nude glossy lips and her cheekbones looked amazing because of the Bobbi Brown blusher and highlighter Kelly had applied. Even her eyebrows, which she never usually touched, looked perfect. Best of all though, she had a tan! Just looking at herself now made her realise how she’d missed it.
‘What do you think of the hair?’ Kelly grinned, pleased with her work
‘Fantastic!’ Jade said, swishing her backcombed locks happily. ‘I feel like I finally look like I belong back in Essex.’
‘Totes! I’ve got some clip-in hair extensions you can use too, babe. I’ll put them in before we go. If we’d had time, I could have given you HD brows, but I’ll have to do that another day.’
Jade was baffled. ‘HD what?’
‘HD brows, hun. Haven’t you heard of them?’ Kelly looked surprised as she re-applied some more Dior lip gloss to her lips in the mirror. ‘All the celebs have them. They’re totally in right now. You get the perfect arch on the eyebrow and pluck, tint and thread them until they look beauts.’
‘Next time I’ll have them then. Thank you, Kelly.’
‘Any time. You look gorgeous. Just remember my motto and you’ll always look unreal: “Keep your heels, hair and head held high.”’
Jade laughed and Kelly walked over to boil the kettle and make another cup of tea. She picked up her mobile with a concerned expression. ‘Oh no! There’s something wrong with my mobile. It’s been charging for ages and still has no battery. I’ll have to go and get it fixed or something today.’
Jade’s eyes followed the charger lead to the plug and noticed it wasn’t even switched on. ‘Errr, Kelly.’
She looked up, her eyes wide with anticipation. ‘What?’
‘It might help if you switched it on.’ Jade gave a throaty laugh and Kelly joined in.
‘So, do you know the other girl that Tom was with?’ Kelly asked, as she sat at the table with her mug of tea.
Jade shook her head, still unable to take her eyes off her new appearance in the mirror.
‘Facebook?’
‘What about it?’
Kelly was shocked. ‘Haven’t you even looked her up?’
Jade shrugged her shoulders casually. ‘No.’
‘Check his friends list. That’s if you want to.’
Jade smirked. Kelly was clearly dying to see what the other girl looked like and she didn’t blame her. If she hadn’t felt so heartbroken it was normally the first thing she would have done. She was always secretly nosing around people’s profiles and even sometimes ended up looking through albums of people she didn’t even know.
Kelly continued, ‘Have you not even been on there since you broke up?’
‘No,’ Jade shook her head again, picking up Lord McButterpants and stroking him. ‘I didn’t want to go on there to be honest. I know it sounds ridiculous, but I’m dreading seeing what he’s up to and changing my relationship status so everyone can see we’re over. It’s so embarrassing. I may just delete myself.’
‘Don’t be so silly. You shouldn’t delete yourself. You never did anything wrong.’
‘You’re right,’ Jade agreed. She felt stronger already talking to Kelly. ‘Do you still have your laptop? I’ll change my status now. That’s if he hasn’t already done it.’
‘He won’t have,’ Kelly assured her, jumping to her feet and hurrying out the room.
A minute later, Kelly returned with the laptop. Jade signed into her Facebook account, apprehensively. She was slightly relieved when it still stated she was ‘in a relationship with Tom Noble’ on her profile page. She wanted to be the one to change it, not him. She clicked and checked the single box. Done. She then checked his page and was relieved to see he didn’t have any updates in over two weeks, indicating he hadn’t been online. Clicking on his friends list, she searched the name ‘Louisa’. Her heart was hammering in her chest as she knew she’d be on there. A plain-looking blonde girl appeared on the screen.
‘I’ve found her,’ Jade told Kelly as she shifted in her chair.
‘Let’s see,’ Kelly replied, turning the laptop round to face her. She gasped. ‘She looks fat!’
‘Do you think?’ Jade said hopefully, knowing full well she wasn’t. She appreciated Kelly’s attempt though; slagging the other girl off was what friends did, it was completely understandable. Louisa was definitely not drop-dead gorgeous, just your average everyday type, but by no means was she fat.
‘She looks like she’s been eating far too many pies in her profile picture. Damn, that’s the only one we can see, she’s set it to private. She has two chins for God’s sake, what on earth was he thinking?’
‘Do you not think she’s at all pretty?’
‘Jade, take a look in the mirror and now take a look at fatty on Facebook. You win, hands down. Tom is an idiot!’
They were interrupted by the sound of the doorbell; Lisa had arrived. Jade reached up to hug her friend.
‘Hi,’ they both chorused happily.
Jade had forgotten how amazing Lisa’s figure was. Wearing her skin tight wet-look leggings, her long legs looked phenomenal. She looked like a supermodel. She was five foot nine and it always made Jade laugh when she walked next to Kelly, who was only five foot one. The two of them usually made her stand in the middle.
After discussing how vile Louisa was and updating Lisa on the situation, Jade was well and truly finished with the subject.
‘So you two, how are your love lives going? They’ve got to be better than mine.’ She turned to Lisa. ‘Are things still all good with you and Jake?’
Jake was Lisa’s long-term boyfriend. They’d been together since they were sixteen after meeting at an under-eighteens nightclub, and were practically inseparable. Jade and Kelly both really liked him; he was like one of their own friends.
‘Yeah we’re good, the usual.’ Lisa beamed, unable to hide her happiness.
‘You two will be married soon,’ Kelly teased. ‘Let me be bridesmaid, remember?’
‘You’ll both be my bridesmaids, but give me a break, I’m only twenty-one still.’
‘You’re lucky to have a decent man like Jake. My love life is crap. Can’t find anyone I fancy,’ Kelly moaned. ‘All the blokes round this way are either ugly or love themselves. I’m so bored of it all. I wish I could go somewhere else. I don’t want much. Just a nice man, preferably older and more mature, good looking and maybe rich too. ’
Jade and Lisa laughed.
‘I’m not being shallow but he’d have to be. I’m not going to be a millionaire beautician, am I?’
‘Maybe you should
