Chapter Seven: Read on for more Jess and Hannah. Jess's writing is in white and Hannah's writing is in black...

Jess pootled back into the main restaurant area to see Hannah chatting to Natalie.
�So, we could have vegetarian lasagne this evening and I�ll do pasta tomorrow,� Hannah was saying.

�Mmm. Scrumaroonie.� Natalie replied.
�Excuse me,� Jess stomped over. �We have CUSTOMERS to serve.� She frowned.
�Oh, yeah. Sorry.� Hannah smiled at Natalie and went off to take more orders.
�Bitch.� Jess muttered.
�What?� Natalie asked.
�I said WHICH meal would you like?� Jess said, sweetly.
�The soup?� Natalie replied.
�Hmm, nice choice, for a FRIEND-STEALING BASTARD!�
�What?!�
�I said, nice choice, but I�d have the green salad basket.� Jess said, innocently.
�Oh.� Natalie looked slightly put out but said nothing.
The doorbell sounded once more.
Jess, bloody confused, opened the restaurant door. �We�re FULL! Please leave and come back when there are spare tables!� She went to slam the door.
Someone put their foot in it. �No! Wait-�
�NO!� Jess insisted. �I don�t know when people will finish eating!!�
�No! We�re the PRESS!�
Jess paused trying to shut the person�s foot in the door, considered this, then opened it up. �Oh really!?� She raised an eyebrow.
�Yes!� Jess saw that there were about 15 press photographers. �Can we take your picture, please?! Your restaurant is famous all-over Earth!�
�Well, I suppose so�� Jess walked outside and stood, posing in front of her restaurant.
Hannah burst out of the restaurant looking very flustered with reams of orders hanging off her notepad. �What�s going on?� She blinked in the sunlight which had just appeared from behind the Earth.
�Nothing that matters; you go inside and finish the orders.� Jess said.
�Ok�� Hannah ran inside.

�Why has the restaurant become so popular on EARTH?� Jess asked.
�Word of mouth.� A photographer said, in-between flashes.
�Ok�� Jess posed a bit more then got pissed off. �Ok, bored now.� She went back inside and bolted the door. �Bloody paparazzi.� She muttered.
Hannah came running from the kitchen carrying 17 bowls of soup stacked on top of one another and promptly dropped them on top of a man sitting on the nearest table.
�Oops.� Hannah blushed. �Well�erm�there�s your soup, sir!� Satisfied that she had covered her tracks, she ran off.
Jess had just started mopping the man up (literally. She rubbed a mop in his face.) when Hannah came over looking unusually shy and evil (ok, not THAT unusual).
�What?�
�Look at table 22.�
Jess looked around randomly.
�Help me out.�
�Little table by the window.�
Jess looked around again.
�Left a bit. No�LEFT. OTHER left.�
Jess finally looked in the right place.
�Oh, God.�
�See him?�
Jess sighed. �Yes.�
Sitting on a table by the window, and looking out into the crowds in the corridor, was the navy-haired dude who had been following Jess around.
�I thought you LIKED having a secret admirer?!� Hannah said, giving Jess a nudge.
No, it�s just creepy now.� Jess whinged.
�Must be nice to have one though�� Hannah said in a depressed voice. �Not even the nerd kid likes me�� Hannah nodded her head towards a table where a hairy, ugly, mad-looking boy with foam coming out of his mouth was sat.
�Please,� He lisped. �I have standards.�
Hannah looked sad.
Jess shrugged. �Creepy dude.�
�What are you going to do about him then?�
�Who, the nerd-kid?� Jess asked, confused.
�No, your secret admirer.� Hannah explained.
Oh.� Jess shrugged again. �Drop a plate on his head?�
So mature.� Hannah said sarcastically.
�That�s how I work!� Jess grinned. �Now get out of my way so I can get a dish.� She barged off to the kitchen.

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BAD idea!� Hannah called after her.
�DON�T CARE!� Jess called back, reappearing with a plate. �Right.� Jess began sneaking over to the table the guy was sitting at. He was fiddling with the black thing on his wrist whilst looking at the photographers outside.
Jess�� Hannah looked around nervously.
�Sshhh!� Jess continued creeping up, still clutching her plate.
Suddenly, Jess reached his chair and held the dish up above his head.
Hannah�s conscience got the better of her. �Jess, NO!
Jess, surprised, dropped the plate before she was ready, and instead of dropping it on his head, it missed and hit his hand with the black wristband on.
�DAMMIT, HANNAH!� Jess yelled in annoyance.
�What the-?!� Hannah pointed at the guy, who seemed to be sort of flickering.
�Oh, God � I�ve killed him.� Jess took a step back. �I�I denounce all responsibility.�
Finally, the dude stopped flickering. But he didn�t look like a dude anymore. In fact, he looked a lot like�
KURT?!� Jess exclaimed, leaping several feet back.
Kurt looked very red (well�purple, really) and looked down at his shattered wristband, which it was now apparent, had been an image inducer.
�Es tut mir leid. [Sorry]� Kurt disappeared in a puff of blue smoke.
�Blimey.� Hannah summed up the feelings of everyone in the room.
�Oh, NO.� Jess put her head in her hands and slumped down onto the chair where Kurt had been sat. �I�ve ruined everything��
�Tonight�s going to be difficult.� Hannah said, walking over.
�What?� Jess looked up.
You�living in his house��
�Oh crap.� Jess laid her head on the table in a pile of soup. The photographers outside ran up to the window and tried to snap pictures of her.
�Can I have some of that soup?� A man asked Jess, pointing at it under head.
Jess looked disgusted and got up.
�SOUP! SOUP! SOUP!� Several people chanted.
Jamie emerged from the kitchen holding a hose with soup of tap.

�YES!� He announced. �I AM the MAN with the SOUP.�
�Bugger bugger bugger.� Jess ran off into the kitchen.


Several hours later, Hannah was shutting up the restaurant.
�Right.� She ran through her mental checklist to make sure she didn�t forget anything. �Doors locked, candles out, dishes in dishwasher, Jamie chained up, oven off�� She gasped. �The oven! Bugger!� She ran back into the kitchen and went over to the oven. To her surprise, the door was slightly open. �What the-?!� She opened it to see Jess inside.
�Shut the door.�
�Why are you in the oven?�
�I�m sleeping here.�
�You can�t sleep in the OVEN.�
�Well, I am."
�Why?�
�Well, I can�t go HOME, can I?!�
�I don�t know�mightn�t be too bad�� Hannah said, supportively.
What? How can it possibly be �not too bad�?! It�ll be AWFUL! I�m NOT going.� Jess tried to pull the oven door shut again.
�Jess-�
�Turn the gas on.�
�NO.�

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