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“Fine, I will commit to an hour,” I tell Eve firmly. “But that is it. And if I need to get out of there, then you will be the one to get me out of there with ease, do you hear me? You will make it run smoothly.”
She nods slowly before confessing one last thing. “Paige will be there to take a few pictures, just for the charity newsletter. Nothing serious. But that is okay with you, isn’t it? It will look good.”
I roll my eyes and storm in to my office. I don’t have any words to express how annoyed I am, but now this is a thing for Paige, so I don’t have any choice in the matter. I have to do this for my friend. There is no chance of Paige letting me off the hook so I guess I will have to get through this date one way or another…
It better not be Roman, that’s all I can say. There is only so much I can be a good friend.Friday comes around far too quickly, and it also couldn’t be more of a stressful day if it tried. The computer system has a failure which could seriously affect our data, so I spend much more time than I want to, trying to get it fixed with the IT company we use. That put everything else behind in the office which means we are all late leaving the office with no one in a good mood. Even the usually sunny Eve has a dark cloud clinging to her as she goes at seven forty in the evening, clearly ruining the night that she had planned.
I would love nothing more than to head home for a nice bubble bath. To spend the night relaxing after everything that I have just been through to get my head in order for the weekend of work that I have set aside, but unfortunately for me I have to partake in a date that I want nothing to do with just because my personal assistant and friend assumed that it would be fun for me to get to know someone new on a blind date.
“Fucking hell,” I mutter to myself since I won’t even get a chance to change in to something nice for the photographs being taken of me and my mystery man now. “This is just bullshit, isn’t it? What a mess.”
I can’t even cancel. Since I have no idea who I am meeting I can’t even text to say that I can’t make it, or even to change the time. I am stuck in this situation where I just have to get it out the way. If it wasn’t so important to Paige, then I would ask her to bail me out, but she has already called me a hundred times today to sort out plans with me. Nope, I am not getting out of this however hard I try so I need to just get it done.
“It’s just one hour with nice food,” I remind myself. “And this man isn’t going to be the love of my life anyway, so it doesn’t really matter how I look. Or it shouldn’t at any rate,” I correct myself. “I will be fine.”
I mean, I look smart. Not date like, more ready for the office, but that is where I have just come from. If this man runs a business like I do, then he will understand that not everything goes to plan in the business world. This is going to be someone on my wave length, so I’m sure that everything will be okay.
“Right, come on.” If I want to be on time, then I need to get the train now. “Let’s do this.”
But before I go, I head in to the bathroom to check my reflection in the mirror. I do look a little stressed out, but I mostly look okay. At least my long raven colored hair is still as glossy as always. My saving grace.
Satisfied that I look the best that I can manage, I head out to the train station to make my way to the location written in the text message. Along the way I do find myself just the tiniest bit excited. This is supposed to be an amazing restaurant, but it definitely isn’t somewhere that I would normally go. If only I didn’t have to eat there with some man that I don’t know and have pictures for Paige. If I could go with Paige instead, that would be good, or if I could have brought Eve along as my date, I would be happy, but there you go.
Nice food, Paige there to dispel any awkward company, maybe it won’t be so bad after all. Who knows?
I check my watch as I get to the correct train station and I’m dismayed to see that despite my best intentions, I am late anyway. I shouldn’t have taken all that time to check myself out in the mirror. That’s what killed it. I was foolish. Instead, I should have done it on the train and saved myself some precious minutes.
