#jaylena

She had arrived at 11 and we had planned on spending the whole day together, having lunch, dance-parties, general gossiping and watching ‘friends’ episodes.

‘So,’ she started a smile spreading across her face, ’How’s Joe doing?’ She leaned back blowing on her fingernails trying to persuade the mint green shade to dry.

I shook my head at her and laughed a little, ‘Joe is doing fine’ I couldn’t help but smile every time someone mentioned his name, the way he made me feel was so different to how anyone else had ever done before.

‘Look at you smiling! You’re so smitten with him’ she hit my shoulder lightly, in a teasing manner, careful not to smudge anything.

‘Umm, you’ve met him, right?’ I said my eyebrows raising and a smirk plastering itself on my face, ‘I have every reason to be smitten.’ I stuck my tongue out at her before I realised that she was distracting me with the idea of Joe so she didn’t have to talk about her love life.

‘Hey! You’re avoiding a specific conversation, aren’t you? I narrowed my eyes at her, scrunching up my face, I knew her too well.

‘No!’ She said looking extremely guilty, gazing down at her nails again, she smiled slightly.

‘how’s your boyfriend doing’ I raised my eyebrows, ‘Has he taken you places you’ve never been before’ i finished dramatically, a specific reference to one of his songs.

She gave me a look that said ‘I can’t believe you just did that’ before answering, ‘Justin is fine, I’ll have you know he is a lot better than he used to be.’ She finished, a proud look sweeping across her face.

I smiled at her, glad she was happy, ‘He better be’ i gave her a warning look then i continued to waft my hands in the air trying to get my decorated nails to dry.

‘Anyway, we were talking about your man not mine, what’ve you guys been up to?’ she smirked, turning the conversation back to me, she never liked talking about herself, she would prefer to hear other people’s voices than her own.

‘Oh, ya know, not much, just doing couple-y things which is nice and we do date night,’ my voice was excited as I told Selena this, the expression on her face almost as happy as mine, suddenly I remembered, ‘which is actually normally tonight, but, he’s away, so we won’t’ my mood had changed, and I looked around the room, wondering if I could see one of the cats anywhere.

I looked back up at Selena and said sheepishly, ‘I miss him.’

‘Oh, hun’ she sighed slightly, ‘I can guarantee that he misses you too especially all the date nights you have and all the sex and all the meals you share and movies you watch.’ She smiled at me, waving her hand around as if implying he missed everything about me. She then brought me in for a very awkward hug as we tried not to mess up the paint that was so close to being fully dried.

I laughed at her slightly, ’Is it wrong to say I hope so?’ I asked, the worry evident in my voice.

‘It is the most normal thing in a relationship like yours’ she put her hand on my knee rubbing it slightly in comfort and reassurance.

‘Oh, and uh, who said we have a lot of sex?’ My mind only just realising what she had said, I raised my eyebrows at her, waiting for an explanation.

She laughed at this, ’Sweetie, you’re obsessed with touching him, every time I see you you’re playing with his hair, you have your hand on his knee, who knows what you do when no ones around! Helped by the fact you’ve been radiating happiness, which only comes from good, frequent sex, ever since you started dating.’ There was silence as she stopped talking.

My mouth slightly open, I could feel my cheeks reddening slightly as I smiled.

‘But he’s just so good!’ I whispered even though it was only us there, we both laughed at this, enjoying how our conversation was just so easy and honest all the time.

As time went by, we continued chatting and I couldn’t help but miss the times when we would catch up every weekend. I missed being closer to her, I missed having conversations all day long about the same topic and never seeming to get bored.

I looked at the clock as It said 5, ‘Shit, it’s already 5. Do you want me to make dinner or shall we just order pizza as usual?’ I asked, hoping she would just want pizza so we could continue our conversation.

She smiled at me, knowing what I was thinking, ‘Pizza is good.’

I ordered 2 pizzas, margarita and a ham and pineapple. We sat on the sofa, the boxes on the coffee table, enjoying the stringy cheese and doughy base and crust.

Half way through my third slice I heard the familiar sound of the key in the door.

We looked at each other, frowns visible on both our faces as we wondered who that could be. The only people who had spare keys were my parents, security and Joe…

Both my parents and security would’ve called first, which could only mean one thing.

As I realised, the door opened and a smile spread across my face, I ran to him, I ran into the arms of my flawless boyfriend who I hadn’t seen for a week and a half.

‘What the fuck are you doing here?’ I asked, my voice muffled as I buried my head into his neck, hugging him as tight as I could.

He laughed and leaned back, ‘I thought I’d surprise you’ he smiled before leaning into kiss me. I could taste the longing on his lips. He deepened the hello, placing his hands on my waist and pulling me towards him. It was slow and calm yet still held all the intensity and passion I needed. Just as we were getting excited, we heard a cough from behind us.

I turned around smiling, my back leaning into Joe’s chest, I saw Selena, leaning against the door frame, arms folded, eyebrows raised.

‘You can reunite, and I’m sure you will, later, but we have unfinished girl talk,’ the smirk on her face was obvious as she knew that we knew what reunite meant. She stepped forward and grabbed my hand leading me back to the sofa.

‘Good to see you too Sel.’ Joe winked at her and laughed as he took his coat off and walked into the living room behind us. I was sitting on the sofa, my back leaning against the cushions, as Joe came up behind me and put his hands on my shoulders, ‘Ooh is that a margarita?’ he said cheerily, squeezing my shoulders.

He walked over to the coffee table and picked up a slice fitting half of it in his mouth at once, I laughed shaking my head.

‘Are you laughing at my eating?’ he raised his eyebrows at me, pretending to be offended, a hurt look on his face.

‘I have no problem with your eating’ I retorted smiling innocently at him.

‘Yeah, no problem when I’m eating you’ he smirked at me, a cheeky look in his eyes.

‘Okay, that’s enough of that!’ Selena exclaimed, her eyes widening and her hands covering her ears. I laughed at her reaction and smirked at Joe.

We continued the banter-y conversation as the minutes ticked by and at around 9 pm Selena suddenly exclaimed,

‘Shit, is that the time? I should go and leave you two to… yourselves… This was lovely T, we need to do it more often’ we got up and made our way to the door, I gave her a tight hug after she had put her coat and shoes on and she gave Joe a brief hug as well.

‘Look after her’ she pointed at him, raising her eyebrows.

‘Oh, I will.’ He winked and smiled, an arm encircling my waist bringing my side into his.

‘Ew,’ is all Selena said in response and laughed before we said our final farewells, promising to text each other later.

I shut the door behind her and turned around to see Joe smiling at me.

‘Hey,’ he said as he took a few steps towards me, his hands instantly going to my waist, ‘I missed you,’ he smiled before taking my lips in his.

‘mmm’ I murmured as I smiled into his kiss, ‘I missed you too’ my hands went to the back of his neck, tugging at the blonde strands.

‘It’s date night’ I whispered as I pulled away and let our foreheads touch gently, ‘what shall we do?’ I bit my lip and smiled at him. God, I’d missed this.

‘I have a pretty good idea of something we’d both enjoy.’ He smirked and once again caught my lips in his, as though he wanted to trap me in his web, as though he never wanted to let me go.