Chapter 77 Chapter 77
Jess’s POV
Nicole appeared out of nowhere. My brother was on one arm, and a bottle of champagne in the other.
“It looks like this is needed” She pulled the cork out and filled up glasses around our table.
“I hope that you are going to have time to plan a wedding around planning the attack against the aliens”
“Mum I am a woman I can multitask”
“Oh, and you will have your girlfriends staying with you to help. I am so excited. When do you think you will have the big day?”
“Oh my god mother. You have just seen him propose. We have not had time to discuss anything”
“If you all don’t mind, I think that I might steal my lovely fiancé for the rest of the evening” Kieran told everyone.
“We will all meet here at 0600 hours to head out to Jess’s place. Is that understood?”
“Yes Sir” Everyone at the table shouted together
Kieran grabbed my hand and pretty much dragged me back to the room. As soon as we got there, he pulled me into his arms and held me there. “God words cannot describe how happy I am right now. I cannot believe that you said yes to marry me. Ever since that first night that I met you I was drawn to you and now you are finally going to be my wife”
“And I am over the mooah” I could not finish a yawn broke out of me.
“It looks like someone could do with an early night”
“But you just proposed we should celebrate” I yawned again, and I felt my eyes getting heavy
“No, my darling. What we are going to do is put you to bed. We can celebrate my snuggling all night”
“Yeah, I get to spoon” I gave him a sleepy wink as I walked towards the nice king size bed and fell face down on to it. Kieran came over and started to take my boots off. He then walked over to his pack and pulled out a t-shirt for me to sleep in.
“Come on you need to get changed then you can get in to bed and sleep until we have to have breakfast”
I grunted at him as I sat up. I ripped of my top and undid my jeans. Lay back down and lifted my bum up “Ok pull Mr.” Kieran looked at me like I was crazy but then he obeyed and pulled my jeans off me. He grabbed on to my hands and pulled me back into a sitting position.
“Ok I need you to lift your arms up” I did as he asked, and he pulled his t-shirt over my head “There you go. Now hop that cute little arse of yours into that bed. I will be there in a second. I did not even notice when he climbed into bed. I feel asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
I woke up to banging on the door. I pulled the pillow over my head as Kieran answered the door.
“What the hell are you two still doing in bed? We are not on holiday we have a job to do. Did I not give the order to be ready to leave at 0600 hours?”
“Shit boss sorry we will be downstairs in 5”
“You bloody well better be”
While John had been shouting, I sat up in bed and looked at the clock. I could not believe it. It was 7.30am. We were meant to meet everyone an hour and a half ago. Kieran shut the door, and I climbed out of bed and walked over to my pack to grab something to wear.
“Shit I don’t think I have ever disobeyed an order from John. Do you think he will kill us? Or do you think he will just torture us until we beg for forgiveness?”
“I am sure he will not punish us. We only slept in. After all that has happened he cannot blame us for that”
‘Yeah, I suppose your right” While we had been talking, we had both got dressed and thrown all our belongings back in our packs. We walked out of the room and down the stairs to join the others.
“Sorry John. Please don’t kill or torture us” I begged
“No, I forgive you. I must admit that it has been a hard few days and you deserved a few extra minutes in bed”
“We have already eaten but I saved a couple of muffins for you” Mum handed Kieran and I a muffin each.
“Thanks mum”
“Ok so if we are all ready, then we should hit the road”
“Wait” Nicole came running out of the kitchen with a handful of sausages. “Romeo here needs to eat too” She put the sausages down in front of Romeo.
“Thank you, Nicole. That was very kind of you”
“Hey, he is a really sweet dog”
Romeo wolfed down the sausages and then we all hit the road back to my house. I was excited about getting home. I remembered leaving and wondering if I would ever see it again. Romeo led the way out of the hotel glad to be able to be outside and walk again.
“Ok John so you will contact me as soon as you know what is going on and when they will be coming back?”
“Yes. Hopefully until then everyone will be able to go back to normal”
“Let’s hope so. Have a safe trip” Nicole stood and waved at us as we walked out of the car park and made our way back to my place.
“It should only take us half a day to get back to your place ay Jess?” Justin asked.
I did not have to answer Justin as John jumped in. “God no It will take us 3 hours at the most. We are going to be walking at a good pace now that we have lost the rest of the group”
Kieran and I had to laugh at Justin’s face
“Um what do you mean a good pace?”
Instead of answering John started walking the pace he set was slower than a power walk but closer to that then a normal walking to work walk. Kieran and I pulled up behind John keeping to the same speed. Poor Justin did not find it that easy.
“Hey this is more like a run than a walk can we not slow down?”
“No, we cannot slow down we have a lot to do son. Saving earth would be a good place to start. Stop taking baby bloody steps. You have long legs use the full length of them”