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"All right Shawn, now you've been single for a while now." Cory says as they walk into the student lounge at Penbrook. "I think it's about time you found a girl."
"I think you've got something there Cory, I think I do need a girl." Shawn agrees
"Did you hear that ladies? Shawn Hunter a very eligible bachelor over here is looking for a girlfriend." Cory annouces
"Hey Shawn." Jessie says walking over with her friend Amy "Maybe we can hook up sometime."
"Or maybe WE can." Amy puts in
"Cory, shouldn't you just let Shawn find a girl like regular people do?" Topanga asks "Like asking out someone she likes?"
"No, this is how Shawn works, let him work this way."
"Thanks Cory I owe you one." Shawn glances over towards Cory and instead a girl sitting at a table by herself catches his eye. She has on a baby blue sweater and a pair of jeans, Shawn couldn't see anything else because her head was bent over and her dark brown hair was blocking his view of her face. "Hey Cory, who's that?" He nods
"Who? Her?" Cory looks over "That's just Katherine Winters, she went to our high school. No one that's your type, not even mine really." Cory laughs "She's real stuck up, popular but stuck up only a select few were her friends."
"Cory! That's horrible!" Topanga exclaims "I can't believe you just said that!"
"Topanga look at her, she doesn't even look up, she lives inside books, she doesn't care about the world around her."
"Cory Matthews I never thought I would hear something so cruel ever come out of your mouth!" Topanga sits on the couch "So if I stuck my head in a book all the time you wouldn't of given me the time of the day?"
"Of course I would have, it's different. I love you." Cory defends himself
"No it's not, because you just pre-judged her without even knowing her."
"Topanga calm down, besides Cory is right, she's not my type." Shawn reasons, even though he glanced back at Katherine once more before they left the lounge.
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"Good Morning class." Mr. Feeny greets them the next day. "Morning Ms. Winters" They overhear them greet her.
"I didn't know she was in this class." Shawn says turning around.
"I wonder why." Cory muses taking his seat
"I'm going to introduce myself to her." Topanga announces
"Topanga you don't have to prove a point by doing this- Topanga?" Cory asks but she is already on her way over.
"Do you mind?" Topanga asks before sitting next to her.
She looks up. "Not at all."
"You're Katherine right? I remember you from high school. I'm Topanga."
"I remember you too, and it's Kate, no one has ever called me Katherine except for my teachers." Kate smiles warmly
"You know I would of introduced myself sooner, but I hadn't realized you were in this class and I didn't really recognize you either"
"I guess we've all changed over the years, I wouldn't of recognized you either, but you speak up so much in class it's hard not to." Kate replies
"Yea, I guess. I do, I'm a little outspoken."
"I guess I like to see what's going on, you know? And no one really bothers to get to know someone who stays quiet."
"Yea, I know. You don't mind being so quiet, I guess I don't know people think your just stuck up."
"No, I know where I stand. Who I am. I don't need the approval of others."
"I wish I had your confidence." Topanga sighs "I'm such a perfectionist. I always have to be heard and seen."
"It's who you are don't wish you were someone different." Kate answers
"She's actually kind of pretty." Shawn says quietly looking over at Katherine, she had dark brown eyes and a thin frame, she wore another sweater today this time a red turtleneck, to keep the winter chill out.
"Which one Amy or Jessie?" Cory jokes oblivious to who Shawn was actually talking about.
"Huh? Oh both you know." Shawn laughs it off.
"Here are your essays" Mr. Feeny announces loudly disrupting the student's conversations. "Most of you did not do good." He hands a paper to both Kate and Topanga. "Excellent work Ms. Winters and Ms. Lawrence. Excellent."
"Wow I got an A!" Topanga exclaims as Kate lays her paper on her desk "What about you?"
"A +" Kate replies softly "You did really good on yours"
"You got an A +? That's great! Can I look at your paper?"
"Sure…go ahead." Kate hands it over.
Topanga glances over the paper. The topic of the paper was the day that changed their life, Kate had written about the day her cousin had died of cancer after a long hard battle, and how she could finally be free from pain, Kate talked about how although she would miss her, she knew her cousin was far better off. Topanga thought her paper sounded so superficial writing about the day she got married. "This is so good."
"Thank you." Kate slips her paper into a folder. "What is yours about?"
"When Cory and I got married." Topanga smiles
"I remember when you got engaged and how excited you were, your bridal shower was the talk of the campus from what I heard."
Topanga's smile quickly vanished, she had invited almost every girl in their dorm, Kate's name hadn't even crossed her mind.
"Don't worry about not inviting me" Kate says as though reading her mind "I wouldn't of been welcomed there anyway."
"Don't say that, of course you would have."
"Topanga."
"All right, most girls think your stuck up or something, not all do, I guess the ones that really know you don't"
"Don't even think twice about it."
"Your not who I thought you were."
"People usually aren't." Kate replies tapping her pencil
"You want to come over for dinner tonight?" Topanga asks
"I'd love to thanks." Kate accepts the paper on which Topanga wrote where she lives
"Come by at 7:00"
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"Topanga!" Cory shouts opening the door and finding Kate outside "Come here please!"
"What is it?" Topanga asks coming out of their bedroom
"You didn't tell me we were having guests for dinner, Shawn and I were going to have a boys night out."
"Well now your just going to have a boys night in." Topanga smiles "Come in."
"Your place is beautiful." Kate comments taking off her coat, underneath she was wearing a knee length black skirt and a blue three quarter sleeved shirt. "I'm sorry about interrupting your plans tonight, Cory. But it was nice to be invited into your home."
"N-no problem" Cory stutters surprised at her politeness.
"Want to see the rest of the house?" Topanga asks
"I'd love too." Kate agrees and follows Topanga down the hall
"Hey Cory ready to go?" Shawn asks walking in
"Staying in tonight Shawn, the wife invited a friend over." Cory explains
"A single friend?"
"A single stuck up puts on a good act friend."
"Hey Shawn." Topanga comes out with Kate.
"Hey Shawn." Kate extends her hand.
Shawn accepts it "Katherine right?"
"Kate actually, no one calls me Katherine."
"We'd all know that if-" Cory mutters
"If I weren't so stuck up?" Kate asks looking at Cory. "Not knowing someone isn't a good reason to assume things, what if I had assumed the same about you because you hadn't ever bothered to introduce yourself to me."
"Did you?" Cory asks
"No." Kate shakes her head "I didn't."
"I hope you feel bad about that" Topanga says to Cory. "I don't get it, you never act like this. So quick to judge."
"I'm sorry, I really am." Cory apologizes
"Then why did you do it?" Topanga asks in a softer tone.
"You always seemed too confident, you only conversed with a select few people. You hurt my brother pretty badly too."
"Your brother?" Kate asks
"Eric Matthews."
"Oh." Kate looks down remembering the event. "I never meant too"
"You lead him along, made him think you liked him so much, and he liked you, and you knew it. He asked you out and you agreed and stood him up! How am I supposed to take that?" Cory exclaims
"Cory I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this." Topanga reasons
"I'm remember that, Eric was crushed" Shawn says remembering "I never got that. I mean he took a chance since you are younger then him. You really meant something to him."
"I know, and I was going to go out with him, but I couldn't." Kate says softly "I should go, I think I just about wore out my welcome."
"Kate, don't go on the account of something that happened years ago." Topanga pleads
Kate shakes her head no. "I should go." She grabs her coat and leaves.
"That's the girl that broke my brother's heart." Cory says after she's gone. "And you wanted to know why I thought she was stuck up? She doesn't even have a valid explanation years later."
"Maybe she does Cory, you didn't even give her a chance."
"I'm with Cory on this one Topanga, she didn't give him a reason then, she just said that she was sorry. That's just cold."
"No, that sounds like something is wrong. Like something happened, you can't always be so quick to assume."
"You keep saying that Topanga and yet I've been right each time." Cory tells her
"No, Cory she's not the kind of person who would just stand someone up like that."
**************
Kate walks quickly through the dorm. "Oh sorry" She says when she bumps into someone
"Don't worry about it." The man replies "Kate?"
"Eric, oh I- I was just leaving." She pushes past him
"Kate wait, I don't want to leave off on a note like this again." Eric grabs onto her arm.
"Don't worry about it, we know where we both stand."
"I know, but I never. I always wondered-"
"Why I stood you up that night?"
"Yea." Eric shuffles his foot on the ground
"It's complicated and I never wanted you to feel guilty or anything about it."
"Was it something I did?" Eric asks
"No, no nothing like that, I- it's hard to explain."
"I trusted you more then anyone I knew, and I thought you felt the same"
"I did, but this was different."
"You were different after that night, we barely talked any more, you got quiet and we both know that's not really you."
Anger flashed in Kate's eyes "How do you know who I am? It's not like you've been around me for the past few years. People change"
"I know this isn't you right now." Eric says quietly
Kate stops and looks at him. "No, you just DON'T know me at all." She says before she storms off.
To be continued soon, more of Eric will be in the next chapter please R&R thanx
"All right Shawn, now you've been single for a while now." Cory says as they walk into the student lounge at Penbrook. "I think it's about time you found a girl."
"I think you've got something there Cory, I think I do need a girl." Shawn agrees
"Did you hear that ladies? Shawn Hunter a very eligible bachelor over here is looking for a girlfriend." Cory annouces
"Hey Shawn." Jessie says walking over with her friend Amy "Maybe we can hook up sometime."
"Or maybe WE can." Amy puts in
"Cory, shouldn't you just let Shawn find a girl like regular people do?" Topanga asks "Like asking out someone she likes?"
"No, this is how Shawn works, let him work this way."
"Thanks Cory I owe you one." Shawn glances over towards Cory and instead a girl sitting at a table by herself catches his eye. She has on a baby blue sweater and a pair of jeans, Shawn couldn't see anything else because her head was bent over and her dark brown hair was blocking his view of her face. "Hey Cory, who's that?" He nods
"Who? Her?" Cory looks over "That's just Katherine Winters, she went to our high school. No one that's your type, not even mine really." Cory laughs "She's real stuck up, popular but stuck up only a select few were her friends."
"Cory! That's horrible!" Topanga exclaims "I can't believe you just said that!"
"Topanga look at her, she doesn't even look up, she lives inside books, she doesn't care about the world around her."
"Cory Matthews I never thought I would hear something so cruel ever come out of your mouth!" Topanga sits on the couch "So if I stuck my head in a book all the time you wouldn't of given me the time of the day?"
"Of course I would have, it's different. I love you." Cory defends himself
"No it's not, because you just pre-judged her without even knowing her."
"Topanga calm down, besides Cory is right, she's not my type." Shawn reasons, even though he glanced back at Katherine once more before they left the lounge.
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"Good Morning class." Mr. Feeny greets them the next day. "Morning Ms. Winters" They overhear them greet her.
"I didn't know she was in this class." Shawn says turning around.
"I wonder why." Cory muses taking his seat
"I'm going to introduce myself to her." Topanga announces
"Topanga you don't have to prove a point by doing this- Topanga?" Cory asks but she is already on her way over.
"Do you mind?" Topanga asks before sitting next to her.
She looks up. "Not at all."
"You're Katherine right? I remember you from high school. I'm Topanga."
"I remember you too, and it's Kate, no one has ever called me Katherine except for my teachers." Kate smiles warmly
"You know I would of introduced myself sooner, but I hadn't realized you were in this class and I didn't really recognize you either"
"I guess we've all changed over the years, I wouldn't of recognized you either, but you speak up so much in class it's hard not to." Kate replies
"Yea, I guess. I do, I'm a little outspoken."
"I guess I like to see what's going on, you know? And no one really bothers to get to know someone who stays quiet."
"Yea, I know. You don't mind being so quiet, I guess I don't know people think your just stuck up."
"No, I know where I stand. Who I am. I don't need the approval of others."
"I wish I had your confidence." Topanga sighs "I'm such a perfectionist. I always have to be heard and seen."
"It's who you are don't wish you were someone different." Kate answers
"She's actually kind of pretty." Shawn says quietly looking over at Katherine, she had dark brown eyes and a thin frame, she wore another sweater today this time a red turtleneck, to keep the winter chill out.
"Which one Amy or Jessie?" Cory jokes oblivious to who Shawn was actually talking about.
"Huh? Oh both you know." Shawn laughs it off.
"Here are your essays" Mr. Feeny announces loudly disrupting the student's conversations. "Most of you did not do good." He hands a paper to both Kate and Topanga. "Excellent work Ms. Winters and Ms. Lawrence. Excellent."
"Wow I got an A!" Topanga exclaims as Kate lays her paper on her desk "What about you?"
"A +" Kate replies softly "You did really good on yours"
"You got an A +? That's great! Can I look at your paper?"
"Sure…go ahead." Kate hands it over.
Topanga glances over the paper. The topic of the paper was the day that changed their life, Kate had written about the day her cousin had died of cancer after a long hard battle, and how she could finally be free from pain, Kate talked about how although she would miss her, she knew her cousin was far better off. Topanga thought her paper sounded so superficial writing about the day she got married. "This is so good."
"Thank you." Kate slips her paper into a folder. "What is yours about?"
"When Cory and I got married." Topanga smiles
"I remember when you got engaged and how excited you were, your bridal shower was the talk of the campus from what I heard."
Topanga's smile quickly vanished, she had invited almost every girl in their dorm, Kate's name hadn't even crossed her mind.
"Don't worry about not inviting me" Kate says as though reading her mind "I wouldn't of been welcomed there anyway."
"Don't say that, of course you would have."
"Topanga."
"All right, most girls think your stuck up or something, not all do, I guess the ones that really know you don't"
"Don't even think twice about it."
"Your not who I thought you were."
"People usually aren't." Kate replies tapping her pencil
"You want to come over for dinner tonight?" Topanga asks
"I'd love to thanks." Kate accepts the paper on which Topanga wrote where she lives
"Come by at 7:00"
*******************
"Topanga!" Cory shouts opening the door and finding Kate outside "Come here please!"
"What is it?" Topanga asks coming out of their bedroom
"You didn't tell me we were having guests for dinner, Shawn and I were going to have a boys night out."
"Well now your just going to have a boys night in." Topanga smiles "Come in."
"Your place is beautiful." Kate comments taking off her coat, underneath she was wearing a knee length black skirt and a blue three quarter sleeved shirt. "I'm sorry about interrupting your plans tonight, Cory. But it was nice to be invited into your home."
"N-no problem" Cory stutters surprised at her politeness.
"Want to see the rest of the house?" Topanga asks
"I'd love too." Kate agrees and follows Topanga down the hall
"Hey Cory ready to go?" Shawn asks walking in
"Staying in tonight Shawn, the wife invited a friend over." Cory explains
"A single friend?"
"A single stuck up puts on a good act friend."
"Hey Shawn." Topanga comes out with Kate.
"Hey Shawn." Kate extends her hand.
Shawn accepts it "Katherine right?"
"Kate actually, no one calls me Katherine."
"We'd all know that if-" Cory mutters
"If I weren't so stuck up?" Kate asks looking at Cory. "Not knowing someone isn't a good reason to assume things, what if I had assumed the same about you because you hadn't ever bothered to introduce yourself to me."
"Did you?" Cory asks
"No." Kate shakes her head "I didn't."
"I hope you feel bad about that" Topanga says to Cory. "I don't get it, you never act like this. So quick to judge."
"I'm sorry, I really am." Cory apologizes
"Then why did you do it?" Topanga asks in a softer tone.
"You always seemed too confident, you only conversed with a select few people. You hurt my brother pretty badly too."
"Your brother?" Kate asks
"Eric Matthews."
"Oh." Kate looks down remembering the event. "I never meant too"
"You lead him along, made him think you liked him so much, and he liked you, and you knew it. He asked you out and you agreed and stood him up! How am I supposed to take that?" Cory exclaims
"Cory I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation for this." Topanga reasons
"I'm remember that, Eric was crushed" Shawn says remembering "I never got that. I mean he took a chance since you are younger then him. You really meant something to him."
"I know, and I was going to go out with him, but I couldn't." Kate says softly "I should go, I think I just about wore out my welcome."
"Kate, don't go on the account of something that happened years ago." Topanga pleads
Kate shakes her head no. "I should go." She grabs her coat and leaves.
"That's the girl that broke my brother's heart." Cory says after she's gone. "And you wanted to know why I thought she was stuck up? She doesn't even have a valid explanation years later."
"Maybe she does Cory, you didn't even give her a chance."
"I'm with Cory on this one Topanga, she didn't give him a reason then, she just said that she was sorry. That's just cold."
"No, that sounds like something is wrong. Like something happened, you can't always be so quick to assume."
"You keep saying that Topanga and yet I've been right each time." Cory tells her
"No, Cory she's not the kind of person who would just stand someone up like that."
**************
Kate walks quickly through the dorm. "Oh sorry" She says when she bumps into someone
"Don't worry about it." The man replies "Kate?"
"Eric, oh I- I was just leaving." She pushes past him
"Kate wait, I don't want to leave off on a note like this again." Eric grabs onto her arm.
"Don't worry about it, we know where we both stand."
"I know, but I never. I always wondered-"
"Why I stood you up that night?"
"Yea." Eric shuffles his foot on the ground
"It's complicated and I never wanted you to feel guilty or anything about it."
"Was it something I did?" Eric asks
"No, no nothing like that, I- it's hard to explain."
"I trusted you more then anyone I knew, and I thought you felt the same"
"I did, but this was different."
"You were different after that night, we barely talked any more, you got quiet and we both know that's not really you."
Anger flashed in Kate's eyes "How do you know who I am? It's not like you've been around me for the past few years. People change"
"I know this isn't you right now." Eric says quietly
Kate stops and looks at him. "No, you just DON'T know me at all." She says before she storms off.
To be continued soon, more of Eric will be in the next chapter please R&R thanx