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I sighed, walking into the video store thinking about the 'conversation' I had just had with my dead mother, who couldn't defend herself against my harsh but true words

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I sighed, walking into the video store thinking about the 'conversation' I had just had with my dead mother, who couldn't defend herself against my harsh but true words. It wasn't like she could argue against them if she was alive. I knew the truth about her, who she really was.

I saw Randy smiling at me from the counter as I made my way over to him, pushing past random couples. "Hey Kat, what are you doing here?" Shrugging, I picked up a piece of candy out of the pick and mix before putting it into my mouth.

"I realized I haven't really hung out with you since all this shit started happening," I answered truthfully as my oldest friend smiled at me knowingly while putting videos on his cart. He turned and put his hands on my shoulders, comfortingly.

"It's okay, plus you've got a killer after you. Maybe we should be friends again when this all blows over," he laughed, motioning for me to sit on the cart before pushing it to the rom-com section.

I give him a soft glare, "You're such a dick, Rand!" I growl playfully, hitting him.

He rushed us to the action section, where we nearly knocked over some angry-looking dude, "watch it, jerk!"

we both smiled sheepishly as the guy walks off pissed "So how have you been?" I asked casually as I rifled through the video cases.

Glancing up, I noticed Randy looking at me with a raised eyebrow "is that small talk? Are you trying to make small talk with me? Are you feeling okay?" he questioned, putting his hand on my forehead with a grin.

Grabbing his hand in mine, I pulled it from my head. "I'm fine," I scoff, rolling my eyes "believe it or not, I care about you," I huff, knowing he was one of few people in my life I actually cared about "we've known each other since forever" I pointed out to him laughing and getting a smirk back.

"Forever's such a long time to be your friend Kat" Randy quipped as I glared at him mockingly, giving him a little push just for good measure as he pushed me back as we began to playfully wrestle. Randy was the only person I could be a child with again and not care about my reputation or weakness.

We both stopped quickly and turned when we heard someone clear their throat, only to see Stu looking at us, annoyed. "Well, this looks cozy," he muttered, sounding jealous as his jaw tightened when his eyes lowered.

I followed his gaze down to see mine and Randy's hands were still entwined together; I chuckled, seeing Randy blush as he quickly pulled his hand from mine; I knew he was into my sister, but I also knew he'd had a crush on me at some point too.

"So where did you slink off to earlier?" Stu asked me quietly as I looked at him confused, wondering how he knew I'd gone somewhere. "Sid couldn't find you," he added, sensing my confusion.

I shrugged, taking his outstretched hand as he pulled me off the video cart. "I went for a walk to clear my head," Stu looked at me knowingly. He knew all too well how overbearing it could get in my head.

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