The Date

Chapter 14

"Yes guys we're eating with the owners granddaughter calm down" I smiled bring everyone back to earth.

After introducing everyone to Leah, she made herself right at home chatting away to everyone. I lent back on my chair and turned to look over at Kate. She was smiling at the group as they all talked but it didn't meet those big green eyes of hers. Not as good of an actress as she may think, it would seem.

"I feel like I'm having dinner with the royals" Paul joked in a girly tone.

"You and I both. I'm not used to all this. Normally it's just me in my flat with Chinese in Soho" Leah said making everyone laugh.

Everyone started eating again when Kate turned to Leah and spoke for the first time since I got here.

"You live in Soho?" she asked.

"Yer on Dean Street" Leah replied.

"Oh, I live right around the corner from there" she smiled. I looked down at her in surprise that she finally gave away something of her life. I noticed Jay give her a little nudge. Most likely reminding her that she had a job to do. I smirked.

"Leah, this is Kate. Jay's... girlfriend?" I introduced them but found the word girlfriend hard to escape my lips. It turned into a question tone then a fact. My bad. Paul hits me with a bread roll. I look up at him with an innocent expression when he gives me a questionable look back.

Ignoring him I get to work on eating. Zoning out of conversation until I hear Leah and Kate still talking to each other.

"I work for Chris Howard" Leah was saying.

"Really. He's always in the magazines isn't he with that model, oh what's her name..." Good to know that Kate can read, I thought then instantly felt like an ass.

"Yeah that would be my sister Jessica Anderson"

"Is that weird? I mean your boss and sister dating" Kate asked.

Black kettle Kate, I thought. No 'weirder' then being paid to date some guy and lie to bunch of people. I wanted to say something but held my tongue.

"Not really, I don't get on with my sister very well or my family really. It's only my Grandfather who I ever see" Leah shrugged, honestly.

See that Kate, here is an honest, open girl you can learn from. I needed a drink. I was turning into a bitch.

"'But that's nice that you have him to be close to" she said smiling that bright beauty of hers. I hadn't seen her smile like that before, it looked more real. Similar to the when she smiled at the family dinner last night when everyone was singing about the bloody colcannon.

"What about you? Are you close to your family?" Leah asked. I sure the quick look Jay sent down to Kate but she just looked at her food shrugging her shoulders.

"No..." she shook her head before smiling up at Kate. "Meaning that I don't have a family"

"Oh, I'm sorry"

"It's ok. It happened when I was a baby, my parents died in a car crash and ever since it's just been me" she said smiling a narrowed smile. There was something not quit right about the way Kate's eyes looked as she talked about her family. From what she's said I know she was in care but the mystery of this girl was growing intensely.

I wanted to know about her childhood, I wanted to know who looked after her and what she was like as a child. I wanted to know where she came from and who this Millie person was she talked about so often.

"What do you do for a living?" Leah asked Kate who waited awhile before replying. "I..." she began before Jay got his voice in there.

"Kate's in the hospitality area, aren't you hun" Kate looked at him for a bit before turning back round to Leah smiling.