#i would love to have a big roomie bathroom someday

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we looked at a house this morning btw we're gonna try to get it

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Dear Diary 1

The beginning of a little TRR fan fic with a bit of RoE reference. PG-13 All rights are Pixel Berry as always thanks for inspiration. Feedback welcome.

This is the diary of Catherine Sloan

The beginning of the next adventure... Thanks to my big brother who is the Pope of Hands on First Hand learning. "Cat, now that you've graduated I want to give you a present that will really help you." I want to know how many college graduates get secret id's as a present? Presenting Catherine Wade at your service! William someday I'm going to tell you how dusted your big brain is.

So rats are a thing in "cheap" apartments in NYC. With the current movement in the economy I think the service industry is going to be lucrative for some time to come.  My plan is to find a bar and go to work there. Get some of that hands on experience that William loves to expound on. I'm going to call him and see if I can use my trust to subsidize my rent just so I don't have to have housemates or rodent roomies. I wouldn't mind a housemate but it would take some time to interview and find someone. I've got a year before I go back for my masters. So I want to make the most of it. Time is NOT your friend when you are broke, lesson of the day. 

Eventful week.  Thanks to William's agreement my rent will be subsidized... sort of. He's going to let me pay him back after I get my PHD. Thanks William.  I found a job and an apartment in walking distance. The apartment is on the college housing level. Not great but adequate.  Talked with mom. She said she used to go to Goodwill outlets and find some decent things for the house and to wear. I'm also going to check out Useka.  On the job end I'm a waitress. I make more in tips than I do in wage. How insane is that? My boss... I'm really trying to figure out how he got his position.  The only thing I can figure is that the owners are so remote that they just don't realize what they have managing their business. If I were willing to go there I could own this bar via lawsuit with what I know and I've only been working 4 days. He does have a "customer face" he puts on that is friendly enough. I'm guessing that is the only face the owners ever saw. Co-workers are nice enough. Daniel is particularly helpful and friendly. We are all sort of united in our misery with the boss. Looking at it analytically I see the dynamic. It's really easy to get submerged and not see any option other than where you are. I don't know if I could have this perspective if I didn't have a trust fund and a life so far removed from this.  Could you see the play if you were on stage 24/7?

OMG - tonight was just WOW!  Didn't really start as anything special. Kinda slow week day. Then Daniel and I were taking out the trash and Dickly (actually the name is Robert but I think of him as Dickly because of his stellar personality with his staff) comes out fussing about a bachelor party he just sat needing a waiter. Daniel panics because he has a date tonight and doesn't want to be late so I said I'd take them.  Three men sitting at a booth, one suit, one frat, one real, all foreign. Suit is trying to impress wanting wine lists and steak with bernaise sauce, Frat wants a steak. So I get to break the bad news that the closest we have is the deluxe burger, and we have white wine, and red wine. I wish I had a camera to capture the look on Suit's face. Real guy gets it. He orders 4 burgers, and a bottle of whiskey.    I turn and then I see him. I've never been struck by lightning but all the hairs on my body just stood up. And my brain just shut down. Well it didn't actually. More like revved up with all sorts of totally indecent scenarios. I just stood there stupid for a life time getting hot and wet. His name is Liam. (Helllooooo Liam! Would it be forward of me to just kiss your pants off right here?) Liam is not only achingly handsome he's also polite, and sweet. He apologized for keeping me late and offered to take me out for a drink if I would join them. (This is where I heard William in my head telling me to be careful. Don't get drunk. Have a back up plan, yadda, yadda big brother. I love you too.) So I get out of the waitress costume and into some decent clothes. And suggest we go to Kismet which is always fun and will suit at least Tariq the suit, and Maxwell frat boy. I can tell Drake the guy I had pegged as the real guy will be fine as long as there's whiskey. And we get there and Liam gets me a cherry soda... William would be proud. So this is where my mind just gets blown again. I'm sitting there sipping my cherry soda and Liam's pals are all dancing and we're flirting a little and then he tells me the one thing he wanted to do was see the Statue of Liberty and it's their last night and then he tells me it's HIS bachelor party. I'd thought that it was Tariq's before. But no it's Liam's and I called him out on being pretty flirty for an engaged fellow and then he drops this bombshell that he doesn't know who he's going to marry because he's the Crown Prince of Cordonia. No Shit! One bathroom break and a little Googling and sure enough. There he is CROWN f'ing PRINCE.   I may be incognito but sometimes it's good to be William Sloan's sister. Thanks big bro. Just a couple of phone calls and one private after hours tour boat at our service. And I got to make Liam's dream come true. And he got to make my little girl, Cinderella dream come true when he kissed me. Well kissed me back because I was pretty forward about it. I give myself an A+ for restraint that I JUST kissed him. God he's a good kisser on top of everything. Some men just aren't and it makes me think there should be a kissing school.  Heh, I can just imagine, Kissing 101, "class pair up."

  Damn, what a dream night. Work with Dickly is going to be tough tomorrow. It's waaaaay too late but WOW! And I think I owe Daniel a big thanks. I kissed a Prince and I liked it!