The Wedding Planner (Jelsa)

Chapter 8

A:N: Sorry this update is late, plus shorter than usual. I haven't really had time to write but as this is a short story after this chapter we have 2 left! Hope you are all still enjoying it though. :)

Work had been hectic recently and being around Jack wasn't helping. I loved him and all, but lately, he had just been stressing me out more than doing me any good. He had a good-paying job, so didn't have to work as much but I was working as a nurse so I often spent a lot of time at work. He complained that I rarely saw him because I worked so much, but I was sad that he couldn't understand that I was doing it because I loved my job. I also decided to do nursing because I was passionate to try and help as many people as I could.

He said that I didn't have to work, knowing money wasn't an issue. We have had many arguments about my job, he just never seems to understand. Yet I always forgive him, we're engaged to be married after all. I just wish he could be more understanding, that money isn't the issue. I just want to be independent, be able to provide for myself if the worst ever was to happen. Ultimately though I just wish he could see that I wasn't in my profession for the money, I was in my profession because it was a job I want to do and that I was genuinely passionate about. 

He didn't seem to have that passion so it's no surprise he didn't seem to understand my point of view, it's just a shame that I hadn't found someone that could. he was witty, understanding when we first met. that's what made me fall for him, but I don't know if it had been the recent stress of the wedding but he had seemed to change, he was slowly becoming less the man I fell in love with but more like someone I hadn't met before. Every day the wedding was getting closer, but every day I felt like we were getting further apart. Every day I felt less like the man in front of me was the fiancee I was yet to wed, but he felt more like a stranger.

"Rapunzel." My colleague breaks my thoughts, my body turning around to notice my colleague Ariel and a tan, handsome man standing next to her. His jaw was very defined, him looking very well built and not like a typical male nurse.

"This is Eugene, his a new nurse here that need showing around. I have a patient that I need to attend to so would you mind showing him around?" She asks and I throw on a friendly smile, a strange flutter of excitement firing up my stomach at the task of touring this handsome man around.

"Sure." She thanks me before going rushing off to leave the two of us to get acquainted, clearly in a rush to get back to her patient.

He throws on a smoulder as he calls it to try and charm me, but that immediately makes me laugh and relax around him. He makes me feel comfortable in his presence, our conversation as we walk around making us get to know more and more about each other. I look forward to working to him, surprised that he seems to be paying interest in what I am saying about my job, something Jack had recently neglected doing.

Why was I comparing Jack to Eugene though?

We had only just met, Jack I had been with for years. So why was it that I felt more comfortable and nervous around Eugene than I had with Jack in a long time?

"So, I've had a nice time chatting with you and I would like to continue this conversation maybe over dinner?" He asks, hesitant to do so. I smile noticing that he seems nervous.

"I'd love to." My smile radiates and is contagious as one also etches onto his face. Only when I walk away do I realise that what he asked me on may have been a date. I

My hand twiddles my ring finger, seeing the out marking of where my engagement ring was. I have to take it off for work, yet it provides me with a strange sense of relief lately to notice it no longer on my finger. He won't know I'm in a relationship, so he's not overstepping any boundaries and even though I am engaged a date with Eugene doesn't oppose my hesitations to do so. 

Maybe I should talk to Jack first though, talk about my concerns before I go on this date. I don't have to mention the date, after all, I do believe that something may be going on with him and Elsa. They think I am oblivious but I've noticed that they have been spending more time together than is likely to be normal between a groom and wedding planner. 

Maybe the signs that I am not jealous over this is a sign that I and Jack possibly aren't meant to be, my enthusiasm over the wedding is something that hasn't radiated with Jack. Maybe it's just that we are too different, but I thought that would be a good thing. Opposites attract right?

Lately, it seems that opposites repel though, his spending less and less time with me, but yet I am the same with him. Maybe marriage isn't the best idea after all?