Chapter 3

Kathrine’s Point of View

The sun shone through Kathrine’s bedroom window. She squints her eyes, wishing that she could turn out the sun. She stretched and let out a loud moan wondering why her head was feeling like splitting in two. Turning her head slowly to the right she saw the time. Twenty past eight. She turned her head back to face the roof. Closing her eyes. Her eyes widened and stared back at the clock.

Kathrine climbed out of bed, clenching her head to ease the pain, “Shit, my head! What happened last night?” She looked at the time again, “Shit. Shit. Shit! I’m late! I’m past fucking late!!”

Grabbing clothes from her closet and put them on as she made her way to the kitchen. Almost falling to the ground, she grabbed her laptop and was out the door. She had to take the stairs because the apartment building’s elevator was broken. It had been for a few years now.

Kathrine made her way to the main door and stormed out. Standing on the side of the road trying to get a cab. After five minutes of trying a cab finally pulled over. Climbing in she took a big breath before speaking. “Hundred sixth avenue, please. And hurry!”

The cab pulled away. Kathrine was finally on her way to work. She checked her watch to see it was almost nine a.m. “Shit.” She muttered and she leaned back her head, her headache slowly dissipating, then stared out of the window. “I am so fired.” She whispered to herself.

The cab pulled up to the curb and Kathrine paid him and rushed into the building. Arriving at the office she quickly rushed to her cubicle. She took out her laptop and instantly pretended to be working the entire morning.

“Kathrine, my office. Now.” Alice ordered Kathrine.

“Yes, Alice.” Kathrine slowly stood up and made her way out of her office cubicle. All eyes were on her. She kept her head down, knowing what was coming.

Kathrine entered Alice’s office; Alice stood staring out of her office window. “Close the door,” Alice said. Kathrine did as she was told.

“I was…” Alice cut her off mid-sentence.

“Stop. Why were you late?” Alice asked still staring out of the window.

“Well… I…” Kathrine stuttered. Struggling to find an explanation.

“You’re fired,” Alice said with a cold tone.

“No, please I need this job.” Kathrine pleaded.

“Get out now. This conversation is done.” Alice said while turning around and started fixing her papers on her desk, she noticed Kathrine still standing in her office. “Why are you still here? Out of my office now.” Her tone was cold and unpleasant.

Kathrine nodded and turned around and left Alice’s office. Her mouth hung open a bit. The shock of her losing her job made her want to burst into tears. She made her way to her desk and started packing everything into a cardboard box.

“So sad to see you leave. What a pity.” Anna said with a sarcastic tone, as she leaned over her cubicle that was right next to Kathrine’s.

Kathrine didn’t say a word just thinking ‘you bitch´ and continued packing her things. After finishing she picked up the box and her laptop bag and made her way to the elevator. Pressing the ground button, she stared at everyone in the office, holding her head high and thinking ‘fuck you, and mostly you Anna’ as the elevator doors closed.

The elevator reached the ground floor and Kathrine walked out, slowly. She stood on the curb of the road and tried calling a cab. As soon as a cab pulled up, she climbed in and gave her home address and the cab drove off. Kathrine stared at the building that she used to call her work. A tear slowly rolled down her cheek.

When they arrived at the apartment building, she paid the cab driver and made her way to her apartment. She placed her stuff on her counter and went to her room. Falling onto her bed before bursting into tears.

Her phone started to buzz. She saw the caller ID ‘Dylan’ her best friend of five years. Kathrine ignored it at first, but as it kept ringing, she answered, and Dylan instantly started to speak.

“Dude! Have you heard about this amazing club in town?” Dylan asked with a high-pitched tone.

“No, what club? I don’t want to hear about any more clubs right now. There are about a hundred of them.” Kathrine replied with a flat tone in her voice.

“What the fuck girl? Have you been crying?” Dylan asked with confusion.

“I lost my job this morning. Because I was late. I overslept because you decided to drag me to a club you heard about.” Kathrine’s said the irritation.

“I’m coming over after work to talk about this. And then you can tell me all about it while we can get dressed and look stunning tonight. Maybe we can find you a rich man. Then you will never have to work a day in your life again.” Dylan said with excitement.

“Fine, but you owe me, and for finding a man, not going to happen. But I could use a drink after the day I had.” She said while placing her hand on her head.

“Great! I'll be there when I am done with work. See you later!” Dylan said before disconnecting the call not giving Kathrine a chance to say anything else.

“Great,” Kathrine whispered to herself, then letting her phone fall onto her bed. She pulled the bed covers over her head and let out a loud sigh.

***

Late afternoon, Kathrine climbed out of bed and made her way to the kitchen. She opened the fridge and scanned the shelves for something to eat. She spotted some leftover pizza from two nights back. Taking out the pizza box, she opened it and gave it a big whiff.

“Still good.” She muttered and placed the box on the counter and grabbed a plate out of the cupboard.

Taking two slices and throwing them onto the plate, she placed them in the microwave and set the timer. She leaned against the counter and waited for her pizza to warm up. Then there was a knock on her door. She made her way to the door and looked through the peephole, Dylan was standing outside her door.

As she opened the door Dylan rushed in and threw some dresses onto Kathrine’s kitchen table.

“Okay, my sweet nugget. We are going to look amazing tonight.” Dylan said with a big smile on her face before turning serious. “But first, tell me what the hell did you do to yourself last night by getting drunk so quickly?”

“Hello to you too,” Kathrine said sarcastically.

“Yeah, yeah.” Dylan started organizing the dresses. Then her nose went into the air. “Is that pizza? Fuck, I haven’t eaten all day.” She said and made her way to the microwave and opened it, then took a slice. “Mm…” She muttered.

“That’s…” Before Kathrine could stop her, she already stuffed her face. “Mine.”

“Okay, back to business, what happened last night? Never saw you ever get that drunk that quickly.” Dylan spoke with her mouth full of pizza.

“I don’t know, I was only on my second drink. Maybe it was stronger than I thought. Let’s just leave it at that. Anyways, I’ll take it slow tonight.” Kathrine said her eyes fixed on the table.

“Okay, fine.” She said resigned. “Anyways, I was thinking, this cute little red number will look so stunning on you, or maybe this black one. What do you think?” She said while holding the two dresses in the air.

“Sweetie, I don’t know if I want to go anymore. I need to start my job search…” Before Kathrine could continue, Dylan interrupted her.

“No! We are going out tonight. By the way, your boss was a bitch, and you know it. Maybe it was a sign that you should have left a long time ago.”

“Dylan…” Kathrine started to speak before being interrupted again.

“No! We are not talking about your work again tonight, but going out tonight instead and you are going to forget about everything and have ourselves a good time. Okay?” Dylan said with a serious expression on her face.

“Fine! I’ll go. But just this one time.” Kathrine grumbled, grabbing the other slice of pizza and stuffing it in her mouth before Dylan could lay her hands on it too.

“Yes! We are going to have such an amazing time.” Dylan said while jumping up and down. “Come on we need to get ready.”

***

Kathrine quickly jumped into the shower, to get herself cleaned up. She started by washing her hair and going down to her body. There was music playing in the background as she was in the shower. Dylan decided to put on the boombox and place some of their favorite songs. Just to get them pumped up for the night.

By the time they got dressed, Kathrine had decided on the black dress that Dylan had brought with her. She also wore some black heels to match. Dylan wore the red dress and also decided to go with black heels. Their make-up was done to perfection to match their night vibes and they wore their hair down.

Now they were ready to take on the nightlife. They headed downstairs and called a cab. They instructed the driver to take them to the Medusa Lounge.

On their arrival at the club. They were flabbergasted by the sight of the club. Their mouths hung open. The place was covered with lights and lights were flashing from the inside. They stared at each other.

“Something tells me we need a reservation,” Kathrine said then placed her thumbnail in her mouth.

“I’m sure we will be able to get in,” Dylan said with hesitation.

“Yeah, I’m sure we will be able to,” Kathrine said with sarcasm.

As they headed for the line at the club, they were a bit nervous, but put on their biggest and brightest smiles, shoulders back.

Kathrine and Dylan made their way to the door. A lot of people were trying to get into the club. Kathrine was starting to get worried that they might never get in.

“Dylan, maybe we should go to another club. I don’t want to stand in this line the entire night, and maybe not even be able to get in.” Kathrine said with sadness.

“No! We’re getting in. I’m going to make sure of that.” Dylan said with determination. She grabbed Kathrine’s arm and led her to the bodyguards standing in the doorway.

These men were huge. Fully tattooed. Their arms were covered in black ink. Kathrine spotted a lot of skulls on the one man's arm. These men were to make sure no one was coming in to make trouble.

“Hey, there handsome. You don’t mind if we cut the line?” Dylan smiled brightly, and started flirting with the one man on the right. Kathrine just stood there with an awkward smile hoping this man wasn’t about to pick her up and throw her onto the sidewalk.

“Sorry ma’am. Back of the line.” The man said not making eye contact.

“Oh, come on? Just us two. We promise to behave.” Dylan said smiling mischievously, then Kathrine grabbed her by the arm and whispered.

“Come on, let’s just go. We’ll find another club.”

“No, I said I will get us in, and I will,” Dylan whispered, before turning her attention back to the man. Before Dylan could say anything else a young, good-looking man with blond hair stood in the door between the two bodyguards.

“Well, hello there. Aren’t you something to look at?” The man said with a seductive tone.