Convincing her

Jen quickly walked to her bag that she had put on the table and rummaged through it for a few seconds before taking out her cellphone. She dialled Rachel's phone number and called her.

As she was waiting for her to pick up the phone she turned to look at Laura who was now sitting on the couch seriously which made her feel better since it seemed like she wasn't the only one that was worried about Rachel.

The phone continued ringing and Jen was getting even more nervous. Her imagination had started running wild as she was waiting for Rachel to pick up the phone. Before she thought of asking Laura to call the police, the phone was finally picked up.

"Rachel! Where are you?" Jen asked half yelling.

"Rachel is sleeping right now, you can call a bit later to talk to her" A male groggy voice answered. Jen felt all the anxiety she had flow away and even checked if she dialled the correct number before looking at Laura stupidly.

"What is it?" Laura asked as she too stood up and went to stand next to Jen.

"It's a man" Jen said with her brown eyes wide in surprise. Laura chuckled before taking the phone from Jen's hands and putting the call on speaker.

"Who is this?" Laura asked.

"It's me Brian, we met at Lucas' birthday" he patiently explained.

"Ooh~ We were worried about her since she did not say where she was and didn't come home last night. I'm assuming she's safe?" Laura asked and looked at Jen who still seemed to be dazed.

"Of course. I'll let her know you called once she wakes up" Brian said. He was clearly dismissing them, it would be weird if they continued to talk to him.

"Okay, then, sorry for disturbing your sleep" Laura said and hung up the call after they said their goodbyes.

"She's with Brian, she'll be fine" Laura said as she handed the phone back to Jen and dove for the sofa once more. Although she was now pretty much awake, she was feeling a bit drunk. The alcohol was still in her system since she was drinking till the early hours of morning.

"Why are you so sure?" Jen asked even though she was also reassured that Rachel would be safe.

"If something happens I'll just blame your boyfriend" Laura said simply stunning Jen into silence.

"You look a mess, what were you doing last night?" Jen asked.

"Well, i'm now signed with DS Entertainment" Laura said with a stupid smile.

"Really?" Jen replied, clearly surprised by the development of things.

"Yes," Laura said in confirmation.

"That's great news, congratulations!" Jen said and sat down on the single sofa next to Laura's.

"Thanks, so I had pestered James last night to go celebrate, that's why I ended up like this," Laura said as she pointed at herself.

"Oh, then he must have brought you back" Jen concluded.

"He did, he didn't have a drop of alcohol the whole time," Laura said feeling disappointed. She had thought that he would drink with her but he had just eaten his dinner and had tea the whole time she was downing alcohol. He had finally stopped her around 4am and took her back.

She remembered how she was carried across the hotel lobby by him since she was all over the place and how he kept telling her to behave when she had opened the first few buttons of his shirt and tried to take advantage of him since both his hands were occupied. Now that she remembers what she did, she feels really embarrassed.

Jen watched as Laura hid her red face in the pillows from embarrassment and couldn't help but laugh at her.

"You probably did something you are ashamed of right?" Jen said guessing correctly.

"Hey, how can a man be so attractive?" Laura asked after she stopped hiding from mortification making Jen roll her eyes.

"He looks exactly like his mother" Jen explained.

"I will have to thank her if I ever meet her" Laura said making Jen laugh.

"Just nurse your hangover, i'll come by once I return from university." Jen said and picked up her things to leave.

"Mmh, i'll see you later. I think i'm going back to bed" Laura said as she was seeing Jen off.

Jen went to campus as she normally did and attended her lectures. As she was leaving the faculty building, she received a call from Nancy who wanted to know if she would be busy on Thursday after classes so they could go hang out.

Since Jen did not have any particular plans for that day, she readily agreed with the arrangement and even told them she'll talk to Rachel and Laura to ask if they would like to join them. After hanging up the call, she decided to head straight for the library.

She wanted to do a bit of studying, and since she had plans of visiting the girls later, she wasn't intending on staying in the library for too long. After spending about three hours in the library, she felt like it was about time to go home. So she packed up her things and borrowed a few books before she left the library.

She took her time driving herself back home where she made herself a sandwich since she was feeling really hungry. As she ate her sandwich she was messing around with her phone and noticed that her followers on her social media had actually increased a lot and she had about 200,000 new followers.

She did not know what happened until she noticed that she had been tagged in photos that were posted by Jason.

She curiously checked the photos and realised that they weren't about much at all. He had also tagged his brothers in the posts which made her feel like Jason had already accepted her as a part of their family.

Although the thought made her happy, it also made her feel slightly anxious. For some reason, she felt like the way her relationship with Lucas progressed was too fast and that things were going a bit too smoothly.

At that moment she had a bad premonition, as if something was going to happen in the future that could be a setback in the ideal relationship that she now had with her boyfriend.

These thoughts managed to ruin her appetite and she ended up pushing the small plate she had placed the half eaten sandwich away from her. She was unreasonably mad at her food.