AN: I know this is pure fantasy, since I'm almost positive that Kat didn't actually love Ben, but lets just pretend that the one night stand meant something to her.I actually liked Kat/Ben for some reason. Also Melissa/Ben fans don't read.

It was like a house of cards.

Sooner or later, the fabricated web of lies that she had built up around herself, to fool them all would come crashing down around her.

She wasn't stupid, she knew it was only a matter of time.

But could they blame her for wanting to enjoy this moment, where everything was good, where she actually had friends, could they blame her for wanting to keep it, no matter what the cost?

The answer was yes.

Yes they could.

Kat could remember the day she met Ben Rafter with precise detail.

He had seemed a bit simple for her taste, but he was sweet enough.

Jury duty was the last thing she needed, Tom had started to hastle her about the $6000 she apparently owed him (Kat still couldn't believe that it was really that much, after all, so what if she liked a little go on the pokies now and then, who didn't?) she knew she was nowhere near to paying it back.

Sweet, niave, Ben.

Kat needed a place to lie low for a while, hoping that Tom would eventually disapear into the woodwork once he couldn't find her, and that she could convince Ben and his housemates to cough up some cash.

Ben was all to quick to offer his house to her.

Ben and his friend Carbo, were utterly charmed by her (as she knew they would be), but Ben's girlfriend Melissa was less so.

In fact, she practically hated Kat.

But slowly, things changed.

Although Kat flirted with Ben just to torment Melissa, overtime it became something more.

Then there was that faithful night, the night that Ben cheated on Melissa and Kat realised what she had been missing out on.

What Kat hadn't been prepared for was the hurt.

The next day Ben denied it all, and said it was a mistake and that he loved Melissa and didn't want to hurt her.

But obviously he didn't mind hurting her.

So, like the true actress that she was Kat demanded that Ben keep the previous nights activities from Melissa.

She would never let him see how much it hurt.

She became friends with Melissa soon after that, but instead she had Ben suscpious now.

Kat knew that her brief feeling of friendship and security was over.

It was time to say goodbye.

But not before conning some money out of her unsuspecting housemates first (even Ben was still susceptible to her charms).

But before Kat could disapear into the night like she had done so many times before, Tom caught up with her.

Demanded to know where his money was and in the space of five minutes had destroyed the web of lies upon lies that she had carefully constructed.

The house of cards had finally fallen.

They kicked her out for that, not even her charm, nor her pleas could save her now.

"I've got nowhere else to go!" she had cried, (which was certainly true), hoping to appeal to at least Ben's soft heart.

So, when her heart was truly broken, she did the only thing she knew in times of crisis.

She got her revenge and in the process made off with enough stuff to keep her going for a while.

Just before she stole away into the night, she left Ben a note.

Ben-

Just so you know, for what it's worth, I did love you.

I'm sorry you think that I was a mistake, a black mark against your name.

I know it's not worth much now.

Maybe someday you'll realise that, in some small way…

A part of you loved me too.

Kat.

She left it underneath his pillow, knowing he would see it.

And left, never to return.

Well, at least not yet anyway.

Meanwhile, in the silent house, empty of most of its stuff, a gust of wind blew Kat's note, the most honest, heartfelt, thing she had ever written, under the dark depths of the bed.

He will never know she loved him.