'Sorry Daniel I am confused, I am not sure what you are talking about' she shamelessly lied on the chat.

Daniel understood she was embarrassed about it and decided to not prolong it further. ​​

'Let it be'

Rachel sighed in relief.

'So, what are your plans for today?' He asked on the chat.

'A reunion with old friends'

'Nice, have fun'

'Yeah. Smiley'

After the chat Rachel quickly called her friend and confirmed if the reunion plan is still on, after confirmation she got very excited as she would be meeting her gang after a long time.

She thought of something and called Patrick.

"Hey Good Morning" Patrick quickly picked her call.

"Hey Pat, heard about the reunion?"

"Yeah Matt called me."

"So?"

"I am not coming"

"Why dude?" Rachel shouted at him annoyed.

It hurt Patrick's ears, "Don't shout and you know why."

"Pat, please it is your personal problem, don't make us all feel uncomfortable with your personal shit. I am meeting you all after so many years and for the first time all of us are in the same city and in the same time zone. Please don't irritate me and come."

"Rach"

"No, if you won't come then you will lose a friend, tell me Pat you wanna lose another friend of yours?"

"Stop emotionally blackmailing me"

"Please come, pleaseeeeee."

"Rach"

"I won't go if you won't come."

"Fine I'll come" Patrick knows how much she misses them and he too subconsciously wanted to meet someone although he was not ready to accept it and finally he agreed to go.

"Yayy let's go together, pick me up on your way."

"Why do you wanna go together?"

"I don't wanna drive." Rachel Pouted, she hates driving which is a well known fact to her friends.

"Fine, be ready by 5pm and Rach don't you dare be late, I'll only wait for one minute and if you are not ready, I'll leave you and go alone."

"You are so mean."

"I know but you women take too much time to get ready, you guys try 100s of dresses and finally choose the one you tried first. I don't have the patience to deal with this."

Rachel laughed and said, "It seems she used to make you wait for hours."

"Rach, don't annoy me"

"Ok ok sorry I promise I'll be ready by 5pm."

"Cool, bye"

Patrick sighed and felt nervous about the reunion. He was not ready to meet 'her' yet but now he has to.

...

It was 5pm.

Rachel was ready in a sea blue top paired with black jeans, she wore long earrings and left her hair open. She was looking pretty as always.

She got ready by 4pm because she was scared of Patrick and was waiting for him but he didn't come yet. She was worried as Patrick is never late and is very punctual, if he says 5pm he would be at the promised place by 5.

Rachel knew him being late would have two scenarios, one, he decided not to come to the reunion and has ditched Rachel. Two, he is busy with some urgent work.

Rachel knows he would never be irresponsible to make her wait and not come so higher chance is he encountered some urgent work which she was hoping the case to be because she had weird thoughts like Patrick getting into an accident and so on and this made her very nervous.

She decided to put all these thoughts aside and call him up. The first time the call was ignored but Patrick picked his phone on her second attempt.

"Dude you fine?"

"Oh fuck, it is 5:10pm, fuck I didn't check the time, I am so sorry Rach"

"It's ok, what happened? What were you busy in?"

"Umm that, Rach can you come to my home and pick me up instead, I need your help"

"Oh ok sure" He sounded nervous so she just agreed to it and left.

Rachel then went to his home, she was a bit worried as Patrick was acting strange. He forgot the time and instead called her, she knew something was wrong. So she drove faster and reached his place by 5:30pm. Only she knows how fast she drove to reach here in 15mins.

She then just received a message from her friend that reunion time postponed to 6:30pm from 6pm, seeing it she sighed in relief and went straightway to Pat's apartment. She knew the old password to his old apartment and she wanted to check if he had the same password for his new place or not, so she entered the old password and the door unlocked.

She chuckled at it and entered his house.

"Dude how the hell did you enter my apartment? Don't you have basic manners like knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell?" Patrick shouted at her, he entered the living room when he heard the sound of the door opening. His instincts were very sharp because of him being a cop.

"I just wanted to see if you still use your old password" Rachel smiled at him teasingly.

"What are you smiling about? Are you an idiot? Only idiots smile without a reason"

"You changed your apartment but not the password"

"I am used to that password that's the reason I didn't change it, don't read too much into these things"

"Ok ok, why the hell were you late? How can you forget to come at 5? Because of your warning I was ready by 4pm and you fucking asshole, you didn't even show up"

"I am really sorry, I forgot." Patrick bowed down his head and looked at the ground as he was really at fault and he was kinda ashamed.

"Now tell me what happened? Why did you call me?"

"Will you promise me you won't make fun of me if I would tell you?"

"Fine I promise"

"I was late because I…"