I finish doing my makeup before starting on my hair. I've just done some light makeup and I'm just curling my hair. I walk to my closet and throw on some sweats. Before sliding my shoes on. I grab a granola bar from the pantry and a bottle of water from the fridge. Right as I'm about to walk out the door, my phone starts buzzing. I see Jed's name as the collar id and my heart drops a little. We've been having problems the last week and have been talking briefly about breaking up. It's just hard when we never see each other. The girls know a little about it, but I haven't told them much. I take a deep breath and then answer the call.
"Hello?" I say.
"Hey babe, how're you?" he says.
"I'm heading to sound check what about you?" I ask.
"I'm about to go to bed, it's almost midnight," he says.
"Is that why you called?" I ask.
"Sadly, no. I've just been thinking a lot and, I think we should break up. It's not healthy for us to be in this long-distance relationship. When you're waking up, I'm going to bed. When you're off, my tour just began. You know I love you and I always will, but I just feel like this is the right thing to do," he says, his voice breaking at the end.
My heart sank when he said that. I felt a few hot tears fall and I quickly wiped them away. "I hate to say it, but you're right. We can't keep living like this," I say honestly.
"You deserve someone so much better than me," he says.
"I won't find anyone as good as you," I say through tears.
"I love you," he says.
"Love you too," I say before hanging up.
I set the phone down on the counter and put my head in my hands. I cried for a few minutes before my phone buzzed again. This time, it was Leigh sending a picture of where we were performing. I glance up at the time. "Oh, shit," I say under my breath. I was supposed to leave ten minutes ago. I pull myself together and walk quickly to the car. We're meant to be performing "Bounce Back," on tv today. It's our first performance of the song considering it came out a few days ago.
I arrive at the venue and see that all the other girls' cars are here. Normally we take a car, but this building is right down the street from us so we didn't need to meet up. I grab my bag and head in. I walk through the lobby in a deep train of thought. Trying to process what just happened. I reached the door of the dressing room that read "Little Mix." I sigh and quickly took out my phone to use as a mirror. I wiped the few remaining tears away and put on a lot of concealer to hide the fact that I was crying. This was supposed to be an exciting day, promoting the new single, and I didn't want to ruin it. I took a few deep breaths before heading in.
I open the door and walk in. "Well, it's about time you got here," Jesy said, jokingly. "Sorry, something came up," I said quietly. Suddenly the room got uncomfortably quiet, you could almost hear a pin drop. "Jade, are you okay?" Perrie asked, her eyes full of concern. "Yeah, why?" I say, avoiding eye contact. "You look sad, you're not your usual bubbly self, and your voice sounds like you've been crying," she said. I've got to give it to Perrie, sometimes I think that she knows me better than I know myself. Perrie walked over to me and knelt down beside me. "Do you want to talk outside?" she asks me in almost a whisper tone. I nod and she grabs my hand. "We'll be right back," she calls out to Leigh and Jesy. Once we were in the hallway of the dressing room, she grabbed both of my hands and looked me in the car. "What's going on?" she asks. "Jed and I broke up," I said, allowing the tears to flow freely down my face. "Come here," she said, pulling me into a much needed hug. We stayed like that for at least two minutes. Her saying things like, "It's okay," or "I love you," to try and calm me down. Once I had calmed down a little, I pulled away and she grabbed y hand again. "Do you want to back in there and talk to Leigh and Jesy," she asks. I nodded an we walked back into the room. "Are you okay?" Jesy asked me once she saw me in tears. "Jed and I broke up," I said, starting to cry again. "Aww babe, Leigh said giving me a hug with Jesy following. We all stayed in a group hug for a little bit.
"Why didn't you tell us sooner?" Leigh asks. "I didn't want to ruin today. It was supposed to be fun," I said. "Don't worry about that, you don't have to perform if you don't want to," Jesy said. "No, I want to," I say, making the girls all smile. "It was mutual, and we both still love each other, which makes it kind of worse in a way. I would rather have a bad breakup, so I had a reason to hate him," I say, making the girls laugh slightly. "It's okay, we've got you," Perrie says, while we did another group hug, before going out for soundcheck.
a/n: i was trying to base it off these pictures, which i think might have been when they broke up, looking at like when they stopped liking each others pictures and stuff
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