CHAPTER THREE: SURPRISE SURPRISE

ELLE’S POV*

My alarm goes off and despite yesterday i wake up excited for the day because today is Jack's birthday and i have so much planned for the day, first i put on my jogging attire and go out for a jog, i like maintaining my body when i look good then i always feel good.

After jogging i take a long shower and get myself ready and i go to get Claire at her house we stop by a cafe for some food then we both head to Jack's house. I know he is already gone to work at this time so we arrive at his house and I already have a key to his home because once in a while when he is not yet home i come by to make him food and do stuff for him.

So him being at work right now is the perfect time for us to set everything up and decorate, get people here before he gets home so we can surprise him.

He has the most beautiful big house in a wealthy neighbourhood and i have always told him the house is too big for just him to be living in alone but i guess he is thinking of the future and its made me imagine myself being his wife and having little children running around in the house, i start blushing all of a sudden and i see Claire looking at me funny, A girl can dream right?.

"I understand girl , I understand, she starts laughing and i laugh along she always somehow knows exactly what am thinking without me having to say anything aloud.

We start setting up for the small dinner party and we put the cake and all the gifts, i even got him some tickets to a basketball game because he loves basketball i guess he will have to take Luca with him or his brother because i bought two Vip tickets for them to enjoy.

Time is going by faster than ever so then we start with the cooking in his huge kitchen that he rarely uses, its only me and his mom and sister that do anything important in his kitchen but the man himself either eats at my house or take outs and rarely cooks cause he is always busy.

When we finish It looks like time flew, and its almost time for people to start arriving, his parents come first and they bring some more stuff with them that we also set up and then his friends whom i had told to come also start arriving, my brother comes early to something for once, they also bring in more food and presents, his other family members also come and now we just hope that he comes so that we can surprise him and then have a good time.

I go to his bedroom bathroom to fix myself after slaving away with the cooking, i need to fix my face and clothes.

I get in there and i have been in his room countless times, it’s huge,beautiful and very manly, his smell is everywhere and it smells good. i don’t stare much and i move to his bath for the mirror, am fixing my hair when i suddenly see on his counter there is a small lip gross tube that definitely doesn’t belong to a Man.

The pang of hurt that went through her, Jack definitely had a girl over there is no other reason, He doesn’t owe her anything but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt less.

She doesn’t pick it up she just finishes what she came for and left, her energy just dropping a bit.

Its been 15 minutes before they hear another car come up his drive way and i go to check the glass window that views the front and it is his car and so i inform everybody as we wait for him to come out.

I look out the window again and i see him get out but he seems to not be alone because he goes to the passenger side of his sleek car and a blond head comes out and i see a beautiful girl with a perfect face and body come out of the car all smiley at him and that just make my heart drop,more so when they hold hands as they come to the door together, like what ?. Why do i keep doing this to myself i think.

They come to the door together and i remember how I actually woke up happy today and prepared this whole thing to make him happy and celebrate him but then the nightmare starts with him showing up with a girl on his arm, i mean i should be happy for him but i cannot .

I cannot genuinely smile at the moment but i have to pretend to be happy for him because its his day but i really am not, everybody else seems to be happy and they are all smiling saying happy birthday to him in unison so i force myself for that moment to put on a smile because its the reason we are here but why are they still holding hands,? Who is she ? I can feel the jealousy in me, she is holding my Jacks hand.

Claire seems to also understand the situation i am in and how i might be feeling and she comes to me and gives me a little nag on my shoulder.

His Sister Cassie then asks a question which is probably on every person here’s mind because we all want to know who the girl on his arm is because truthfully we are all confused.

So Jack looks at the gorgeous girl on his arm as if he is so in love and then looks at the people present, i wait for his eyes to meet mine as his best friend but he keeps avoiding looking at me, am pretty sure since he showed up at the door and even when i was standing in front of it he had not once looked me in the face or eyes.

He clears his throat to answer and he tell us all point blank that the girl on his arm is his new girlfriend and her name is Elena.

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