The Proud Boss Lady. novel Chapter 30

“ I love, love your mansion. It's beautiful. I am so proud of you Jackie. You deserve the best." Jess said through the phone as she face-timed her twin.

“Thank you, Jessy, you've been my number one fan. Thanks for all the words of encouragement. How's work at the salon coming up by the way?" She inquired

“It's going on good, the customers love our services and I'm getting good daily grades for my finals. Each day my assessors come around, I get good grades that are going to accumulate to my final grade. I'm hoping for a better grade though." She told.

“You will, you're one brilliant girl. Go for gold and get a man while you're at it." She teased.

“Well, I've been trying to get closer to Miguel, he's a nice man but he's closed himself and his heart to love due to the loss of his wife." She explained.

“You need to make him know about your feelings, Jess. You need to know his stand whether he feels the same and he's scared to put his feelings out there, or he doesn't feel the same way." She advised.

“It's easy to say for you," she sighed.

“You will be fine, just be you and he would come around. I gotta go. See you later." Jackie dropped the call.

“You girls look beautiful." Trudy gushed at her granddaughter and her friend.

“Thanks, grams." Amelia hugged her.

“Have fun, but stay safe girls." she winked at them as they headed out the door. Trudy smiled at their retreating figures. She was proud of her granddaughter and how smart and fast she was growing up.

She's going to be fine. She assured herself dashing off to the kitchen.

Rita drove to the party blasting music in her car and singing along with Amelia. Mathew had wanted to pick her up, but she insisted she came with Amelia.

Lauren sat fidgetting with her fingers uncomfortably. Keane had dashed out to only God knows where leaving her all by herself. She stood up from the seat and headed out just to clear her head. The whole fake boyfriend-girlfriend thing was taking a toll on her.

“Lauren!" Rita called as she lifted her head.

“Hey, I didn't think you guys would make it here." she released a breath she didn't notice she was holding.

Amelia hugged her friend making her feel better than she was.

“Thank you, I was real tensed," she admitted.

“Where did he go?" Amelia asked.

“I-I-I don't know Melia, he said he was gonna come back, it's been half an hour and yet no sign of him." she panicked.

“Relax Lauren," Rita chimed in.

“I shouldn't have agreed to this in the first place." she voiced out as Amelia's gaze was focused on something else, she was too late to stop Rita.

Mathew was kissing his ex-girlfriend out in the open without no shame, while Cody and Jack stood beside him smirking.

“Rita wait!" Lauren called after her.

“Please don't look back Lauren, don't," Amelia warned.

“W--W--" she turned to see Keane doing the same thing, with the one bitch she hated the most.

“You're still mad?" she inquired from him. But he didn't answer her.

“Noah, I am talking to you?" she asked again but no response. She nodded and headed up the stairs to her room, banging the door behind her.

Aren't you taking this too far?

She's apologized already, time to let go. His conscience pricked.

“I know she is, but she's gonna have to learn things the hard way." He smirked serving himself with breakfast.

“ Ginny should stop being a bitch to Georgia, it's getting annoying now." Lauren voiced out.

“Well, she actually is Georgia when she was younger." Amelia chimed in.

“You know we're definitely going to talk about this right? I can feel the tension in the air. Let's just let it out of our chests, we would feel better." Rita told ignoring Mathew's call for the 100th time.

“She's right, we have to." Amelia agreed.

“I thought Keane and I got something special, yeah we weren't a real couple but I was falling for the bad guy, getting your heart broken sucks." Lauren sighed.

“Of course it does, at least you weren't led on, only to get your heart shattered. Maybe we weren't made for love." Rita confessed.

“ Try getting betrayed by someone you loved, just because he chose fame over the wonderful friendship you both shared. The funny thing was he didn't even care, he happily spilt everything. Now I am going to be the girl everyone sends pity looks to. Way to go." she drily laughed.