The Twilight Twenty-Five
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Prompt: #13
Pen Name: Cathy9
Pairing/Character(s):Kate/Garrett
Rating:M
Word Count: 499
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The moment Garrett smiled at me I was in love. He was tall and lanky with shaggy sandy blond hair and the most amazing blue eyes. After checking him out I looked up to see him smirking at me.
"See something you like little girl?" he asked with a wicked grin as he blatantly checked me out.
"Yes I do but I am not a little girl. I bet you aren't more than two years older than me."
"What are we wagering?"
"When you discover I'm right you owe me dinner, a movie and a drink."
"We both know you are too young to drink."
"Hand over your drivers license." Kate pulled hers out of her purse and handed it to him.
"So your name is Katrina."
"I prefer Kate and Garrett you are one year and four months older than me. I'm free tomorrow night for that date."
"Can I buy you a coffee?"
"I'd prefer a hot chocolate."
Garrett chuckled, "You seem to like the word prefer."
"That is because I am not your typical leggy blond."
"I've known you for two minutes and nothing about you is typical, lets go get some hot chocolate in July."
Garrett and I were attached at the hip for the rest of the summer until he had to leave his Aunt's house to go back home. We talked every night via the computer and couldn't wait for Thanksgiving break to be reunited. His parents paid to fly me to Boston and we had an amazing week together. Garrett was a Senior in high school and had applied to several schools including The University of Washington to be closer to me. When he was accepted into Oxford with a nearly full scholarship I encouraged him to go even though my heart was breaking. We spent the entire summer together and when he kissed me goodbye at the airport I thought we'd be over.
Garrett proved how devoted he was to me by sending me daily e-mails and we Skyped once a week. He also told me about all the courses Oxford offered and convinced me to keep my studies up so I could join him.
So here I sit on my bed, my nails freshly bitten thanks to my nerves waiting for my mother to come home. What possessed her to come home at lunch and bring the mail back to work with her was beyond me. I just wanted to see a thick manila envelope with a British postmark.
I heard her call out my name an hour later and she came upstairs with several thick manila envelopes. I tossed Harvard, Yale and Stanford aside until I saw it.
"Kate, I had to open the envelope to see if you were offered scholarship money. Your scholarship doesn't quite cover costs so you are going to have to get a part time job starting now. I think you should wake Garrett up and tell him he'll like his roommate next year."