TITLE:FAYETTEVILLE
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Derrick's eyes shot open. Deer in the
headlights. His girlfriend, Natalie was sitting
next to him, and the girl he cheated on her
with was walking through the door. He
thought Kathrine didn't know anything about
Natalie, and he was scared it was about to get
ugly. The truth is: Kathrine knew he was
cheating. Kathrine wasn't going to freak out.
Was she expecting to see Derrick tonight?
No. But she knew how to keep her cool.
"This is Kathrine, guys! She's a great girl,"
Evelyn told everyone even though she didn't
really know her.
Derrick was squirming in the loveseat. Natalie
was starting to notice his hands were getting
sweaty.
"Hey, Kathrine! I'm Jasper!" he jumped up and
leaned in to hug her. He usually didn't hug
like that, but he had heard that Kathrine was
with Genni before she went missing... Well,
everyone had heard that.
"This is Derrick and Natalie. They're dating...
obviously," Evelyn laughed.
Kathrine rose her eyebrows, "Derrick, you
look familiar... do I know you from
somewhere?"
Natalie turned to look at Derrick for his
response. He may have the looks, but he
couldn't think on his feet. He never planned
for this. He didn't think his girlfriend and his
side-chick would run into each other like this.
Especially with him in the room. Natalie let go
of his sweaty hands and rubbed hers on the
soft fabric of the loveseat.
Jasper was the only person in the room
catching on. He never liked Derrick, after all,
Natalie was his best friend and Derrick would
always get in the middle of it. He grabbed his
drink from the end table and spun his straw
around in the ice as he waited on Derrick to
respond.
"No, I don't think so," he finally responded.
His face was starting to blush.
"Um. Weird," Kathrine said as she spun
around and sat next to Zach.
Zach was scratching his beard trying to think
of a way to kill the tension, "so... you guys
wanna watch a movie? Play a game?"
"Yas, let's play a game!" Natalie said as she
got up from beside Derrick.
"Okay, I'll go get the games," Zach said,
jumping up from his seat.
"I'll help," Derrick said as he hustled off the
couch. Zach looked back, knowing Derrick
needed to talk to him about something. They
turned the corner into the side game room,
and Derrick grabbed Zach to talk to him as if
Zach didn't already know.
"Dude!"
"What is going on in there? Do you know
her?"
"What is she doing here?"
"Kathrine is nice! She probably needs some
friends right now. She's new here and one of
her friends is missing and she-"
Derrick interrupted him, "Who cares?!"
Zach stepped back from Derrick, "Derrick,
man, I love you but what is your problem?"
"Nothing."
Zach waited a few seconds. He knew he
would spill momentarily.
"I cheated on Natalie with her."
"You did what?!"
"We made out, and I took her out on a date. I
thought she would give it up but she didn't."
Zach turned around to grab a few games,
"you've got to be kidding me..."
"No, I'm not. And Kathrine didn't know about
Natalie, but I guess now she does."
"I'm not fixing this for you. Just get in there
and have fun."
"Zach, what's wrong with you? We've been
like brothers forever and now you're just
gonna let this happen?"
"Yeah, we're brothers, but this isn't cool, and
I'm not gonna let this stress me out. Can we
just have a good time?" Zach walked back out
into the living room.
"Where'd Derrick go?" Natalie laughed.
"Uh, bathroom?" Zach said as he put the
games on the wooden coffee table in the
center of the room.
