A/N: Apologies for the lack of updates. I've been dealing with some writer's block but I'm doing my best to get more of this done. The idea has been living in my brain for some time and I just want to get it out and get it right. The fact that this little story already has 3 reviews, 7 favorites, 13 followers and 345 views surprises me to no end. I didn't think I'd even get that much for this so thank you all. Please be patient with me. I'm sorry that this is such a short chapter but I hope that you enjoy it anyway. I hope to update again soon.
Katherine looked at the small, black and white polka dot suitcase that she had opened on her bed and let out a heavy sigh. While she had gotten the time off from work rather easily and had even set up and paid for the flight for her and her best friend, the one thing that she hadn't done was pack for this whirlwind trip. Now that she only had a day to pack, she realized that procrastination wasn't going to make this any easier. It wasn't going to get her out of the trip either because she knew that Mia would show up and throw everything into a suitcase for her.
"Alright, Kate. You can do this," she soft said, trying to psych herself up to pack.
Her delicate hands were on her small hips as she let out a sigh as she tried to figure out how she was going to go about this. It shouldn't be that hard to pack a suitcase but right now Katherine had no idea what she was going to take with her on this trip. The pep talk wasn't quite working but still she kept trying, staring at the empty suitcase and then glancing in the direction of her closet. Katherine thought that if she told herself that it was going to be okay enough, then she'd start to believe it.
"It's just packing for a trip to Italy," she softly told herself. "It's not that hard to do. You can handle this."
Spending time with Mia wasn't the problem because they went on weekend trips all of the time. They would fly off to Philadelphia or Boston on a whim. They would get a hotel room and spend a weekend pretending to be tourists in New York City. It was always in good fun and by the time they came back home again and headed back to reality, Katherine always felt better for it. The trips were fun for her, rejuvinating even and Mia was always good company.
It wasn't like she had never been out of the country either. That was something that Katherine had done a few times now. Travelling to Europe was something that she did now and then for work and she had gone there for leisure purposes as well. She even went on a trip to Paris with her now ex-boyfriend when they first started dating. Katherine had even been to Italy once as a teenager with her parents although that was going to the Rome and the Vatican because her parents wanted to see Vatican City.
She was excited about going to Italy with her best friend but she couldn't shake this feeling of foreboding that she felt. It was a heaviness on her chest that made it hard to breathe, like a cold stone was resting in her stomach. While the trip sounded fun, she had this strange feeling like she wasn't going to come back if she did go. She knew that Mia wouldn't understand so even that wouldn't be an excuse. Katherine had never been one to believe in superstitious nonsense but she found herself holding the Saint Thomas medallion that her mother had given her after Katherine got a job at the large architecture firm right out of college.
She looked down at the piece of silver in her hand with a frown on her face. Her dark blond brows furrowed as she held the medallion between her index finger and thumb. Somehow it brought her a small sense of comfort to see it although she didn't know why it was. Finally Katherine tucked the necklace under her shirt and turned her attention to packing. She pulled out a larger suitcase, pushing the smaller one to the floor, and unzipped it, opening it on her bed. If she was going to pack, then the petite blond was going to over pack for this trip. She already knew that Mia would have two bags to check and her carry-on. Katherine hoped that she wouldn't be that bad.