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Blooming

Chapter 17 / A Proper Proposal V

"Hey, where were you guys? Dr. O wanted me to contact youto see if you were alright." asked Trent as he saw his three friends come in with a tool box, loose papers, and two folders right after Tommy and the others left.

"We were at Conner's getting the stuff. You know, for all the commotion that's going on, you shouldn't be talking to us, Trent" said Kira as she saw a number of customers walk in through the doors.

At that, Trent instantly headed towards the table he saw the people going to, "I'll talk to you guys later" he said while walking towards the customers.

"Where's Hayley?" asked Ethan, looking around suspiciously.

The others looked around as well, and didn't see her anywhere.

"Well bro, you better get started before she shows up" Conner told Ethan while patting his back and having him nod.

"Look, Conner and I will be the look outs while you go over to the corner computer and get everything ready" said Kira taking demand.

Ethan took a few steps before coming back to his friends and saying, "I don't know you guys, what if Hayley gets in trouble. I mean, that's exactly why I didn't want to do it from my computer."

Kira looked at him with disappointment, "You better not be chickening out Ethan. You're the only one that could hack into the system. Besides, there's plenty of students that use the computers here, she can't get in trouble for that."

"Yeah" Conner added, "Hayley has a lot of money stashed away, she'll fight it if it goes to court or anything" he said easily.

"Oh my God, court!" Ethan yelled a small whisper at Conner's comment.

"What Conner here…" Kira said while elbowing Conner, "meant to say was that if something does come up, then Hayley won't have any problem with dealing with it."

"Guys, I already got in trouble once for this before" Ethan began before getting a nasty look from his friends.

"Hey, everything's going to plan. Even better" said Trent as he was passing by his friends with the customers' orders, "Hayley's not here, you better get to it Ethan."

The other two became wide-eyed at that.

"You hear that man, Hayley's not here. Get your butt over there before she comes and finds out what we're doing" said an enthusiastic Conner.

"Yeah Ethan, go now or you'll chicken out on us for sure" added Kira as Trent went to the back of the counter to put the orders in.

"Why do I have to do everything?" Ethan asked while turning around to head towards the computer.

"Everything?" asked Conner.

"Yeah" added Kira, "we're gonna be doing all the leg work. We'll be over here calling Dr. O to tell him we're fine if you need anything."

Ethan didn't respond because of the fear in him. He knew that hacking into computers would get him into a lot of trouble, and if someone found out what they were doing, he'd be in trouble for sure.


"So, how's this?" asked Tommy holding Kat's couch in his hands with Jason at the other end.

Adam and Rocky walked in holding a heavy coffee table. They were both panting as Kat, Kim, and Hayley were sitting down watching them.

"Umm…how 'bout a little more to the left?" asked Kat.

"Oh, I don't know Kat, if they put it in between the two lamp tables I think it would be better" said Hayley putting her two cents in.

Kimberly smiled and laughed at the guys still holding up the couch.

"Well, where do you want this?" asked a panting Rocky.

"Oh, that definitely goes in the center" said Kim.

The other two females nodded their heads while taking a sip of their water.

"Kat, I'm starting to sweat here" said a tired Tommy.

"Yeah Kat, make up your mind" Jason said expressing his tiredness as well.

"Well, that goes there for sure" Adam said as he and Rocky put the coffee table in the center of the living room. As soon as they did, his cell phone rang with Tanya and his number on the caller id. "Oh, it's Tanya, I gotta take this" he said before heading into the kitchen.

"Tell 'er I say 'hi'!" yelled Kat before Adam entered the kitchen.

"Kat!" yelled Tommy just completely frustrated at her at this point.

"Ay! What? Oh yeah, the couch. Umm…well right there where you're at is fine I guess…for now" she added.

"I don't get it" said Rocky frustrated and tired at this point, "we were supposed to go out and do something and instead here we are putting Kat's things in the house!"

"Calm down Rocky, you're getting good exercise from all of this" said Kat also frustrated that the guys were still acting like children at Tommy's idea.

"Well, you just better tip me good after all of this" he said while going over and sitting down on her couch before getting a look from Tommy and Jason.

Adam came in still holding his cell phone in his hands.

"Alright Rocky, you want a tip?" she said slyly, "that Caesar hair cut went out with the nineties."

Rocky made his mouth in an 'O' shape and expressed with his facial expression a hurt feeling while everyone else in the room started laughing hysterically at Kat's joke about Rocky still wearing the same hairstyle he did back in high school.

"How dare you Ms. Oh my God Tommy harder!" he said in his best woman voice causing Kat to now stop laughing and gasp at his comment.

Everyone that was laughing at Kat's joke now started laughing even harder at Rocky's for the exception of a now blushing Kat and a quiet Tommy looking in her direction for her expression.

"Tanya….wants to…talk to…you!" laughed Adam handing Kat the phone and seeing her now being so bright red and just grasping the phone quickly and running into the kitchen as everyone was still laughing.

"Hello?" she questioned not caring who it was on the other line just now. She was just glad of getting out of there.

"Hey girl! How's it going?" asked Tanya.

"Oh, fine Tanya, thanks. Except for that remark Rocky made a while ago."

"Yeah, I heard everyone laughing. What's was 'that' all about?"

"Oh my God Tanya! I think he heard Tommy and I having sex this morning."

"Why do you say that?" she questioned while a smile and a small laugh escaped her.

"Let's just say, I know he heard us" she said not wanting to give anything away.

"Well, you know Rocky girl."

"Yeah, I know. The bad thing is I know him a little too well and just completely walked into that one."

"So, how you been?"

"Oh, good. Fantastic now."

"Really? What's the occasion?"

"Well, Tommy and I had talked about how I didn't really feel like I lived her fully yet so he decided since he has Jason, Rocky, and Adam here why not help us bring in my furniture from the storage."

"Kat, that's what you've been telling me that you wanted him to do!"

"Yeah, and he finally did it. Tanya, I'm so happy."

"Trust me, you better cherish these precious moments of a man being so considerate; cuz believe me, once they know you love them, they start acting like men again."

Katherine couldn't hold in her laughter from her friend's comment as they both kept talking for several more minutes.


When Kat came in she went into the living room to give Adam his phone back but couldn't find him or anyone else for that matter.

She looked around the living room as she set the cell phone down on her coffee tableand took in a deep breath as she saw most of her belongings in her house letting a smile break out softly on her face.

"Hey" she heard from behind her as a hand was placed gently on her shoulder.

Kat turned around to see Tommy's dark brown eyes piercing into hers. Her now small smile got even larger as he placed his hands on her hips.

"So how do you like it?" he asked.

"Tommy, I love it" she said as she looked around one more time.

"Good, cuz I love you, and I'd do anything for you Kat" he said as she took him in to embrace him tightly.

"Tommy" she said as she held him closer, adding with a small whisper near his ear, "thank you."

Tommy felt a stinging feeling in his lower chest as she said those words. He had never in his life felt so close to her as he did now. It's time, he thought.

"Katherine" he said pulling away from her a bit.

Kat at the sound of her formal name being used pulled away as well and looked at him puzzled.

"Yeah?"

"Kat, there's something I've been wanting to do since, you know,that day at the cabin."

"Really? What is it?"

"This" he said as he grabbed both her hands into his and looked into her light blue eyes. "Kat, I want to tell you how I feel about you."

"Tommy, I know how you feel about me" she said with easiness and a small laughing smile.

"No Kat; I mean, how I really, really feel about you"

This made her smile fade while listening attentively to what Tommy was about to say to her.

"Kat, I met you at the Youth Center being under Rita's Spell. You looked so beautiful, stunning, and intriguing above all. I don't know what it was, but there was just something about you that stood out to me. You received the power coin and spent even more time in my life. Kat, I was so happy about that."

By the end of that sentence, Kat was starting to feel her smile come back before going away with the next.

"When Kim broke up with me, you were there to heal my wounds. I did have open wounds but they weren't from heartbreak, but from something more. I don't know if it was the guilt of liking someone else while having a girlfriend, or just plainly not doing anything about it like a coward."

"Tommy" she whispered.

"I just couldn't tell you how I felt about you. With every passing day it was as if each one of those wounds was getting salt poured all over it. Let me tell you, with every passing moment I couldn't stand to even look in the mirror anymore from being so scared."

"About asking me out?"

"Yeah, and losing you afterwards. I honestly felt I wasn't good enough for you; but something just pushed me to do it…well, a certain someone."

When Tommy said this it made Kat laugh for a quick instant.

"It was by far the best move I ever made in my life. Kat, we shared so much with each other; it was as if I had found the person I was meant to be with in life; until…" he paused at this thinking he couldn't be able to continue.

"Until I broke up with you" she said with sadness in her voice.

"Yeah" he said looking down. "It even hurt to take a breath. I didn't know when night ended or when day began."

"Tommy, I'm so sorry about that."

Shaking his head he said, "No Kat. I'm the one who's sorry. I kept a secret from you. Nobody deserves to be lied to; especially the one you love. I remember when I saw you again at Reefside" a half grin now appeared on his face, "the blood rushing through my veins up to my head. I just thought that I had become completely delusional in thinking about you so much that I was actually seeing your face in my mind right in front of me."

This made Kat laugh and blush at the same time while looking down sheepishly at the floor as she thought the same thing.

"Kat" he said again taking his right hand and lifting her chin to meet her eyes, "I want to let you know that no matter how much it takes; how much we have to go through…I'll always love you...no matter what."

"Tommy" is all Kat could say with a choked up tone before she saw him kneeling down on his left knee while taking her left hand into his.

"Katherine, you're all I would ever ask God for. Would you give me the honor of making me the happiest man in the world in accepting to become my wife?"

As he slipped the diamond ring across her finger she could feel a stream of tears roll down her face.

"Tommy, of course I will" she managed to say before not being able to wait for him to get up and simply knelt down in front of him as they both hugged so tightly while sneaking small kisses in between each tighter hug.

"Kat, I love you so much" he said as he took her into his arms even tighter.

"Tommy" she said in a sad tone, "I might have leukemia."


A/N: Okay, I know, short chapter. Just know that I want reviews for this one cuz I really want to know how I did. And well, e-mails would be preferable because I don't think that review thingy is working or something cause I definitely did not deny one of my favorite authors to review (ULTRA SONIC) if you're wondering; any who, if you want, you can go ahead and review on the Budding like he did, in which I thank you very much. Well, see ya next chap, which will definitely be my last this time. Oh, and to ULTRA SONIC, boy DT Express better not be your last story cuz I love it so much that I really don't want it to end.