Jays POV
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Hope that you’re enjoying being away from Cali. A bit of gossip. Matthew is with this girl, Ross wants her too. Like I mean is declaring absolute undying love for her.They were battling over her the other night. Idiots. Her name is Taylor.
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I read Jen’s message, a few times. This right here is exactly why I chose her, just before leaving for a few weeks. It helps me to know what’s been going on back home.What everybody is up too. Not that I need to know. It’s just something I like to have a hold on, gives me the upper hand.
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Matthew did not message me back, and I knew that there was a reason for it. Call it suspicion. I know him very well. When you’ve been friends with somebody for over ten years, you know how they react in situations, and most importantly you know when they start acting differently.
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Taylor, is not a name I would give a girl. It makes me think of large women who wears burly, manly clothes. Clearly though, she must have some attributes or they wouldn’t be, as Jen’s message suggests, battling over her.
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Taylor. I think to myself looking at the flatscreen in Dubai. Taylor who? I wonder. I look out at the coastline, assessing the surf and deciding the waves are not worth my time. We’re staying in a deluxe apartment that my father uses for work.
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For an apartment it is larger than the average house back in the states. My most favourite part of this particular apartment is the gym. I’ve been hitting it daily, the treadmill and the weights. Above all else the weights. It’s important to me that my physique far surpasses that of the guys around me.
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Pulling myself off of the couch, I go over to the open plan marble kitchen and make myself up a shake. Mom coming in asking for a cup of coffee.
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“Thank you darling” she smiles knowing that I will not protest.
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“No problem” I say resigned as she sinks down on the white leather couch. Right in the corner seat.
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“What’s got you all mopey” she asks sensing my tone.
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“No nothing mom” I protest and she persists.
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“Well it must be something” she says.
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“Just miss my friends is all. Feel like I’m missing out” I say instantly regretting my words when I turn to her with her coffee and she gives me a look. A look which tells me that she is worried, or guilty for the difference in our lifestyle.
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We are so fortunate, we are so bloody well off that having real relationships with anybody is difficult. And yes, I am eternally grateful for my father, and his wealth because it offers us a lifestyle unlike no other. But it is one we cannot openly share with others. Matthew knows to an extent, how much the Gilbert Scotts own but that is only because I’ve known him since we were young children.
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I sink down into the white sofa with my shake and look at the flatscreen disinterested. Matthew does not battle for women, he usually tries and then lets go if it doesn’t work out. He never challenges me for any girl and if he does we beat each other up until one of us gives in. He usually gives in first.
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Ross, that sap, doesn’t involve himself with women. He makes sure they are protected from the guys. He friend zones himself, continually. I gaze up at the water and see that it is still pretty tame.
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This allows me to surmise that Taylor is different to other women. Taylor has something or does something that other girls can’t compete with. And even without laying my piercing blue eyes on her, I have to know what that thing is. Could she be truly beautiful? Could it be that she has a perfect body? I make it my absolute goal to find that out when I’m back home.
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“Okay Jay” my mom says interrupting my scheming.
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“I would like to take you out tonight” she smiles and I smirk at her.
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“What do you say, fancy food with your mother” she suggests.
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“I’m always up for fancy food” I explain and she nods happily.
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“Also” she says sly and I watch her, giving her my attention. Turning my head away from the huge flatscreen which is placed just in front of the panoramic glass windows. The view of the sea just behind it, glistening blue water and golden sand.
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“I would like to take you to a clairvoyant” she smirks.
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“What are you going on about mom” I protest. This is yet another one of her ideas. She spends her entire time busy with business. So much so that when she finally has downtime she decides upon silly things to do that are considered to be out of the norm. Just to be edgy and controversial. It’s annoying that I have to be involved and dragged along for the ride each time.
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“You don’t want to know what’s in your cards for the next five years” she asks me, taunting me.
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“No I can predict all of that myself without visiting some hippy in a tent” I laugh and she smiles.
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“You’re curious. I can tell. There will be no tents” she smiles knowing that I will give into her.
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“Okay so long as I can pick dinner” I say with a scowl.
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She beams at me and I smile finishing off my shake. I’m taking her to dinner, it’s nice to treat your mother every now and then I figure. Italian or sushi is my only consideration. After that we will see the hippy without a tent and our lives will be unchanged. She or he will go on about cliches, like finding love or making money. And I will try my best not of utterly embarrass my mother by talking back to the clairvoyant and then we will leave. Maybe I’ll find time to take mom to a cocktail bar afterwards, after all she does enjoy a French martini.
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Soon I ration with myself we will be heading back to the United States. And I will no longer be Jay the devoted son. Instead I will be Jay, the guy all the girls want. Including the elusive Taylor.
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