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Blooming
Chapter 10 / What's going on?
That afternoon, Tommy and Katherine arrived at Tommy's house. They got off of the car and headed towards the door. Tommy opened the door for her and she walked inside. He grabbed her hips tightly with his muscular hands. He, holding her hips entered the house as well.
Upon entering, Katherine stopped dead in her tracks with eyes wide open.
Tommy felt her halt and halted as well. He instantly dropped his hands from her hips as he witnessed the sight in front of them.
Kimberly stood nude in the middle of the living room with a bottle of whip cream in one hand, and chocolate syrup in the other. She looked as if she had been standing there for a while, just waiting for Tommy to arrive. She wore a smile on her face which was quickly smeared off at the sight of Katherine's figure standing in front of her. Kimberly was a bit thick around her hips, buttocks, lower belly, and had two saddle bags under her double A-sized breasts.
Katherine didn't know whether to leave, go to their bedroom, or just plainly get a cover and wrap it around Kim. Yet, she just stood there, frozen.
Tommy on the other hand swiftly went around Katherine and jogged a few steps towards Kimberly.
"Kim! What the hell are you doing here?" He demanded.
Kimberly made her infamous 'what do you mean' facial expression cocking her head to one side, wrinkling her eyebrows, and pouting a bit.
"I thought you were gonna get rid of her." She told him, making her eye sight towards Katherine.
Katherine couldn't take it anymore. She knew it was definitely not her place to say anything because this situation had to be dealt between Tommy and Kim. Yet her frustration in Tommy not taking the bull by the horns insisted in butting in.
"Look Tommy, you have to tell her something right now. If you don't, I'm leaving right now!" Katherine threatened.
Tommy looked at Katherine as if he had not known her for the longest time. His expression was much more than a puzzled one, it was a spoiled pout.
"Finally! You get the hint!" Kim retorted.
"No Kim! You're the one that has to get a damn hint around her. I love Katherine, and I'm going to marry her." He said in a sharp voice.
Kimberly upon hearing this gasped in awkwardness that even Katherine felt it hurt from the other side of the living room.
"Oh Tommy, can't you see she's only using you for her own good? Tommy please, I beg you, don't leave me out in the streets." Kim begged.
"You're out in the streets?" Tommy questioned.
"Yes, Tommy. Please, I have nowhere to go. Please let me stay with you." Kimberly started crying hysterically at this. "I only wanted to give you what I thought you needed in order to stay here with you."
Tommy took her into his arms and held her head onto his chest.
"Shhh, Kim, it's alright, I'll help you through this."
Tommy then let her go and turned his head around only to find Katherine with a look that he would never forget. She grabbed her purse and left the house.
Tommy quickly stepped toward the direction of the door, but was stopped by Kimberly.
"Tommy, please, isn't it obvious? She doesn't want to be with you." She told him.
He looked at Kimberly again, and said, "Look, I don't want to be with you. How many times do I have to tell you?"
He then turned and this time made his way out the door just in time to see Kat get in her car and turn on the ignition.
"Kat!" Tommy cried out.
He ran towards her car and made it just in time to catch her before she left.
"Kat, please, let's talk about this!" He screamed through the window.
Katherine felt her anger telling her to drive off of his property, but she also felt a force holding her back. She thought for a second, and Tommy heard the engine turn off.
She rolled her eyes, and asked after mechanically rolling down the window, "What do you want?" She said, with tears in her eyes. "Don't you have enough woman in there to keep you satisfied?"
Tommy crouched down to meet her at eye level and deepened his gaze towards her. "Katherine, believe me, I don't want anything to do with her, but I just can't leave her out in the street like that."
"Tommy, I understand" she said.
Tommy gave a look of relief and sighed. "Thanks Kat, I knew you would."
She continued, "And as much as I understand you having to feel that you need to take care of her, I also understand my feelings towards it."
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"I'm not going to be able to trust you around her while she's living here. I probably won't be able to trust your judgment even after she's gone. I'm sorry Tommy, I can't marry you. I can't live with the idea of you choosing her over me."
Tommy couldn't tell her anything. Nothing came out of his mouth. He was scrambling for words inside his head so deeply. As much as he wanted to say how much he wanted her to stay, he knew he couldn't let Kimberly stay on the street, and there was just no good way in putting that into words.
With that, he saw Katherine's car make its way out of his driveway, and too far for his view. After not being able to see his love's car anymore, he slowly turned around, and headed inside his house with his head held low and slowly closed the door behind him.
Tommy walked into his house and curiously looked at Kimberly with fury in his eyes being hidden by shame. He then walked over to her where he was just a few inches away from her sitting down on the couch.
"Kimberly, how did you get inside my house?" was the only statement he could think of at the moment without having any precise tone in his voice.
Kimberly was quiet at the moment; she put her hands together on top of her mouth and giggled shyly.
"I took the key you had inside the frog outside. You know, the plastic one?"
"How did you…" Tommy wanted to know, although failed to continue his question when he realized it was he who had told her where the spare key was at the night they were both drunk.
Kimberly, noticing Tommy's expression, got up and still bare, got a blanket to cover herself with. She then pulled him down to the couch with great force to Tommy's surprise. She then straddled up on Tommy and tried to kiss him with passion.
Tommy, somehow knowing what she was going to do, moved his face away from hers and just dodged the kiss completely, having her kiss his right cheek.
"Kimberly, please, get off of me and we'll talk about this. I don't know how much you've been hurt just yet, but I swear, I'll try to help you." He said sincerely, before adding, "You really have to talk to someone about what's going on with you."
Kim just stared at him blankly, not knowing what to make of the statement she just finished hearing. She decided to take it into consideration much later. As for now, she just had to find out how Tommy's luscious lips tasted upon touching hers. She bent forward quickly catching him off guard this time and planted a huge wet kiss on Tommy.
At that instant, as if on cue, Kat came through the door saying, "Okay, I think I over reacted a bit but I honestly think…"
She stopped dead in her tracks as she saw Kim straddled on top of Tommy still nude and her eyes burned with fury inside of them.
She just stood there, unmoving for a reason that was far too huge to handle. She couldn't feel a thing in her toes nor her knees. For a split second, she felt the hot boiling blood of her now slowly pumping veins rush to the top of her brain numbing it as well.
Heat overcame her body and she just couldn't stand there any longer, she thought. She could not let this happen to her when she was so close to leaving him. Now she had to deal with the pain of losing her fiancée for a split second she could have avoided if she had just continued to drive off in the direction she had driven before.
Tommy, from the ninety degree angle of his eye, could see someone enter. He forcefully turned his head around in the direction of the door. There, he saw Katherine standing, paralyzed somehow for what he couldn't make into words how to explain what she was witnessing.
Oh my God! He thought.
"Kat" was the only thing that could come out of his now numb cottoned mouth.
Kimberly shrieked for an unknown reason, and just kept holding Tommy in her arms.
Tommy, now not knowing what to do, exactly, just picked Kim up and put her to his right side with struggle for she put up a small two second fight for him not to. He then stood and realized Katherine was no longer standing there, but was gone, maybe gone for good out of his life.
He ran after her, and caught her yet once again before getting inside her vehicle.
"Kat!" He called out.
Katherine, this time full of rage, turned around and completely took out all of her emotions she was feeling in that starting sentence with continuation.
"I can't believe you could do this to me, I thought you loved me, but now I see that you just can't decide between the two of us!" She said in frustration.
Tommy kept his calm, not wanting her to get rowdier than she already was.
"Kat, I made that decision the first week we started to date in High School." He said with honesty in his eyes.
Kat knew him better than anyone, even his mother. She knew he was saying the truth, but something inside her still kept poking at her medulla oblongata to keep yelling at him.
She shook her head a little, "why do you have to be the Goddamn hero of the story all the time?" She asked with sarcasm.
Tommy looked down, not with shame, but with disappointment in hearing her say that to him.
She continued none the less, "you think that everyone needs Tommy, right? Well, what about me? Did you even think for one split second how that was going to affect me in any way? You just went right on ahead and drew her even more into your arms. Tommy, having her and I in the same house? How could you even think of such a thing?"
He looked up at the end of her statement and spoke up to his defense, "you know, if it was anyone else in there with her problem, you wouldn't hesitate to help them. Why are you so uninterested to help her? Just cuz I dated her in High School?"
"You know it's not that." She said calmly this time.
"Oh bull! Even you can't believe that one." He said retorting this one.
Katherine thought for a split second, and said, changing her facial expression to Tommy's liking, "I guess I'm jealous that she's here." She said in a low voice.
Tommy couldn't believe what he just heard. He rolled his eyes and sighed in exaggeration. "What! You can't say that you're jealous of what's in that house, Kat!"
She was the one that looked down now and just stared at the floor blankly.
"Oh my God!" He said in disbelief, "you do feel jealous of her. I can't believe it, Kat! How many times have I told you that you're the woman I love?"
She was more than embarrassed at the comment. She knew he loved her, yet there was still a small thought that crept in the back of her mind. Was it uncertainty of the situation?
"I more than love you Kat," he continued, "I'm so in love with you, that every time I think of you for just one small microsecond, I feel a great sensation in my chest that makes me smile." He touched his chest with his right arm patting his chest slowly.
Katherine smiled internally at what she heard come out of his mouth.
He then walked over to her and wrapped his arms around the lumbar region of her back, and rested his hands on her butt. "Just think, that's just having the smallest thought of you, now imagine what I feel when I hold you."
She smiled now to where he could see.
He moved in closer, "when I feel you so close to me," he said before leaning his head and cocking it to one side adding, "And especially when I feel your soft, beautiful lips touch mine."
He kissed her passionately as Kat wrapped her arms on the thoracic region of his back and spread her fingers pressing him towards her. She returned his kiss with the same passion if not more to the striking things that Tommy had just told her.
They parted and smiled at each other. Tommy now saw her smile even more and showed her a prize winning smile as well.
She then looked deeply into his dark brown eyes and said the words that Tommy always loved to hear come out of this specific person, "I love you Tommy."
Kat looked down, not blankly, but shamefully now, "I'm sorry; I just can't seem to leave my jealousy on the side."
Tommy then got her chin with his pointer finger and thumb. He lifted her head up to meet him at eye level. "Kat," he said, "I know how you feel. In High School, Jason confessed to me that he liked you when he first saw you, but then backed off when he found out that you were Kat, the girl I had been talking to him about since I first set eyes on you."
Katherine's eyes widened at the remark that Jason would hold those feelings towards her. Although, she now knew that he was looking at her in a way that was friendlier than average, at least her curiosity since then was now answered.
Tommy then looked at the ground and said, "I know how you feel, cuz even though its been years, I just can't seem to forget it. Now, every time I talk to him or something, I remember it, even if I try not to."
She nodded in comprehension in that he was reaching out to her once more.
"You know, but last time we went to their house and he picked you up like that, I have to admit, I was so jealous, and you weren't even with me then." He looked up at her.
She pressed her lips together reminiscing that hug as well, and in the back of her mind thinking that it was a little too friendly, but decided not say anything just yet.
"You know what I realized though, that even if you're with him, even if he can't control himself with you, I know in my heart that you will. I know that because I trust you. I trust that you'll keep your distance in a friendship level, and not do anything to hurt me. Kat, I feel this way, because this is how I want you to feel about me. I want you to feel my loyalty towards you because I would never dream of hurting you like that."
She now felt it was her turn to talk, but couldn't think of anything to say. She looked around with her eyes as if the answer was going to be in the air somewhere. She then took a deep breath and said, "Tommy, I want you to know that you're the most wonderful man I've ever met…"
That was enough for him to hear, and he couldn't resist but take her into his arms and kissed her again.
When they parted, she laughed along side with him before she said with a smile on her face, "I guess I have to watch over you since Kimberly is going to stay here."
He looked at her with a sly look but then smiled and said, "You know, I'm going to need someone to pry me off of her." He said in a sarcastic tone.
Katherine then gasped with mockery and grabbed his side to tickle him. He jumped to one side crouching a bit at her touch. He then turned and ran towards the house with having Katherine chase him inside.
They both stopped their playing when they went inside and saw Kimberly lying on the floor unconscious in front of the couch.
"Oh my God." Katherine said in a low voice.
Tommy rushed over to Kim and knelt down. "Kim" he said, trying to get a reaction.
Katherine then thought fast running to the phone and dialed 9-1-1.
A/N: Okay guys, sorry for the long wait, but I updated it a bit. I hope you guys aren't mad with me. I'll have the next chap. up as soon as I can.
