Chapter 47 - Sudden Reunion

"I was late because I…" He stopped as he didn't know how to say it.

Rachel now seriously got worried seeing his hesitation. She went to him and put her hand on his shoulder and slightly patted on his shoulder, "There there, tell me what happened I'll help you sort out your problem, now be a good boy and tell me what happened."​​

"I was late because I was not sure what to wear, I have tried on many clothes but they don't look good and I didn't even realise 3 hours passed"

Rachel was standing in shock with her mouth open after hearing his 'serious reason for being late'. She stood there like a statue staring at him.

Getting no response from her, Patrick looked at her, she was standing like a statue and was looking at him as if he is crazy.

"What happened Rach? Please help me"

Rachel came out of her stupor and asked him, "So you have been deciding what to wear for the past 3 hours?" 

Patrick nodded in agreement.

Rachel went towards the sofa, picked a cushion and threw it at Patrick. 

"You moron you told me to not waste time in getting dressed and you did the same thing you taunted me for, you bloody hypocrite"

Patrick quickly caught the pillow but couldn't dodge the second pillow she threw at him which directly hit him in the face.

He rubbed his face and said, "Sorry Rach, you promised you will help me, please don't get angry, if we don't leave in 10 mins we won't reach on time"

"Oh now you are worried about being late, you asshole. You didn't care when I was waiting for you but now you care." Rachel threw another pillow at him which he quickly caught.

"Please Rach, help me today, I'll owe you one. I am a cop, if I am late everyone will make fun of me."

"Fine" Rach wanted to really beat him up but she too didn't want to be late for the reunion and went to his bedroom to help him pick an outfit.

The condition of his room surprised her, all the clothes were lying around in a mess. The wardrobe door was open and another pile of clothes were lying in the wardrobe.

Rach turned around to look at Pat who was standing in guilt.

"I thought you have OCD and you are a clean freak. Remember years back when I threw my dress jacket on your sofa, you created a fuss about it."

"Rach, let bygones be bygones"

"Hypocrite"

"Rach please help me choose a dress"

Rachel sighed in defeat and went through his clothes. Out of the pile that was lying around, Rach picked a White T-shirt, Black Pant and a Black casual Blazer. She threw these three at him and said, "They'll look perfect on you and your woman always liked you in white"

Patrick caught the clothes and angrily replied, "She is not my woman and I don't care what she likes or dislikes"

"Then why did you take so much time to dress up if it were not to impress her?"

"Pfff you think I took time to dress up to impress her? You are so naive Rach, it was because I have old clothes and they didn't look good on me"

Saying this Patrick quickly went to the guest room to change his clothes as the mess in his room was driving him crazy.

'Nonsense, you are so not over her. The password and this weird behaviour of yours is enough proof' Rachel thought and felt bad for her friend.

Patrick quickly changed into the clothes Rachel chose and checked himself out in the mirror, he was happy with what he saw and thought how handsome and good looking he is.

Without any delay Rachel and Patrick headed towards the place of reunion. 

The venue decided for reunion was a famous bar in London.

Rachel and Patrick reached at 6:25pm and thought they were the first ones to reach but when they went inside they saw two people were already waiting for them, Kate and Nicholas.

They were waiting on the first floor and they booked a table for six, the table was on the corner and it ensured privacy. 

Rachel and Patrick were really happy to see them, Patrick was meeting them after 3 years and it was more than 5 years that Rachel met these two.

"Oh my god Rach you look so pretty" Kate ran towards Rachel and hugged her tightly.

"Woah am I being ignored?" Patrick was pissed.

"Aww sweety how can I ignore you?" Kate then hugged Patrick.

Nicholas was smiling seeing the interaction between these three.

"You are so lazy, you are not even coming here to hug us" Patrick taunted Nicholas who was still sitting on the sofa.

"You guys are anyway gonna come here so why put efforts" Nick winked.

"Haha come here" Patrick hugged him then Rachel too gave a tight hug to her old friend.

"So what's up with this sudden reunion?" Rachel asked.