Skipping Town
Kathryn Merteuil sat in silence stirring the plastic spoon in a repetitive motion inside her polystyrene cup of coffee as she sat at JFK airport awaiting her flight to arrive. Although her eyes betrayed nothing of her inner feelings secretly she was filling up with an undesirable rage, a rage for Sebastian, for Cecile and especially for Sebastian's little bitch…Annette. They had taken everything from her, her friends no longer wanted anything to do with her, her reputation lay in ruins and her family had disowned her. Kathryn let out a small, ironic laugh while shaking her head, she was now only Merteuil in name.
At first her mother and stepfather vowed to stick by her through the drug problem and the whole mess, oh how people change, a couple of the students decided to try and make a few bucks by selling the story to one of the New York street magazines, they also gave them Sebastian's journal and the next thing she knew was that her maid was showing her the font page with a picture of her on it and in the center was the two main pages of Sebastian's thoughts on her. Suddenly it was citywide news, now everyone knew and despised her, that was when her family claimed that they no longer wanted nothing to do with her. Merteuil's don't behave in that manner and the image was bad for the family, they gave her fifty thousand dollars and asked her to move out of the house, which wasn't really a request. But with the whole of New York spitting in front of her as she walked the streets and nobody at Manchester talking to her where would she go?
And that is why she is sitting in this cramped airport where only the new arrivals acknowledged her and the citizens of the Big Apple would either point and stare or bump into her on purpose. Since the publishing business Kathryn had been attacked three times, the third severely bruising four ribs, that was when she decided that it was time to get out.
Everybody in New York may hate her but she had friends elsewhere that also owed her a few favors, unfortunately Annette had also taken the liberty of sending journals over to these people too, it seemed as if Sebastian had this well thought out and intended to try and destroy her completely. However there was still one person he had missed, one person who she hadn't informed him about, hell everyone's got to have an escape route and just like everyone so did she.
Kathryn turned the small white card over and over in her left hand as her right continued to cradle her still untouched coffee, taking a glance at the name she mumbled it aloud, "Lionel Rigby," or Riggles as she often called him in a fake sign of affection. Two years ago she helped him attain his position at one of the top schools on the Wet Coast, Riggles was now the headmaster of L.A Bayton. L.A Bayton was a college in which pupils could graduate and instead of going to University just stay there and do new courses, of course this was only for upper classmen and seniors from some of the top schools around the U.S and even some from overseas. Kathryn made a deal with Riggles, she helped him become headmaster by bleaching her hair blonde which was just awful, Kathryn then proceeded to seduce the original headmaster and hire a cameraman to take some photographs of some strange situations. Anyway the guy got fired and Riggles was appointed, her part of the deal was that there would always be a place for her at L.A Bayton and just so he couldn't back out she made him sign a contract that she kept safely.
"Flight 117 from New York to Los Angeles is now boarding at gate 4," standing Kathryn picked up her handbag and made her way towards the people who were already milling about, her plan was an ingenious one. First she'd restore her reputation but this time at L.A Bayton, then she would find and tutor a new Sebastian but this time she'd make sure that he wouldn't run away to some prissy little blonde. But however after she had raised him well enough then she would make her big play, Sebastian would pay but since he was dead she'd have to attack the most precious thing to him. Annette. Kathryn handed her passport over before retrieving it and entering the plan, she wrinkled her nose at the sight of…uhh…economy class. Taking a seat next to an old lady Kathryn fell back into deep thought, she knew that she couldn't attack Annette straight away fro two reasons. 1# It was too soon since her stepbrothers death that it would be too obvious, and 2# Annette was still in New York where all the heat was on, she'd have to wait a while and then she'd work her way up through all of her newfound enemies with her new Sebastian at her side she couldn't lose. The game just got one hell of a lot more interesting, round one to Sebastian and her enemies but round two…was going to be a killer.
To Be Continued
By Boulder