Title: Rumor Has It
By: Morgan
Disclaimer: Saban owns all PR material and characters. I only own the stuff I make up myself.
Rating: R for violence, adult situations, and language.
Distribution: Anywhere as long as you inform me first as to where you want to put it.
My Notes: Okay, I know it has been months upon months since I have written another chapter for this series (and the other ones I have out there as well). You probably don't even remember this fanfic...so I apologize in advance to anyone who has to reread all the last chapters to even remember what the heck is going on. That's my fault. Please read, review, and enjoy.
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Angel Grove Recreational Park
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 9:32 A.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
They all wore blank expressions, not quite believing what they had heard.
Rocky spoke up. "Kat? Our Kat? Katherine Hillard?" He looked to Tommy to see if it was true. His face told him it was. "Oh, man."
They all stood frozen for a few seconds, nobody breathing as they let what Kim just told them sink in a little. It was hard to believe that one of their family members had done this.
One could see the hurt in both Tommy and Kim's eyes. Tommy tried to hide it like he usually did when he was in pain. He rubbed the back of his neck with his right hand, an old nervous habit.
Kim tried desperately to stop the tears, but the pain inside her chest overpowered her will to stay strong. She didn't want them to see her cry. All morning long she had acted like the whole incident hadn't hurt, but now it was time to stop pretending. She couldn't hold it in any longer. Her chest throbbed and her throat ached as she tried once more to get herself under control. But it was no use. At first, her eyes filled up with tears that she tried to blink back, but when that didn't work, they started to slowly trickle down her cheeks in small rivulets. Growing faster and faster as the emotions welled up inside her. Aisha put an arm around Kim's shoulders and whispered something that Kim didn't quite understand.
::Why am I so upset?:: Kim thought. ::Trevor was such an asshole. Sure, he was a nice guy when sober, but when he drank he was a completely different person. He would always get so violent with me, and then never even remember a thing in the morning. He would wake up and find me locked in the bathroom, asleep on the floor and realize he had done something wrong when he saw the bruises or occasional busted lip, but he never stopped drinking like he promised he would. Every time he would cry and beg for my forgiveness I would give it to him. I was so stupid to think he would actually change for me. And I was stupid to stay with him for as long as I did. My life was hell with him...But why does my heart still ache like it does? Why does it still hurt?::
Trini was the first to regain her composure somewhat. "What? When did all this happen? Kim, why didn't you call me," Trini asked, more than a little hurt to be just finding this out. There was a time when Kim would tell Trini everything. Now, it was like she wasn't even herself anymore around her.
"I ju.."
Tommy interrupted her before she could finish. "Do you remember at the picnic when we all said were going to go to The Green Cow to have a few drinks and hang out talking and stuff?"
"Bro, we remember. Would you just cut to the chase..." Jason was starting to get really angry. The fact that Trevor hit Kim had outraged him. He couldn't see how someone could do something like that to innocent little Kimberly. Not once, which was bad enough, but twice. The thought of Tommy knocking the shit out of the asshole over and over had put his anger at a simmering pace. Looking over at Kim, the anger became more and more with every sniffle and every tear that fell from her eyes.
"Well, Kat and Trevor had a little too much fun without us..." Tommy didn't want this to destroy anymore friendships than it already had, but that looked to be inevitable.
"I can't believe her," Zach said. "How could she do that? How could she do that to you two? She only knew Trevor for like half a day and then she goes and sleeps with him and completely goes against everything you had built together?"
Kim stepped in. "We don't want this to have any effect on our group, okay? This is our problem and we want to deal with it ourselves. There is no sense in all of us fighting over something like this."
"I completely agree Kim...However, this has already effected our little group. You can't expect us to act like nothing's wrong after you drop a bombshell like that on us! That's not logical Kim..." Trini sighed and shook her head. " I'm sorry, but how can you stand here and act like everything is all right? They hurt you guys. And since Kat hurt you and Tommy she hurt all of us. She didn't even think about how you would feel when she was humping your fiancee. And what about you, Tommy? She was dating you for years, and she just goes out and sleeps with someone she didn't even know? I don't know about you guys, but my opinion of her has changed. After all of us have been through together a mistake like that will wipe all of that loyalty and trust away."
Rocky stayed quiet, not wanting to say something he would regret in the long run. He just stood back, contemplating all the ways one could look at this situation. The longer he thought, the more and more he sided with Tommy and Kim. He was going to say something, but thought better of it. He would just keep his mouth shut for right now.
Jason reached out and touched Kim's face, apologizing as she grimaced. "I'm with Trini. I don't approve at all with what Kat has done, but if I ever see her I will hold my tongue and not say a word. This is your problem and I'll let you handle it...Trevor is another story. If I ever see that bastard I'm going to kill him. And I'm not kidding. Look what he did to your face, Kim. That's not something you can forgive someone for."
None of them had ever seen that look in Jason's eyes. They hadn't been so dark. Never in all their years of war, death, stress, and tears had Jason looked so fervid. It scared them more than their enemies ever had. In a world full of anger, hate, and destruction, a peaceful state of mind is the only thing that will keep you sane.
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Donna's Kitchen Parking Lot
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:36 P.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Kim parked her car and though about what she was doing. Did she really want to talk to Katherine after what she had done? Would this lunch cause more trouble then there already was between them? She decided to go ahead and meet up with Kat for lunch, even though she knew the fences could not be mended between them. Kat had hurt her. She had stabbed her in the back in the worst way possible. She has cheated on their friendship, not caring about the ties they had shared. The worst thing was that she had lied to her. Sure, Kim hadn't come right out and asked Kat if she had slept with her fiancee, but not telling her made Kat look shallow in Kim's eyes.
After gathering her thoughts, Kim shut off the engine and pulled her keys out. Reaching down into the passenger side foot area, Kim grabbed her purse and chunked her keys inside. Glancing at the mirror right above her head, Kim rubbed her swollen eye. She had decided. Her and Kat were going to have it out and Kat was going to tell her the truth...Even if she had to beat it out of her.
She was about to exit her car when her cell phone started to ring. Sighing, she dug in her purse and pulled it out.
"Hello..."
"Hey, Kim, it's me," Tommy answered as he put some Jean shorts and his swimming trunks in a red bag that sat at the foot of his bed. They never had gotten around to swimming this morning.
"Oh, hey Tommy, what are you up to?" Kim sat her purse back down in her lap and knew why he was calling. He was checking up on her. He could be so sweet sometimes.
"I was just worried about you. You left so quickly this morning that I didn't have a chance to talk to you..." While Tommy and the others were playing a serious game of volleyball, Kim had grabbed her stuff and fled. She hadn't felt like playing and she definitely didn't feel like sitting outside in the sun all day. Instead, she had gone back to Tommy's place and crashed, emotionally drained from the morning's events. She had woken up, luckily, about forty minutes before having to meet Kat for lunch. Tommy still hadn't gotten home yet.
"I know," Kim queried. "I was just tired. I went back to your apartment and took a nice long nap. I hear they do wonders for some people..."
"But not for you right," Tommy joked. "You still feel like crap don't you?"
"Yeah. Well, I gotta go. Kat is waiting for me."
"Are you really going to talk to her?"
"Yes, I'm sitting in the parking lot right now. I was fixing to go in when you called me." Kim looked around the small parking lot and spotted Kat's car a row back.
"All right. Are you going to bring it up, or are you going to just let her keep pretending that nothing happened?"
"I don't know yet...Look, I'll talk to you when I get back."
"Okay...Oh, wait!"
Kim giggled a little. "What?"
"I just wanted to know if you would care to join me for a little road trip up to my uncle's cabin for the rest of the week and weekend. It will give us both some time to relax and take our mind's off this crazy shit."
"We'll see Tommy." Kim laughed, knowing that Tommy knew she would go.
"Come on Kim, you know you want to go...We can go fishing, do a little swimming, then relax next to the fire at night. I'll even take you bike riding up in the trails. It's really beautiful up there. I'll introduce you to Maurine and Joey. They're really nice people, Beautiful. They live about a quarter of a mile away from my uncle's cabin with their kids. They have six of them, can you believe that? They're only like twenty-five or something and have six kids! Geeze, they need to just stop fu..."
"Okay, okay! I get the picture. I don't really want to know what you want them to stop doing...I'll go"
"I knew you would," Tommy said with a cocky grin.
"I knew you knew I would...Okay, I REALLY need to go now. I'm almost ten minutes late."
"Okay, good luck in there."
"Thanks, I'll probably need it."
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Arden and Associates
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:39 P.M.
Stone Canyon, Ca
"Arden and Associates, how may I help you?" Tanya continued typing on her keyboard, trying to get the last of the document information down so she could take her lunch break. Her boss was being a real jerk today.
"Tanya, it's Aisha..."
Tanya wasn't at all surprised. "Oh, hey girl, what's up?"
"Have you heard the news?" Aisha was not usually the town gossip, but she had to know if Tanya knew what her best friend was up to.
"Girl, Kat showed up on my doorstep early in the morning in tears. She was a wreck. I was going to go visit her after I got off work yesterday and see how she was holding up, but all the lights were out in her apartment so I didn't."
"I can't believe this is happening. I don't know what to do."
Tanya punched in the last of the paperwork and grabbed her car keys and purse from under her desk. Saying good-bye to some coworkers, she exited the large law firm and headed to her car.
"I know how you feel, but I can't help but feel sorry for Kat. In a way, I guess I can't believe she really did this. On the other hand, I'm royally pissed. She had to know that something like this would effect everyone around her. Adam and I have been in three fights since she left my house. We were up until three arguing about this mess the night she came over."
"Man, I can imagine what that's like. I'll tell you something though, Jason is livid. I have never seen him so mad at anyone...ever."
"Jason is that mad at Kat? I don't think..."
"No, at Trevor. I mean, he is upset with her, but not nearly as angry as he is with him."
"Okay, I'm with you now."
"Yeah, he even said that if he ever saw Trevor he would make him wish we was never born. Kim's face looks horrid." Now Tanya was confused. "You should see the bruise he left on her. It's all puffy and stuff. Even on her arm you can see where his fingers were..."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Kim's face. Where Trevor hit her yesterday afternoon..."
Tanya's jaw dropped. "Trevor hit Kim?"
"Yeah, and supposedly it's not the first time he has done it to her."
"Where did you hear that from?"
"Kim told us. I don't think she meant to, but I think it just slipped out. She said that one night Trevor got drunk and he slapped her or something and didn't remember doing it that next morning..."
"And she just let it go? That doesn't sound too much like Kim."
"I know..."
"Well, do you think she's telling the truth? I mean, she might just be afraid to tell you what really happened. You did say that she didn't mean to tell you guys. It sounds to me like Kim and Trevor were having problems before all of this even came up..."
"I've never known Kimberly to lie. I would think that if she had gotten herself into an abusive relationship she would have told someone. And plus, Kim may look small and weak, but my girl could kick any guy's ass if she really wanted to do it. I just don't see how Trevor could have been doing anything to her other than what she told us. Kim is too strong for that."
"Maybe you're right. I mean you do know Kim a lot better than I do. I guess I'm just being a little too paranoid."
"No, I think it's nice that you are being perceptive. If none of this would have happened and Kim really would have been in a dangerous relationship with Trevor your concerns may have saved her life or something. You never know. This world is so damn crazy these days."
"Yeah, that's true. So, what have you been up to lately?"
"Nothing much. Just working..."
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Donna's Kitchen
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:44 P.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Kim and Kat ordered their food and tried to make small talk. The tension in the air was extremely heavy. To Kim, Kat seemed distant and introverted. To Kat, Kim seemed cold and impatient. It seemed to grow when Kat asked Kim about her face and Kim lied to her about it.
"So Kim, have you found a job yet," Kat asked, trying to at least get through this lunch. She wanted nothing more than to sprint out the restaurant doors and never look back.
Kim lost her cool. "Cut the bullshit Kat, I know what you did."
"You do? How did you find out?" Kat was shocked, to say the least.
"Lets just say, if you are going to fuck someone else's fiancee, you should try to restrain from sucking on the back of their necks. It's considered poor form."
"Look, I don't know what Trevor told you, but I'm really sorry about what happened. I probably shouldn't have drank as much as I did and I probably shouldn't have invited him into my apartment..."
"You *probably* shouldn't have invited him in?" Kim's voice rose, attracting an array of onlookers. "You PROBABLY shouldn't have invited him in? What is wrong with you Katherine? You used to be one of my BEST friends and then you go out and sleep with someone who was EXTREMELY important to me..."
"LOOK, I TOLD YOU I WAS SORRY! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT," Kat demanded, standing up from the table.
"I WANT YOU TO STOP FUCKING LYING TO ME THAT'S WHAT I WANT!"
The manager of the restaurant was starting to get a little testy. There were two crazy women fighting in the middle of his establishment.
"Excuse me, but would you please lower your voices?"
Kim was so mad she yelled at him too. "NO! YOU LOWER YOUR GODDAMN VOICE!"
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave..." He was starting to loose his patience with the two of them. When neither Kat or Kim made a move to exit the restaurant or even acknowledge his presence anymore, he left to call the police.
"I DIDN'T LIE TO YOU, I JUST DIDN'T TELL YOU WE SLEPT TOGETHER!"
"OH, HOW CONVENIENT FOR YOU! IT'S NOT A LIE IF YOU DON'T TELL SOMEONE? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT?"
"LOOK, I'M NOT ABOUT TO STAND HERE FIGHTING WITH YOU ALL DAMN DAY! I TOLD YOU I WAS SORRY AND THAT'S THE END OF IT... Why don't you just deal with it and move on? He wasn't even that good in the sack so I don't know what you're whining about..."
Kim picked up her glass of sprite off the table and said," DEAL WITH THIS!" She threw it in Kat's face before she even knew what was coming.
"You Bitch! I can't believe you just fucking did that!"
"Well, believe it skank, cause it just happened..."
Kim was about to knock the crap out of Kat when the cops arrived. The arrested both Kat and Kim and apologized to the owner. Kim and Kat had to bare being put in the same cop car back-seat during the whole fifteen minute ride to the station.
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Okay, how bad did that suck? I'll try to have the next chapter out sooner, but I won't promise anything. Please read and review. ~Morgan~
By: Morgan
Disclaimer: Saban owns all PR material and characters. I only own the stuff I make up myself.
Rating: R for violence, adult situations, and language.
Distribution: Anywhere as long as you inform me first as to where you want to put it.
My Notes: Okay, I know it has been months upon months since I have written another chapter for this series (and the other ones I have out there as well). You probably don't even remember this fanfic...so I apologize in advance to anyone who has to reread all the last chapters to even remember what the heck is going on. That's my fault. Please read, review, and enjoy.
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Angel Grove Recreational Park
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 9:32 A.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
They all wore blank expressions, not quite believing what they had heard.
Rocky spoke up. "Kat? Our Kat? Katherine Hillard?" He looked to Tommy to see if it was true. His face told him it was. "Oh, man."
They all stood frozen for a few seconds, nobody breathing as they let what Kim just told them sink in a little. It was hard to believe that one of their family members had done this.
One could see the hurt in both Tommy and Kim's eyes. Tommy tried to hide it like he usually did when he was in pain. He rubbed the back of his neck with his right hand, an old nervous habit.
Kim tried desperately to stop the tears, but the pain inside her chest overpowered her will to stay strong. She didn't want them to see her cry. All morning long she had acted like the whole incident hadn't hurt, but now it was time to stop pretending. She couldn't hold it in any longer. Her chest throbbed and her throat ached as she tried once more to get herself under control. But it was no use. At first, her eyes filled up with tears that she tried to blink back, but when that didn't work, they started to slowly trickle down her cheeks in small rivulets. Growing faster and faster as the emotions welled up inside her. Aisha put an arm around Kim's shoulders and whispered something that Kim didn't quite understand.
::Why am I so upset?:: Kim thought. ::Trevor was such an asshole. Sure, he was a nice guy when sober, but when he drank he was a completely different person. He would always get so violent with me, and then never even remember a thing in the morning. He would wake up and find me locked in the bathroom, asleep on the floor and realize he had done something wrong when he saw the bruises or occasional busted lip, but he never stopped drinking like he promised he would. Every time he would cry and beg for my forgiveness I would give it to him. I was so stupid to think he would actually change for me. And I was stupid to stay with him for as long as I did. My life was hell with him...But why does my heart still ache like it does? Why does it still hurt?::
Trini was the first to regain her composure somewhat. "What? When did all this happen? Kim, why didn't you call me," Trini asked, more than a little hurt to be just finding this out. There was a time when Kim would tell Trini everything. Now, it was like she wasn't even herself anymore around her.
"I ju.."
Tommy interrupted her before she could finish. "Do you remember at the picnic when we all said were going to go to The Green Cow to have a few drinks and hang out talking and stuff?"
"Bro, we remember. Would you just cut to the chase..." Jason was starting to get really angry. The fact that Trevor hit Kim had outraged him. He couldn't see how someone could do something like that to innocent little Kimberly. Not once, which was bad enough, but twice. The thought of Tommy knocking the shit out of the asshole over and over had put his anger at a simmering pace. Looking over at Kim, the anger became more and more with every sniffle and every tear that fell from her eyes.
"Well, Kat and Trevor had a little too much fun without us..." Tommy didn't want this to destroy anymore friendships than it already had, but that looked to be inevitable.
"I can't believe her," Zach said. "How could she do that? How could she do that to you two? She only knew Trevor for like half a day and then she goes and sleeps with him and completely goes against everything you had built together?"
Kim stepped in. "We don't want this to have any effect on our group, okay? This is our problem and we want to deal with it ourselves. There is no sense in all of us fighting over something like this."
"I completely agree Kim...However, this has already effected our little group. You can't expect us to act like nothing's wrong after you drop a bombshell like that on us! That's not logical Kim..." Trini sighed and shook her head. " I'm sorry, but how can you stand here and act like everything is all right? They hurt you guys. And since Kat hurt you and Tommy she hurt all of us. She didn't even think about how you would feel when she was humping your fiancee. And what about you, Tommy? She was dating you for years, and she just goes out and sleeps with someone she didn't even know? I don't know about you guys, but my opinion of her has changed. After all of us have been through together a mistake like that will wipe all of that loyalty and trust away."
Rocky stayed quiet, not wanting to say something he would regret in the long run. He just stood back, contemplating all the ways one could look at this situation. The longer he thought, the more and more he sided with Tommy and Kim. He was going to say something, but thought better of it. He would just keep his mouth shut for right now.
Jason reached out and touched Kim's face, apologizing as she grimaced. "I'm with Trini. I don't approve at all with what Kat has done, but if I ever see her I will hold my tongue and not say a word. This is your problem and I'll let you handle it...Trevor is another story. If I ever see that bastard I'm going to kill him. And I'm not kidding. Look what he did to your face, Kim. That's not something you can forgive someone for."
None of them had ever seen that look in Jason's eyes. They hadn't been so dark. Never in all their years of war, death, stress, and tears had Jason looked so fervid. It scared them more than their enemies ever had. In a world full of anger, hate, and destruction, a peaceful state of mind is the only thing that will keep you sane.
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Donna's Kitchen Parking Lot
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:36 P.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Kim parked her car and though about what she was doing. Did she really want to talk to Katherine after what she had done? Would this lunch cause more trouble then there already was between them? She decided to go ahead and meet up with Kat for lunch, even though she knew the fences could not be mended between them. Kat had hurt her. She had stabbed her in the back in the worst way possible. She has cheated on their friendship, not caring about the ties they had shared. The worst thing was that she had lied to her. Sure, Kim hadn't come right out and asked Kat if she had slept with her fiancee, but not telling her made Kat look shallow in Kim's eyes.
After gathering her thoughts, Kim shut off the engine and pulled her keys out. Reaching down into the passenger side foot area, Kim grabbed her purse and chunked her keys inside. Glancing at the mirror right above her head, Kim rubbed her swollen eye. She had decided. Her and Kat were going to have it out and Kat was going to tell her the truth...Even if she had to beat it out of her.
She was about to exit her car when her cell phone started to ring. Sighing, she dug in her purse and pulled it out.
"Hello..."
"Hey, Kim, it's me," Tommy answered as he put some Jean shorts and his swimming trunks in a red bag that sat at the foot of his bed. They never had gotten around to swimming this morning.
"Oh, hey Tommy, what are you up to?" Kim sat her purse back down in her lap and knew why he was calling. He was checking up on her. He could be so sweet sometimes.
"I was just worried about you. You left so quickly this morning that I didn't have a chance to talk to you..." While Tommy and the others were playing a serious game of volleyball, Kim had grabbed her stuff and fled. She hadn't felt like playing and she definitely didn't feel like sitting outside in the sun all day. Instead, she had gone back to Tommy's place and crashed, emotionally drained from the morning's events. She had woken up, luckily, about forty minutes before having to meet Kat for lunch. Tommy still hadn't gotten home yet.
"I know," Kim queried. "I was just tired. I went back to your apartment and took a nice long nap. I hear they do wonders for some people..."
"But not for you right," Tommy joked. "You still feel like crap don't you?"
"Yeah. Well, I gotta go. Kat is waiting for me."
"Are you really going to talk to her?"
"Yes, I'm sitting in the parking lot right now. I was fixing to go in when you called me." Kim looked around the small parking lot and spotted Kat's car a row back.
"All right. Are you going to bring it up, or are you going to just let her keep pretending that nothing happened?"
"I don't know yet...Look, I'll talk to you when I get back."
"Okay...Oh, wait!"
Kim giggled a little. "What?"
"I just wanted to know if you would care to join me for a little road trip up to my uncle's cabin for the rest of the week and weekend. It will give us both some time to relax and take our mind's off this crazy shit."
"We'll see Tommy." Kim laughed, knowing that Tommy knew she would go.
"Come on Kim, you know you want to go...We can go fishing, do a little swimming, then relax next to the fire at night. I'll even take you bike riding up in the trails. It's really beautiful up there. I'll introduce you to Maurine and Joey. They're really nice people, Beautiful. They live about a quarter of a mile away from my uncle's cabin with their kids. They have six of them, can you believe that? They're only like twenty-five or something and have six kids! Geeze, they need to just stop fu..."
"Okay, okay! I get the picture. I don't really want to know what you want them to stop doing...I'll go"
"I knew you would," Tommy said with a cocky grin.
"I knew you knew I would...Okay, I REALLY need to go now. I'm almost ten minutes late."
"Okay, good luck in there."
"Thanks, I'll probably need it."
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Arden and Associates
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:39 P.M.
Stone Canyon, Ca
"Arden and Associates, how may I help you?" Tanya continued typing on her keyboard, trying to get the last of the document information down so she could take her lunch break. Her boss was being a real jerk today.
"Tanya, it's Aisha..."
Tanya wasn't at all surprised. "Oh, hey girl, what's up?"
"Have you heard the news?" Aisha was not usually the town gossip, but she had to know if Tanya knew what her best friend was up to.
"Girl, Kat showed up on my doorstep early in the morning in tears. She was a wreck. I was going to go visit her after I got off work yesterday and see how she was holding up, but all the lights were out in her apartment so I didn't."
"I can't believe this is happening. I don't know what to do."
Tanya punched in the last of the paperwork and grabbed her car keys and purse from under her desk. Saying good-bye to some coworkers, she exited the large law firm and headed to her car.
"I know how you feel, but I can't help but feel sorry for Kat. In a way, I guess I can't believe she really did this. On the other hand, I'm royally pissed. She had to know that something like this would effect everyone around her. Adam and I have been in three fights since she left my house. We were up until three arguing about this mess the night she came over."
"Man, I can imagine what that's like. I'll tell you something though, Jason is livid. I have never seen him so mad at anyone...ever."
"Jason is that mad at Kat? I don't think..."
"No, at Trevor. I mean, he is upset with her, but not nearly as angry as he is with him."
"Okay, I'm with you now."
"Yeah, he even said that if he ever saw Trevor he would make him wish we was never born. Kim's face looks horrid." Now Tanya was confused. "You should see the bruise he left on her. It's all puffy and stuff. Even on her arm you can see where his fingers were..."
"What the hell are you talking about?"
"Kim's face. Where Trevor hit her yesterday afternoon..."
Tanya's jaw dropped. "Trevor hit Kim?"
"Yeah, and supposedly it's not the first time he has done it to her."
"Where did you hear that from?"
"Kim told us. I don't think she meant to, but I think it just slipped out. She said that one night Trevor got drunk and he slapped her or something and didn't remember doing it that next morning..."
"And she just let it go? That doesn't sound too much like Kim."
"I know..."
"Well, do you think she's telling the truth? I mean, she might just be afraid to tell you what really happened. You did say that she didn't mean to tell you guys. It sounds to me like Kim and Trevor were having problems before all of this even came up..."
"I've never known Kimberly to lie. I would think that if she had gotten herself into an abusive relationship she would have told someone. And plus, Kim may look small and weak, but my girl could kick any guy's ass if she really wanted to do it. I just don't see how Trevor could have been doing anything to her other than what she told us. Kim is too strong for that."
"Maybe you're right. I mean you do know Kim a lot better than I do. I guess I'm just being a little too paranoid."
"No, I think it's nice that you are being perceptive. If none of this would have happened and Kim really would have been in a dangerous relationship with Trevor your concerns may have saved her life or something. You never know. This world is so damn crazy these days."
"Yeah, that's true. So, what have you been up to lately?"
"Nothing much. Just working..."
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Donna's Kitchen
Wednesday, September 25, 2000 12:44 P.M.
Angel Grove, Ca
Kim and Kat ordered their food and tried to make small talk. The tension in the air was extremely heavy. To Kim, Kat seemed distant and introverted. To Kat, Kim seemed cold and impatient. It seemed to grow when Kat asked Kim about her face and Kim lied to her about it.
"So Kim, have you found a job yet," Kat asked, trying to at least get through this lunch. She wanted nothing more than to sprint out the restaurant doors and never look back.
Kim lost her cool. "Cut the bullshit Kat, I know what you did."
"You do? How did you find out?" Kat was shocked, to say the least.
"Lets just say, if you are going to fuck someone else's fiancee, you should try to restrain from sucking on the back of their necks. It's considered poor form."
"Look, I don't know what Trevor told you, but I'm really sorry about what happened. I probably shouldn't have drank as much as I did and I probably shouldn't have invited him into my apartment..."
"You *probably* shouldn't have invited him in?" Kim's voice rose, attracting an array of onlookers. "You PROBABLY shouldn't have invited him in? What is wrong with you Katherine? You used to be one of my BEST friends and then you go out and sleep with someone who was EXTREMELY important to me..."
"LOOK, I TOLD YOU I WAS SORRY! WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT," Kat demanded, standing up from the table.
"I WANT YOU TO STOP FUCKING LYING TO ME THAT'S WHAT I WANT!"
The manager of the restaurant was starting to get a little testy. There were two crazy women fighting in the middle of his establishment.
"Excuse me, but would you please lower your voices?"
Kim was so mad she yelled at him too. "NO! YOU LOWER YOUR GODDAMN VOICE!"
"I'm going to have to ask you to leave..." He was starting to loose his patience with the two of them. When neither Kat or Kim made a move to exit the restaurant or even acknowledge his presence anymore, he left to call the police.
"I DIDN'T LIE TO YOU, I JUST DIDN'T TELL YOU WE SLEPT TOGETHER!"
"OH, HOW CONVENIENT FOR YOU! IT'S NOT A LIE IF YOU DON'T TELL SOMEONE? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT ABOUT?"
"LOOK, I'M NOT ABOUT TO STAND HERE FIGHTING WITH YOU ALL DAMN DAY! I TOLD YOU I WAS SORRY AND THAT'S THE END OF IT... Why don't you just deal with it and move on? He wasn't even that good in the sack so I don't know what you're whining about..."
Kim picked up her glass of sprite off the table and said," DEAL WITH THIS!" She threw it in Kat's face before she even knew what was coming.
"You Bitch! I can't believe you just fucking did that!"
"Well, believe it skank, cause it just happened..."
Kim was about to knock the crap out of Kat when the cops arrived. The arrested both Kat and Kim and apologized to the owner. Kim and Kat had to bare being put in the same cop car back-seat during the whole fifteen minute ride to the station.
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Okay, how bad did that suck? I'll try to have the next chapter out sooner, but I won't promise anything. Please read and review. ~Morgan~