Walking around the Trafford Centre with mum and Kate used to be a breeze; now I had to dodge people from wanting autographs and photos. I would usually stop, but not during family time. Today mum and Kate had dragged me out to Manchester to have a catch-up, which was just an excuse to go do some girly shopping whilst Jonathan and Michael took Jack to watch his first ever football match; and it wasn’t ‘watch’ in the conventional sense when it concerned a seven week old baby where they would genuinely watch the football at the pub - they had taken him to an actual football match at a football stadium. Also, mum and Kate used it as an excuse to get me out of the house for once; ever since George had begun to do Union J’s mini-tour, I’d hardly spoken to him and instead just spent my time indoors watching Christmas movies in bed.
As we sat down for a coffee in Starbucks, Kate looked at me grinning. “What?” I asked after a while of her grinning at me.
“There’s a reason behind this shopping trip,” she smiled.
“A catch-up, isn’t it?” I asked, confused.
“No,” she laughed, waving her left hand in front of my face.
“Whoa,” I said in shock as I noticed the diamond ring on her ring finger. “He proposed?”
“He proposed last night,” Kate beamed. “But that’s not all.”
“You’re pregnant?”
“No!” Kate laughed. “We’re getting married on New Years’ Day.”
“That soon?” I asked, still in shock.
Kate and Jonathan had been together since before mum and Michael had even met. I never thought of neither Kate nor Jonathan to be the marrying type, but obviously I was wrong. “And..” Kate paused. “We’re getting married in the Bahamas.”
I sat looking at her in shock. “The Bahamas?”
Kate and mum nodded, looking as excited as each other. “The Bahamas.”
“Not at..” I began but Kate interrupted me.
“Yes, at the Atlantis resort.”
I sat looking at her again in shock. Ever since me, mum and Kate looked up expensive holidays on the internet a few years ago, we’d all wanted to go to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas but it was way too expensive – even just looking up at it on the internet made mum’s bank account cry. “Jonathan booked it all last week,” Kate grinned.
“So what happens though if you had said no,” I laughed. “That’s amazing though. I’m so happy for you.”
“Sammy,” Kate said. “Would you do me the honour of being my bridesmaid?”
I sipped on my cup of coffee as Kate waited for an answer. “Of course I will,” I grinned.
“That’s the real reason we came here,” Kate smiled. “Dress shopping.”
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The Heartbreak Factor - Part One
FanfictionSammy Jones enters the X Factor to try and fulfil her late father's dream, but little does she know her journey won't be as smooth running as it is made out to be as she falls in love with a fellow contestant.
