Stole My Heart

Chapter 8

Catherine’s POV

It was now Saturday and my birthday. One out best friends Paige decided to move in with us last week since we had an extra room in our flat. We had hung out with the boys a few times since we last slept over their house a few weeks ago. Mairead and Zayn had started dating and Louis and Paige had taking a liking to each other too. They were bound to start dating soon too. Niall and I were still just friends. Nothing more. Yes I am dying inside because I do still like him. But lets be honest here, I’d never have the guts to tell him and make things awkward.

“Happy birthday!!!” Paige and Mairead came bursting into my room and jumping on top of me.

“Thank you!” I said pulling them into a group hug.

“Ok get dressed we’re going shopping for an outfit for you for tonight.” Paige said pushing me into my bathroom.

“What are we doing tonight?” I said

“Going out for your birthday. Duh. Come on Cathy I know you just woke up but use your brain.” Mairead said leaving my room with Paige so they could go get ready.

I took a shower, put on a little makeup real quick and tied my hair back and got dressed. It was now around 1 in the afternoon. I met Mairead and Paige in the kitchen and we all had a quick lunch and then headed out.

“So where are we going tonight?” I said as we started walking down the street towards the shops.

“To a club. It’s gonna be fun.” Mairead said

“Yeah we have everything planned out so don’t worry about it.” Paige said reassuring me.

We walked into the first shop and started looking at all the dresses and shoes. I am in heaven. I started looking through all the racks looking at dresses. I grabbed a few and headed to the dressing room with Paige and Mairead. They were trying on dresses to but I wanted them to approve of the dress since they would know if it was appropriate for tonight.

“Dress shopping is impossible.” I said from inside my dressing room.

“Stop stressing out. I have a feeling this is going to be the right dress.” Paige said waiting outside.

We had been shopping for 3 hours now with no luck in finding me a dress. Paige and Mairead had no problem finding theirs but all the ones I was trying on either didn’t fit right, made me look fat or were just ugly. Dress shopping was always hard for me but today it felt impossible. It was now almost 4:30. Crap. It’s my birthday and I have no dress so I’ll look like poop tonight scare every boy in the building and die alone with 20 cats.

“I found it! I found the perfect dress.” Mairead said running towards me with a black dress. It was strapless and ended about mid thigh. It wasn’t too tight, but it was to loose either. It looked perfect.

“If this dress doesn’t look good I’m going and buying a cat.” I said grabbing the dress and running into the dressing room.

“Oh quiet Cathy you’re not buying a cat and dying alone.” Mairead said waiting outside of the dressing room.

“This dress is the one. I can feel it.” Paige said.

I put on the dress and stared at myself in the mirror for a few seconds. It. Was. Perfect.

“Well? How does it look?” Mairead said nervously. I opened the door.

“It’s perfect I love it!” I said jumping up and down. “Ok lets find shoes!”

I went back into the dressing room got changed and bought the dress. We all started looking for shoes now, which didn’t take long since shoes are easy to buy. We walked back to the flat and all went into our rooms and started showering and getting ready. As I was waiting for my flat iron to heat up I decided to text Niall since I hadn’t texted him happy birthday yet.