Her Story Told By Someone Else

10. Is a Tomato-fight really a fight?

Kathy puts another carrot stick in her mouth as she scrolls through Instagram lying on her couch. She is having a lazy Saturday after a long week at her new work. Crunch, crunch, crunch. Scroll, scroll, scroll. Crunch. Scroll. Crunch. Scroll. Kathy is in a good rhythm when her phone rings. Kathy reaches for her phone mindlessly as she continues to scroll Instagram, having a hard time snapping out of her rhythm. She breaks her rhythm to look at her ringing phone and her eyebrows scrunch as she sees Keath's name buzzing across the screen. She slides her phone to answer and puts it up to her ear and she continues to scroll Instagram on her Ipad but this time it's for her hands to have something to do while her mind is racing with questions she wants to ask.

"Keath?" Kathy asks unsurely but not totally unsure.

"Kat!" Keath yells out which had Kathy pull her phone away from her ear for a second before putting it back on the ear.

"Kat?" Kathy asks.

Keath answers with more enthusiasm that he answered the phone with if that was possible, "Ya, I thought it would be a good pet name. Get it? Pet name? Never mind. What are you doing right this second?"

Kathy could hardly hear him because first of all he was speaking as fast as the devil on wheels heading to hell. Second because where ever he was, was loud with voices of other people and random noises that Kathy couldn't decipher.

"Uhhhh.." was all that came out of Kathy before Keath interrupted.

"Great! Meet me at settler square in twenty minutes." Keath almost had yell say into the phone, "Oh and wear something that can get ruined." With that, the line went dead leaving Kathy sitting stunned in her apartment. Should she go meet Keath at this strange place with an even more bizarre request? Well I guess I could do worst on a Saturday, Kathy thought to herself, you only live once right? Her subconscious answered her though, Unless you only live until today.

Oh well.

Twenty minutes later Kathy is walking towards some big event having to park a little while away from where Keath told her to meet him. She had no idea what as going on but just saw a bunch of people in white tee shirts with bandanas and a little bit of red splattered on them. They were everywhere walking in every which direction. She was so confused about where actually she was supposed to be going or where the heart of the event was happening. She got out her cell phone and decided to go to the nearest noticeable landmark while giving Keath a call.

It only took one ring for him to answer. "Kathy."

"Keath, I am here. Standing by the tree over by the tall thin silver building." Kathy said searching the crowd for any sign of Keath.

"Okay I'm on my way." and with that, he hung up. Kathy waited and watched. Suddenly Keath arrived walking with full force and with purpose towards Kathy. She saw he was wearing relaxed attire: old looking jeans a white t-shirt and a red bandana around his head making his hair flop half over it, giving him that high school biker look. She noticed he was smudged all over with red and dirt whatever he was doing he got down and dirty.

He rushes up to her not even slowing down. As he came close Kathy, "Hey Keat-" He quickly takes her hand navigating her through the crowds at a fast pace, "Where are we going?" She half yells over the crowd.

Keath briefly looks back and gives her a dazzling smile, "You'll see soon enough."

The crowd gets more and more crowded as they get closer to their destination which Kathy has no clue what that is. As they walk further along people become more covered in red and messy but Kathy can't really dwell on why because of the hand that is currently dragging her. Suddenly she sees a massive group of people with red balls of she doesn't know what. They are flying everywhere and before she can comprehend what is happening she is dragged by Keath right into the middle of a street where everyone is running and screaming with laughter. Kathy squeals as she feels red splatter on her. She looks down to see red juice with seeds in it. Keath lets go of her hand but Kathy doesn't notice as she's fascinated with her surroundings. She realized it is tomato they are throwing.

Smack! A tomato hits her square in the side of the face. She turns to see Keath retreating from her.

Oh no, he doesn't! Kathy thinks as she goes after him.

She sees a box full of tomatoes and picks up of few before continuing on her journey of revenge. She looks around for Keath but inside feels another hit on her back and then another on her shoulder. She looks around realizing these strangers are attacking her with tomatoes. She must look like an easy target. Not anymore. Kathy quickly ducks away from tomatoes while choosing her victims and hitting her targets while still trying to look for her actual goal. To get Keath.

Laughter fills her lungs as she is getting bombarded with tomatoes and as she throws at the people around her. Suddenly she gets a hard blow to the face which didn't hurt but she could tell was intentional by more than just the passer-byer. She looks for the imposter and her eyes meet Keath's. His eyes dance with mischief and hers mirror his as soon as she sees him. Her soul purpose on getting him back. She throws but he's to fast dodging her throw. She races after him weaving through the crowd. Her focus was on one goal though she hit guilty looking passer-byers while searching out for Keath.

Finally, her eyes locked with her goal, Oh how sorry he is gonna be. She sneaks up behind him while reloading her ammo. He turns around just as Kathy launches the tomatoes at him. He puts hands in front of his face taking the pelting tomatoes. Once Kathy runs out of tomatoes Keath looks up onto her eyes and all Kathy sees is revenge coming her way. She quickly turns to around to run from Keath and get more ammo. She isn't quick enough because soon she feels tomatoes being thrown against her back. She turns around now loaded and throws back into the direction of her attacker who was none other than Keath. They stand in the middle of tomato-throwing chaos but not even noticing others around them as they are entirely focused on attacking each other. The playful laugher ripples off of Kathy while Keath's eyes light up playful as they continue their assault on each other.