KISS LIST || TOM KAULITZ

𝑃𝐴𝑅𝑇 𝐹𝐼𝐹𝑇𝑌-𝑇𝑊𝑂

KATHERINE POV || FIVE YEARS LATER

—Anything in italics, in this chapter is memories flashbacks, it'll be referring to whatever is stated beforehand—

No one would ever believe the real reason I made the kiss list. It wasn't a story worth hearing, really.

I was a complicated person, I knew that. Everybody knew that, it was hard for me, growing up.

I sat in my vanity chair, staring ahead at the person I had become. I was proud of myself, cheered with everyone throughout college. We were all still good friends, close friends.

I look at my graduation photo, smiling at the memory. It really was a day to remember.

"IVY GET IN THE PHOTO!" Tom screams, as I crammed up against Georg. "I'm trying! It's so squished!" She laughs, running over to us.

Tom crouches, letting her jump on his back instead. "I'm really tall now, that's cool." Maivy laughs, resting her chin on Tom's head.

"SMILE!" We all heard.

A perfect moment, the after party was insane!

*DROP IT LIKE IT'S HOT!*

I look over to my side, seeing all of us standing in a line. Essentially... dropping it like it's hot, Georg held my arch as I looked over at everyone else doing the same thing.

Tom held both sides of Maivy's hips, as she basically twerked into him. "Switch positions!" Gemma shouted, all of us squealed. Seeing all the guys bend over.

"It's jiggling!" Maivy gasped, looking at all of them. Getting on their hands, seeing all that ass shaking in our face. Sure... there was like a million other people here.

But in that moment it only felt like us.

I created the kiss list for Tom, not for Lucia.

The whole time I was friends with her, as they were dating. She would come over to my house, telling me some new way she had gotten Tom to believe her.

It was always a new guy, a different guy. She never stuck to him, I knew she was destroying him slowly. I saw this, I was hanging out around his friend group. All the time, i'd see through her lies.

But, all I saw was Tom believing them, completely taken by her. It was absolutely insane to me, he loved her so much. I knew in some way she had loved him, in a sense she didn't want anyone to have him.

Other then her.

When Lucia had left, she told me, I needed a way to get Tom out of falling in love with anyone else. I had suggested the kiss list.

I told her, if I made the list. I knew he would never kiss any of those girls, so naturally they would learn to back off from him. Can't believe she bought that.

I blinked, letting the eyeliner swipe across the corner of my eye. Planting a perfect wing.

I smile to myself, reliving the memory of why I had created the kiss list. It was sweet, but... also kind of sad in a way.

I marched over to my health science class, It was sophomore year, and I needed extra credit.

I was prepared to do anything, if I didn't get the credit to bring my grade up. I wouldn't be able to lead the team anymore, the cheer team was everything to me.

"You can volunteer at the nursing home?" She suggested, fixing some papers in her lap. "The nursing home?" I laugh, not quite understanding her.

"Do you want the extra credit or not?" She asks, I sigh.

"I suppose I do."

-

"You're a cheerleader?" Gloria asked, as she sipped on some of her tea. "Indeed I am." I nodded, grabbing a cookie from the tin.

"Perhaps, you know my grandsons?" She questions, raising an eyebrow.

"Maybe, what's their names?" I laugh, patting my hands off on my knees. "Tom and Bill, twins." She follows up.

Oh, she's their grandmother?

"I know them, our friend groups mix a little." I clasp my hands together, interlocking them. "Lucia left Tom, correct?" Gloria clarifies, my eyes widen a little.

"She did." I confirmed, gulping down some of the tea.

"This might be a little dumb, and you may not be that close with Tom, but i'm not gonna be here for much longer. I know he's struggling, I want you to promise me you'll help him, can you do that for me?" Gloria holds my hand, I lick my lips in looking down.

How the hell was I supposed to help her? I barely even knew of Tom, all I knew was that he was struggling right now. I did feel bad for him, but... how was I gonna help him? He was his own person.

"How am I supposed to do that Gloria? I'm sorry but he's not a person i'm close with." I apologized, seeing her face fall. I just had no idea, how I could help him.

"He's guarded his heart up, as much as he may not admit it. Tom is just like Bill, he enjoys the romance in things. He may put on this show, but it's not him. I just want you to figure out away, to have him let his guard down, live a little." She points at me.

Gloria had passed, later that night.

I place some blush on my cheeks, sniffling as I thought about Gloria. To make a long story short, I had hated Lucia. The kiss list was for Tom, I knew once the right girl came along. She'd be the one to get through to him.

The day I saw Red, I had this gut feeling. Some may say it was because of the fact she had similar features to Lucia, but it was something about her.

A sparkle in her eyes almost.

That day, I told Tom the truth. That Maivy had manipulated him, it was all for Lucia.

She had threatened me, if I didn't get Maivy off the team somehow, she'd tell everyone about an incident that had happened to me when I was fourteen.

I had no choice, I couldn't risk anyone finding out. It was either me, or Tom. I thought, why would this love be true? We were only in high school after all.

Today confirmed it for me, love can be true.

"Katherine!" Georg called out, opening the door. I take the cap off my lipstick, seeing him enter.

"We're gonna be late for Tom and Maivy's wedding, hurry up!." He fixes his watch, looking up at me.

"I'm almost ready, just finishing touches." I reassure, seeing him begin to walk away. Some may, say I had caused a lot of pain for Tom and Maivy.

Some may say, I had been a bad person? But I was me, with no apologies. This is me, no regrets.

"This is me." I smile, looking at myself in the mirror. You may not like me, you may hate me, but I knew myself, and I also knew one thing.

Tom and Maivy wouldn't be here today, if it wasn't for my...

Kiss List.