DATE ME IF YOU WANT

Chapter 8

Kate's POV

"Wake up!!! Kate!!! Open the door!!!", something was knocking hard on my door. I got up slowly, grabbed a shawl, wore my slippers and
'click!' opened my door lock. Something instantly rushed in. I knew what or rather who it was!
"God! Harry!! What the hell??", I asked in a sleepy but annoyed voice. I looked at the wall clock with half-open eyes and exclaimed again, "it's 6 in the morning! Go, get some more sleep today!" 'Sheesh! This guy! Still a kid!!' I was driving me out by his shoulders.
"Wait! Wait!! Wait!!!", he turned around, "I need to know something. It even haunted me in my sleep!"
I gave him an indifferent look and a 'go on' signal. 'Better not be something silly!'
"What's on this Saturday?"
"Umm...holiday?" 'Saturday??', I kept thinking.
"That's not what I mean!"
"Then what do you mean?" 'Just let me sleep already!'
He hesitated, "I mean...that...on Saturday...Jimmy's home..lunch..you too invited, isn't it?"
I got the gist. "Yeah? What about it?"
"Don't you think there's some occasion on Saturday?", his inquisitive eyes looked at me.
'Why is he so excited?' "I think there is! I was going to ask today.", I said. "Shit!", I regretted a moment later.
He was smart enough to notice. Not that I wasn't smart, but I was too careless. "Wait! What? Today? Whom? When? How??" His expression changed. "You are hiding something from me, aren't you?"
"I.." It was true. I wanted to tell him but I couldn't.
"Please!", he begged.
I felt guilty. I bit my lower lip.
"...", he sat down on a chair.
I sat down on the bed, "fine! But promise me, everything will be the same after I tell you this."
He looked surprised. "Sure!"
"I_am_dating_James!", I said in a monotone.
"......"
I looked at him. His face was unreadable. "C'mon! Say something!"
He stood up and left. I didn't chase after him. I kept facepalming myself over and over again.
"MY TWIN SISTER IS DATING MY BEST FRIEND!!!???" Not only our home but our whole neighbourhood might have got a topic to gossip about for the day.
I ran out. "Shut up, Harry!", I grabbed his mouth, "calm down! Let's sit and talk!"
"HOW THE HELL CAN I CALM DOWN?"
"Deep breaths, Harry, deep breaths!", I guided him to my room.
Meanwhile, our parents came running upstairs. "What's wrong?" They looked worried.
I apologized and made up a gullible excuse for the early morning ruckus. We safely entered my room and I bolted it from inside to prevent his escape.

I patted Harry on the head. "Sorry for not telling you already."
"Since when?", he asked quietly.
"Since the last winter break."
"And you didn't tell me because...?", he sounded a little irritated.
I flinched. "..because I didn't want your relationship to change with either of us. I thought you couldn't handle it. You are such a baby!"
"..."
"I'm sorry!", I stood up, "now, stop sulking!"
He followed, "I am going to have a talk with him now."
"Stop! Don't!", I grabbed his hand. "I'm meeting up with him today. It will be better if I ask him about Saturday. Don't you want that too?"
"See, Kate! You have always treated me like a kid but I thought it was your way of showing affection. But unfortunately, I was wrong. You didn't have to hide your relationship with my best friend. I can handle things like that. You guys are the only best friends I have got!"
After such a revelation, how could I not give him a tight hug? "I'm so sorry. It was me who asked Jim to keep our relationship hidden from you. Don't resent him, please! After hugging you, I realized, you have grown to be quite a man!" I squeezed his biceps.
He laughed, "geez! Pervy twinnie!", and hugged me back.
'Phew!', one slip of tongue and the mess it made!

Around 11A.M, I took my bath and got ready in a sleeveless white top and a pair of shredded jeans, completed with matching silver earrings and black heels.
'Knock! Knock!'
"Come in!"
"I guess I overreacted a bit.", Harry came in.
"A bit?", I gave a sarcastic laugh.
"You know you look like a hooker in those heels!", he pointed out.
"Why do you care?", I smirked.
"Coz my sister is dating my best friend!?"
'And here I thought the initial shock is over!' "Enough already!!"
"Embarrassed?", he winked.
I started taking off the heels, "no..just that...I was wrong. You really can be a man and handle the news well." I threw the heels away. "You were right! Heels are so uncomfortable."
"Bring back some useful info.", he smiled and went away.
I grabbed my sneakers, looked myself in the mirror one last time and left.