Trish got up and looked through the peephole. She frowned it was Paul, what was he doing back here so soon. She opened the door and seen the worried look on his face.
"Can I come in for a bit?" Paul asked.
Trish stood back and let him in. He sat down on the couch running his hand through his tangled hair.
"What's wrong?" Trish asked sitting beside him.
"It's Katlyn." Paul said.
"What happened is she okay?" Trish asked worried.
"Yea, I mean she is now, she got to drinking at the club and was about to drive home after she had been drinking, luckily I forgot my wallet and stopped her. I got there just when she was about to drive off." Paul said.
"That doesn't sound like Katy, what happened to set that off?" Trish asked frowning.
"What else Stacey, she started teasing her again about being under Mark's thumb, hit like that, she told Katlyn if Mark was so wonderful and she wasn't scared of him to have a couple of drinks and stay later and not call him." Paul said.
"That bitch, she just has to cause trouble, I'm going to kick her ass when I see her." Trish said.
"Yea she's not helping matter, but when it comes right down to it Katlyn made her own decisions and she made some pretty bad ones." Paul said.
"Yes that's true; I take it you took her to Mark." Trish said.
"Yea, and I feel pretty shitty about that too, I had to tell him what was going on, Katlyn's my friend and I feel like I ratted on her." Paul said.
"Honey Katy would have told him anyway, that's how she is, you didn't do anything wrong." Trish said.
"Then how come I feel so crappy?" Paul asked.
"Cause you're a really sweet guy and worried about Katy." Trish said putting her arm around him.
Paul looked at her and smiled.
"You think I'm sweet huh?" Paul asked.
Trish blushed and looked down.
Paul grinned and was suddenly very taken with Trish. She looked so beautiful with the blush lighting her cheeks.
"Trish you're very beautiful." Paul said pulling her closer to him and kissing her gently.
Trish returned the kiss parting her lips as Paul's tongue gently nudged at her lips. He slid his tongue into her mouth teasing her tongue with his. Paul pulled back and gently nipped her bottom lip and kissed it and pulled back to look in her eyes.
"Wow." Paul said.
Trish smiled and hugged him.
They sat there for a minute just holding each other in a easy embrace.
"I know you're worried about Katy, but Mark loves her. He won't hurt her; they have a different kind of relationship that most people don't understand. But they love each other." Trish said.
"Mark was really angry about the drinking and driving, I'm afraid he'll snap and do something he'll regret." Paul said.
"He wont do anything while he's angry, I know Mark, now stop worrying, you can check on her in the morning." Trish said.
Paul nodded and stood up.
"I guess I should get going." Paul said.
Trish looked at him.
"You could stay here if you want?" Trish said looking down.
Paul lifted her chin and looked in her eyes.
"I want very much." He said in a low voice.
Trish smiled as Paul pulled her up and led her to the bed.
Katlyn piled her plates back on the tray and set them outside the door to be picked up. She turned around and went to set beside Mark on the couch. Mark turned off the TV.
"Ya feel up to talking now, are ya sober enough?" Mark asked.
"Yes Mark." Katlyn said.
She wanted to get this over with as soon as possible.
"Want to tell me what happened?" Mark asked.
"Didn't Paul tell you?" Katlyn asked.
"I want to hear wht you have ta say." Mark said.
Katlyn swallowed hard and looked down at her hands.
"I had three wine coolers and was going to drive home." Katlyn said.
"Look at me girl." Mark said.
Katlyn looked up and seen the anger in his eyes.
"That's kind of short want to tell me the why?" Mark said.
"I don't have any excuse." Katlyn said.
Mark knew she was leaving Stacey out of the picture and he wondered why.
"Paul said that Stacey got you the coolers." Mark said.
"Nobody forced me to do anything, I made my own decisions." Katlyn said.
"That may be true, I'm glad to see you taking responsibility for your actions, but I think Stacey has a little responsibility in this too." Mark said.
Katlyn just shrugged. Stacey hadn't forced her to do anything; she had made some really bad choices tonight.
"Now let's go down the list her. First of all you were drinking, really bad decision on yer part. Ya didn't call, you should have ya know, I would have come and got ya, you can always call me no matter what, I might have been mad, but yer safety come first. If this ever happens again ya call me, I'll come get ya, make sure ya get home safe. Understand?" Mark said.
"Yes Mark." Katlyn said.
"I was worried sick about ya baby girl, I imagined all kind of things had happened to ya." Mark said.
Katlyn saw the worry in his eyes and felt terrible.
"I'm sorry Mark, I really am." Katlyn said.
"Now little girl, the one thing that upsets me the most, the fact you was thinking about driving, that was a really dumb thing to do and I know yer smart, why in the hell would ya do something like that?" Mark asked.
"I don't know, I didn't think I had that much, I felt okay to drive." Katlyn said.
"Katy you know better, that's a crock and ya know it, you had three drinks, you damn well knew you shouldn't be driving." Mark said.
Katlyn looked own and knew that was the one thing that put the nail in her coffin so to speak. She was so dead.