Olivia
"How quick would you be able to do it?" Steve asked, I can't believe he was going to let me do the album cover, this was huge for my career. All I ever did was small jobs for little companies, although it always paid off because the reviews I received were always amazing.
"Probably a week, I'm only working on one other design at the moment but I would have to push a few other ones back which I'm sure my clients would understand" I tried not to sound to excited but Van was standing to the side of us smiling at me so maybe I wasn't doing a good job of hiding it.
"Perfect, thank you Olivia!" Steve gave me a very manly handshake and disappeared off out of the room.
After a couple minutes of chatting to Van about how amazing this is we headed out. I wanted to get straight back home to work on this new project despite it being the weekend, if I finished it quicker I might not have to push back my other projects. Van was sweet, he always held his arm out to me when we were walking so that we could link our arms. His jawline could cut paper and his eyelashes were unfairly long, I really liked him. I definitely did have feelings for him but there was no way he was going to feel the same about me so I needed to brush my feelings aside, him and his friends have become such good friends of mine and I wasn't going to risk losing this.
I remembered that I promised my sister Katie that I'd drop off her clothes, she needed them for tomorrow and the time was 10PM, she only stayed 10 minutes away but it wasn't a walk, it was a drive. Van has actually been at mines all day, I made carbonara for tea and he kept rambling on about how it's the best thing he's ever eaten but that was definitely a lie. I was at my computer working away all day and he was sat on my couch watching the tv, his company was nice. Still I had no clue why he wanted to spend all day at mines watching the tv when he could just do that at home or go out with his friends instead. Anyway, I had to go to Katie's or she'd kill me so my time with Van was coming to an end. My sister lived with her 3 year old daughter Emily who I absolutely adored, I haven't seen her much recently though due to how busy I am at work but I miss her so I've got to start making time for them.
"I've got to go to my sisters and drop of some clothes, thank you for keeping me company all day though" I pick my car keys up off the table as he sits up and stretches, the bottom of his top lifts up but fuck I needed to stop thinking of him like that.
"If we walk to mines I'll drive and once you've dropped your clothes of we can do for a drive as the sun goes down?" Why he was so keen to hang out with me I had no clue, surely he'd rather drink with his mates or something but I wasn't complaining.
We hopped in to vans car and after guiding him to my sisters for 10 minutes I jumped out to give her the clothes she wanted. Katie was eyeing up Van who was in the car with Emily in her arms who soon ended up in my arms. As much as I wanted to stay I couldn't as Van was literally waiting for me in the car.
"Who's mr John Travolta?" Katie asked raising her brows at me.
"My friend Van" I replied as Emily had her arms wrapped round me, normally she was full of life but it was well past her bed time.
"I see... friend" the wink she gave me was so unnecessary
"Yes friend, and I can't keep him waiting much longer so I'll see you two soon"
"Bye auntie Liv" Emily whispered.
I said goodbyes to them and hopped back in to vans car, he had a huge smile on his face but I had no clue why. I shot him a confused look but he shook his head and turned the music up, playing 'sticks n stones' by Jamie T way too loud and nailing absolutely every lyric.
It must have been midnight by now, we've been driving around the country lanes blasting music for a while. One of his hands was on the wheel and the other on the handbrake like that time he first picked me up.
"You know I didn't really know I could get this close with a girl again after my ex" his eyes drifted from the road to me. "Thank you Liv, for everything" The Look on his face was so genuine and with every move his dimple showed making him look all cute.
"Me too, obviously you know my ex was a prick so thank you for showing me that not everyone's like that." Instead of saying anything, he just looked at me and smiled, that's all I needed.
"You cold Liv?" By the time I was able to answer him he reached into the back and grabbed a jacket and handed it to me, we were both just wearing t-shirts but he didn't look like he needed it.
Just a short chapter, got some good things planned for the next few chapters so stick around :) x
