TRIGGER WARNING: Brief mention of rape
I decided to use AJ Michalka for my fc for Kelly, since I never talked about what she looked like before, I don't believe.
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The house was quiet, too quiet for Katherine's liking. Bella went to Port Angeles with her friends after school and her dad was still working and won't be home for a couple hours. After her breakdown earlier in the day Katherine took a nap, she felt a lot better after doing so.
Katherine hated herself for how bad it affected her. Nothing happened, it was just an almost, an almost that brought back painful memories. She supposed that, that's why she reacted like she did. Maybe she wasn't overreacting but at the same time had a slight nagging feeling that maybe she is overreacting and is just being overly dramatic over the situation. Katherine felt conflicted, she wants to move passed it and she knows she can but she feels pushed back to how she reacted the first time, only it went further that time.
She sat there on the couch flipping through channels when a knock came from the front door. Getting up she wrapped herself up with a blanket that was draped on the back of the couch before heading over towards the door. Through the glass besides the door, she caught a glimpse of blonde curls, Katherine instantly knew who it was causing a funny feeling in her stomach.
Nerves, Katherine thought.
Opening the door Katherine's mocha colored eyes met Rosalie's honey colored ones.
"What are you doing here?" Rosalie noticed the edge in her voice, pursing her lips slightly her eyes never tore away from Katherine's.
"Just checking up on you." Katherine wrapped the blanket tighter around herself, feeling butterflies, pushing the feeling back, she smiled faintly.
"Thank you." Katherine's voice went soft. Rosalie's gaze softened. Katherine stepped back and gestures inside. "Would you like to come in?" Rosalie nodded, walking passed the brunette before stopping at the entrance of the living room. "You can sit down." Katherine commented as she closed the door before heading back to her original spot on the couch. Rosalie sat on the opposite side of the couch.
"Anything in particular you want to watch?" Rosalie shook her head replying with a light 'no.' Sitting back, Katherine flipped through the channels stopping upon seeing the Brad Pitt on the screen. "Do you like 'Fight Club'?" Rosalie chuckled. She looked over at her. Their eyes connected.
"It's not bad. It's my brother Emmett's favorite movie. He likes those kind of movies."
"What kind of movies do you like?" Slightly shrugging she looked towards Katherine once again.
"Let's watch the movie." Katherine agreed, turning to look at the tv screen where Brad Pitt and Edward Norton's characters were fighting outside of a bar.
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Half way through the movie, Katherine decide to get up and stretch her legs.
"Do you want anything to drink?" The brunette was walking towards the kitchen.
"No thank you." Rosalie politely declined.
"Hungry?" Katherine called out from the kitchen.
"No thank you." She again declined, but Katherine took no mind to it, going about getting herself some Cheetos since she was hungry and a glass of water. Walking back out, she noticed Rosalie's fist balled up tightly in her lap, furrowing her eyebrows she moved to sit back down.
"Hey are you okay?" Rosalie looks at Katherine with a strained smile, Katherine knew it was fake. Rosalie hummed in response. Awkwardly nodding she turned to watch more of the movie.
Katherine knew it was a lie but she wasn't going to push the matter, they're not exactly friends, or are they? Katherine wasn't entirely sure, Rosalie stayed with her last night and called to check up on her earlier in the day after the incident and hell, even came over but Rosalie, Katherine thought, was just being nice to her, taking pity on the girl who almost got raped.
Her eyes were glued on the tv screen, eating her cheetos, trying not to think about it. Katherine admittedly felt a bit hurt. Is Rosalie only here out of pity?
Though they don't spend a lot of time together, Katherine liked her company, unknowingly to her Rosalie liked Katherine's company as well.
Rosalie saw Katherine from her peripheral eating away her Cheetos. She suppressed a smile turning her head her eyes gazed at the brunette who thankfully was too enamored by the movie to notice.
She felt conflicted. She knows she shouldn't be doing this, this could potentially endanger her entire family if this ended badly and her and her family would have to leave immediately and they have a good place right now, she didn't want to put her family through that, yet here she was. Edward has told her of the dangers but that only angered Rosalie, he was being a hypocrite, she knew about Bella, of course she did, from the beginning Edward was hooked on Isabella Swan, Rosalie never liked it but slowly backed away from her words as she had more interactions with Katherine, the girl who captured her full attention.
Katherine was her mate, Rosalie knew this, the allure of Katherine Eloise Swan stemmed from that. Though she had to admit, Rosalie never imagined to have a mate who was the same sex as her. She never thought it was a bad thing, as the years went by she didn't really know where she stood with her sexuality, after what happened with Royce and his friends Rosalie shied away from men, only finding comfort in her male family members.
It took time for Rosalie to recover, it doesn't hurt as much anymore but the scars are there, they'll always be there, physically or mentally, they're there.
Pressure built up behind Rosalie's eyes. She wanted to cry but there's never tears to shed.
"Rosalie?" Worry was sketched on Katherine's face. She placed a gentle hand on Rosalie's arm. And once again their eyes locked down on the others.
"I'm sorry-" Katherine cut her off.
"If you need someone to talk to," She paused for a moment. "You can talk to me. I really appreciate what you've done for me, let me return the favor if I can." Rosalie's expression softened, her eyes flitted towards the corner of her mouth where cheeto dust stuck. She chuckled, which confused Katherine. Rosalie pointed to the corner of her mouth.
"You have a little..." She trailed off. Katherine with her tongue tried to clean it up, only scraping the surface.
"Did I get it?" Rosalie tried to suppress a smile while shaking her head.
"Here." Rosalie lifted her hand, the pad of her thumb gently wiped the corner of Katherine's mouth all the while the brunette stared at Rosalie. Lowering her hand, wiped her thumb on her pair of dark jeans. Katherine blushes, suddenly feeling a bit shy.
Rosalie looked back up, Katherine's eyes still on her. If Rosalie were human her heart would be pounding in her chest, since when were they sitting so close to each other? She caught sight of her eyes flicker to her pink tinted lips. She lightly bit her lower lip. Their eyes never left each other.
Katherine's heart was beating rapidly in her chest. She didn't know how it happened, she didn't know who leaned in first but she wasn't complaining. Rosalie's lip were cold but soft, the kiss itself was gentle...sweet.
A knock on the front door caused the two to pull away. Katherine's cheeks were a bright red. Excusing herself she left to answer the door.
Rosalie already knew who it was. The girl who was infatuated with Katherine. Rosalie knew all about Kelly's feelings towards Katherine, even if she didn't know.
"Hey." Katherine says, sounding surprised.
"Hey." Kelly wearily smiles, looking down and the pages in her hands. "Um, I brought your school work from today." She stated, holding up the pages of school work and homework. Katherine smiled.
"Oh, thank you!" Katherine took the papers from her. She felt relieved, now she won't risk falling behind, though Bella would alway get annoyed whenever she stressed over school, but that was because Bella knew her sister was a genius of some sort, out of the two of them, Katherine would be the one getting full ride scholarships to schools like Harvard. But Katherine always worried about school, she just wanted to make sure she can get herself where she needs to be, where she wants to be in life.
"No problem Katherine." Kelly smiled. Katherine returned it before dropping it. She glanced back towards the living room, she saw the back of Rosalie still sitting on the couch, seemingly watching the ending to Fight Club, but really, Rosalie was eavesdropping, she didn't need to be a vampire to hear it. To Rosalie it made it a bit less creepy. She wasn't trying to be, she's not Edward.
"How are you feeling? You scared me last night, you never returned any of my messages or calls." Katherine felt strain as she forced a weak smile.
"I'm sorry-"
"No, don't be. Alice Cullen explained it to me." Katherine hesitantly nodded. She didn't know what Alice said to Kelly, Rosalie never said anything about it all she knew was that it was taken care of.
"I'm gonna get going I have work soon, do you need anything?" Katherine shook her head.
"Okay, I hope you feel better. Are you going to school tomorrow."
"Yeah." Katherine nodded.
"You have a quiz for your AP class tomorrow by the way."
"Which one?" She asked.
"Psych." Nodding her head, she said her goodbyes and closed the front door. She stood there for a second, taking a deep breath, before returning to the living room. She set her school work on the coffee table when Rosalie suddenly stood up.
"I should get going." This threw Katherine off guard for a second.
"O-oh okay." This saddened Katherine a little. The kiss was a mistake, Rosalie was probably straight and she just outed her sexuality.
Katherine was not necessarily hiding the fact that she wasn't straight but she didn't want to be exploited for it, it's a small town word gets around fast and she hasn't really met many people who were okay with it. Her mom knew and so did Phil, they accepted who she was as did Bella though she was awkward about it in the beginning she came around. Charlie didn't know not yet at least.
Rosalie left, leaving Katherine alone once again. She let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding and picked her schoolwork back up and headed upstairs to catch up on her work.
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Bella and her dad didn't come back home til a little passed 9. Katherine was watching tv when they walked in. She saw the look on their faces and knew something was off.
"Is everything okay?" Katherine asked as she shut off the tv. Bella stopped her dad from saying anything and said she'll tell me and told him to get some sleep. Bella walked further into the living room after Charlie went upstairs.
"Waylon's dead. Animal attack apparently, they found him by the docks." Katherine's eyes widened.
"Are you serious?" Nodding, Katherine felt her heart break a little for her dad. Though she didn't know Waylon that well, she knew how close he and Charlie were.
"I'm gonna check on him." Katherine stated, though Bella suggested to give him space she didn't listen.
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"Dad?" She knocked lightly on his bedroom door. A few seconds later the door opened. She saw the his puffy eyes which saddened her.
"What's up kiddo?" She looked Charlie in the eyes which were still glazed over. He put on a brave face. Katherine didn't respond but wrapped her arms around him, hugging him tightly.
"I'm so sorry dad." Her voice was slightly muffled as her face was up against her dads chest. Charlie wasn't a hugger and was always awkward about it, same as Bella, but Katherine felt his arms wrap back around her tightly.
"Did you eat dinner?" She asked her dad. He shook his head and stated he wasn't hungry but that only made Katherine adamant on getting him to eat something.
She heated him up a can of chicken noodle soup and set it in front of him along with a can of beer. She sat with her father at the table as he ate, Bella soon joining them, the Swan girls looked after their father til he made them go to their rooms because it was late on a school night.
Katherine laid awake that night her mind racing with thoughts of Rosalie, her dad and the night before. Her breathing hitched. She gripped her blanket. She finally closed her eyes and took a slow deep breath, she did not want to have a panic attack, she just wanted to sleep which seemed like an impossible task.
Eventually calming down, Katherine turned on her side and shut her eyes. She laid there for what felt like forever, groaned and sat up in bed. Checking her alarm clock she groaned again plopping back down.
3:46:am
She reached for her phone, flipping it open, she went through her contacts until she found the name she was looking for before pressing the green call button, she put the phone up to her ear.
"Hello?"
"Hey Vi."
"Katherine? Are you okay?"
If there was anyone Katherine could rely on in moments like these it was her best friend Violet from back in Phoenix. They've been best friends since they were 10. Katherine missed her a lot and feels like a shitty friend for not reaching out more but despite the distance they were still close.
"I don't know." She sniffled. It was silent on the other line for a moment before she spoke.
"What happened?"
"What happened with Dylan almost happened again yesterday night." Her voice came out in a hushed tone. It went silent again.
"Wait....you mean-"
"Yes."
"Who was it? I swear I will fly up to fucking Washington and kill that motherfucker." Vi spoke hotly. Katherine chuckled. That was Vi for you.
"It was taken care of, it was stopped before anything could really happen, but that's not the only thing that's been bothering me." She said.
"What else?" Vi asks.
"I met this girl." She began.
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So far this is the longest chapter I've written lol.
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