This is really getting repetitive, and it takes up so much space on my
page. I do not own any of the characters of Passions, nor do I own
Passions, NBC does. If you don't know that, then you obviously don't know
which network is which! I also do not own the song Bittersweet Symphony!
But I have that on my cell and I love that song!
Chapter 9- Frustration and Nervous Jitters
Kate was wrapped in her own thoughts as she pushed open the front door of the mansion. She was halfway up the stairs when she heard her name being called from the sitting room. Rolling her eyes, she trudged down the stairs, through the foyer, down the hall and into the sitting room, where her stepmother and stepsister were calmly sitting.
"Yes?" She asked expectantly. "What do you want?"
Rebecca patted the seat on the sofa next to her. Kate sat in an armchair across from her. Slightly unnerved by this, Rebecca began to speak. "I just thought that we could have a little chat, just the three of us. I want us to feel like one big happy family. And families stick together, and make sure that everyone is happy. You want that too, don't you?"
Kate looked from Rebecca to Gwen and back again. "If what you are simpering about now has anything to do with my rescinding my job offer to Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, you can just forget it. She is a friend, and my brother's girlfriend, and I am going to keep my promise to her, because, after all, it really isn't very polite to do something like that to someone so nice. I'm sure that you wouldn't want someone to do something like that to you, would you Rebecca?"
She stood up. "Now, I don't mean to be rude, but I have a date to get ready for. Enjoy your evening! Ta Ta!" With that, Kate swept out of the room.
Gwen flopped back on the couch. "Oooh! That woman infuriates me! How can she just come in here and topple everything that we have spent the last five years doing in less than two days?!!? I hate her, and we can't even touch her."
"I know!" Rebecca said, as she stood up from the couch and started walking around the room. "I tried to get Julian to make her go back to Europe, where she came from, but he said that she was his daughter, and he would not even dare to ask her to leave, since she has Alistair wrapped around her little finger. She is a sort of favorite of his, apparently."
"Well, we are just going to have to think of something, because I can't keep living under the same roof with that woman. Gwen fumed to her mother. "Are you sure that there is nothing that anyone can do?"
"Unfortunately, Gwennie, there is nothing that we can do at the moment. We are just going to have to keep being nice to her, and hope she gets bored with this place." Rebecca consoled her daughter, frustrated at the young woman, and desperate to do something to stop her.
Kate was trying to decide between a dark navy halter dress and a pair of jeans and a white silk off the shoulder top when her cell phone started to play 'Bittersweet Symphony' she grabbed it and was excited to see that it was Audrey Garrison-Grey, one of her closest friends and confidantes. "Aud, I need help!" She exclaimed. "I have a date in an hour and I have no idea what to wear!"
"Calm down, Kate, I'm here. Turn on your web cam, so I can see what I have to work with." Audrey's smooth southern drawl came through loud and clear over the phone. Kate flipped the switch and turned on her laptop. Audrey's auburn curls and green eyes flipped on the screen.
"Okay, so, what are you going to be doing on this date?" Audrey asked.
"Umm, I have no idea." Kate said sheepishly.
"Okay, so what is this guy like?" Audrey asked, going in another direction.
"Umm, I only met him today, so I don't really know yet." Kate said, knowing that Audrey was going to yell at her.
She was not disappointed. "Kate!" Audrey yelled through the phone. "You are going out with a guy that you have never met to somewhere you have never been!?!? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!"
"Aud, if you saw this guy, you would understand. Tall, blonde, built, completely hot. You would do the exact same thing if you were in my position. Trust me. I know what I am doing." Kate said soothingly, trying to calm her down. It was the red hair. Audrey always was a spitfire, and got mad easily whenever she or Fox did anything stupid.
Audrey sighed. "Well, if you get raped and murdered, don't haunt me, okay? I told you what would happen, and if it does, then don't come around all pale and crying."
Kate laughed. "I promise. No haunting, I get it. Now what do you think?" She held up the navy halter dress, and the white silk top.
"Neither. What about that dark pink silk top that you bought on our trip to Milan two weeks ago? Put that with the super dark Seven jeans and the sapphire drop earrings that we got in Paris?" Audrey suggested.
Kate beamed. "You are a genius, Aud! That is perfect. I'll go and change and be back in a flash." She flew into her closet and pulled out the top and jeans. Slipping them on, she was convinced that this was the outfit. She ran through the door with a pair of Manolo sling backs in her hand. "Okay, so what's up Audrey?" She asked, as she put the earrings on.
"Well, I just thought that I would tell you that Dylan and I were chatting, and we that since two of our closest friends are in Harmony now, that we should see what all the fuss is about. If you will have us, we were planning on visiting sometime next month, when my vacation in the Greek Isles is done, and he gets finished with his trip to Indonesia. What do you think?" Audrey asked.
"Are you kidding? We would love for you to come! And you will be right on schedule! I'm planning my latest scheme, the downfall of my parents, and my new stepmother. You guys can help me, it will be just like when I got Professor Minuit fired after he tried to blackmail Collette into sleeping with him, or he would fail her!"
"Wow, I hope that they are scared, because they are in for it!" Audrey exclaimed. "Now, something important. How serious is Fox about this girl?"
Kate was surprised. "How did you know there was a girl?" She asked, trying not to hurt her friend.
"Well, he still hasn't come and surprised me Paris, and I know that the only reason for that is that there was something keeping him away. I just had a feeling. I know that Fox isn't mine right now, but we have been dating on and off for the past five years. The only person who knows him better is you." She said sadly. "But on to happier things. I hope that you have a wonderful time on your date. I have to go. I am having dinner with a prince of somewhere tonight. Don't forget the pepper spray."
"Okay hon." Love you, and talk to you soon!"
"Love to you and that hopeless brother of yours! Ciao!"
Chapter 9- Frustration and Nervous Jitters
Kate was wrapped in her own thoughts as she pushed open the front door of the mansion. She was halfway up the stairs when she heard her name being called from the sitting room. Rolling her eyes, she trudged down the stairs, through the foyer, down the hall and into the sitting room, where her stepmother and stepsister were calmly sitting.
"Yes?" She asked expectantly. "What do you want?"
Rebecca patted the seat on the sofa next to her. Kate sat in an armchair across from her. Slightly unnerved by this, Rebecca began to speak. "I just thought that we could have a little chat, just the three of us. I want us to feel like one big happy family. And families stick together, and make sure that everyone is happy. You want that too, don't you?"
Kate looked from Rebecca to Gwen and back again. "If what you are simpering about now has anything to do with my rescinding my job offer to Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, you can just forget it. She is a friend, and my brother's girlfriend, and I am going to keep my promise to her, because, after all, it really isn't very polite to do something like that to someone so nice. I'm sure that you wouldn't want someone to do something like that to you, would you Rebecca?"
She stood up. "Now, I don't mean to be rude, but I have a date to get ready for. Enjoy your evening! Ta Ta!" With that, Kate swept out of the room.
Gwen flopped back on the couch. "Oooh! That woman infuriates me! How can she just come in here and topple everything that we have spent the last five years doing in less than two days?!!? I hate her, and we can't even touch her."
"I know!" Rebecca said, as she stood up from the couch and started walking around the room. "I tried to get Julian to make her go back to Europe, where she came from, but he said that she was his daughter, and he would not even dare to ask her to leave, since she has Alistair wrapped around her little finger. She is a sort of favorite of his, apparently."
"Well, we are just going to have to think of something, because I can't keep living under the same roof with that woman. Gwen fumed to her mother. "Are you sure that there is nothing that anyone can do?"
"Unfortunately, Gwennie, there is nothing that we can do at the moment. We are just going to have to keep being nice to her, and hope she gets bored with this place." Rebecca consoled her daughter, frustrated at the young woman, and desperate to do something to stop her.
Kate was trying to decide between a dark navy halter dress and a pair of jeans and a white silk off the shoulder top when her cell phone started to play 'Bittersweet Symphony' she grabbed it and was excited to see that it was Audrey Garrison-Grey, one of her closest friends and confidantes. "Aud, I need help!" She exclaimed. "I have a date in an hour and I have no idea what to wear!"
"Calm down, Kate, I'm here. Turn on your web cam, so I can see what I have to work with." Audrey's smooth southern drawl came through loud and clear over the phone. Kate flipped the switch and turned on her laptop. Audrey's auburn curls and green eyes flipped on the screen.
"Okay, so, what are you going to be doing on this date?" Audrey asked.
"Umm, I have no idea." Kate said sheepishly.
"Okay, so what is this guy like?" Audrey asked, going in another direction.
"Umm, I only met him today, so I don't really know yet." Kate said, knowing that Audrey was going to yell at her.
She was not disappointed. "Kate!" Audrey yelled through the phone. "You are going out with a guy that you have never met to somewhere you have never been!?!? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!?!"
"Aud, if you saw this guy, you would understand. Tall, blonde, built, completely hot. You would do the exact same thing if you were in my position. Trust me. I know what I am doing." Kate said soothingly, trying to calm her down. It was the red hair. Audrey always was a spitfire, and got mad easily whenever she or Fox did anything stupid.
Audrey sighed. "Well, if you get raped and murdered, don't haunt me, okay? I told you what would happen, and if it does, then don't come around all pale and crying."
Kate laughed. "I promise. No haunting, I get it. Now what do you think?" She held up the navy halter dress, and the white silk top.
"Neither. What about that dark pink silk top that you bought on our trip to Milan two weeks ago? Put that with the super dark Seven jeans and the sapphire drop earrings that we got in Paris?" Audrey suggested.
Kate beamed. "You are a genius, Aud! That is perfect. I'll go and change and be back in a flash." She flew into her closet and pulled out the top and jeans. Slipping them on, she was convinced that this was the outfit. She ran through the door with a pair of Manolo sling backs in her hand. "Okay, so what's up Audrey?" She asked, as she put the earrings on.
"Well, I just thought that I would tell you that Dylan and I were chatting, and we that since two of our closest friends are in Harmony now, that we should see what all the fuss is about. If you will have us, we were planning on visiting sometime next month, when my vacation in the Greek Isles is done, and he gets finished with his trip to Indonesia. What do you think?" Audrey asked.
"Are you kidding? We would love for you to come! And you will be right on schedule! I'm planning my latest scheme, the downfall of my parents, and my new stepmother. You guys can help me, it will be just like when I got Professor Minuit fired after he tried to blackmail Collette into sleeping with him, or he would fail her!"
"Wow, I hope that they are scared, because they are in for it!" Audrey exclaimed. "Now, something important. How serious is Fox about this girl?"
Kate was surprised. "How did you know there was a girl?" She asked, trying not to hurt her friend.
"Well, he still hasn't come and surprised me Paris, and I know that the only reason for that is that there was something keeping him away. I just had a feeling. I know that Fox isn't mine right now, but we have been dating on and off for the past five years. The only person who knows him better is you." She said sadly. "But on to happier things. I hope that you have a wonderful time on your date. I have to go. I am having dinner with a prince of somewhere tonight. Don't forget the pepper spray."
"Okay hon." Love you, and talk to you soon!"
"Love to you and that hopeless brother of yours! Ciao!"