mama, we're all full of lies

5.

it's been a few days since that murder was documented on the news and they got a call from ' ghostface ' . nothing really happened since then . well besides rory dressing up as ghostface as a joke which ended with sam kicking her in face and ripping the mask off of her face which then resulted in katerina scolding her girlfriend while holding a bag of frozen peas to her nose .

now kat was alone in her apartment that she shared with sam and tara , sitting on her bedroom floor as she went through a box filled with old pictures , gifts and drawings that she kept in her closet , but never really looked through . the last time she looked through it was many months ago which resulted in tears , because most of the things in the box were from 2023 .

she looked at a few polaroids she took . a few of them were just chad smiling like a dork and some of them were of anika doing silly poses . she missed anika . she was like a best friend to her . she missed having sleepovers with her where they would bake cookies which most of the time ended up burnt , because they got distracted or when they would exchange fashion tips to each other .

mindy missed her the most though . she just didn't to show it . she refused to show it . it was a pretty unhealthy coping mechanism of hers . just pretend like it never happened and when someone asks about it : act confused . but behind closed doors , she would hide her face in her pillow and cry her heart out . she still did . even after two years .

kat started started to look through more of the polaroids . one of them was a picture of tara biting her sister's cheek while sam made a goofy expression . another polaroid captured chad giving ethan a kiss on the cheek while ethan scrunched his nose . that was the most memorable picture she took . she could still remember that moment like it was yesterday .

" say cheese , princess ! " katerina said , pointing her polaroid at at the curly haired boy . chad quickly came up behind and gave him a kiss on the cheek which caused ethan to scrunch his nose as she took the picture . " that was so not necessary . " ethan said , wiping his cheek . " don't act like you don't love it , babyboy . " the male meeks - martin twin ruffled his hair .

" fucking gay people . " elodie giggled , laying her head on her boyfriend's shoulder . greyson . god , how kat hated him . he was her least favorite person in the world besides her abusive father . she hated everything about that guy . the way he looked , the way he talked , the way he dressed . she even hated the way his name is spelled . it's no secret that she hated him . she never tried to hide it . she thought elodie deserved someone better . someone who's not greyson .

but she'd always remind herself that she doesn't exactly have the best taste in men either . she literally had a crush on ethan landry of all people . the loser of the friend group who no one really genuinely liked besides chad and her of course . ethan was not exactly ' boyfriend material ' to say the least , but he was just enough for her . atleast that's what she thought . there was something in the relationship that was missing for her . she just couldn't quite figure out what , but she didn't complain nonetheless .

" elodie , making gay jokes is not nice . " katerina looked at her to which elodie just responded with " who said it was a joke ? " . ethan rolled his eyes and pulled kat close to kiss her on the lips which got interrupted by elodie throwing popcorn at the two . " boo ! worst horror movie i ever watched ! this is the most  abominal shit i've ever seen ! "