the beginning of us

Jealous

Chapter 7

April's POV

The rumours died down after a few weeks and I had adjusted fully in Lucetta.

I stepped into Lucas' office and saw a girl with him.

Lucas introduced her to me as a model that would be the face of Lucetta's beauty campaign.

"Let's go out, Gina will come too." Meredith said while tugging at Lucas' arm.

"Sure." he said.

"Do you know her?" I asked Lucas after she left the office.

"What do you mean?"

"Do you know her personally?"

"Yeah, she's Gina's best friend." he stated.

"Oh okay."

"So why did you come in here in the first place?" he asked.

"Well, I wanted to ask you if you'd go to lunch with me."

"Oh, I have to go with Meredith but we'll definitely have dinner together." he said as he took his coat.

I stepped outside with him, so I could go somewhere and eat alone when I saw his sister, Gina.

"April!" she basically ran towards me.

I hadn't told Lucas but Gina and I were actually friends when I was in Chicago, where Gina worked as an influencer.

"Gina, it's so good to see you again." I said, pulling her in for a hug.

"Me too! What are you doing here?" she asked.

"I moved to Portland for work a few months ago. What about you?"

"I'm just here to visit family. I'll be going back to Chicago next week." she said.

"Oh, okay." I nodded.

"You know what? Come with Lucas, Meredith and I, we're going to have lunch together."

"I wish I could, but I have plans with a friend." I lied. I just didn't want to intrude.

"Oh, that's too bad." she looked disappointed.

"Let's do it some other day, okay?"

"Okay."she said then, Meredith called her.

"Bye."

I came back to the office after thirty minutes too see that Hazel was already there waiting for me.

Hazel's POV

"Hazel, you didn't tell me you were coming." April said.

"Surprise!" I smiled.

"Wait a minute, I have to take this call." April said.

After the call, April told me that she had to be present in the photoshoot for Lucetta's beauty campaign.

I would just be bored and out of place if I sat at her desk alone so, I offered to go with her.

We got to the place where some model was getting her makeup done and Lucas was sitting beside her.

"Who's that?" I asked April.

"That's Meredith, the face of our campaign and Lucas' friend." she stated.

"Alright."

"I didn't think that using a clear colour for my lips would look good but I was so wrong." Meredith said to Lucas.

"Yeah, it looks great." he replied.

"It will look even better on you." she leaned in and held Lucas' chin in an attempt to apply the lip gloss to his full lips.

"You're crazy." Lucas chuckled as Meredith dropped her hands to his lap.

I thought I was the only one disgusted, until, I saw the look on April's face.

She was practically boiling.

I tapped her shoulder and she flinched.

"Yeah, I'm fine." she grinned.

The shoot lasted about two hours and when April wasn't helping out, we were together.

I was telling her about my potential boyfriend when she got a text.

"Who's that?" I said then, sipped my drink.

"Lucas, he said that he can't make it to dinner because Meredith wants to take him out."

"Of course." I rolled my eyes.

"What?" she asked.

"Don't play dumb, April. I know you and I know that you can see how that girl is aggressively hitting on Lucas." I pointed out.

"So?" she looked at me like I was crazy.

"So, you're jealous." I stated.

"No, I'm not." she chuckled.

"I'm not saying you're in love with him but it's obvious that you're attracted and Meredith just swoops in, making him cancel plans with you." I said.

"I don't know, Hazel. I honestly don't understand what I'm feeling. Lucas is like my closest friend apart from you and..."

"And you like him?" I asked.

"No, but I do know that it feels annoying to see Meredith all over him." she said.

She liked him, I just knew it even if she didn't realise it yet. Though, for her sake, I acted like I didn't know.

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Paula.

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