Wednesday 29 July 2015

First Dates



Tonight was the night I was meant to be going on that double with Jeremy, Emery and Jeremy’s friend Tanner. I had ended up getting Jeremy’s number from Emery after the night out and we have messaged back and forth since and the conversation was free flowing but now, with the idea of the date in my mind I was worried about how it was going to go.

I left my bathroom and found Emery sitting on my bed already ready for the date on her phone, most likely messaging Tanner. “Are you sure I can do this?” Emery looked up at me and let out a breath as she placed her phone on the bed

“Well you can but do you want to?”

“I’ve got no idea, don’t get me wrong I’ve enjoyed talking to Jeremy all week but I still love Spencer”

“I know Dri and I understand, come on what’s the worst that is going to happen? And if anything what’s wrong with having another friend, Jeremy doesn’t seem like the type of person to get annoyed if you turn around and say you aren’t ready for a relationship”

“Alright fine, but what am I going to wear?” Emery grinned before jumping and heading into my wardrobe returning moments later holding a black dress and silver pumps.

I raised an eyebrow knowing exactly what dress that was, it was Sutton’s and had been left here but she never asked for it back. The dress did fit but with Sutton being shorter than me, the dress was incredibly short on me.

“Seriously” but she just continued to grin at me

“Yeap, it looks hot on you and who cares if it’s a little short”

“A little short? I look like I’m trying on a kids dress” she scoffed before shoving the dress into my hands.

“As if, it’s not that short now get dressed we have to leave soon and you asked what to wear tonight” I hung my head and knew she right, I took my robe off and pulled the dress on before following her out of the apartment and climbed in the cab behind her.

When we entered the restaurant Jeremy and Tanner were already there waiting for us and they both stood up to greet us, I kissed Jeremy’s cheek before taking a seat beside him and I was surprised when he held my chair out for me before taking a seat beside me, even Emery gave me a look to say she was surprised at their manners as well.

Dinner went really well, I couldn’t believe at how easy it was for the four of us to have a conversation. We talked about various things, mostly work and what each of us did it turns out that both Jeremy and Tanner both work in finance like Emery just at a different company and that gave the three of them something else to talk about while I stayed silent.

“Oh I think we are boring Adrianna” Jeremy spoke with a small smile on his face when he realised how quiet I’ve been.

“No not at all, I work in a law firm and having nothing to with most of the finance cases since I don’t have a background in it, I just have no idea what you are all talking about” I easily returned his smile

Emery and Tanner had gotten up and headed towards the bar and Jeremy twisted in his seat to face me. “Yes?” I questioned with a smile

“Nothing, I just can’t believe how different you are to your friend”

“I don’t know if that’s a good thing or not” I pulled a face and he slightly shook his head with a smile and it was almost as if he was trying not to laugh at me

“It’s definitely a good thing, I’m not used to girls coming up to me like she did. It’s why those two are getting along so well, he is exactly the same”

“I can see that but yes Emery and I have different personalities, it’s why we get along so well. What about you and Tanner?”

“Frat brothers, we were actually out with other frat members that same night”

“Wait you were in a Frat?” I was a little shocked, from what I gathered about him so far I didn’t expect that.

“Weren’t you in a Sorority?” I laughed at him

“God no, I could not stand those girls but I did always attend the frat parties” I gave him a half smile as I took a sip of my almost empty drink wondering where Emery and Tanner had gotten too.

“Ah you were of those girls”

“Those girls? What would those girls be?”

“The ones that didn’t mind partying but also keep their mind on their grades, something tells me that you being a paralegal at the top law firm in the city is another sign that you did well but there is also a reason as to why you haven’t sat the LSATS”

“Wow did someone also study psychology” I pretended to be shocked

“Guilty” he grinned at me and shook his head as I felt my phone vibrate through my purse.

“Sorry” I spoke as I pulled my phone and noticed I had a message from Emery,

Sorry we ditched, we’ve paid the bill though. Have fun ;)

“So it looks like we’ve been ditched” I told Jeremy while putting my phone back in my purse

“Of course we have, did they at least pay the bill?”

“Emery said they did, what did you want do now?”

“Well it’s a nice night we could take a walk, or go somewhere for dessert?”

“How about we go for a walk first? I’m still full from dinner and the fresh air might help clear my head”

“Very well” Jeremy stood up and pulled my chair out, once again surprising me of his chivalry and we headed outside into the fresh air and I could already help it clear my head from my glasses on wine at dinner.

“So how did you get into finance, Emery said she always liked maths and money and it seemed like a good fit for her”

Jeremy laughed and it felt soothing on my ears, I gave him a smile. “Most people use that as their reason but no, it’s a family job. Don’t get me wrong there are moments when I wonder why I didn’t do something else but I love what I do. What about you?”

“My dad was a cop, I’ve seen on too many occasions him complain about how so and so criminal got off on technicalities”

“Ahh I see, but why haven’t you sat your LSATS?” I’m just glad he didn’t ask as to why I said ‘was’ instead of ‘is’

“That would be because I don’t know how I would go standing up in a court room, a paralegal still works with cases but I stay away from the clients. Sometimes the partners have too many cases on that they don’t actually do all of the work, it gets passed on to me and that’s what I love. I love being able to find the loop holes or the evidence to help the clients”

“I wouldn’t have picked you as someone to have stage fright”

“I don’t, there are moments I have being the centre of attention but most of the time I’m happy being in the background and not having the attention on me”

“But something tells me Emery is the complete opposite”

“Yes, she loves being the centre of attention and I let her take it from me, to a degree anyway”

We spent the rest of the night wandering the streets talking and getting to know each other before he walked me back to the apartment building and I was glad when all he did was kiss my cheek goodbye and not expect a proper kiss.

Monday 27 July 2015

Crashed Girls Night



“Dri can I borrow this dress?” I turned around at the sound of Belle’s voice.

We had planned another girls’ night and we were planning on hitting up a bar and I had a feeling that Sutton had told the boys and the boys would be meeting us there to make sure that Nathan didn’t run into us, I was annoyed but at least they cared about me.

After Spencer had left after his stay here I was a bit of a mess, I didn’t want him to leave again but I knew he couldn’t stay not if he wanted to keep his job. Me going out with the girls tonight was a way to get past him leaving and enjoy the night.

I was just glad none of the girls questioned why I was absent from all communications and social media for a couple of days this week, I didn’t want anyone to know I sat LSATs in case I did horribly and had to explain to them how I felt, sit then and let them tell me I didn’t need to sit them or whatever else they had to say.

Belle was holding up the same red dress that Spencer loved seeing on me, “No sorry Belle but you can pick anything else, just not that one”

Belle must have realised what the dress meant and put it back before choosing another one, I was fixing my make-up and curling my hair while the girls where in the bedroom going through my wardrobe.

Since I was staying at Spencer’s rent free I had a bit more money to spend on clothes and I had been, my wardrobe was full and I was not looking forward to returning to my own apartment with the smaller wardrobe.

I left the bathroom and the girls instantly handed me a vodka soda before they went back to dancing around the bedroom, I smiled at the sight and knew Spencer would get a kick out of this. I grabbed my phone to send him a message.

There is currently six half naked girls dancing around your bedroom ;)
Another video please?
I’m just kidding, have fun with the girls tonight xo

Were Spencer’s replies, I smiled at my phone before placing it back in my purse and walking into my wardrobe to look for the cobalt blue dress I bought the other day specifically for tonight.

“Wouldn’t it be easier if you and Spencer just stopped talking all together?” Emery spoke as she stepped in beside me, I shook my head at her.

“No, if I wasn’t living here then yes maybe but it’s harder with me living in his apartment. He’s everywhere”

“I get that Dri but what about you two moving on?”

“We didn’t agree to move on, we agreed that if we did then there would be no harm. If I get a guy trying to pick me or give me his number tonight I’m not going to say no, I’m not holding back because of Spencer but I’m also not going to willingly move on”

“Alright, come on we’re ready. Jess just has to put her dress on” I turned around and left heading out so we could leave.

“Those guys keep checking you out Dri” I turned my head at Emery’s comment and scoffed once I had a look at the guys over the other side of the bar, by the looks of them I wouldn’t be surprised if they were still in college.

“I’m not dating guys younger than me” she laughed in reply knowing I was right.

We had been at the bar for an hour or so and I was right in assuming that the boys would be joining us and as soon as they did Sutton ran over to Alex, Belle had gone over to Jase which surprised me since Jase wasn’t in the same friendship group with those boys and I’m assuming they extended the invite and Jess ran over in hopes of flirting with some of the single guys while Ali and Jaime were off somewhere leaving Emery and myself alone to scope the place from the corner and participate in our favourite game, people watching.

“Oh come on, they aren’t bad looking, being younger they would have more stamina and being young they probably just want to brag to their friends”

“No way Emery, that’s insane, I’m not being some 22 year olds one night stand just so he can brag to his mates” she raised an eyebrow at me before looking around again.

“Oh what about those two?” I looked over to where she pointing and just wished she wasn’t since they were looking our way, Emery really had no shame but when I looked at them wow she wasn’t actually making fun of me or them, they were incredibly handsome. They both gave us smiles and I returned them before grabbing Emery’s attention and she looked back at me with a smile on her face.

“Alright so they are perfect but come on”

“What? What is so wrong, you said yourself you won’t deny the opportunity”

“Yes but I am not going over there, come on I didn’t even approach Spencer, you set that up”

“You’re right” she grinned at me before standing up and making her way over to where the two guys were sitting, I shook my head before standing up and making my way over to where the girls were sitting with the guys.

“Where’s Emery?” Alec questioned as I slid into the booth beside him and he placed an arm around my shoulder.

“Off flirting with some guys, where else would she be” I spoke and everyone laughed, they all knew Emery was a shameless flirt and if she considered them hot she would go flirt with them.

We all looked over to where she was sitting with the two guys and all three kept looking over here at various points in time, I looked at my friends and Alec raised an eyebrow at me.

“What about Spencer Dri?” Alec whispered in my ear after he realised what Emery was doing.

“Don’t know what you’re on about Alec” I replied before getting up and heading towards the bar to grab another drink.

“His name is Jeremy and he is expecting the two of us to go on a double date with him and his friend Tanner” Emery spoke when she appeared beside me at the bar.

“Seriously Emery?”

“What Dri, come on you said yourself there is nothing wrong with this”

“But with Alec watching, you know he will tell Spencer”

“But you just said…”

“I know but I’m not going to tell Spencer until when and if I started dating and it’s serious”

“Fair enough, well I have his number and I can give it to you later” I gave Emery a smile of thanks as I turned after grabbing the drink and we headed back to the booth where our friends were before joining in on their conversation.

Friday 24 July 2015

Exams



I was currently sitting in my office staring at my computer screen,  I was incredibly nervous for tomorrow in fact I was so nervous I hadn’t completed much of the work that had been requested of me.

“How are you feeling?” I looked up and found Harvey leaning against my door.

“Nervous, incredibly nervous. Why didn’t I take your offer to have today off as well?” he gave me a reassuring smile as he made his way over to the chair in front of my desk

“I’m sure you will do fine and you’ve spent so much time studying for this”

I nodded but didn’t say anything in reply, I didn’t know what to say. I just hoped Harvey was right, I just hoped I did fine tomorrow.

I was going against all better judgement I had when it comes to this, for years I’ve been putting off taking the LSAT and now out of nowhere I enrolled and decided to take it and I couldn’t believe it was now the time to take the exam.

“Adrianna, you will be fine. Now why don’t you head home and get some rest before tomorrow and I will see you in a couple of days” I nodded in response again but didn’t move from my seat.

Harvey watched me for a couple of moments before leaning back in the chair and getting comfortable but I smirked at him, I knew what he was doing and I didn’t like it. He had a habit of sitting in my office to bug me when he wanted me to do something for him, him sitting there waiting for me made me get up and leave quicker.

“Adrianna we’ve spoken about this, in detail might I add. If you pass and get accepted to college everything will be fine, it’s what you want”

“Yes but the board members would rather I got into Stanford than anywhere else”

“We will see what happens and who knows, you may get into Stanford but until that moment just take it by ear”

“Thank you and thank you again for helping me study”

“It was my pleasure, get some sleep tonight Adrianna” he finally gave me a smile and got up to leave my office.

Once he was gone I took a deep breath before shutting down my computer and gathering my things to leave, for the past week I had been given pointless tasks in hoping I would spend more time studying.

Harvey and one of the other senior partners were both for me sitting the bar and going off to law school, especially if it meant I came back here. They never said it specifically but I assumed it was because of all the hard work I put in as a paralegal and they thought I would be an even better lawyer but this was all an idea in my head to make it a little bit easier for me to still attend the exam tomorrow.

I eventually made it home grabbing pizza on the way so I wouldn’t have to leave the apartment again and I wasn’t in the mood for dealing with the delivery guy, I had a habit of always getting the same guy, some 20 something college kid who thought he had a chance with me.

My phone started ringing pulling me from my worries about tomorrow and I looked at the screen to see it was Spencer, I hung my head and silenced the call. I didn’t want to deal with Spencer, I had been keeping this secret from him for months since I applied on a whim assuming I would back out at a later date but I never did.

It didn’t take long for me to receive a message from Spencer after my phone stopped ringing either.

I guess you’re busy, I miss you. Call me when you can

I placed my phone back down not even wanting to reply, I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, more than anything I wished my dad was still alive. I still remember the day I told him I wanted to be a lawyer, I was 15.

2005

There was a knock on my door and I looked up to find daddy standing there, “yes daddy?”

“You were awfully quiet during dinner, everything alright princess?”

“Yes daddy I’m just thinking, hearing about Sydney’s first few months at college was amazing and it made me think about what I wanted study during college or even where I wanted to go” I gave him a smile and sat up on my bed as he walked over to join me.

“If you could be anything princess what would you be?”

“I would love to be paid to travel” I grinned at him and he shook his head, daddy’s job as a detective made it hard for him to get a decent amount of time off to travel so we generally stuck to places close by, I have spent countless summer breaks in Mexico and other Caribbean countries while never setting foot in Europe where I dreamed of going.

“I bet you would princess, but in all honestly what do you want to do?”

“I wouldn’t mind be a lawyer, I’ve heard you on countless occasions complaining about which low life scum got off and I want to help, I want to be able to put those criminals behind bars so they can’t terrorize the communities anymore” I spoke and watched as daddy stared at me, I think I shocked him with that statement.

“Princess that would make me so proud”

“All I want to do is make you proud daddy” I gave him a smile as I leaned over to hug him.

“Adrianna…” came my mother’s shrill voice from downstairs and I let out a groan of frustration, I knew she would complain about how I didn’t prove to be the perfect daughter to her sister and her husband today.

“It will be fine come on princess” daddy spoke before standing up and waiting for me.

Present

I wiped away my tears before giving up and heading to bed knowing a full nights sleep will ease my mind about the next two days and then afterwards I will forget about it until my results are released, whenever that is.