"Are you sure this will work out, Tyler?" Tee asked doubtfully. "I don't want to hurt her."
"You won't, I promise." Tyler said, kissing her forehead. Tee relaxed.
"Tyler…please don't mess with me. I like you, but you're using me…"
"No, that's not true! You're very nice, Tee, and I think we should at least give this a go!" Tyler protested.
"Fine. You get one chance." Tee said. "That's if you don't hurt Kitty."
Too late. Kitty hovered outside the door, and sighed under her breath. A couple of tears came out of her eyes as she slowly walked away from the living room.
How could Tee do that?
It wasn't Tee's fault. She liked Tyler, and Kitty could see why…
He was funny, cute, kind, and protective.
Tee deserved someone like that.
Kitty ran upstairs as she heard them talking again and she went colliding into Johnny.
"Whoa, careful!" he said, but he was only teasing. "What's wrong?" he asked, seeing her tears.
"Well…Tee…Tyler…Oh God…" Kitty said, and she looked like she was about to fall to her knees, so Johnny awkwardly wrapped his arms around her. "They're dating." Kitty said quietly.
"Tyler and my sister?!" Johnny did a double take.
"Yeah."
"Well, that's good for Tee, because she likes him…what about you, though? Don't you…" Johnny began.
"Love him? Yes. But I guess I'll have to get over it…Tee deserves him." Kitty said bravely.
Johnny smiled a little. "I'm heading out for one of those caramel dreams at Starbucks…why don't you come with me?" he offered.
Kitty nodded. "Okay, sure, sounds fun." She agreed, and off the two went.
"You know," Johnny said after a while. "According to Rick, Tyler and Lizanne, you used to get beat up by Dennis, and that's the only thing they know about you. Don't you have a story?" he asked.
"Of course I do." Kitty said quietly. "I didn't think anyone would care." She added as they walked.
"I care." Johnny said quietly. "I won't go telling everyone, I promise."
"Okay. Here we go." Kitty said.
Kitty had started out very harshly in life. Her father had hated her from the start, and was forever telling her how stupid and how much a freak she was, and because Kitty was smart, he called her a smartass. He locked her away in cupboards and the basement, sometimes for a whole week with only one bottle of water, which made Kitty get dangerously close to anorexia, but thankfully it never happened. Kitty's mother took Kitty away from her father, but then died during a fire. The fire had been in the house and her mother had thrown Kitty out of a window to save her. Luckily, Kitty grabbed on to the balcony and jumped down softly, so she didn't break anything. Her father returned and beat her lots until a social worker took her to Burnywood. Then, Dennis beat her etc before finally they ended up at Elm Tree.
Kitty's eyes were full of tears by the time she had finished. She was sure Johnny would abandon her.
But he quietly rested an arm around her shoulder. "I'm sorry that had to happen to you, Kitty. If I had the chance, I'd make sure that all happened to me instead of you."
"Thanks, Johnny." Kitty said quietly.
"You're closer to perfect than any of them will ever be, you know that right?" Johnny said.
Kitty didn't answer; she merely turned to him and pressed her lips to his, shutting her eyes, and happiness spread through her warmly when she felt him kissing back.
