking restaurant. I knew this was the place before even looking at the sign.

"Apparently a ton of celebrities hit up this place when they're in town," Lucy said looking up from her map. "Maybe we'll be lucky enough to find some!"

I nudged her, "Yeah maybe."

"Table for two?" A tall, skinny man asked us.

    "Yes please." I said with a nod. He looked at us like we couldn't afford to be at a place as nice as this, but I brushed it off. I'm not letting him ruin my first night in London.

    He showed us to our seats and blatantly snatched the wine glasses from the table, as if we were too young to use them.

"Fine, I didn't want to pay that outrageous amount for wine anyways," Lucy muttered. I stifled a laugh.

"Welcome to Veno's! I'm Dylan. What can I offer for your beverages this evening, ladies?" A man dressed in the same clean cut outfit the host was wearing asked us. He must be our waiter.

Lucy and I looked at each other, "I'll have water," Lucy said.

"I'll have a sweet tea please," I said with a grin, knowing the answer.

"Sorry ma'am we don't serve sweet tea. I can make you a glass of tea and bring some sugar out." He apologized.

"No that's alright. I'll just have a coke." I smiled.

"Alright, I have a water and a coke coming out shortly. Any appetizers?"

"Just some breadsticks when you get a chance." I asked.

He nodded.

"So do you see any celebrities?" Lucy asked as she scanned the room. "I really hope Justin Bieber is here!"

"Haha phat bet!" I said back to her.

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Dinner was nice and the check wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

"We gotta get home and get some sleep. We have a big day tomorrow." I told Lucy

As Lucy and I left, I could have sworn time stopped for a second as I saw the curly haired British HUNK walk in with a few other attractive men. I swear that is the same guy from before... I need to catch Lucy up on that later.

    Lucy and I spent the taxi ride home gossiping while I filled her in on my events of the day before the dress competition.

    "Speaking of men, have you talked to Tyler since we left?" Lucy asked, nudging me.

    "No, I haven't even had a chance to check my phone." I reached into my purse and pulled out my phone. It immediately lit up with over 5 text messages and phone calls from the AWOL boyfriend.

    "Dang! That's a lot of text messages," Lucy said looking over my shoulder at the 3 texts I received, "are you going to reply to him?"

    "NO!" I angrily huffed as I turned on read receipts and threw my phone back in my purse. "He didn't care enough to come say bye to me at the airport, therefore I shouldn't care enough to reply to him."

    "Okay but Jess, he could have a legitimate excuse for not showing up. Did you even look at the texts?"

    "Uh no? I don't need to" I replied angrily. "He'll just be apologizing to me and begging for forgiveness anyways."

    "Give me your phone then, I'll see what he has to say." Jess said grabbing my phone out of my purse. "Hmm let's see. The first one says 'hey babe want to grab lunch?' The second one says 'babe you there?' and the last one says 'hey are you okay? You're not answering your phone."

    "Oh my gosh I forgot we pushed our flight up one week and didn't tell him!" I gasped, grabbing my phone out of her hand. Oh my gosh I am so stupid. Here I am thinking it was his fault.. It was actually mine!"

    Lucy glared at me, "You're in some deep trouble Jess."

    "I know... but I don't have time for that tonight since we need sleep. I'll just text him saying that I'll call him tomorrow and everything is alright." I feel bad, considering I'm halfway across the world, and he doesn't even know. What am I going to do?

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