Innocent People

Chapter 5 - Katelyn

"Come on Katelyn!" Olivia said agitated as they walked into school and headed towards their locker. "I know and totally understand that you and Adrian may have been friends for, well...basically forever but you and I both know that you, Katelyn so want more! And don't even try to deny it! Come on! Don't lie to me Katelyn." Only after she'd finished saying everything she possibly could in one breath did Olivia realize quite how much she'd said and looked over to see a slightly sad expression on her friend's face. This wasn't quite the way she'd wanted this morning to go.
"I'm not lying Olivia", Katelyn protested once again, whilst grabbing her books out of her locker and checking that she had everything she needed before grasping for the locker door. "Why would I lie to you? You're the only one I can talk to about this and you know it", Katelyn stated looking at Olivia with a look on her face begging her to understand.
Olivia nodded understandingly while Katelyn continued in a slightly aggravated tone.

"I can't tell anyone like Kean or Nathan because we all know that whatever I tell them about Adrian, any other guy or pretty much anything else I could ever think of will end up with Adrian fully informed through them or someone else they know and eventually half the school, if not more, will know everything I'd told them and would have thought up more because, as you know, where the facts are missing the rumours appear. I can't even consider telling Mia being as it's obvious to anyone who isn't blind, deaf and stupid that she's pretty much head over heels for the guy, will hardly talk about anything else and would probably kill me if I really were to like him that way and Adrian...well, that's just not going to happen. So Olivia, I hope you believe me now because you're all I've got!"

Katelyn slammed her locker door shut and started walking down the hall. Olivia looked over at Katelyn for a moment in complete befuddlement before chasing after her. They were walking down the hall towards their history classroom and Olivia had shock written, no, more like slapped all over her face. Not something that happened very often to Olivia, anyone would tell you that.
This was something completely new and if she had been talking to anyone else, Katelyn would never had said anything like that or even a little bit in the direction of that tone but apart from Mia and Adrian, Olivia was the only friend she had where the talking, the honesty and the pure friendship came from both sides. 
And as Katelyn said, the other two weren't quite the right people for this conversation.
She had other friends, a lot of them for that matter, but those three were the only ones she'd call her good friends. Katelyn was kind of like pizza and puppies: Everyone liked her but a select few existed that loved her to bits. Olivia had told Katelyn this once when they were in their last year of elementary school together. She was actually having a dig at Mia but Katelyn hadn't caught on. Friendship was a word Katelyn had never been able to define. That's why Olivia was so important to her and also why she didn't want to "scare her away".

"Wow", Olivia only just managed to say with quite a bit of effort. "I've...I've never seen you like this before Kate. This is serious stuff."
As Olivia paused for a moment to take in Katelyn's reaction and think about what to say next, Katelyn calmed herself and released the tension in her shoulders that had built up whilst she had been talking. 
It wasn't just new to Olivia that Katelyn was behaving this way.

Katelyn had never reacted like that in front of someone else before. She'd always kept her strongest emotions hidden and kept away like so many other teenagers and then they had fought their way up to the surface in a way that could be considered many things. But healthy wasn't one of them. Her parents were away often, she knew almost the entire school and she was a mystery to most people. If anyone had bothered to look a little closer, they would have seen that something wasn't right. She had now taken the first step to making herself feel better. She was becoming better, healthier, and happier. It may sound like a strange way of doing so but it was probably one of the best.
Shouting at Olivia had helped her let at least some things go. It was all there and Olivia was aware of it. As were some passers-by who had also witnessed, for the first time, how the angel that is Katelyn had blown her top. As she walked by though, they quickly turned away again, and were suddenly very interested in the books and pens they had in their hands.
Great, Katelyn thought, more gaps to be filled.