Jasmine looked at her reflection in the mirror, satisfied with her look, she chooses to wear a pink color blouse with black knee length skirt, she curled her hair and wore diamond earrings and a simple diamond chain.
Jasmine took her black heels and turned to walk out of her room, but the condition of her bedroom made her groan, her tops and dresses messed her bed, a lot of shoes were lying on the floor.
'I should be a little tidy.' She thought, "Well, I will clean after I come back." Jasmine said, which she knew was not going to happen, Jasmine sat on the couch in the living room glancing at the clock, she still had half an hour till Austin picks her up.
Jasmine took her phone and dialed Claire's number, she waited for her to pick up, "Hello, J." Claire said sounding dull, making Jasmine worried, "Bella are you okay?" Jasmine asked, "J, I'm very confused." Claire sighed, Jasmine could hear the tension in her voice.
"Tell me what happened!"
"Jake wants to meet me." Claire said, making Jasmine frown, "I don't see any problem in that."
"The problem is I agreed to go on a date with Jason!" Claire sighed, "Oh, um...I see the problem now," Jasmine didn't knew what to say. Both of them were silent for some time then Jasmine said, "Why does he want to meet you?"
Claire replied, "He said he has something to tell me about Jason."
"Like what?"
"He said it's something related to the contest." Claire stated, she has been curious since Jake talked to her. "I know you are curious Bella, so why don't you meet him." Jasmine suggested.
"But what about Jason?" Claire didn't want to lie to him anymore, "Listen Bella, I know you feel bad, but what if Jake has something important to tell you." Claire hummed in response, she didn't trust Jake even though he was her friend, but somewhere in her mind his words kept disturbing her, "He is not what you think, he is a master in playing with people's mind and life!" This was his words.
"I think I should meet him, will you come with me?" Claire asked, Jasmine was quite a minute, she didn't say anything about her date with Austin and she didn't plan to, "Sure, where do you want to meet?"
"Our usual place, the coffee shop."
Jasmine reached there and entered inside, there was a guilt in her heart, but she knew what kind of guy he is, so she dismissed the feeling of guilt, she noticed Claire sitting alone deep in her thoughts, she walked towards her and tapped in her shoulder.
"What are you thinking so deeply?" Jasmine asked as she sat in front of her, "I'm feeling bad!" Claire groaned and she put her head on the table l, "So, am I." Jasmine whispered, making sure Claire doesn't hear her.
"Where is he?" Jasmine asked as they order their coffee, "He said he will be here in five minutes."
"So, how was the test, did you win?" Jasmine asked curiously, "Yeah, I did." Claire told her, "Congrats, I knew you would win so, how much did you win?"
"Five hundred dollars." Claire said, with a frown on her face, "Wow, but why don't you look happy?"
Claire sighed, and answered, "I really don't know, but I feel bad!" Jasmine nodded, "It's because you think you are betraying him, right?" Claire glanced at her friend and said, "I have been thinking about telling him the truth."
"I t-" Jasmine noticed Jake and stopped herself from saying any further, as he had no idea why Claire was participating in the contest, "Hey, sorry I'm late." He said, and sat down on the chair beside Claire, there were not many people in the shop.
"Why are you here Jasmine?" Jake asked a bit rudely, Claire was about to answer when Jasmine said, "I'm here for my friend do you have a problem, Jake?"
"No, I didn't mean it like that?" Jake said, "It was rude Jake, I warn you, never talk to her like that." Claire said, she was quite pissed at him, she can't tolerate anyone talking to her family or friends like that.
"Just tell us, what did you wanted to tell me?" Claire asked.
*****
"Where are they!" Austin was pissed, for the first time someone did this to him, 'How dare she!' Jason could see the anger in his eyes, but right now he was angrier than him, Claire was not even picking up his call, she went to meet that Jake "How do you know they went to meet him?" Austin asked still not believing him, "What makes you think I will lie?"
"Sarah called me and said Claire went to meet Jake," Jason fisted his hand in anger, "I didn't believe her, so I sent someone to check in the coffee shop, and this is what I got." Jason handed Austin his phone.
Austin took his phone and saw the pictures of Claire, Jasmine and Jake having a coffee, "How can they do this?" Austin shouted in anger, "Why did they do this?" Austin questioned as he sat down on the chair, glancing at the set up in front of him.
He wanted to make her feel special, but she didn't even care, "She is just like them, or am I not good enough?" Austin whispered, Jason sighed and patted his shoulder, "Don't waste your time on those who don't care about you."
"I can say the same to you" Austin said, composing himself, he wasn't going to let them go so easily, 'No one can fool us.' He smirked and looked at Jason who gave him, 'What are you planning?' look.
"I think we should give them a surprise." Austin said, "Leave it Austin, we will talk about it when they are back." Jason said, he already knew Claire was here just for money, so he didn't want to feel bad because of someone like that.
"Claire is doing this for herself, so are okay with her using you?" Austin asked, "No, I'm not." Jason stated, "I'm not leaving Jasmine this easily, so it's up to you if you want to come with me or not." Austin said and walked out from there.