One Plus One

🖤Ch.2 :What A Night

EBONY

"Girl ! I'm so happy to see you ! " Eb tightly hugged her best and only friend, who took a break from work and decided to visit her best friend for a whole week, so they could spend some quality time together and catch up on each other's life.

Since Katlego lost her father three years ago, she hadn't been the same and submerged herself in a lot of work to get her mind and heart off the pain and sorrow. At one point, she was working so much that she ended up in the hospital, after passing out on the runway at the fashion week.

While she was on bed rest, she got time to think and finally dealt with her emotional turmoil. She then decided to slow down because she actually cared about her health and wanted to make sure to take care of herself. So whenever she felt like she was doing too much, she would call her manager and pause everything to get her mind and herself in order.

After her father's death, she wasn't as close to her mother as she used to be. For a few months, Kat detached herself from everybody, scared to get hurt again if she happened to lose someone else that was precious to her heart. About a year ago, she and her mother started talking again and were working on their relationship, so when Kat had breaks, she usually made it a priority to see her mother, but sometimes she missed her best friend a little bit more and so would make time for her.

"Me too ! You're so gorgeous ! I like this hair on you. And this lipstick...isn't it the one I left here ? " She asked, raising an eyebrow.

Eb acted clueless. "I have no idea. I don't know what you're talking about."

"It's okay, I have a stock of this one, plus you're my best friend, so I don't care."

"God bless your heart, child." They chuckled and got her luggages in the truck before driving to Eb's place.

After arriving, Ebony helped her friend settle down, then she let Kat rest for a bit since she just got off the plane. While Kat was taking her nap, Ebony busied herself with some work, even though she was technically still on vacation.

But being in the interior design field is like always being in a competition, a fierce one at that. The key to success is getting yourself noticed and having an amazing portfolio, so Ebony was always making sure that it looked more than great.

Another thing she always had to work on was her education. She couldn't just be educated on colors, fabrics and furniture, even though those three play a huge role in interior design; but her job also required other things, which didn't all seem like a fun time.

Her education had to be extended on the history of design, the structural integrity of buildings, building codes/laws, ergonomics, spatial concepts, ethics, psychology, computer-aided drawing, architecture and so much more. It was never ending to be honest.

When competition is high, you must work hard and stay on top of your game in order to get noticed and keep rising higher.

She was currently working on her website, where she posted some of her ideas to inspire people and to get work in other countries also. It happened more than once for Eb to get clients in Australia, Switzerland, France and other countries, and thanks to that she got some very elegant clients who introduced her to many more elites.

She was usually not a big fan of vacation, but she had been on a year of intense stress as she was expanding more of her clientele, so she had to stop herself for a bit before she ended up in a grave. It was way too early for that.