The Holiday

5. "You work in sales?"

As I make my way down the stairs I look out the big glossy window near the door to see absolute darkness, id only been up there for 15 minutes tops and it had changed so quickly. I can here music and laughter coming from down the hall, I could totally get lost in this house, if I'm not careful. I decide to take a left toward the music as that's probably more likely to lead me to where I'm meant to be. "Hey, are you Tillie or Jenna?" A deep male voice asks
"What?" I reply, unsure how to form a normal answer
"Ar-e  yo-u  Till-iee  or are y-ou J-enna" the voice mocks
"Jenna" I say simply, I want to get out of this situation, but then I remember
" OMG, are you Joe??" I squeal a smile forming on my face. The boy steps closer into the light to reveal himself "no unfortunately not, we're all this way you know?" The boy points back in the direction were I came from and I instantly feel silly, like an intruder.
" oh I'm sorry, I wasn't sure. I thought I heard music coming from this way" I say sheepishly
"Yeah, that's probably tommy forgetting to turn it off" the boy smiles. And something in that smile reminds me of something, like I've seen it before somewhere.
"come on, I'll show you" the boy laughs , holding the door open for me leading to yet another hallway.
"I'm Nick by the way" he says, biting his lip in a cute, shy sort of way.
" I'm Jenna" i reply,
" I know" he laughs his eyes squinting together
" oh god, yeah sorry... it's the jet lag" I quickly recover
"Yeah, I know what you mean. I've just got back from Australia" Nick states
"Yeah? Why where you in Australia?" I ask curious to know
"Oh just work stuff" he answers with a wink
" oh, what kind of work stuff?" I ask genuinely interested
" oh...well, mainly promoting, I guess" he shrugs
" oh so you're a sales person, like you sell things?" I press, " I'm taking business and sales, in university. You'll have to help me get a head start, tell me some things I may need to know" I say enthusiastically
" part of my job is sales, I guess you could say that" Nick laughs nervously, while leading me into a huge open plan dinning area. There is a big table full of food and candles dotted around everywhere And music is playing softly amongst conversation,
We are cut short by the laughter of what can only be my mum. " Hey Jenna. Your hear! We've been waiting for you" my mum pulls me into her arms while giggling
" ok, that's enough wine for now mrs, let's get some food into you" my dad takes the glass from her and places it on the kitchen counter before leading my mum to a chair. " it's only been half an hour and shes already drunk?" I whisper to dad in confusion "yeah Emily kept refilling our glasses" my dad laughs while pulling a chair out for me to sit next to my mother. " mum, dad, till, jen, meet joe!" Jamie exclaims, a boy with dark flowy hair and a nervous smile stands hand in hand next to Jamie, he's shorter than my brother and isn't as bulky as him, but he's no where near lanky either, you can see the uncertainty in both of their eyes, like they're waiting for Something bad to happen.
"Joe" my dad gets up from his chair to shakes his hand "it's nice to meet you", my mum follows, but gives him a big hug instead "you are gorgeous, no wonder our Jamie fell for you" she slurs, while cupping his cheeks with her hands, Jamie blushes as my father gently releases her from joe and leads her back to her seat. "This is Tillie and this is Jenna" Jamie points out and joe gives both of us a generous toothy grin "Jamie has told me a lot about you 2" joe laughes and comes over to give us a hug. I place a small pile of salad onto my plate and hope no one notices I don't go for lasagna, I don't think they do as we're all too busy in our conversation, I can hear Tillie chatting to Michelle and June about something, probably linked to Instagram. Jamie and joe are talking to my mum about were they will take us in Seattle and My dad and I are talking to Nick, Tommy and Max about school and work.
"So Nick, Jamie tells me your an actor, will i have seen you in anything?" My dad asks his eyebrows knitting together
In interest. "Err yeah, you might of... I was in this TV show, I don't know if many people in England know about it.Melissa and Joey. I did that until I was 18 and then I've been in a couple of movies as well" Nick says sheepishly coughing a little to ease the awkwardness. "Holy shit" I blurt out forgetting were I actually am. Everyone goes quite, interested in why I suddenly just cursed in front of an 8 year old and 2 14 year olds. I go bright red and slump back in my chair in order to hide my humiliation. "Language" my dad whispers in utter disappointment " I'm so so sorry" I mutter. I can hear Nick and Tommy sniggering in the background, no let me refraise that I can here Tommy and Nick Robinson sniggering in the back ground.Nick f**king Robinson. I instantly feel nauseous "may I be excused, I need some air" I quickly leave the table and head for the front door. "Hey, you ok?" Nick calls after me " I...Err...Um... your Nick flipping Robinson" I exhale a loud thunderous breath of disbelief. This can't be real. " yeah I'm Nick" he laughs " a normal person" he says slowly
"Stop making fun of me, this is a flipping big thing for me, I used to have  a massive crush on you when I was like 15!" I say in all honesty, and immediately regret it. Why would I  say that, I'm so stupid.
Nick puts his hand on his heart mockingly "used to?" He says pouting his lips
"What do you mean?" I say defensively
"you used to have a crush on me?? What am I not good enough for you anymore?" He teases "Jenna, I am heart broken"
"Piss off, I probably stopped liking you when you turned into an arse hole" I say, a smile growing on my face.
"You said, you worked in sales you Git" I laugh
"wow, Jenna you need to stop showering me with your weird English insults, they aren't working because I haven't got a clue what your saying and I said part of my job is in sales" Nick states with a smug grin on his face
"I didn't say what the other part was!" He continues
"Okay that's not the point, nobody told me we where staying with a celebrity"I whine
"Nothing's changed I'm just a normal person"Nick laughs
"But... I feel uncomfortable as it is meeting new people, let alone someone I would daydream about about when I was younger, this is a whole new kind of weird" I need to stop blurting things out, especially the things I vowed to take to my grave. "Daydreamed huh?" Nick teases "shut up" I bark
We go quiet, I can feel my pulse quickening and hear my breathe against the warm breeze
"I feel uncomfortable in front of new people too" Nick announces, interrupting the silence. "You do?" I say, disbelief in my tone
"Yeah me!" He laughs "what does this not fit in with the macho man you created in your head" he continues, a grin on his face " you where never a Macho man to me , I liked your baby face" I laugh and he does too.
"Anyway we better go back inside" Nick states, while getting up from the porch steps and holding out his hand for me "can I meet you in there? I just need a couple more minutes"
"Sure" he says,
as soon as he closes the front door
behind him, I let out a much needed breath. What has just happened?