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"I don't know, roses?" Katherine frowned as she looked at the pink and red roses that Rebekah was holding out for her in her palm. It was a slightly chilly morning in a flower shop in downtown Manhattan. The charity ball was less than two weeks away and Katherine and Rebekah still had to pick the flowers. "Aren't those a little cliché, we did those last year."
"Good point." Rebekah placed the flowers down while sending a quick email through her phone. "Though I have always been a little old fashion, but I'm open to suggestions so what do you suggest?"
"I was thinking poppies or," she frowned in concentration as she tried to remember the name. "Or those little bell shape flowers, what were they called?"
"Tulips." Rebekah finished for her. "But I don't think those flowers are elegant enough-remember we're looking for classy and elegant."
For the next few minutes Katherine and Rebekah roam the halls, every once in a while looking back for the approval of a particular flower. Rebekah thought that this was the perfect time to help her brother out with the whole Hayley drama. "So have you and my brother spoken lately?"
Katherine dropped the petal in frustration. "He told you, didn't he?"
"No!" Rebekah blurted out. "Ok, well yes maybe, but Katherine you have to believe me there is nothing going on between Elijah and Hayley. Hayley is a little tramp who had already broke my brother's heart once and I'm not going to let it happen again. It's just a misunderstanding-"
"Oh, yes Rebekah because his half naked ex-girlfriend is nothing to worry about." Katherine started coughing.
Rebekah frowned as she handed her a tissue. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine." She said as she waved her away. "Just please do me a favor, don't get involved between me and Elijah. I know you're his sister, but this is between me and him."
Eloise's house. Elijah wondered why he hadn't guessed sooner.
Elijah had been growing frustrated and angry that Katherine wasn't returning any of his calls and that she never seemed to be at home whenever Elijah arrived. He had ran into Caroline recently who admitted that she was staying at Eloise's for a couple of weeks because of termites.
Unless the termites were named Elijah, Mason, and Hayley Elijah doubted it.
He knocked on the door, hoping it would have been Katherine who answered, but instead it was Eloise. She smiled when she saw him. "Elijah, hello. What brings you here?"
"I came to speak to Katherine, I heard that she's staying here." He said. "May I come in? Is she here?"
"Yes," Eloise opened the door. "She working on some charity ball thing, she's really excited about it. Wait here, I'll call her." Eloise left Elijah standing in the hallway while she entered the parlor and saw Katherine typing on her computer. "Katherine, Elijah is here to see you."
Katherine stiffened as she stopped typing. "Tell him, I'm not here."
"But I already told him you were here."
"Then make something up I don't care." She snapped. "I don't want to see him."
Eloise went outside and looked embarrassed. "So I assume you heard all of that?"
"It was hard not to," Elijah cleared his throat. "I apologize profoundly for this."
Before Eloise could ask, Elijah stormed besides her and walked into the living room where Katherine was on her computer. Elijah shut down the computer screen and stared at her. "I'm going to talk and for once in your life, you're going to listen."
Katherine glared back in return. "I have nothing to say to you."
"You're upset I get that, but I can't make things right if you don't let me explain!" Elijah said through gritted teeth.
"What do you need to explain, Elijah? I'm sorry, Katherine next time I'll send you an email next time Hayley is coming over. I don't want to hear your excuses!"
"See this is what I don't like about you." Elijah snapped. "You jump to conclusions and you only hear and believe what you want to see. I could easily tell you the same thing about you and Mason-the way that you were holding hands together."
Katherine snapped. "Were you spying on us?"
"Of course not! Should I?"
"No, why should you? If I'm so unpleasant to be around why don't you go run back to Hayley since she's so perfect and beautiful!" she hissed. "And I bet she never burn you food!"
"Katherine, I don't care about you burning food!" Elijah said. "Are you listening to yourself? You're acting completely hysterical!"
Katherine's face flushed red and Elijah knew that he had said the wrong thing. "I didn't-"
"GET. OUT."
Katherine sighed as she heard Elijah slammed the door. She tried to ignore the tears in her eyes as she forced herself back to type. Eloise came in a second later.
"Did you two have a fight?"
Katherine refused to face her. "I don't want to talk about it."
"Well, you two aren't going to solve anything if you two keep being stubborn and shouting your heads off."
Elijah angrily stepped into the street, fumbling with his coat buttons until finally he decided to leave them unbutton. That girl was so stubborn. He hated that Katherine wouldn't listen to his side of the story it's not like she had caught him and Hayley in bed together.
"For Chrissake's!" he murmured more to himself than to anybody else. "I let her stay one night and suddenly I'm the bad guy while she has been hanging around with her ex-boyfriend!" he began walking towards where he had parked his car.
Maybe all of this, maybe deciding to date was a mistake. She was his former patient. And doctors shouldn't date patients, it was just one of the things that you didn't do.
But Elijah had done it, thinking it would be different. That Katherine and him would be able to have a normal, stable relationship. Boy, was he wrong.
-End of Chapter Twenty Nine-
