Convincing her

After a long day of not doing much, Jen was finally getting ready for the night's event. Much to Lucas' disappointment, she firmly decided to get ready in her own room so that they wouldn't run late.

She had an early dinner at 6:30 pm so she wouldn't be too full at the party nor would she be hungry at the same time

She spent her sweet time in the bathtub and almost fell asleep from how comfortable she was feeling during her bath. After half an hour she got out of the tub and rinsed her body and hair in the shower before she wrapped her hair in a towel and dried her body and wore a robe.

She went to sit in front of her vanity to work on her face first and unlike her everyday light makeup, she actually made more effort to look good. It was one of those rare occasions for her where she actually made an effort to look good. She was going to go as Lucas' date after all.

She couldn't be low key since she was going to be around him in the first place,she might as well do her best. She took her time getting ready and not long after she had a full face of makeup that really accentuated all her great facial features.

Her pouty lips looked poutier, her brown eyes looked even looked exotic after she wore her makeup. She always thought they were normal since they were just brown but her sister told her if she didn't think they were pretty enough as it is then she was just being greedy for no reason.

After finishing with her makeup she dried her hair before she put on her dress and started arranging her hair.

She found this to be one of the most troublesome things she had to think about whenever she had to go for events. She was tempted to leave her hair to work on itself most of the time and she was normally fine with a braid or leaving it loose but she couldn't for that tonight.

She took a curling iron so her hair doesn't look boring and decided on a side-swept hairstyle.

She opened her jewellery box where she put her hair jewellery and started arranging the pins on one side of her hair and smiled in satisfaction when she saw that the look matched the dress well otherwise she would have had to figure something else out.

She carefully put on the jewellery that she had bought for herself when she had gone shopping for the dress completing her look.

Jen picked up her white clutch and put in some of her makeup in it in case she would need to retouch it through the night and her phone and wallet as well.

She selected a pair of white heels that were bedazzled, it was unfortunate that no one would see them since the dress she was wearing was very long and the only occasion where they would be visible was when she walked as the toe of the heels would show then.

After she made sure she had everything she finally left her room. When she opened her door she saw that Lucas was standing on the other side as if he was going to open the door so they were both surprised when they saw each other.

"Are you sneaking around?" Jen asked as her lips stretched into a smile. Lucas was dazed for a second when he saw her. She looked so beautiful he was at a loss for words for quite some time.

"You look beautiful," Lucas said and although he always sounded genuine whenever he said it, there was a difference with how he said it at that moment. Jen could feel the heat rise to her face and she cleared her throat in an attempt to feign nonchalance, but she couldn't hide how red her face had become.

"You too," Jen said trying to divert attention from herself.

"Are you ready?" Lucas asked. It was almost 9:45 pm they will probably be about ten minutes late if they left immediately.

"Almost. I haven't put these on yet" Jen said and lifted the shoes she was holding in her hand.

"Mmh," Lucas responded. He was clearly not listening to her. Especially when she looked at how he was looking at her.

"Let's go," Jen said when she saw that he seemed to be lost in thought.

She hadn't put on her shoes since she didn't want to give herself a hard time as she was going down the stairs. When she got to the stairs she handed her clutch to Lucas as she had to hold on to her dress as she went downstairs or she would risk tripping over it.

She quickly rushed to the living room to put on her shoes as she realised that they would be running late if she took her time. Lucas came down a few minutes later while putting on his jacket when Jen was securing the clasp of her second shoe.

"Are you ready?" Lucas asked when Jen stood up from the sofa. She walked towards him and stopped right in front of him.

"Mmh" Jen answered with a nod before taking the clutch he was holding. Their height difference was greatly reduced by the heels she was wearing and Jen was about an inch or two shorter than Lucas with her heels so he didn't need to exert any effort to look at her.

Lucas extended his hand and hooked it around her waist before pulling her closer to him.

"I'm really tempted to take you back upstairs," Lucas said and lightly caressed the side of her neck that was completely cleared of hair.

"Don't be silly. We should go" Jen said with a chuckle but did not actually move away from him and actually brought her face closer to his. She was teasing him so obviously and even though Lucas knew that they would still go to the party, he chose to bite the bait.