Love & London: The love story 2021 needs. Heartbreakingly beautiful and hilariously funny! by Ellie White

Love & London: The love story 2021 needs. Heartbreakingly beautiful and hilariously funny! by Ellie White

Author:Ellie White [White, Ellie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elizabeth White
Published: 2021-04-01T16:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER TEN

The following Saturday, I was woken up by the incessant buzzing of Jake ringing my doorbell. I groan as I pull myself out of bed, checking the clock on my way past.

Just like the last time we argued and made up, we fell back into our usual stride again; eating dinner together most nights, texting and speaking all the time, playing games of pool that get more and more sexually charged as the weeks pass.

"So, I know it's early."

"It's 8 am on Saturday. I thought that, when you told me not to work weekends anymore, I'd at least get a lie in or something."

"Has anyone ever told you you're cranky when you wake up?" he says, walking past me to my bedroom. "I know we don't have official plans today but I need you to spend the day with me," he says making himself all too comfortable, resting his hands behind his head as he lazes on my bed before pressing the remote that lifts the TV from the base.

"Okay... Why?"

"I can't say. It’s a surprise but just trust me here, I know you'll love it. Get ready and we'll leave when you're done."

"Where are we going?"

"No more questions. Get ready," he says, getting up to steer me into my bathroom.

"Okay, okay!"

It takes less than an hour from me getting ready before we make it to our surprise destination in Greenwich. Jake has brought me to the Royal Observatory. Our parents planned to bring us all here as kids but, the day we were supposed to come, my brother woke up with chicken pox so we had to cancel. Every school holiday that followed, Mum would promise she would bring me here but things always got in the way. Eventually, I grew up and we never got around to doing it.

It's a chilly day with a little wind but at least the rain has held off - so far. We talk as we take a slow walk-through Greenwich Park towards the steep hill leading up to the observatory. When we eventually reach the top of the incline, we make our way to the entrance where Jake produces the tickets he had pre-booked for us.

The lady on the ticket desk welcomes us with a friendly smile, hands me our map and show timetable which Jake immediately takes off me and shoves into his pocket.

"We don't need this; I've already got it all memorised. I thought we could start with the Meridian Line."

"Lead the way then, Mr Tour Guide."

"Put one foot here and the other there," he says, indicating to either side of the stainless-steel line built into the floor as he faces me. "You are officially in two places at once"

I smile at him. "Just like in ‘A Walk to Remember’."

"I have no idea what that is."

"It's a book by Nicholas Sparks. They made a movie with Mandy Moore. It was good."

He just looks at me blankly.

"Mandy Moore's character has terminal cancer and she falls in love with a boy called Landon.



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