Disclaimer: I do not own Summerland or any characters used in it blah blah blah, you get
it…
Author's Notes: Okay here's the next chapter…oh btw I'm a BIG KIM POSSIBLE FAN! And I just saw the new movie "So the Drama" and IT WAS SOOO CUTE! KIM KISSED RONN! LOL okay back to the story…
OKAY FOR YA'LL S INFO: HER NAME IS CORINNE KATRIN WHITSON…Katrin is her middle name…just so yu know…so it won't be confusion.
Damaged Beauty
It had been about 1 week since the whole moving thing. Katrin lived about a 5 minute walk from me, right down the street. We would be going to the same school and everything, it would be so awesome, but yet, I wasn't happy. I knew I still had feelings for her, strong feelings, and I couldn't tell her.
I had decided to go with my aunt to the rehearsal today. I walked into the room and Katrin was easy to spot. She was wearing a dress I recognized really easily. It was long, black, and strapless. It went down to her ankles and she was wearing high heeled shoes. She looked amazing, not just because of the dress, she was a natural beauty. "Okay, let's get on with the rehearsal" Mike screamed. He went over and clapped his hands. Katrin went up onto the runway, snapped a few pictures, posed and then went down. He stopped the music. "No, no something isn't right" he climbed up on top and started picking at the dress. "You need to eat healthier and eat less, then maybe this dress will actually fit" he screamed throwing up his hands, I was glad no one was looking at me because I was steaming.
How do you go up to a beautiful girl like Katrin and tell her she needs to lose weight? She covered her eyes and ran into the back crying. I followed, running across the runway, and Ava was going to follow but Jay grabbed her hand.
After about 5 minutes of running, she ran into her room and I went in behind her before she had a chance to close and lock the door. "Katrin, don't cry he's stupid, he wouldn't know beauty if it bit him in the ass, Katrin, you're gorgeous please, forget him…" she turned around, her face red from crying, "You know what Bradin, he's right, I do need to lose weight" she started walking towards me and the door, but I grabbed her before she had a chance to leave. Holding her waist, I pushed her up against the door and kissed her. She pulled away, licked her lips a little and then took off running again. Just as Ava walked in, she ran past them, almost knocking them over. "Hey Bradin, what's wrong with Katrin" I licked my lips and then walked out, not a single word.
It had been about 4 days and I haven't seen Katrin around much at all. Then again I had spent most of the day surfing and practicing, making sure I make the surf team this year. I had to see Katrin, last few days she was the only person I thought of, only person that meant anything to me, only person…that kept me alive.
I saw Katrin walking down the runway when I walked into the studio. Many people surrounded her and Mike stood at the bottom telling her word for word what to do. She looked amazing, but not quite like herself. She was skinnier and she no longer had many curves and beautiful features like she did before, she was skin and bones, was it possible that her little "diet" led to starvation? No, I knew Katrin better then that…or did I? After she finished on the runway she walked into her dressing room and I followed her.
"Hey Bradin, long time no see…where have you been" she smiled, though it looked terribly forced. She was in pain, and I didn't know why, what happened to this beautiful, confident girl? "Hey Katrin, wow you look amazing" she screamed all of the sudden and jumped on me, a little bit of her old personality showing, "Guess what, the dress, the red one…look" she ran behind a door and about a minute later ran out, wearing the dress. Instead of how beautiful it looked on her before, now it hung around her sides, her shoulders, stomach or legs no longer filled the way the dress was supposed to be.
"How do I look?" I had to be honest and tell her it was stupid, what she was doing, starving yourself was NOT the way to go. "Katrin, you're so…skinny, what happened, you were gorgeous" I should have known, she got mad. "What, thanks, I actually think I look amazing now, before this dress looked so bad on me but look now, I see how it is Bradin, you're the one that doesn't know true beauty, not me, did you see all those models they're gorgeous, but I'm fat…" I looked at the scale she was standing on, it read 92 LB. My jaw dropped. As soon as she noticed me staring, she jumped off. "Just mind your own business okay, I got a show to do" she pushed me out and slammed the door. I stood in front of it banging my head against the wall.
The show started off the same as the other 20 I had seen, it got really boring. Katrin was getting ready to go on and Ava came and sat beside us. "I'm really worried about Katrin, she doesn't look like herself" Susannah whispered in my ear, I rolled my eye; "You're not the only one" I told her staring up at the runway. What Katrin had to do was walk down the runway, pose at the bottom, wait for a few pictures and come back up, then pose again. But this time, she stopped at the bottom. Murmurs went out throughout the crowd, and just as I suspected, her face went white and she dropped, catching her heel on the bottom and ripping the dress. I was about to get up but instead of being stopped by Ava and Susannah, they moved their feet to let me through and smiled.
I ran up to her, jumping up onto the runway on my way, and bend down on my knees beside her. I picked her up, but she didn't move. She was so light, not the Katrin I had picked up a week ago in her room. "Corinne, are you okay, Corinne, wake up please…" I carried her to the back where soon a few people followed. We laid her on her bed in the back. The show continued without her. I held her hand and soon, her eyes opened. "Bradin, Ava, Susannah, I'm so sorry everyone I thought…" tears ran down her face. "Shhh, its okay Katrin, everything's going to be fine…" Ava sat down on the bed and spoke softly. Katrin cried and cried, then started talking again. "I can't believe I didn't listen, I should have known, Bradin tried to stop me, but I wouldn't listen, I wouldn't listen, and now I look so stupid, I mean…I hated how I looked before but weighing 90 pounds isn't beautiful either…" she kept blabbering, and despite our pleading to stop talking, she wouldn't. So, to make it easy, I kissed her. She quieted down immediately and returned the kiss. There were quite a few people in the room so it wasn't long but she smiled, letting me know it was very much appreciated.
Everyone left the room, leaving us alone. "Bradin, I'm really sorry" I shook my head. "You have NOTHING to be sorry about, but you're gorgeous just the way you are" she nodded, "I know that, now, and I only believe it once you tell me" I kissed her again then remembered. "This really has to stop, we're not together and we can't be as much as…" I stopped before I told her, told her the truth, how much I wanted her, how much I had longed for her kisses and her touch she couldn't know. "As much as we know how right it feels…" she finished my sentence, beforehand knowing what I was going to say.
"So school starts again in about 2 days, ready" she moaned. "Never have, never will be" I laughed, "What are you talking about; you were always the gorgeous popular one, not me…" she laid her head in my lap. "Yeah, but you were always the 'hot surfer boy' so I wouldn't be talking Westerly" she laughed kissing my cheek and getting up. Suddenly I realized school will be so much easier.
