Jess walked into the studio
Kelly and Louise jumped up “Jess”
“Look I’ve just found out I’m going to drop him from the label” Kelly said
“Don’t you worry about a thing” Louise said taking Jess’s hand
“No you can’t drop him he’s technically not done anything wrong, he’s just not going to be my favourite person” Jess said wiping away her tears
“You need to know you mean so much more to us than him, I can find another singer”
“Kelly no it’s fine”
“What about that song?” Louise said
“I don’t know, I’ll need to think about that one, you might need a new singer to work with him I don’t know if I can anymore”
“That’s understandable” Kelly smiled “Your mum is livid if that makes you feel any better”
“How long has everyone known?” Jess snapped “Am I the only one who didn’t?”
“We just found out, and your Mum wanted Carmen to tell you herself”
Jess took a deep breath
Lisa knocked on the door coming in. Jess turned and walked right into Lisa’s arms.
“Where is this prick?” Lisa asked
“Not here” Kelly replied
“Go and hear Carmen out Jess” Louise suggested
“I can’t just now I need to calm down, I’m so angry she didn’t tell me, she let me work with him and heard the fucking songs knowing fine well what they were about” Jess wiped some tears away “I feel like a joke”
“You’re not a joke, he’s a fucking joke” Lisa snapped “I’m going to rearrange his face”
Shay walked into the room
“Jess can I speak to you for a second”
Jess looked at him and folded her arms.
“Privately?” Shay asked
“What you have to say just say it” Jess said
“Look I don’t expect you to understand, I didn’t know who you were originally, and to be fair Carmen begged me not to tell you”
“That was considerate of her” Lisa snapped
“You’re extremely talented and you could help me in this industry, that’s partly the reason why I didn’t say anything, I don’t want to stop working with you” Shay explained
“Why would you let me add to song you wrote about you falling for my fiancée?”
“Look that song is one of the best ones I’ve wrote, I’m not like you, it takes a lot for me to write a song, they don’t just come that easy for me” Shay tried to explain “I understand if you don’t want to do it”
“Jess the song is recorded all that needs to be done is the video then you and him are done” Louise added
“If you don’t do the video the song gets dropped and then you have wasted two weeks of your time”
“Being a laughing stalk” Jess hissed
“It’s not like that at all, look see to be honest you and Carmen weren’t together when I slept with her, it’s not like it’s a big deal”
Before anyone could say anything Jess had her hand around Shay’s throat and pinned him against the wall.
“First thing first don’t ever think you know a single thing about me or my relationship with Carmen, you know fuck all about me or my life. And don’t ever mention what happened with you and her again to me” Jess snapped
Lisa and Louise pulled Jess away from Shay.
“Shay I think you should go, I’ll be in touch” Kelly said firmly
Shay sighed and fixed his jacket before leaving the room.
“Feel better?” Lisa asked
“Nope” Jess sat down “What am I supposed to do?”
“Can I say something without you going nuts at me?” Lisa asked
“What?” Jess looked at Lisa
“You got into another relationship too Jess, in which almost got three of us killed” Lisa said “I’m not defending her because to be fair I’m angry at her too”
“I knew that would get pulled up, Lisa I was honest from the start about it, I didn’t hide it and I was with another female”
“I can understand one hundred percent why your angry Jess I’d be furious too” Kelly stated
“I’m not angry she was seeing someone else, I’m angry she lied to me, we’ve been back together almost a year now, I thought we had everything from our past out in the open and sorted and now I’m hit with this! Have you heard that fucking song, it makes me sound like a right arse”
“Ok Yep I agree” Lisa put her arm around her sister
“Is it the fact he’s a guy?” Louise asked
“I don’t know, I always thought Carmen was gay like 100 percent” Jess explained “I can’t compete with a guy, Why didn’t she just tell me”
“Because it wasn’t important at the time” Carmen said from the door “When I came back you were going through so much, my priority was making sure you were safe and okay, and then I got you back I didn’t want my past being dragged up, yours was causing us enough problems”
“Why didn’t you tell her when he showed up?” Lisa asked “Why let her record that song?”
“I didn’t know about the song”
“Why beg him not to tell me” Jess asked “Why all the lies and secrets, I can’t cope with lies and secrets”
“Jess he was a drunken mistake, we were never official or anything”
“He makes you sound pretty official” Lisa said
“He obviously felt more for me than I did for him” Carmen admitted “Can we possibly talk about this just the two of us; I don’t want to discuss my personal life infront of everyone”
“Do you have feelings for him?” Jess ignored Carmen’s request
“No I don’t, I love you, I’m in love with you, I’m marrying you!” Carmen stated
“They why the fuck would you lie to me!” Jess snapped “Do you know how fucking stupid I feel?”
“How stupid you feel? What about you’re past Jess? Your past that almost got us all fucking killed, You got into an official relationship with someone else after breaking up with me for the 3rd time! We both have a past were not proud about” Carmen snapped “I didn’t tell you because I never expected to see him again; it’s not one of my proudest moments!”
“You still fucked a guy Carmen!” Jess snapped back
“And you fucked a psycho!” Carmen snapped back
“Guys chill out it’s not a competition” Lisa said
“I’ll take that one, I did fuck a psycho, and I did get in a relationship with her, but I didn’t lie about it, I told you straight away so you didn’t hear it from someone else or read about it. But let’s settle one thing Carmen, I might have fucked Kirsty, but she never at any point touched me in that way. Bottom line is you lied to me.” Jess got up “Can you take me home Lis”