"Hey, Kat, I am kind of busy at the moment," Kim sets the gift down.
"Oh it will not take that long," Kat sits on her bedroom twirling a lock of hair.
Kim glances at her present. "Okay, what do you want to talk about?"
"First, I wanted to ask how you are doing all the way in Florida and away from Tommy," Kat continues to twirl her hair with her finger.
Why would she ask me that? "I miss him dearly but we talk, write each other, and I visited him during break, so I good." Kim eyes her gift. I miss him.
"You must hate the fact that he cannot find the time to visit you," Kat presses.
"No, I know that he is a power ranger and with that comes great responsibility," Kim tells Kat with an annoyance in her voice. "I am not trying to rush you off the phone but I am busy."
Kat rolls her eyes. "Kim, I am just trying to be friendly."
"What is the real reason you called me," Kim questions.
If she wants me to get straight to the point than I will. "Okay, Kim do you think it is fair to Tommy for you to keep him locked down while you are away?" Kat twirls her hair to hard and winces as she removes her hand from her hair.
"I am not locking Tommy down and I do not see why this is any of your business," Kim fumes.
"Kim, is it fair to him to be with someone who will be moving around a lot due to her career?" Kat frowns at a poster of a diver. "Should he be tied down to someone who lives hundreds of miles away?" "I think that it is very selfish of you to keep him tied down from living his life."
Kim cannot believe what she is hearing and her mouth is agape. "For starters, Tommy is in no way shape or form locked or tied down to me, secondly I do not think that I am being selfish, and lastly it is none of your damn business what goes on between my boyfriend and me."
"I am saying what is best for Tommy; you do not have to bite my head off," Kat huffs. "Think about it Kim, you are a professional athlete who will continue to travel the world even when you are finished in Florida?" "Where does that leave Tommy huh pining after you all the time?"
Kim counts to ten and takes a few deep breathes. "In case you forgotten, Tommy is a fourth degree black belt and travels just like I do." "For your information, I support him when I can accompany him and when I cannot be with him."
"Yes, he does have to travel but he is not uprooted from where he lives and has to relocate," Kat argues. "Tommy should be spending his time with a girl who can hold his hand, watch a movie with him, hang out at the Juice Bar; basically be there for him."
"How am I not there for him?" Kim frowns. "Just because I am hundreds of miles away do not mean that I am not able to comfort him or help him."
Kat rolls her eyes. "You are selfish; keeping him locked down while you parade around doing God knows what." "He should be with someone who can physically touch him."
"Oh, so is that someone like you," Kim asks angrily.
"Well, since you brought it up; Tommy and I have spent a lot of time together," Kat tells Kim with a smug smile. "People have even told us what a good-looking couple we would make and how we should be together." Kat smiles at the image in her head. "If you believe that Tommy and you are so in love and soul mates than you should set him free and let him spread his wings."
Kim snorts into the phone. "If Tommy wanted to do that than he will break up with me him and not have some flake speak for him."
"Tommy is too nice of a mate to break up with you that way." Kat rolls her eyes. "It is up to you to have the common courtesy to dump him and let him do as he pleases."
I want to call her a dumb bitch so bad. "Tommy is doing as he pleases and if he did decide to end our relationship than he has free range to do just that." Kim counters back.
Kat glares at a picture in her room of Tommy. She had ripped the side of the picture that had Kim on it and crumpled it before she tossed it to the ground. "You have everyone else fooled with that perfect girl act but I know better."
"I find it funny that you are trying to get me away from Tommy and that you assume that I am keeping him from reaching his potential." Kim stands up. "Who knows what kind of chirping you have tried to put into his ear?" Kim began pacing around her apartment. "I knew you had a crush on him from the first moment I saw you staring at him and I had no problems with that because Tommy is a great guy and many girls had crushes on him. "I had no idea how far you would try to take it to steal him from me!"
Kat smiles wickedly. "Tommy must not care for you that much if he chose to help on fix a car instead of sitting and waiting for you." "Matter of fact he did not care that I was all on him!"
"Tommy is a good guy and wanted to help a person in need but we all know that you were not a person in need and Tommy would have helped anyone just like I would have wanted him to do." "He did not pay any attention to you grabbing and trying to grope him." Kim stops pacing. "Tommy wants me and not you," Kim flips her hair.
"Still naïve Kim he continues to hang out with me alone," Kat laughs. "We have gone golfing and watched movies at his house." Kat picks up the ripped picture of Tommy. "When we are alone we cannot help but be close to each other and things happen."
Kim glares into the phone. "My boyfriend has never cheated on me and especially with you."
Kat snorts, "That hug would say otherwise." "He squeezes me extra tight and held on."
"I doubt he did anything inappropriate to you," Kim tells her with an eye roll. "I know how to settle this right now." "I will call my boyfriend on three-way and he will explain to you how you are delusional and how much we love each other." Kim laughs.
Kat's eyes turn as big as saucers. "You… can't he is uh at the park with the guys."
"Even if he is, I can still call his house and tell his mother to call me," Kim adds. "So, you just stay put and wait fro my phone call."
Kat bites her bottom lip. "I cannot wait by the phone because my parents and I are going out to eat; so I will not be able to be by the um phone."
"Why does that not surprise me," Kim rolls her eyes. "You know what, I don't even understand why I am listening to you spew garbage about Tommy or me."
"I am speaking the truth Kim and the sooner you recognize that the better." Kat fumes.
Kim laughs into the phone. "I am finished wasting my time with this." Kim hangs up the phone.
"No, she not just hangs up in my face. I will get her back. Kat storms out of her room.
Ha, I showed her that she did not affect me in anyway. Kim smiles as she remembers her gift.