Convincing her (Jen and Lucas)

Chapter 42: Flustered

"Are you that happy?" Lucas asked still feeling gloomy. Jen was still focused on the picture that she had taken with Jason and just gave an oblivious nod.

"Did you like him that much?" Lucas asked again.

"I've liked him since I was in high school" Jen replied honestly. Lucas didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.

He didn't understand why he was getting so possessive with her because of his older brother, it's not like they were in a relationship or anything. To calm himself down he took a few breaths and decided against talking about Jason anymore.

"Do you think we'll be able to finish unpacking tonight?" Jen asked as she finally looked up from her phone.

"Don't worry, I got it all handled," Lucas said finally smiling for the first time since they left his parents' house.

Soon Jen's notification tone started exploding to the point she had to silence her phone. She never thought that as soon as she posted her picture with Daniel people would react like this.

She had captioned the picture with a sentence that said {Look who I met today, if you know you know, I must have used up all my luck today @DanielZate}.

Jen's followers had already increased with the rumours she had with Lucas but she didn't expect that picture to be reposted repeatedly. What had really surprised her though is that Daniel actually replied to her post with {Hahaha, it was a pleasure meeting you too @JennyLarson} and followed her.

Lucas noticed that Jen was quiet after the pinging sound her phone made had gone crazy.

"Are you alright?" Lucas asked.

"He followed me," Jen said.

"Who followed you?" Lucas asked with a puzzled expression on his face.

"Daniel Zate followed me on Woofer" Jen exclaimed with a wide smile and sparkling eyes.

"Oh," was all Lucas said and did not ask anything further.

Jen finally noticed that his mood had become strange all of a sudden. Before she could ask they had already entered the hotel's underground parking lot. After parking the car, Lucas got off the car and went to open the door for Jen.

She stepped out of the car and watched as Lucas went to the trunk of the car to take out his suitcases. Jen offered to help with one of them but he declined and they headed towards the elevators.

After scanning his key card and fingerprint they were on their way up. The silence in the elevator was unbearable for Jen. She wondered if she did something wrong that made him react like this. On the other hand, Lucas knew he was being unreasonable and in his attempt to trying to calm down he didn't realise that he had made Jen worry.

He didn't know why he was being so sensitive to her. He knew everyone had a celebrity they liked, but the thought of Jen getting so excited by someone else besides him really didn't sit well with him at all. The elevator doors finally opened and Jen followed as he opened his door and got in his house.

She was surprised as she was expecting a mountain of boxes to sort through but the house was empty of any boxes.

"Did the movers not arrive yet? They left long before us though" Jen said as she was thinking out loud.

"I asked the hotel personnel to help me sort the things out," Lucas said as he turned on more lights and pressed a remote that closed the ceiling to floor curtains that were hanging on the windows.

As he was doing this Jen was following him around but he didn't say anything which started frustrating Jen.

"I thought we'd be busy with unpacking, but I guess I didn't have worry," Jen said after she stopped following Lucas around.

"Mmmh" Lucas vaguely replied. His response made Jen feel slightly strange, she crossed her arms in front of her chest and continued looking at Lucas who didn't seem to have any intentions for further conversation.

"Take me home," Jen said suddenly, she was very annoyed. Lucas was surprised when he heard her. He turned to look at her and saw her standing next to one of the windows with her arms folded in front of her. If he did not understand her body language then he wouldn't have been a businessman.

"Why? Are you tired?" Lucas asked, he knew she was angry by looking at her but he didn't know why. His question received a scoff from Jen as if she didn't believe he actually asked her something like that.

"No" Jen replied plainly

"Then w-"Lucas started before stopping when he saw Jen sigh and drop her head.

He was perplexed, and he was even more so when he saw her try to discreetly wipe at her tears. Before it had registered in his mind he had already run to the other side of the room guiding her to sit on the couch.

In fact, he felt the distance sitting next to her and pulled her on his lap and cradled her in his arms. He gently wiped her tears while apologising profusely but the tears didn't stop.

"Baby, I was wrong, stop crying okay" Lucas kept whispering as he anxiously wiped her tears.

It was a truly baffling scene. Lucas had been in two previous relationships before but they were very superficial and could be described as him passing time. This was the first time he had dated someone he genuinely cared about and watching her in tears broke his heart.

"W-why, were you ignoring me? Did I do something wrong?" Jen asked with a shaky voice her head still buried in Lucas' chest.

She couldn't control her emotions when Lucas was being cold with her. She unconsciously remembered how this used to happen when she was with Tyler and he was playing mind games with her.

"No no no no no no, I was the one who was wrong, so please don't cry anymore" Lucas was already rocking back and forth without realising it. He would have never predicted that she would have reacted like this in a million years.