Blank Slate

Chapter 27: Hiding Bodies and Cloning People

Chapter 27: Hiding Bodies and Cloning People

Katelyn Bishop

Katelyn stood in the charged air of the night. They had just dropped off Wynn and Annie wanted to stay with her to make sure she was alright. Drake, however, as usual, only cared about getting Carter. Katelyn hated her. The way she manipulated her into getting rid of Carter by using Flint as a pawn. Katelyn's cheeks burned high with the flame of anger.

Clenching her fists tightly, Katelyn walked further. Drake just spoke about what she would do when she saw Carter. She was pathetic.

Finally, Katelyn turned to Drake and spat back out a cold and even response.

"Will you just shut up about Carter! We already have done enough! We nearly got Annie killed, not to mention Wynn who freaking face planted at our table! And all you care is getting your silly revenge!"

Drake crossed her arms. "It's not silly. Carter needs to be put to justice."

Katelyn's eyebrows pulled together in anger. "And you're just the person to do it, huh? Let me remind you, you used Flint to get me here. You wouldn't know justice if it hit you in your flat forehead!"

Drake's gaze fell to the floor as she rubbed her forehead. "I do not have a flat forehead." Drake paused for a moment. "How are you really doing with Flint being gone, Kate? I don't think this is about me. I think this is about you missing him."

Katelyn fastened her pace. "I'm fine."

Drake shook her head. "No you aren't!"

Katelyn scoffed. "Am too!"

Drake took a large breath in as she stopped on the sidewalk. "You know what's worse than everyone believing you when you say 'I'm fine', huh?"

Katelyn didn't speak. She just pushed forward, her heavy heart tying her down while she attempted to walk away.

Drake took the beat of silence as answer. Tilting her head down in shame, Drake spoke again. "It's worse when you say 'I'm fine' so much that you start to believe your own lies."

Katelyn yelled out. "I am fine! I loved him, sure. But I can live without him! I've been doing it long before I met him, and I'll do it long after. The truth is, when the writer of the universe wrote me into the world, I was just a supporting character in someone else's love story. And I'm fine with that. I get used to eating alone. Sleeping alone. And yes, I dream alone, too."

Katelyn took a deep breath as tears came scrawling down her pale cheeks.

She continued after a moment. "Do you know why I don't go on many dates, huh? Well, I'll enlighten you. I've asked out guys before. They always played me like the fool. I was the punchline in some sick joke to inflate their ego...because some twisted way, calling me 'ugly' was the way they got ahead in their life. So yes, I didn't go searching for happiness. I didn't go on many dates. It was easier not to get my hopes up. So I didn't expect Flint to walk up to me and steal my heart...but he did."

Another tear trickled down Katelyn's face.

"All I have left of him is the wreckage of myself. The wreckage that he made by leaving. And I'm sorry...but I need you to blame. Because I can't blame myself. Because if I do...if I realize that I'm the one who pushed him away, then I'm the fool."

Drake looked at her evenly. "You are the fool. Flint was a good guy and you never talked to him about what you thought he did. Why do people do that, huh? They assume. They get hurt on their own assumptions and they blame the other person. Why are we so impatient? No...hold on...why are you so impatient. You've waited all your life for the man of your dreams and you fall for Phoenix's ploy. You're absolutely an idiot."