Chapter Two: I'm a Poet and I Didn't Even Know It.

AKA My reaction to the reviews for Can't Care Too Much.

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As much as I would like to, I don't own it. Which is a shame.

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When Kati-Rose was back at her apartment, she let out a breath in relief. It looked just as it had when she'd left it (Kati-Rose was paranoid of break-ins, and pretty much any 'form of crime against her person', as her mum had said). Her denim jacket was still on her chair, where she'd thrown it this morning; her outfit for the get-together was still laid out on her couch, and her pictures were, as always, facing the door, beaming at her. It was good to be back.

Kati-Rose checked the time, swore softly and picked up her outfit before heading to her room to have a shower. After she'd towelled herself off, she went to look in the mirror. A girl peered back at her, with straight black hair and brown eyes. That was her, Kati-Rose. However, when she turned away, she noticed a different reflection: one with wild brown hair that shimmered gold and hazel blue eyes that flashed the same. But she shrugged this off as a trick of the light, and got dressed.

Five minutes later, she'd changed out of the shimmery dress and tights into comfortable jeans and a long-sleeved TARDIS blue top. Kati-Rose knew she'd cut it close when she heard a knock on the door (four times, of course), and rushed over to let her lifelong friend, Katy, in. Kati-Rose embraced the brunette in a hug, squeezing tightly, and squealed when Katy responds with the same treatment.

"Kat, it's been too long!" she said when her friend released her. "Will the others be here soon?"

"Yup," Katy-dubbed-Kat responded. They started walking over to the couch.

"So, Kati-Rose, what are we watching that's got you so excited? You look like the Doctor in a good mood." She teased.

Kati-Rose frowned, before smiling, trying to hide the headache symptoms she'd received as soon as her friend compared her to the time-lord on her favourite show. However, she was spared answering when a voice called out from the doorway, "I've got popcorn!" and Kati-Rose dashed over, smiling. At the door stood Jade (whose favourite colour, coincidently, was green), and she was holding microwaveable popcorn in her hand, the packets fanned out like a hand of cards.

"And Selena's coming soon with the present we got you." Jade said, still smiling. Kati was about to protest, when the blonde waved her off with the hand that didn't have the popcorn. "You finished uni a week later than us, and you took us out for dinner on your study night. You are accepting this gift."

A voice (Selena, Kati recognised) declared from behind Jade, "She certainly is. I didn't let you two drag me on a shopping trip for nothing, you know. Now get out of the way, Jade, you're blocking the door."

Jade and Kati-Rose shared a smile, before stepping aside to let Selena through, her black hair swinging behind her as she did. Jade held her hand up, demonstrating with her fingers while Kati-Rose counted down mentally. 3, 2, 1... thud. There, at that moment, was Selena. Tripping (as she always does) 3 steps after entering her apartment. It was like she was magnetised to the floor after that point. Selena grinned good-naturedly up at them while they laughed at her misfortune.

"Every time!" Kat cried through peals of laughter. Kati-Rose offered her friend a hand up, and she accepted, placing the present on the table. Jade moved over to the microwave, putting the first load of popcorn in, while Kat got the drinks out of the fridge. Kati stood before her friends, and they looked up at her.

"OK, present now, or later?" Kati pondered, in a classic thinking pose.

"Now!" the girls screamed, scandalised. Kati-Rose laughed: they refused to wait to open presents. She turned to face the gift on the table. It is, as are most presents wrapped by Selena, done up in TARDIS-blue paper, with a red ribbon tied around it in a bow.

Kati tugged at the tail ends of the bow, and the ribbon fell off. She very carefully pulled off all the sticky-tape (it annoyed them that she took so much care in unwrapping presents), and took off the paper. She gasped, and tentatively opened the velvet pendant box, flipping back the lid to display a sparkling diamond set in a relatively thick silver oval, so that it hung at exactly the right spot.

"Oh mon dieu." Kati-Rose swore, before adding a hasty, "Excuse my French," at which all present laughed.

She looked up at the others, their faces falling at her shocked expression.

"Don't you like it?" asked Kat.

"Like it? I Love it! But why- How-?"

Her friends laughed, it wasn't often that she was speechless, and they'd learnt to savour it when she was. She turned back to the pendant: it really was beautiful.

"Are you gonna put it on?" Selena asked.

Kati-Rose thought for a moment. "No, not yet. After popcorn and movie." she saw Kat about to ask what they were watching. She sighed.

"Yes, Kat, It's the 50th." She blocked her ears as Kat starts squealing. Kat is such a girl, she complained in her head.

Kati-Rose walked over to switch the TV on and went to the home-screen as Jade got the popcorn out of the microwave and Kat poured out the drinks. Selena plonked down on the sofa next to her, soon joined by Kat and Jade, who proceeded to share out the popcorn and drinks.

For the next 45 minutes the girl's gazes are glued to the TV, squealing at irregular intervals (for example, when they saw Rose and the 4th Doctor) and quite often bouncing up and down on the sofa in delight and excitement (as the Doctor said: what's the point of being grown up if you can't act a little childish sometimes).

After the 50th special and all was said and done, Kati's friends left her apartment, one by one (A.N: I'm a poet and I didn't even know it. OK, I'm good. Let's try again).

Once her friends had left, Kati-Rose's gaze was drawn to the pendant in the box on the kitchen table. She had been thinking about it ever since she'd received it and had just shrugged it off. However, now, it was like a compulsion charm had been placed on her (Potter-head, too. 43 was her record so far), telling her to try it on. Kati walked towards it, slowly, hesitantly, and carefully took the pendant out of the box.

She undid the clasp, reached around the back of her neck and redid it. However, as soon as the necklace dropped to its intended position (next to her heart), Kati-Rose collapsed to the floor, unconscious, and anyone watching would have seen her being doused in golden sparks before fading out of existence, leaving only a faint glowing patch behind. Though that soon faded as well.

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First chapter, done! Love it, hate it, burn it? Is anyone actually reading this? I know, there's too many O.C taken away by the Doctor fanfics, and I know I cannot write very well, but please review with an opinion? Self-doubt is destroying me. If no-one is reading this, then I'm not going to do it- my life is busy enough as it is.

Ta-ta (for now) and sorry for complaining,
LoS :D