#jceazer

Emerging from your room wearing one of your favourite dresses and having touched up your make-up you see Lenny sitting on the bed next to Lucy who looks sung in her fluffy white dressing gown. Lucy lets out a wolf whistle and you giggle, giving a little twirl.

“I could sit here for hours telling you how beautiful you are but we have to get going,” Lenny says, standing up and walking to the door. Everything Lenny says to you is always so intense it makes you smile about how honest and straightforward he is, even if it is incredibly cheesy. You say goodbye to Lucy and leave the hotel room, following Lenny. Grabbing your hand, the two of you walk out of the hotel and begin to walk down the street.

“I hope you don’t mind, the restaurant isn’t too far away and I walked here,” Lenny trails off. “No problem at all but it might help if you told me where we’re going,” you respond. “Be patient. You’ll find out soon enough,” Lenny laughs leading you down the street.

Taking a seat you look out the window of the Sydney Tower and hold your breath. “The view here is beautiful,” you gasp to Lenny. “I’m glad you think so. I really do love coming here, it never gets old,” Lenny replies, also staring out the window. “So do you bring all of your first dates here?” you ask jokingly but wanting to know the answer all the same. “Only the special ones,” Lenny responds, his face not leaving the window but a cheeky smile spreading across his face. Soon enough after you’ve ordered your food it gets delivered to your table and you both dig in.

“So, I don’t know if I actually want to know the answer to this but when are you heading back to Adelaide?” Lenny asks, taking a sip from his drink. “Um, tomorrow actually,” you respond pushing your food around your plate. “Is it bad of me to wish that there's a major problem at the airport so you have to stay longer?” Lenny asks with a laugh. “Probably but it’s probably also bad that I hope the same thing,” you giggle. “I have extra time off work so it’s not like it would affect me really.”

“What do you do for work?” Lenny asks curiously. “Not too long ago I got a job dealing with all the files and things at my local hospital actually,” you reply. “How about you?” “Um, funny story, I’m actually part of Justice Crew, my plans with the boys today were actually rehearsals with them” He says, shyly looking up at you waiting for a response. You sit frozen for what seems like eternity, not knowing what to do. This is something you should probably know but you can’t recall even ever hearing that name before. “I’m so sorry, I have no idea what that is, I feel like I should but I just don’t,” you say, your face going bright red. “Don’t worry!” Lenny exclaims. “I’m surprised you haven’t heard of us but I’m relieved at the same time. We’re actually a dance crew…” Lenny then continues to tell you all about Justice Crew, how it began, who’s in it, where they’ve been and the projects they’ve worked on. This conversation takes you all the way through dinner and then the walk back to the hotel room as well.

By the time you get back to your room you feel like you’ve been following Justice Crew from the start of their career. “I’m sorry for rambling on, time just went by so quickly,” Lenny sighs. “Don’t be sorry, I loved getting to know about your life and your work,” you smile in response. “It’s obvious how much you love the boys, your fans and what you do. That’s great to see.” You lean against the door to your hotel room and Lenny stands in front of you. “So what time is your flight back tomorrow?” he asks, looking into your eyes. “Not until 5:30pm so at least I get the morning in Sydney I guess. It’s so beautiful here I wish I never had to leave,” you sigh in response. “You get to spend the morning with me you mean?” Lenny retorts with a wink. “And for what it’s worth, I wish you never had to leave as well.” You smile and continue looking at Lenny. A grin plastered on his face but knowing that he’s just as cut up as you that you have to leave tomorrow.

“You don’t have to spend the morning with me if you have other plans or anything…” you begin saying but get cut off with Lenny’s lips on yours, kissing you passionately.  You get butterflies in your stomach as you kiss him back, never having a kiss like this before. When you pull away from each other your lips are tingling and you feel flustered. You let out a nervous giggle and look down at your hands. “You are the most beautiful woman I have ever met,” Lenny whispers, putting his hand under your chin and pushing it up to force you to look into his eyes. “I wouldn’t want to spend tomorrow anywhere else in the world.” You let a massive smile creep onto your face which is matched by Lenny’s as you stand in silence for a little while.

“I wish I could live in this moment forever but I’m going to have to go home soon and I don’t want to forget to grab your number,” Lenny says, reaching into his pocket and taking out his phone. You grab your phone out of your bag as you switch phones to write your numbers in. After writing your number in and putting a few hearts after your name in the contact you open the camera to set your caller ID picture. You turn to Lenny and smile into the camera as he kisses your cheek before you press the button. You smile when you see the photo as does Lenny and you set it for caller ID. You swap phones back over and you open the door to your room, backing inside.

“Do you want to come in for a drink?” you ask, hoping the answer would be yes. “I really should get home, I have some chores to do around the house but I will see your beautiful face bright and early tomorrow morning,” he responds kissing your cheek and turning away to leave. “How early is early?” you shout down the hallway that Lenny is already halfway down. “I’ll text you,” he responds back with a wink and with that walks into the elevator.

You get inside and drop your handbag on the floor; walking over to the bed Lucy is lounging on and joining her. “So it looks like someone had a nice night?” Lucy asks nudging you in the arm as a smile spreads across your face. “A lady doesn’t kiss and tell,” you joke poking your tongue out at Lucy. “OH MY GOD YOU KISSED?!” Lucy practically squeals. “We did and it was so perfect, I’ve never felt anything like it. He gave me butterflies and my lips started tingling,” you gush, excited to tell your best friend. “That is so perfect I’m so happy for you!” Lucy gushes back. “Also, I invited him to spend the day with us before we leave tomorrow, is that okay?” you ask, confident that it wouldn’t be a problem. “Of course, anything that makes you happy considering we did come here for your birthday,” she smiles back.

You tell Lucy all about the perfect night you spent with Lenny and tell her all about Justice Crew and what you learnt during the date. After you finished discussing all of the details you have a quick shower so you wouldn’t have to take the time to have one in the morning and as usual you change into your pyjamas, your favourite sleepwear top from Peter Alexander and just your underwear bottoms. Saying goodnight to Lucy you go into the section you’ve been staying in within the hotel room and look around at the mess of clothes and shopping all over the floor. You let out a big sigh and begin cleaning everything, stuffing it into your suitcase and carry on luggage ready for your flight tomorrow. Once you’d organised everything ready for your flight tomorrow you slip into bed and grab your phone from where you threw it on the bed before you started cleaning.

Unlocking your phone to check all your social media before you go to bed you see the message icon and open that up. You see a text message reading : Hey beautiful, I’ve got plans for us tomorrow and I’m going to come by and get you at 9am considering most hotel checkouts are 10am anyway. Can’t wait to see you again x You smile to yourself and hit the reply button typing: Hello yourself handsome, I’m excited for tomorrow but you have to factor Lucy into our plans as well! Can’t make her spend her last day in Sydney by herself! x After hitting send you almost instantly get a reply saying: Don’t worry, she’s not going to be spending the day by herself, I wouldn’t do that! Although I’d love to keep talking we have a big day tomorrow and so I’m going to head off to bed, have a good sleep my beautiful girl x

The next morning you and Lucy both wake up at 10am with wicked hangovers, cringing as you roll out of bed. You trudge straight towards the shower only stopping to pick out some clothes for the day. You decide on a long, plain white loose fitting top, black tights and your trusty pair of black and white hi-top kicks. You shower, get dressed and put your hair into a messy bun on top of your head. You lie back down on the bed and close your eyes, listening to the running water of the shower as Lucy gets ready for the day. Once she’d gotten dressed in her tights, ballet flats, black singlet and brown knitted cardigan you both put on minimal make-up and decide you want to start the day with a massive amount of food from McDonalds.

You get down to the lobby and as you walk past nod your head in a greeting to the receptionist who gives you a friendly smile in return. He was working the night you had arrived in Sydney and he was super friendly and helpful. You walk out the front doors, turning left to head towards McDonalds when Lucy taps your arm and you turn to face her.  “Ria, look!” she gasps as you turn in the direction she’s pointing.  Sitting on the floor by the entrance to your hotel you see Lenny wearing a snapback, tilted down to cover his eyes from the sun. You and Lucy walk over to him, trying to keep your laughter in and kneel down next to him.

“Wakey wakey sleepy head,” you say as you lightly shake Lenny’s arm.  He doesn’t move which causes you to accidentally let out a laugh but still, no movement.  “Put your hands up, this is a stick up!” Lucy grunts in the manliest voice she could muster.  Without missing a beat Lenny almost jumps out of his skin yelling out, “ DON’T SHOOT!”  As Lenny had freaked out, he’d knocked his hat off of his head so he could see the two of you kneeling next to him not being able to breathe from laughing so much. He looked like a stunned mullet as you continue to laugh, not being able to hold yourself up and falling over into his lap.  “Sorry… it was just… so funny!” you manage to get out in-between your laughing fits.

You and Lucy both manage to calm down and you stand up, leaning against each other still feeling lightheaded from laughing so much.  “You girls think you’re funny, don’t ya?” Lenny states, letting out a little smile.  “Dude, we’re hilarious!” you retort, smiling back.  “I’m glad we can all agree on how funny we are but can we please go to maccas now?! I need greasy fooood!” Lucy sighs.  “Yes Lucy, calm down! You coming sleeping beauty?” you ask aiming the last part at Lenny.  He lets out a little smirk and nods, following you down the street.  “Hungover?” he asks, nodding his head in Lucy’s direction.  “Both of us,” you say with a sigh. “How are you holding up?”  “Let’s just say I’m glad we’re getting McDonalds!” he replies making you both laugh. 

You get to McDonalds, order your food and sit down at one of the tables.  “Question, why were you sitting on the ground outside our hotel?” Lucy questions Lenny.  Lenny looks down at his food and you can see his face going red.  “Um, well, I had such a good time with you last night and I didn’t get your number and so that’s the only way I could think of to be able to see you again,” Lenny finishes off looking at you.  After that, your face turns red to match Lenny’s and you give him a shy smile. He returns the smile as you both just look at each other.  “Hold up, hold up, hold up. You were just going to sit there waiting? What if we had already left our room for the day?” Lucy gasps.  “Yeah, I um, actually asked the receptionist if you’d left yet. I’ve seen him at the club a couple times so I kinda know him,” Lenny gives off an awkward laugh as he see’s Lucy pulling a confused face.  “Can’t decide whether that’s sweet or really creepy,” Lucy retorts.  “I vote sweet,” Lenny laughs, trying to redeem himself.  “Yeah a little of both I’d say,” you giggle, poking your tongue out at Lenny when you see him pull a hurt face.  The three of you laugh together as you finish off your food and head back out onto the street.

“So, what are your plans for today other than stalking down us girls?” you ask Lenny with a laugh, nudging his arm as you walk down the street.  “Nothing actually, that’s why I was happy enough to wait for you girls. No plans what-so-ever,” Lenny lets out a big sigh, trying to hint to you.  You look at Lucy who after being your best friend through the whole of high school was basically able to read your mind. She shrugs her shoulders and you look back to Lenny.  “I’m sure we could include you in our plans for the day…” you say trailing off.  Lenny suddenly gets a big smile across his face and wedges his way in-between you and Lucy, linking arms with both of you.  “Good choice. So what do you lovely ladies have planned for this fine day?” he asks, looking between the two of you.  You and Lucy look at each other and start laughing hysterically. Lenny looks blankly between the two of you keeping the most serious face on which makes you and Lucy laugh even harder. Once you manage to calm down you take a few deep breaths and look at Lenny.  “We were going to go shopping but I’m sure we could think of something a bit more man friendly to do,” you say with a laugh.  “Are you kidding? Shopping is like my favourite thing of all time,” Lenny says with the girliest voice he could do.  This sends you and Lucy into another laughing fit but this time Lenny can’t even keep a straight face, joining in with your laughter. 

Walking along Pitt Street Lucy stops and drags you both inside Westfield making her first shopping stop Peter Alexander. She heads inside first leaving you and Lenny to follow in behind her.  “You’re going to regretttt thiiiis!” you sing to Lenny as you get inside the store.  “Even if I spend my whole day going into girl shop after girl shop at least I will have spent the day with you,” Lenny smiles his amazing smile.  “Oh my god, so cheesy Lenny!” you smirk, pulling out of his arm that was still linked with yours and heading towards Lucy.  You spend some time in Peter Alexander, both leaving after having spent money and then have the same routine through Bardot, Cotton On Body, General Pants Co., Kookai, Lovisa, Mimco, Princess Polly, Sportsgirl and Temt. By the time you’d gotten through all the shops all three of you were exhausted and Lenny was carrying half your bags. Deciding you need lunch you find a Subway nearby and sit down at one of the tables.

“How you holding up there bag bitch?” Lucy jokes to Lenny.  “I don’t think I’m going to need to go to the gym for a week after carrying all these and walking around for so long,” Lenny responds with a laugh, gesturing at the bags around your feet. “Plus, I’m the best bag bitch there is and don’t you forget it.”  You and Lucy both laugh at this and it causes you to look up at Lenny. He’s already staring at you and you meet his gaze, freezing up from the intensity of it.  “We’re not usually this bad but birthday weekends are meant for spoiling yourself,” you break the gaze and let out a laugh.  “Wait, so I get a birthDAY and you get a whole weekend? How is that fair?!” Lenny exclaims with a shocked look, making you and Lucy laugh at him.  “It’s a girl thing, you wouldn’t understand,” Lucy retorts. “Other than that, something that you should both understand is that I’m starving. I’ll watch the bags, you guys go order pleaseee!”

“I’m so excited,” you squeal to your best friend Lucy as you spin around from checking your appearance in the mirror.

Dressed in your new birthday dress and black stilettos you feel ready to dance the night away with Lucy for your 18th birthday. Lucy had turned 19 a few months ago and so she had already celebrated her birthday at home but you wanted to go out for the first time and you couldn’t be happier that it was with your best friend. You both live in Adelaide but had decided to travel to Sydney for the weekend to make your birthday truly memorable. Lucy laughs as you’re now singing happy birthday to yourself, looking at your chocolate brown, straight hair which reaches down to just below your bra line.

“Please come do my hair Lucy, you always make it look nicer than what I can!” you plead to her. Lucy giggles and comes over to you, spending half an hour working on your hair and make-up before getting herself ready.  She put curls all through the bottoms of your hair and swept it over you right shoulder whilst giving you a smokey-eye and a red lip. You were both all made up for the night, taking a photo and uploading it to instagram with the caption, “The best friend a girl could ask for @LucyJade #solucky #happybirthdaytome #partyandbullshit #drinkdrankdrunk” and then heading out of your hotel to find the closest club in Sydney’s city central.

You arrive at 9:30pm and there's a line up outside the club, which is understandable considering it's a Saturday night. You line up at the back with Lucy and you just chat as the line slowly moves forwards, letting a few people in at a time. You were at the front of the line just waiting to be let in when two heavily muscled, heavily tattooed guys walked right up to the front of the line, do that manly handshake/hug with the bouncer and walk straight in. You groan loudly which makes one of the boys turn around and wink at you before continuing inside. The bouncer looks you up and down and then lets you into the club. “I can’t believe that, we’ve been here for half an hour and those guys were just let in straight away! Not to mention how cocky they were!” you groan to Lucy who just laughs and shakes her head as you continue to walk into the club.

When you get in the atmosphere changes your mood instantly and you go back to being overly excited. You decide to get some drinks so you head over to the bar whilst Lucy grabs a seat to wait for you.

Waiting at the bar for one of the bartenders to serve you someone walks up besides you and says, “no matter how pretty you are, you’re not going to get any service if you just sit there.”  This makes you smile before you look up and see that the mysterious man was the one who’d winked at you when you were waiting in the line.  “So first you waltz straight in and now you’re going to get served straight away? Are you royalty in here or something?!” you ask, your words dripping with sarcasm. He smirks and replies, “no, I just know how places like this work.” You have to admit that he is extremely sexy, with a blonde patch above his left ear and the rest brown hair, covered in tattoos and a cheeky smile that just draws you into him.

“Hey, can I get 4 vodka shots mate?” the man asks one of the bartenders who places the shot glasses in front of you and fills them. “One for you and your friend each but you have to come and do them with me and my brother” the man states with that sexy smirk of his. You look over to Lucy who’s looking over in your direction and you nod her over. The man must’ve done the same because soon enough both Lucy and another man were standing with you. The two men looked identical, they must’ve been twins, and with the dim light the only difference you could see was the hair.

“Lucy, meet…” you start before realising you don’t know their names. “I’m Lenny and this is my brother John,” the man who bought the shots says to Lucy. He then turns to you saying “I still haven’t caught your name...” You just smile and grab your vodka shot counting down. 3, 2, 1 and all four of you down your shots. “I’m Aria but most people call me Ria,” you smile “and it’s my birthday so feel free to shout me some more shots”. You wink at Lenny as the three of them laugh.  “Yes ma’am” he says as he turns around to order you some more shots.

It is now 11pm and all four of you have had quite a bit to drink. Out on the dance floor you and Lucy are dancing together drunkenly. Every now and then you look up at the twins who are staring at you which makes you giggle. After another half an hour of dancing with more alcohol involved the twins walk up to you and Lucy and start dancing with you. “I don’t think we actually invited you over” you say to Lenny, smiling the whole time. “I just couldn’t resist” he replies with a cheeky grin. The four of you dance the rest of the night away before you leave the club, exhausted, drunk and extremely happy. 

Stumbling outside giggling the whole way Lucy, the twins and yourself all wander down the street, talking about what a good night you’ve had. It doesn’t take long before you get to your hotel room and turn to the boys. “Well it’s time for you to go now” you giggle to Lenny. Both men begin to protest before you hold your hand up and state, “no arguments, a girl needs her beauty sleep!” “Trust me, there’s no way beauty sleep can help someone who’s already perfect” Lenny says as he stares in your eyes. “Nice try but I need pajamas and hot chocolate, I’m getting old you know” you wink at Lenny. “I didn’t even ask, how old did you turn…” Lenny starts before John interrupts; “Don’t get too excited to get rid of us girls, you’re not even home yet and we refuse to let two young ladies like yourselves walk home by themselves at this time of night.” Lucy giggles and looks up at the boys, “this is home for now,” and with that she turns around, grabs your hand and drags you inside with her. “Oh my god Lucy they were so hot!!” you squeal when you get inside your hotel room. “Not really my type but then again, their muscles and tattoos… ugh! They were definitely good looking,” Lucy trails off smiling to herself. “Not your type?! Men like that are everyone’s type!” you tease her. “Well certainly your type! Don’t think I didn’t notice you getting all cozy with Lenny or anything,” she laughs back.

You talk across the room as you both grab your onesies out of your suitcases and change into them. As you pull your socks on, Lucy is already by the kettle making you hot chocolates. You sit on the bed and wait until Lucy finishes up and joins you with the hot chocolates.