Because she was different

The 9th

Chapter 9.

 "A special thanks to Nina K. who is my #1 fan apparently. You make me smile!" This is from my original upload on Fanfic. She's now one of my best friends. I love her and I am grateful for every single second I get to talk to her.

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 They had a normal, quiet day. Everything had been fine. Alexis had returned from her sleep over and had talked the ears from Kate and Rick’s head. After her long talk Alexis went to sleep some more because apparently she hadn’t really slept a lot.

Now Kate and Rick were sitting on the couch, watching TV with a glass of wine in their hands. “Kate…” Rick started as he felt the need to finally talk about it, since he’d been putting it off all day, “I need to talk to you about something.” She looked up at him. In the back of her mind she could have known what this was going to be about, but she wasn’t thinking about that. He was going to do this carefully but he knew she couldn’t like even talking about it. “What are your plans for tomorrow? Anything you want to do?” and he could see Kate already growing more sad by the second.

“Nothing.” She whispered and cleared her throat, trying to get that lump away.

“Kate? You okay?” he asked, knowing that she would lie about it.

“Yeah, I’m just- I don’t know Rick. I don’t know if I’m fine. I have no idea what to do tomorrow. I think I’ll just have to keep myself busy enough.”

“If I can help you in any way-“

“I know.” She mumbled and got up. “I think I’m going to sleep. I’m tired.”

“Okay,” he said as he turned on the radio and turned the TV off. “Oh Kate! I love this song. Will you dance with me before you go to bed?” he asked full of hope but then saw her doubt. “Nothing funny, I just love to dance to this song.” He offered her his hand and she accepted.

“Can’t hurt me right.” She thought out loud as he pulled her closer, her nose at the line of his shoulders, closely dancing to the sweet melody.

After a few seconds her head was resting on his shoulder and she was practically hugging him, so was he. Her hands around his neck, his around her middle, resting on her hips. He started humming along with the song with his lips next to her ear, giving her chills, but good chills.

“You know what I thought what I first met you, before I talked to you and saw you in my bar?” he asked her, still swaying to the melody.

She asked with a hum. “I thought you were a mystery I was never going to get to know.”

She chuckled at that. “So I’m really glad we bumped into each other.” He smiled.

“Yeah me too.” She agreed.

“Tell me, what did you think? Was I the famous author for you? Or just a normal guy that you came across?” Rick was curious.

“I saw you weren’t that outgoing as the tabloids describe you, so for me, you were just an interesting guy. But I must say, after our first conversation, I wanted to get to know you. So yeah, I’m glad you’re my friend now.” He smiled and pulled back a little bit. “You know, you have gorgeous eyes, once I made eye contact, I saw you were more than just a beautiful brunette.” She blushed.

“Thanks, I guess.” Trying to suppress a smiled as the song ended.

Suddenly back to serious he said, “I’m serious Kate. You are a beautiful woman.” And made eye contact with her for longer than normal. They kept that gaze until Kate’s smile started to fade when she saw his eyes flick to her lips for just a seconds. He didn’t even realize he did it. She backed away from him slightly. “I think I’d better go to bed.” She almost whispered as she got out of his grip and walked toward the stairs.