Chapter 73 - Homophobic

Will's words surprised everyone in the room, they all knew there were a lot of girls who were into Will but he used to always reject them. 

His relationship status which was single and was not changing at all bothered James and his wife, James even thought Will was gay and was mentally preparing himself to face this news and they shared their concern with the Morris', so when Will informed he likes someone, all of them were surprised as they knew he was serious and he was not the kind of guy who would joke about such things.

"Who is she?" Catherine asked excitedly.

"Wait, is it a she or a he?" Anthony interrupted Catherine.

"What?" Will confusedly looked at his uncle.

"I meant this someone you are infatuated with, is it a man or a woman?" Anthony explained as he thought Will didn't understand his question.

"Uncle, why would you think it can be a man?" Will angrily asked.

"What's wrong if it is a man? Are you homophobic?�� Anthony questioned him back.

"I am not homophobic and neither am I gay, I am wondering why would you think something so outrageous?" Will almost shouted at Anthony.

"Your father told me, he thinks you are gay." Anthony then quickly added, "But don't worry he will accept you and would support you."

"Oh god, I am not gay and I am into a woman, I have to inform my dad too it seems." Will explained.

Anthony laughed at him, "Yeah James will be very happy, do inform him soon."

Will nodded at him.

"Now tell me about her." Catherine was very excited as finally her best friend liked someone.

"I'll tell you the details later, I anyway want to discuss about her with you."

Catherine raised her hand in a thumbs-up sign, "Sure, my friend." she winked at him.

"So, coming back to the main topic, we three want to go for a road trip for two days, let's start tomorrow morning and we can come back by Sunday afternoon, Monday Catherine can go back to Dublin, what say?" Will quickly planned the timeline of the trip.

"I love the plan." Harry quickly agreed.

"Umm..." Catherine worriedly looked at Harry's mom, as she didn't want to upset her by going against her plans. 

Anthony's wife smiled and said, "Don't worry dear, you three can go and have fun, I don't mind." She was understanding of their friendship and she too thought to give them some alone time.

"I am not sure if my parents would allow it." Catherine expressed her worry.

"Don't worry I'll convince them and will assure them." Anthony's wife smiled and patted her on the shoulder.

"It seems like Catherine is their child and not you." Will teased Harry.

Harry smiled back at his words and agreed to him.

"Okay, the plan seems good, I was planning to meet a friend tomorrow, I'll now meet her on Sunday then." Catherine too agreed with the plan.

"Great" Will felt relieved as his plan has been approved by his two friends.

Then Harry, Catherine and Will decided to go to Canterbury, it is around 2 hours away from London. In those days it was not very difficult to get room bookings so they decided to book rooms once they reached there.

After having dinner these three went for a walk around the lawn.

"Will, now tell me about the girl you are "infatuated" with" Catherine teased him air quoting the word infatuated.

"She is a co-intern" 

"Woah, which university is she from?" Catherine was curious and Harry too was interested in knowing more details about the girl who stole his best friend's heart but he looked composed unlike Cat who was jumping around in excitement.

"Oh wait, she is actually a batch mate of yours, she came from the same university as you, she was selected through the applications that you sent us."

Catherine stood there in shock trying to process his words, "Oh my goodness, are you into Liz?" Catherine shouted after organizing her thoughts.

Harry and Will closed their ears, "Why the hell are you shouting?" Will got annoyed.

"Is it Liz? First answer my question" Catherine shouted again.

"Yes, so you know her." Will answered her casually.

"Wow" Catherine hugged Will tightly.

Will chuckled at her action and asked, "Are you that happy?" 

"Of course because she is my best friend."

"What? Really?" Will was surprised.

"Why are you that surprised?"

"Because, it is too big of a coincidence and secondly, given her attitude I never thought she would have friends."

"Woah, that's so rude." Catherine got offended by his words.

"I am serious, I asked her out so many times and yet she rejected me, she is really rude and also keeps avoiding me." Will expressed his frustration.

"I can't believe a girl rejecting you, don't they always throw themselves at you." Harry too was surprised.

"What throws themselves at him? Aren't you being ridiculous?" Catherine sneered at Harry.

"I meant aren't they always into him, that's why I was surprised when you fell for me in spite of him being around us." Harry expressed his deep thoughts.

Catherine was surprised by his words as she never thought Harry too had this insecurity side to him, she found it extremely cute, Will smiled as he knew of it and that's why he motivated Catherine to go and propose to Harry instead of waiting for him to take the next step.

"I never knew about it." Catherine honestly told Harry.

"Yeah, you two were always close so I tried to be indifferent towards you." Harry confessed to her.

"I was close to him because we are alike and most of the time we used to only talk about you." Catherine explained.

"You don't have to explain yourself Cat, Will already told me all of it." Harry lovingly kissed her on the forehead.

"Why don't you two just kill me?" Will got annoyed with their public display of affection.

"What happened?" Harry got confused.

"I am single and you two are acting all lovey-dovey in front of me, so cruel you two are." Will snickered at them.

"Sorry" Harry apologized.

"Haha I am kidding Harry" Will laughed at his friend's innocence.

"Will tell me more, what the hell did you do that she keeps on rejecting you?" Catherine came back to the main topic of discussion.

"I am not sure, I think she is judgmental." 

"No Will, she is an amazing person, I understand what you are trying to say though, she doesn't like people quickly but it is because of her past experiences, give her some time, if she indeed falls for you and opens up to you, then you will understand her better and will never let her go."

"If I had known you guys are so close, I would have asked for your tips to pursue her."

"It is not too late, tell me everything that happened between you two, I'll figure out what went wrong."

Then Will told them their entire story and Catherine couldn't figure out what went wrong.

"Sorry Will, I am not sure why she dislikes you."

"It's okay, tell me Cat how should I get close to her, give me some advice."

"Let me think" Catherine was thinking deeply and the two men were hopefully looking at her.

After a few minutes Catherine shouted in excitement, "Yes, got an idea."

"What is it?" Will was curious to know.

"Let's take her on the trip tomorrow with us" Cat shared her idea.

"Yeah, we will ask her to come and she will right" Will taunted her.

"Not we but me, I will ask her and it is my responsibility to convince her" Catherine looked very confident and Will couldn't argue back.

She then asked Will to take her to the place Liz was living in.

Harry packed his bag as he was planning to stay at Will's house for the night and he planned to leave for the next day trip directly from there. Then the three of them went to the hostel Liz was staying at. 

Catherine then called Liz from the hostel reception and in five minutes Liz came downstairs surprised to meet her.

As soon as they met they tightly hugged each other, the two men were sitting in the car and had no idea what was happening inside.

Liz was genuinely very happy to see Catherine there, she was living alone in London for so long with no friends and at that time calling on phones were very expensive so they never talked on phone too, so when she saw a familiar face she felt excited.

"I can't believe you are here Cat."

"Yeah, since it was a long weekend I came home."

"How did you know I was living here?" Liz questioned in confusion.

"I'll tell you later, first tell me what your plans are for this weekend?"

"Umm, I have no plans actually, so I was planning to work in advance on my future projects." Liz answered hesitantly as if she was hiding something from Catherine. 

"Hey Liz what are you hesitating about?" Cat sensed something was off.