When Kat returned to Julia's rest house that night, she was surprised to find her friend waiting for her.
"Julia, what are you doing here?"
"Professional and personal reasons," Julia replied. "The magazine sent me here to do a cover of a party that's happening tomorrow. I'm also here to go check on you. You haven't been answering my calls; you haven't been returning my messages. Do you know how sick worried I was about you?"
"I'm sorry," Kat said. "It's just…let's just talked about this inside."
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"Is this still about Gerard?" Julia asked as they stepped in.
"No! I have forgotten that name and that name's woe!"
Upon hearing that from Kat, a realization was slowly hitting Julia.
"Oh my! It's true then, it wasn't just an April Fools gag after all?" Julia asked. "You really married Jeremy Cassidy?"
"Go ahead," Kat sighed. "Chide me now for doing something so senseless and irresponsible."
"No, I wasn't thinking of doing anything like that," Julia said. "In fact I've always thought that you and Jeremy looked so good together. I'm actually finding what you did romantic."
"Well you should have seen how Jeremy walked out on me. It was utterly traumatic," Kat said bitterly.
"Do you want to tell me the whole story?" Julia asked.
And virtually the whole night, Kat told her friend everything.
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The following afternoon, Julia persistently led Kat to her bedroom and made her seat in front of the vanity table. Before Kat could say anything, Julia started applying foundation on her face.
"Julia what are you doing?"
"You might be suffering from a broken heart but that doesn't mean you have to look the part." Julia said as a matter-of-factly.
After an hour Julia had finished doing Kat's makeup and hair. Kat had to admit that her friend really had a talent when it comes to hairstyling and makeup. Kat looked at her reflection, Julia did a great job all right, but what was bothering her is that she looked exactly like she did nine years ago when she played Juliet meeting Romeo for the first time at the party. (Maybe because Julia happened to be the make-up artist for their high school production.)
Julia went over to her closet and pulled out 2 dresses. One was midnight-blue tube dress and the other one was a white satin empire cut.
"Look at what I got for us!" Julia excitedly showed Kat the dresses. This definitely is the one for you!" Julia said handing over to Kat the white dress. "Nobody can pull off a simple white dress any better than you do."
"But this looks so much like the one I wore as Juliet when she first met Romeo!" Kat exclaimed eyeing the dress. "I'm sorry but I'm not wearing this."
"Look Kat, that's the problem with you. You keep on evading those tangible representations of your pain when in fact you're carrying your pain all along." Julia pointed out. "You did not know how long I spent checking out every boutique in New York trying to find that dress just for you."
"Look, that isn't fair," Kat said. "You're triggering my guilt."
"If that's the only way to get you into that lovely dress…"
Well there's just no saying no to Julia, Kat thought as she started to put it on the white dress. Amazingly it fitted perfectly.
"Where are going in this dresses anyway?" Kat asked.
"To some party I need to cover for the magazine. That is so much better than whining around in here all night don't you think?"
By 7:30, Julia and Kat were on their way to the party.