From Friends to Lovers

Chapter 27

Chapter 27

It had been Four months and they were going strong. Their dates would end with passionate kisses at her door step and if they were lucky, heavy petting and make out sessions on the couch.

Kate had spent a lot of her free time in Rick's study, browsing through his vast collection of books, reading on his couch, while he wrote. They were both madly in love with each other, and with love comes insecurities.

Rick had a deadline coming up, and he still had four chapters to complete. Gina his publisher kept calling him to remind him, and the pressure was getting too much.

He was in the zone, his fingers taping quickly against the keys of his laptop. He hadn't notice his phone had been ringing. He quickly checked to find 6 missed calls from Kate. He dialled her number quickly, and waited for her to pick.

"Rick?"
And just the sound of her voice was enough to ease his mind.

"Hey" he said with a smile.

"Where are you? I've been calling you for the past hour!" she was angry.

"Kate, I told you I'd be writing. I'm sorry; I didn't realize my phone was ringing."

she sighed on the other end.
"Mike's having a party at his place, almost everyone's there. Can you come pick me up? It feels like weeks since I've seen you"

"It's been a week actually... Since our last date... But I've got a lot of writing left Kate... I can't just leave it..."

"So you're not coming with me to the party?" she asked in a firm tone.

"Kate you have to understand..."

"Just tell me if you're coming or not"

"no, I can't." he said sadly.

"Fine" she said, and hung up.

Rick sat back in his chair, wiped down his face with both hands, and let out a slow long exhale. He was tired. His head was spinning, his girlfriend was angry with him. And she had every right to be. But he wanted her to understand him too. he had to give priority to completing his book.

They had not seen each other for a week now cause he had so much writing to get done. He couldn't remember the last time they had kissed. Oh how he wanted a taste of those lips right now.

Kate hung up on him. She had really hoped he would meet her tonight; she'd been going crazy all week. She just wanted to see him for a few hours, but with his deadline coming up, he couldn't make time for her. And she knew she should be more understanding, but something in her felt like lashing out.

Finally she decided to go to the party by herself. She didn't need Rick to have a little bit of her own fun. She could have fun with her other friends. She'd deal with him later.

Right now, she was upset, and sitting at home thinking about him was not helping. She dressed up, wore one of her short, tight black dresses, let her hair down, and went to the party by herself.

Rick was searching the crowd of his class mates for Kate. The music was loud, People were dancing, making out, chugging down punch, and by the look of the party, the punch had been spiked.

He searched around again. Mike's place was huge, and there were so many people here, he was making his way through the crowd when he spotted Kevin and Jenny.

"Hey hey, Rick, you're here, Kate told us you weren't coming."

"Yea, that was the plan, but then I changed my mind...
Have you guys seen Kate around? I can't seem to find her."

Jenny got on her toes and looked around.
"There, she's dancing" she pointed out. "I think she had a little more punch then necessary" Jenny added.

Rick made his way to where Jenny had pointed, and when he found Kate, she was dancing, with two guys. And they were eyeing her with eyes of lust, but she seemed oblivious. she was grinding with them, and Rick felt his blood boil.

He walked briskly to where she was, pushed the two stoned guys away and said "Kate what are you doing?"

That's when Kate noticed who it was.
"Rick, you came! Come on now, dance with me"
she stepped closer to him, still swaying to the music.

"Kate how much did you drink?"

"What does it matter? we're having fun, aren't we?"
It was pretty evident she was drunk.

"Kate, I think you've had enough for tonight, let's go, come on."

He took her hand. But she pulled away. Irritation written all over her face.

"No, I'm not going anywhere; I came here to dance, to have fun. You clearly don't care about being with me, so just leave me alone okay."

She pulled away from him and started dancing next to those guys again. "Kate, I know your upset with me, we need to talk, just, let's get out of here, we'll talk it out"

"oh, so now you want to take me out? Oh I get it. I get what's happening here…" she said with narrowed eyes at him, and then she smirked. she began grinding with the guys again. "You have a problem with this?" She challenged.

Rick's fist clenched. Why was she being so stubborn?

"Kate, your way out of line!"

His head was hot, and his eyes were turning red.

He tried again, "Kate your way out of line here! come with me."

He pushed the creep away "back off, before I give you a black eye" the guy was just going to argue back, willing to fight, when Kate spoke.

"Ha! you call that out of line, watch this."

She turned around to find Mike dancing there, she held on to his collar with both hands, and pulled him to clash her lips against his.

Rick's world fell apart.