Title: Trying again 16/?
Author: Christen (purplehaysc@netscape.com)
Disclaimer: this is a fanfic about Passions
Distribution: Take it, but let me know. If you have any of my other fics, go ahead.
Comments: email me all you comments and suggestions
Kay was getting annoyed, she had been trying for the last twenty minutes to call Simone and the line was always busy. She slammed the phone down and screamed but she picked the phone up again and dialed the number. It was ringing!
"Maybe this isn't the best time to talk to you." Ethan said as he started to leave.
"Wait! It's not you, it's Simone, I've been trying to call her for the last twenty minutes and the line has been busy." Kay said as she got off her bed, hung up her phone and walked over to Ethan.
"One of the main things you're probably not to happy about coming back to." Ethan said as he walked back into the room.
"Well the list is getting smaller by the minute." Kay said as she sat back down on the bed.
"Am I off it yet?" Ethan asked as he sat down next to her.
"You're in pencil now."
"That's an improvement?" Ethan asked shocked.
"You were in permanent marker." Kay said smiling.
"Then I guess I should be happy." Ethan said.
"You've still got some work to do but yes it's something to be happy about." Kay looked down at the phone again.
"You really think Simone would answer the phone if you called?" Ethan asked.
"No, she'd probably purposely not answer just to get back at me." Kay said sad.
"So she's not going to get off the list any time soon?" Ethan asked.
"I want her to, but I can't get her to talk to me." Kay said annoyed.
"Would you let me help, if I could?"
"Could you?"
"Easily, I'm best friends with Chad and technically Whitney too."
"That's true, but I'd feel bad about using you just to get to Simone."
"I'm letting you use me."
"But why? Why would you do that?"
"Because you're my sister, who I want to get to know."
"I'm also your sister who hit you."
"Yeah but hey there's going to come a time when I'll probably want to hit you and if you're nice I won't."
"Wait no one told you?"
"Told me what?"
"I don't know how to be nice." Kay said smiling.
"Ok, you got me there for a second. I thought something was really wrong."
"The fact that I don't know how to be nice isn't a wrong thing?" Kay asked shocked.
"If it was true then it would be a bad thing but I don't believe you really don't know how to be nice."
"Why?" Kay asked confused.
"You're being nice to me." Ethan said smiling.
"What's going on here?" Grace asked she came into Kay and Jessica's room.
Ethan got up. "I was just coming to see if what you all said about her is true." Then he turned to Kay and smiled. "You were all right."
"I'm sorry Ethan." Grace said as he walked away. Then she turned to Kay. "Kay, can you please try to be nice to Ethan and everyone else here. It would be a nice change." Grace said as she closed the door.
"Ok it's official my little sister loves you." Ricky said as him and Kat came into the house.
"She's really sweet. I wish she was my sister." Kat said as she hung up her jacket.
"You say that because you don't really know her." He said as he sat down on the couch.
Kat came over and sat next to him. "She can't be that bad can she?"
"She is just a little annoying and she's very nosey."
"If that's all she is, then considering yourself lucky. I mean your parents and your stepparents are great." Kat said not believing that he was complaining about his life when it was not that bad.
"I guess you're right. I mean she is sweet when she wants to be. And my parents are supportive of me. Kat, why does this upset you so much?" Ricky asked worried.
"It doesn't. Not really, I just…" Kat said getting up.
Ricky also got up. "I shouldn't have brought up my family, I mean you don't bring up yours."
"Yeah well, why should I?" Kat said.
"Look I didn't want to bring up any bad memories, really."
"I know but it's hard not to."
"Then maybe you shouldn't try to repress it." Ricky suggested.
"Repress it? That's what you think I'm doing? No, I am trying to forget it. I'm trying to get amnesia so I can get forget them!" Kat screamed.
"But you can't, they're your family Kat and no matter what they did or what you did that's not going to change."
"Why not? I want to know why!" She screamed again as the tears started to come down. "I want to have another family, one like yours."
"No you don't because I know that your family at one time was wonderful. I know that you have wonderful memories in your head. Would you want to forgot those too?"
"No, but that's all I want to remember."
"Well look how about you tell me about these wonderful memories and maybe if you talk about them enough then you will forget the horrible ones." Ricky suggested.
"But why would you want to hear all about my family?"
"Because I'm hoping it will make you smile and be happy and it would be a nice change. Don't you think?"
"Yeah it would." Kat said as she sat back down on the couch. "So where do I start?"
"Where ever you feel like starting." Ricky said as he sat down next to her.