Just a Girl

"Fucking hell Katerina! What the fuck is wrong with you? Tonight of all nights why couldn't you have just been fucking normal? The rest of the time if you want to roller boot around and pretend the world is all unicorns and rainbows well that's up to you but for tonight your family needed you to be a damned adult and take responsibility! Was it really too much to ask for?"

She didn't reply and as they pulled up to the house he switched off the engine then watched incredulous as she silently got out of his car and started to walk not to her parents house but to her own. Suddenly realising she intended to avoid her parents Bret jogged round the car to catch up to her, reaching out a hand and grabbing her arm.

"Oh no you don't!" he started to say but she made a guttural sound, like an animal in pain and he released her arm quickly, just as her security light came on, illuminating them both and as he looked down at her Bret took a step back, covering his mouth in shock...

She was just a girl. She needed to get a proper teaching job, stop playing with kids. She needed to stop wearing primary colours; where was the harm in a little black dress once in a while? She needed to stop roller booting everywhere, walk or drive like a normal person. She needed to stop cartwheeling and playing with the kids. It was time she grew up. But when circumstances forced Kitty to change, to grow up would it actually be what her family really wanted? Would it be what Bret wanted or would it force him to see that the girl he really loved was right in front of him all the time and now it might be too late to ever get her back.