Hey guys! I was writing some new chapters for the story, but there were some things that u really wanted to change, and adapt the story a little more. I hope you all like the new edition :)
Disclaimer I don't BTR, only the OC characters
Chapter One
Katrina POV
"Right class, for next week's lecture, can you all finish Romeo and Juliet and we shall be discussing the main themes of the play." My tutor shouted as we all left the class room. My friend Louise and I were heading out to our cars, ready for the weekend.
"So, you heading to Josh's party tonight?" Louise asked as she threw her books in the back of her car. I shook my head at her.
"We have friends coming over from America to stay with us for two weeks." Louise pouted at me.
"Well I shall give you a text later to let you in on all the fun you're missing out on." She blew me a kiss and headed out the car park. I laughed at her as I reversed out. It was a strange dry day in Scotland. My parents told me last night that friends of theirs were coming to visit us and it was important that I was there to see them.
They were there when I got home. I struggled from my car to my front door with all my college books, folders and my bag. I was about to drop it all when a pair of hands came out from nowhere and caught it all for me.
"Here, let me help." a voice came from in front of me.
Due to my stack of books being bigger than my five foot self, I could only hear a voice, not see a face. The voice was deep and husky, and not one I was familiar with. He took my books from me and finally I could see his face. WOW, he was gorgeous! He looked down at me with his green eyes and smiled, however the smile didn't last long. He headed into the house, books in hand and went into the living room where my parents were sitting along with another couple. I assumed they were tall, dark and Blondie's parents. My mum grabbed my hand and dragged me to the middle of the living room.
"Cathy, Kent this is my daughter Katrina. Katrina this is Cathy, Kent and their son Kendall." I waved at all three of them. Cathy stood up and hugged me.
"The last time we saw you, you were so tiny!" The adults laughed. Kendall put my books down on the table and sat next to his parents on the couch. My mum smiled at me.
"So Katrina, why don't you go and get changed, then, we can all head out to dinner." My mum gave me this smile that looked a little more like a grimace than a smile. Something wasn't right here. I headed up the stairs to get changed out of my jeans. I grabbed a floral dress out of my wardrobe and five minutes later I was ready. I was just popping my shoes on when there was a knock at my door.
"Come in!" I shouted. Kendall popped his head in.
"I come bearing books!" He brought my books up for me. I smiled up at him. "Well I couldn't let you carry them up." I thanked him and he turned to me. He smiled and pointed to the bookcase behind me. "Book worm?" He asked. I nodded. He laughed and then started to rub the back of his neck. I grabbed my cardigan off the back of my door and we headed down to the parents to head out to dinner.
"So, do you know why my mother is acting strange?" I looked up at the blonde. He looked down at the ground.
"I honestly have no idea. Come on, let's go get some food." He led me down the stairs.
We ended up going to my favourite restaurant in town, a nice little pizzeria just off a little river. Now I was scared. Mum and Cathy made sure that Kendall and I were sitting opposite each other. I suddenly felt like I was on a date. Kendall kept giving me this bizarre sympathetic/worried look. All through dinner, we were told how our dad's grew up together and the shenanigans they got up to, and all about the Knight's big company in America. It was now after dinner and we were all sitting having drinks, when the mood suddenly changed. All four parents turned to me.
"Katrina you know that our families' friendship goes back generations." I nodded my head, wondering where this was going. "When your brother was born, we were so happy, but when he turned five, we found out about his bone marrow problem. And then Cathy gave birth to Kendall a few weeks later than Stephen, they had Kendall tested and it turned out to be a match. So we made a deal. Kendall would donate Bone marrow to Stephen, in exchange for you to be betrothed to Kendall to make sure the company didn't fall into the wrong woman's hand."
I chocked on my water. I then started laughing, but then stopped when no one else was laughing. I looked from my mum to my dad.
"This is a joke right?" They all shook their heads and I looked over at Kendall who was looking anywhere but me. I grabbed my bag.
"Where are you going?" My mum questioned. I turned back to look at her.
"Somewhere where I won't get lied to." With that, I ran out the restaurant. I opened the door to my car and drove out of the restaurant in a rush.
By the time I got to my destination, I was practically inconsolable. I opened the double doors to the gym and headed to the place that I spent majority of my time.
All the heads turned to me as I ran into the room. My brother dropped the basketball that was in his hand and ran to my side.
"Did you know?" Were the only words I could manage to get out.
"Know what?" My brother took me out of the hall and sat me on a chair.
"That I was the price for your bone marrow."
"What are you talking about?" I couldn't get any more words out, my body still in shock of the information I was given. Stephen phoned our mum to get some answers.
"Hi, is there a reason that Katrina is here in an absolute state saying that she is the price for my bone marrow?" I could hear mutterings on the other end of the phone, and my brother's face slowly turning from confusion to anger. "What the hell do you mean we'll discuss this? No I'll bring her home when she's ready, bye." And with that he hung the phone up. He disappeared into the hall and returned a minute later with his bag over his shoulder.
"Come on, you can stay with me and Naomi tonight." We headed to our cars and headed back to his home.
Naomi was watching a film when we got home. She jumped up when she saw my face.
"Who am I killing?" She asked as she hugged me. I heard my brother mutter 'I'll explain later' to his girlfriend.
I awoke the next morning to muttering in the living room. I peeked through the crack in the slightly opened door.
"I can't believe you would do this to her! You basically sold her!" Stephen shouted at my dad.
"We didn't have a choice! You would have died if it wasn't for the bone marrow!"
"So trading your daughter was the only solution! Wow, parents of the year right there." He scoffed. "She'll go home when she's ready, and I doubt she wants to see you or mum right now." He walked towards the door. I silently ran back to my room and dived under the covers.
"You coming out of there?" I shook my head, causing the bundle of covers I was using to hide me from the rest of the world to shake a negative answer. "Well shimmy over, I'm coming in then." He crawled under the covers.
"You know by twenty, you really should stop hiding under the covers." My brother mocked.
"I think in this case, we can make an exception. Oh and when its thunder and lightning outside."
"That I can protect you from, this I can't." I saw his face fall.
"This isn't your fault." I picked up one of the pillows and hugged it to my chest.
"Doesn't make me feel any better about the whole thing. I spoke to dad, as you heard." He looked over at me. "You were never good at sneaking about. You sound like a hippo at a ballet class." He joked. His face then dropped. "There is nothing we can do to get you out of this. I'm sorry little one." He wrapped me in his arms.
"It's not your fault." I managed to muffle out. Before we could continue our conversation, we were both squished by Naomi.
"As cute as it is to finally see you two have a conversation without killing each other, there is a blonde gentleman here to see Katrina.
I hope you all liked it! Let me know what you think so far of the new version and if you prefer this to the other one. Cheers! :)
