When you tell the world you're mine

Chapter 46, part I: My best friend's wedding

Carol did have to thank Princess Sofia for the little push she had given her a couple of weeks ago. She decided to be bold and to give Harry the chance he's been patiently waiting for. She was more loving towards him, not that she wasn't before, but she was loving in a way enough to show him, because she was still afraid of speaking about it, that they did go to a next level.

When they thought luck was finally getting on their side, their schedule became so packed and full that they barely had the chance to see each other. Harry had to go with his grandmother to a long visit up north, Carol's work was going amazingly and she was hosting workshops and training programs. 

She started easy, with all the BBC employees in London. She had to adjust her hours because of the number of shifts they had and it came out as a huge success. They were starting to create a magazine and everyone was contributing to ideas and photographs and contact information to some people they wanted to interview. That's why her boss said they should expand to other countries.

And that's when she thought she'd go mad.

And that's when her already full schedule became even fuller.

Because she had barely spent any time at home.

Because she was receiving lots of angry texts from her sister because she had missed all the fittings to her dress.

Because she had promised her mom, she'd be in Brazil for at least two weeks to help her with the last errands for the wedding.

She was frustrated because obviously she had too much on her plate, and that's when she opened her e-mail and dreaded opening the message that said "Planned Trips". With a sigh, she opened it and saw all those places she'd be able to visit, but at the same time, she just wanted her home. She just wanted an opportunity to breathe.

Her schedule for the next two months was something like this:

April

2-6 Copenhagen, Denmark

10-12 Cologne, Germany

25-27 Paris, France

May

4-9 Warsaw, Poland

14-19 Stockholm, Sweden

23-27 Johannesburg, South Africa

It's not like she didn't like travelling (she still hadn't left London to go anywhere), or that she didn't like her job and to be travelling with something she had created. It was just...

It all was happening so fast, and even though she was spending a lot of time in her office, sometimes she still pinched herself to see if it wasn't a dream that she was about to wake up from.

She loved everything that had happened in her life.

What she wasn't comfortable with was the pace things were happening.

Just when she had settled down to the idea of living abroad, dating and prince, getting a master degree and finally totally catch up with her workplace and tasks, people started to add things to her ever-growing piles of things she had to give attention to.

She closed the e-mail and took a breath. Freak out right now wouldn't help her go anywhere.

She closed her eyes for a few seconds when a colleague knocked on her door and asked if she was ready for the conference call.

She wasn't. But she lied and went anyway.

x

She had just arrived in London from Germany, left her suitcase at home and went for something for dinner.