The One (o.m. & c.f.)

10. What A Buzz

Me and Jack had started dating in January and so far it had been going good he works away a lot since he was the manager of the band Discloser however I sometimes went with him since I didn’t want to do a fourth year of xtra.

 It was June and me and Olly had slowly become friends again, he apologised multiple times and I realised I needed Olly if I had a fall out with Jack and the same with him and Francesca. I had signed up for Strictly 2014 which was another reason why I couldn’t have done Xtra this year.

“Olly!” I hugged him after not seeing him for a month.

“Caz!” He imitated my greeting.

“Where we off?” We were in the centre of London just meeting up for some food and a coffee to catch up.

“I know this cute coffee shop that’s not too far away where there won’t be press” He linked my arm, it was obvious that he was serious about Francesca normally he would be either holding me by my waist or holding my hand. We walked for a good 10 minutes until we arrived at a little coffee shop I was almost certain that we had been to before. We sat down at a table near a window. Outside was a beautiful view of the Thames. The deco inside was very vintage and had multiple bikes in pastel colours dotted around.

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“Caroline, you want to get a drink?” Olly my new co-host asked me, it was our second week working together on the Xtra Factor.

“Like now?” I asked wondering if he was hitting on me.

“Yeah like coffee” he replied.

“That’d be nice, I thought you were asking me for drinks” I laughed.

“No that’s what I was going to do over coffee” he winked and I looked at him blankly. “Caz I was joking, go get your bag”

We walked down the main roads which lead to a cobbled street. At the bottom there was a little cafe decorated all vintage. ‘Dawn would love it’ I thought to myself. Olly held the chipped blue door open and inside it looked exactly how I pictured it, blues, pinks, greens. A lady walked over to us in a cute floral print apron.

“Hiya what would you like to drink?”

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“We’ve been here before” I blurted.

“We have, I was waiting for you to remember”

“I do it was at the start of Xtra” I beamed, remembering small details was hard for me and I was proud that I could still see it clearly. “It’s where you asked me about Harry” I started twirling a spoon around in my coffee, I hated remembering the past. Especially mine and Harry’s.

“Caz that’s in the past, now you have Jack, you look so happy together” He grabbed hold of my hand and held it in comfort. “Come on finish your skinny latte or whatever crap you’re drinking, we’ll go on a walk”

“Vanilla skinny latte and okay” I drank the rest and stood up this time Olly took my hand in his as we walked out.

We walked down the south bank and the festival of love was on so we sat on a bench and shared a frozen yogurt. Before continuing further down near the London Eye, the crowds are way busier down there than near the festival of Love so it wasn’t too long until Olly got recognised by some young girls, soon a circle had formed around us including paparazzi and members of the public.

“One...Two...Three” Olly whispered. We ran on three, it took us a while to the escape crowds but we hid around a corner both panting.

“This. Is. Why. I. Don’t. Go. Anywhere. With. You.” I said trying to get my breath back.

“This is why I don’t go out, let’s call a taxi and get you home”

We got to my house; I kissed Olly on the cheek in the taxi and got out alone.

“Bye Caz” he waved as they set off again.

I got in and Jack was home laid on the sofa.

“How was your date?”He joked.

“Well we went for a coffee then we went for a walk and got chased” I picked his legs up and sat down before placing them on my lap.

“You want some coffee?” he got up and walked over to the kettle.

“Sure, milky but strong” I called while getting my phone out. I took a photo and put it on instagram:

Taught him well;)

I also texted Olly asking if he got home ok, he replied quite quickly saying that he was fine.

August soon came around and I was asked to go on BBC radio one to do innuendo bingo, which I reluctantly said yes to. Me, Scott and Chris were sat in the Radio One studio, me opposite Chris in headphones and Scott sat behind the desk.

“This is a good one this, watch this on your mobile phone or when you get home on the radio one’s youtube channel” Scott said.

I didn’t really understand the concept, I was soaking by the second round and I only had the pair of jeans I was wearing on me.

I left radio one and went straight to Elstree Studios to film Strictly and meet our partners. Luckily I changed my outfit while I was there I wore a blue playsuit with diamantes on.

“Caroline Flack, your partner is going to be.. PASHA KOVALEV” Tess Daly smiled. Pasha danced over to us and picked me up causing me to squeal.