The Outsider Experience

Kat's POV. Chapter 13

So, yes things had gone great between me and Soda for the next few weeks. We held hands, went to races, and snuck outside for a few kissing sessions here and there while Soda was working. We had clicked into a normal couple. But one day, something had changed. Soda kept talking about certain things that reminded him of Sandy and it made me feel kind of......Jealous. One night he had talked about her so much, I had to talk to Mack about it. "Mack," I began to ask as I was lying in bed. "What?" she grumbled. "Is it a bad thing that Sodapop has started talking about Sandy a lot lately?" Mack considered for a few minutes and sat up in bed. She looked over at me as if she knew how I felt and said this. "Kat, don't be jealous. He just got out of a relationship and is already into a new one with you. Go easy on him okay? He might still be hurting even though he loves you." I nodded, rolled over, and went back to sleep.

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A few more days passed and it seemed like he was still talking a lot about Sandy. Finally as we were sitting on the truck we decided to go steady on, I'd had enough. "And me and Sandy used to always sit on this truck too," Sodapop went on. "Why do you talk about Sandy so much?!" I snapped. I was raging with jealousy. "Can't you just forget her?!" "It's kind of hard to forget someone that you once loved, Katlyn!" he argued. I got furious and my face got hot. He had never, in all the years he had known me, called me Katlyn. It was ALWAYS Kat. I didn't know what to say and I thought I might burst into tears. 'No,' I told myself. 'Stay strong Kat.' "Well if you can't forget about her," I yelled. I began to grab my stuff and walk out the door. I finished as I walked out the garage door. "Then you can forget about me!"