Page 51 of Heartbreaker

Chapter 19

Ashley

A Few months later

Work has been so busy, I even had to decline some clients as I won’t be in the shop to make their orders, which really upsets me because I’ve never had to say no to customers before. If I go away, I normally shut the shop for the weekend when I have no bookings. This time the shop will stay open as Taylor will be there to open it as normal, but I can’t do any special orders. I’ve made a ton of things ready for Taylor, so she shouldn’t run out of anything.

I have no idea how my stalker friend knew I was going to Disneyland with Jackson, but I got two gifts from him, Minnie ears and a bikini which I thought was just creepy. Jackson got really pissed off with it, called the police to see if anything was being done from the time they came over to the apartment, but nothing. They told Jackson that there was no CCTV footage from the street cameras. I told Jackson not to stress about it, the stalker was around before and left once they got bored and it will happen again. They have never hurt me, so I want him to just ignore them, even though he says he’s fine with it, but I can see that he’s still pissed.

I’m choosing to ignore them, and they are not ruining my holiday with Jackson. I’ve had a countdown on my phone waiting for today. I have unpacked and packed my suitcase one too many times, and every time I did, Jackson would laugh at me. There was no way I was going to be forgetting anything.

“Are you all ready?” Jackson asks, wrapping his arms around my waist from behind me.

“Yep, let’s go meet Mickey Mouse,” I say turning around wrapping my arms around him to give him a kiss on the lips. This is it. In my eyes this is the holiday to see if we can make it or not.

Jackson has planned everything that we are planning on doing in Paris, as I lost all control of talking to Jackson about Disneyland and ending up booking everything, so Paris was all his. I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s got planned.

Grabbing my bag saying, “Let’s go then.”

Jackson pulls me closer to him, we stayed the night at his place as it is closer to the airport and the taxi will be cheaper. Looking at him putting everything in the back of the taxi, I smile to myself thinking I’ve got a man that I’m starting to fall hard for and it scares me a little.

Walking around waiting for the gate to open for our flight, I start looking at some of the perfumes. I see Jackson on the other side picking up some chocolate. Turning back, I look at some of their other perfumes.

“You smell nice,” Jackson says kissing the back of my neck.

“Thanks.” I put the spray back I look up at the screen to see if our gate has opened.

“You not getting them?” Jackson asks as I go to walk away.

“No, I have that many already. I don’t need to add to them,” I say giving him a smile. That’s not a lie, I have so many I don’t think I’ll ever run out of them. “Come on, Mickey Mouse is waiting for me.” I pull him towards me so that we can leave.

Jackson takes my hand in his and we walk towards the gate. “When was the last time you went on holiday?” Jackson asks.

“Last year, around Christmas. The family got together, we went to Lapland,” I tell him. I love that holiday it’s always my favourite countdown. Not just for the holiday but for Christmas too, I love the whole festive season.

“That’s really nice, do you like Christmas?” Jackson takes his passport out of his pocket as we look for the gate.

“Yes, love it. You are in for a treat.” I take his passport from him and look at his picture and I try my best not to laugh but the hair is too much. “What is happening with the hair?” I ask him. It’s like Edward Scissorhands went wild on him.

“Don’t ask, it took five weeks for it to all grow out, the hairdresser was new and…”

“You don’t look like someone that would go to anyone new for anything.” I cut him off because he really doesn’t. I mean he’s been going to the same doctor since he was little.

“I went to the same place as I do every week, I had to get my driver’s licence and passport pictures and my normal hairdresser called in sick, so I was stuck with this new guy, and long story short, he fucked up my hair.” Jackson stops and hands our passports and tickets to the ground crew. “Anyway, I had to take my picture that week as I needed a passport for a stag do,” Jackson tells me, and I can’t help but laugh because it is so funny.

I take a seat. “Yours still isn’t that bad, about four years ago Finn and I were fighting on the ground, we were doing somersaults on the trampoline, and I said I was better and we got in a fight, so long story short, he was chewing gum, blew a bubble and popped it in my hair. The look on my dad’s face, I knew then my brother was going to die, either from me or my dad, I had to cut it into a horrible bob because the gum got stuck everywhere,” I tell him waving my hand over my head, so that he knows that I mean it.

Jackson starts laughing. “Is that why you have bubble-gum pink hair now?” he asks through laughter. I push him away from me as he leans over to give me a kiss. “Oh come on, I think we are at the place in our relationship now that we can share anything and everything.” Grabbing my wrist to stop me from pushing him away from, he quickly leans over and kisses me.

“My hair was already bubble-gum pink,” I whisper to him.

The rest of the flight was like this, telling him stories about my family and how my brother and I have a love-hate relationship, but he will always be there for me no matter what. In my dad’s eyes I can never do any wrong, and that he hates all my boyfriends. Jackson is very confident that my dad will like him, and my mum is my best friend. I told him how Taylor and I became friends. I laughed telling him that my life is very simple, and there has never been any drama in it, all my breakups have been good, and I like it that way.

He couldn’t believe that I’ve never had a bad break up, and my family has always been so happy, but then when he told me about his dad, I could understand why he thinks like that, I mean his dad left his mum. His relationship with her is amazing and I love it, it makes me smile that he loves her so much, most would think he is a mummy’s boy but to me that shows a man that will always stand by the woman he loves.

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We’ve checked into the hotel, freshened up, had sex, which was the main thing Jackson wanted to do soon as we got to the hotel, and I’m not going to complain about that, he’s amazing at it and knows just how to push my buttons to make me scream his name.