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CHAPTER 2: TONIGHT

Flash back

Writer's POV

Cathy was in class but she was far away from class. Her mind was everywhere but the class. The lecturer kept explaining business formulas but they sounded like background noise to her. She heard none of it.

Beside her, her friend Jackie was busy doodling cartoon hearts on the margins of her book.

"Hey stop it" Cathy whispered, kicking her foot under the desk. "You are definitely making me nervous".

Jackie grinned "you should be nervous babe. Today is the long-awaited day anyways".

Cathy rolled her eyes trying to hide her nervousness.

"Have you rehearsed your lines well already? Or you want to start stammering when you get there?" She added, earning a nervous smile from Cathy.

This is the day Cathy had decided to confess her feelings for Cliff. She was going to tell him that she wanted to be more than just best friends with him.

She hoped he would say yes to her because she was looking forward to a yes from him. Since she was sure that he felt the same way towards her.

She stared at the door and she imagined him walking in tall with that stupid confident smirk on his face.

Lord, she had fallen hard for him. There was no going back; she just hopes that he felt the same towards her.

Cathy and Cliff had grown up together in the Watson mansion where her mother Carol Walter worked as a maid. They had together built forts in the garden, stole cookies from the kitchen and did homework together. They were indeed inseparable.

As they grew, they developed feelings for each other except Cliff never made a move to say it out loud but Cathy was done waiting.

She was going to confess tonight because she knew that he felt the same towards her. She hoped that tonight begins a special chapter in their lives.

After lectures, Jackie dragged Cathy to the market to rent a nice and affordable dress that would fit the occasion.

After hours of searching, she later came out of the fitting room in black dinner gown that hugged her in all the right places.

Jackie's jaw dropped at the sight of her friend. "Too much?" Cathy tugged at the hem of her dress nervously. "Do you think he will like it?” she asked nervously and Jackie assured her that she looked very lovely and that he would love her in the dress.

Cathy blushed scarlet and tried to control the tears that threatened to fall out of excitement and nervousness.

She had waited for this day for so long. "Oh please don't cry, this make up has cost us a fortune". Jackie warned her as she burst out laughing.

Meanwhile at Watson Group,

Clifford Watson stepped out of the boardroom, his tie loosened and sleeves rolled up. He was very tired but he knew that this was his responsibility to fulfill.

His father believed in "training his heir early" so he would go to college during the day and after he would be in office.

His assistant David handed him his phone. He had a new message from bestie.

(Dinner tonight? 8pm Tina hotel. Poolside. Please come hungry).

He smiled to himself, unable to help it. Cathy hated fancy things. If she was suggesting dinner, then it meant something. She was more of a movie person when it came to hangouts. He looked forward to it regardless.

He shut down his laptop, grabbed his keys with his coat and took the private elevator to the parking lot. He slid into his BMW and hummed it to life and headed to the location in the text.