Watch, Wait, Take

Chapter 13. Pizza

Once my room door was shut and locked, I put away my clean, dry clothes and took a refreshing shower; I was feeling buzzy from all the coffee. I got dressed in a simple casual outfit, my favourite light denim jeans with a few rips in, and a floaty pure white top. I finished off with some black ankle boots and some light natural looking make up, I dried my hair into wavy beach curls and lay on the bed I had 2hours until I was meeting Lauren. Time to actually apply for some jobs and search for properties see what the options are and the price range.

I applied for as many jobs for waitressing in bars, restaurants and cafes as I could. Just in case my plan doesn’t work, of course that meant changing my CV and back-story. After an hour and a half of job applying, I decided to look at the apartments in the area. My IPhone I was applying from died, I had to fumble around for my charger, and plug it in. Sighing I now have 20 minutes to look, I hope Lauren isn’t too early.

I scribbled a note to myself in my notebook and left it on my bedside table.

WATCH VIDIOS ON YOUTUBE BEFORE BED. MASSAGES, NAILS, WAXING ETC. 

I need to get some practice in too if I’m going to pull this off.

While my IPhone charged, I sat at the desk in my hotel room with my note pad. Building Emma’s profile before meeting Lauren was important. I might slip up.

Hi Emma, I’m outside, sorry I’m a little late XOXO

It was only 5 minutes, but I was glad I had the extra 5 minutes to ‘work on myself’.

No worries, Lauren. I’m on my way down now

I grabbed my bag and rushed to the elevator, going over things in my head, what I need to do, what I need to say, how I need to be and most importantly who I needed to be.

Reaching the lobby, I swooped outside, not even looking at the reception desk where Joe was now stood. I crossed the parking lot to Laurens car and hopped in the passenger side.

“Hey, ready to go?” Lauren asked with a smile “You look amazing!”

“Thanks, Lauren. Yeah, I’m ready to go.”

“So, where would you like to eat?”

“I was going to let you pick, you know this place better than me. As long as there is Chicago style Pizza I’m good” I laughed.

“Ok, there is this cute little place, not far away but the food is good there and the atmosphere is always nice”

“Sounds good to me” we headed off to the restaurant. We didn’t stop talking the whole way, laughing and joking. Talking about anything and everything but also nothing at the same time.

We pull up to the restaurant 10minutes later. “We can go the long way back if you like, you can see more of the area that way, it’s only 5 minutes extra” 

“Ok, great. Thanks” I smiled at her.