Sugar, Baby?

Can we just talk?

A/N: This is the gif I pulled my new icon pic from. Has to be one of my favs of them! They're just so cute and smiley💛

Okay, on to the chapter!

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    "Oh, Jadey," Jesy says concernedly, patting her knee. Jade seems a bit shocked at Jesy initiating contact, and shoots me a look. I nod my head and give her a smirk.

She makes that silly moon-face back at me, in approval, of course, and I can't help but crack up.

"What's so funny?" Jes asks, pouting a bit. She doesn't like to feel left out, 'specially where Jade and I are concerned.

"Perrie's just laughing at me. 'Cos she's a dickhead."

"Jade!" Jesy scolds, and I laugh.

"I'm just happy to not be the butt of the joke, for once," I say with a smile.

"Well, you are a prostitute," Jade says, dead-eyed. "The jokes sort of write themselves."

"Quasi-prostitute," I remind her. "Or escort, really. Very high end," I tease.

"Well, do you have any quasi-prostitute/escort friends that I could woo and whisk away in a Pretty Woman sort of scenario?" she asks sulkily.

"Are you really asking?" I ask. "Cause I think I've got just the gal for you."

"I mean, I wasn't. But why not?. This whole arrangement seems to be working for the two of you, doesn't it?" Jade says, more to herself than to us. "Maybe you should show me a picture, and then I'll decide."

"Like, nudes, or?" I say, playing at being serious. "Because I do have some of those. She sometimes sends them to me. For review, of course," I assure Jesy with a cheeky wink, needing her to know even though she has no real claim on me.

"I mean, if you've got 'em..." Jade says, just as cheekily.

"Jade! No!" Jesy scolds, as serious as the two of us are not.

Jade laughs. "Relax, Jes, I'm just kidding. Perrie knows that. I just wanna see her face."

I laugh. "Lucky for you, I have pictures of that as well."

I ready a couple photos of Leigh and I together from my personal photo album, as well as pull up Leigh's instagram.

Jesy watches over my shoulder. "Wow, Jadey. She's just your type."

"Really?" Jade says, even more interested.

I hand her the phone and watch her eyes bug out of her head. "Well, she's gorgeous, in't she? How good of friends are you, Pez?"

"About like you and Jes. She's my best friend," I tell Jade honestly. "I obviously haven't seen her since I hopped aboard this jet with you lot, but we text or talk nearly every day."

"Would she want to join us for a little while?" Jesy asks seriously.

"Jesy, I don't know if that's a good idea," Jade says quickly, almost looking afraid. I've never really seen Jade look anything but self-assured before, and it's kind of weirding me out.

"It would just be to visit Pez," Jesy says. "No pressure on you. You don't even have to speak to her, if you don't want. Well, I mean, enough to be polite, but nothing past that. Though, it might do for you to be a little friendly, huh? Especially since you're all the way single now, and not just half-single."