Okay, so this chapter is mostly the guys and getting rid of the evil bitches that hang all over them. (I am obviously not a fan of Kate and Sarah.) Pogue finds out about Emily and Jeremy, and Reid raises a good point, that I was not thinking of when I wrote the story. I have it all figured out now, though, and all will be revealed in the next couple of chapters.
"Hey man," Caleb said, walking up to his four 'brothers'.
"What's up? You look kinda like you just saw a ghost." His best friend, Pogue, laughed.
"I kinda did. You guys remember Kat?" Calbe said, taking the proffered Coke from Reid.
"Kitty Kat? The honorary 'Daughter of Ipswich'?" Tyler clarified, the fries he was about to shove in his mouth forgotten.
"Yeah." Caleb answered, watching Pogue. "She's back."
Pogue Parry, the mysterious biker boy of the 'Sons of Ipswich', froze. Caleb watched him closely, as the other two, oblivious to their older brother's distress, rejoiced at the return of their 'little sister'.
"Are you sure?" he forced through his lips, his mouth dry and his voice scratchy.
"Mom sent me by to welcome the new family to the neighborhood. Kat was there with three women, three men, three little boys, and one little girl. I'm sure it was her." Caleb said, glancing towards the door where two girls could be seen coming in.
One of these girls was Sarah, Caleb's Girlfriend. The other, a pretty girl with long, dark hair, and mocha hued skin, was Pogue's girlfriend, Kate. Sarah was wearing a flowered sundress with a denim jacket over it, and strappy sandals. Kate wore a white t-shirt over some blue jeans with a pair of flip-flops on her small feet.
"Hey, babe." She said, walking over to kiss him in greeting. Instead of turning his face to meet hers, Pogue still stared at his older brother. "Babe?" she asked, hurt and confusion flitting across her face. She looked over at Caleb, who still studied Pogue, and then over to Tyler and Reid, who were performing an imprompteu waltz.
"Caleb, what's going on?" she tried again. Caleb sighed and decided to spill all the beans.
"An old friend of ours has shown up, and she has kids." He said, as Pogue's eyes snapped up to lock onto his friends.
"Are they….?" He asked, trailing off, his heart in his throat. Caleb nodded.
"She said she has only ever slept with one guy." He told his best friend, a rather roundabout way of informing him he was a father.
"Did you say kitty-Kat has kids? With an 's'?" Reid asked, leaning on Pogue's shoulder, and grinning like a hyena.
"Oh, are you talking about the girl we met earlier?" Sarah asked, an arm snaking around her boyfriend's waist.
"Yeah," Caleb said, glancing down at Sarah, and then he looked at Reid. "She has two little kids, a boy and a girl."
"But, I thought you said…" Pogue began.
"They're twins," Caleb explained, once more locking eyes with his younger brother.
"Twins…" Pogue whispered, trying to picture his old flame with two little chldren.
"Okay, so why does it matter that this random chick from when you guys were kids has kids?" Kate asked, sounding like a bitch. Sarah gave her a sympathetic look.
"So kitty-Kat's a MILF now?" Reid asked lecherously, earning a very hard slap to the back of the head by Pogue.
"What was that for, babe?" Kate asked suspiciously.
"Kate, that girl was my friend, and she was Reid's friend, I'm not going to let him or anyone else talk about her like that." Pogue said, not looking at her.
"Oh, my god! You have a thing for her, don't you!" at this, the Sons of Ipsiwch all froze, and turned to look at Pogue and Kate.
"Kate, I had a huge crush on this girl when we were fourteen, I had feelings for her. I still think of her as a sister." Pogue lied, trying to appease his jealous girlfriend.
"Sister? I thought that those were his kids?" Sarah asked, turning to Caleb.
Tyler and Reid stopped goofing off and turned to their older brothers.
"Kitty-Kat has your kids?" they asked in unison.
"Your kids!" Kate shreiked. "Yours? You have kids? That little slut! I ought to-"
"Kate! Enough. Yes, they are my kids, and it really is none of you business. It was my mistake, and I'll handle it. Why do you care so much? It's not like I'm your only boyfriend, right? You run around all the time flirting with every guy in your line of sight!" Pogue said, pissed.
"Pogue! How could you!" Sarah asked, apalled. "Caleb, tell him he's being an ass!"
"I can't, because he really isn't." Caleb said, looking between Kate and Sarah with a look of shock.
"Yes, he is. It is perfectly understandable for her to be upset that he has kids. I mean, I know I would be upset if I found out you had secret children with another woman!" she said rather loudly.
"Sarah, what are you talking about? You met her, you know that he didn't know about them. What has gotten into you?" he said, turning to face his girlfriend.
"It's just, I got to thinking, what if he really did know about the kids, and all of it was just an act?"
"Why would you even say that? You saw how much she didn't want me to tell Pogue!"
"What? She didn't want you to tell me?" Pogue asked, glancing up from glaring at Kate.
"Slut!" Kate coughed out. Pogue looked down at her, a look of anger and disgust forming on his face.
"That's it, Kate. If you're going to keep insulting people you don't even know like that, we're through." He said, putting his foot down. The Sons all looked at her with anger seeping onto their faces, and Sarah looked around at them all with her own look of increadulous anger.
"Then I guess we're through. Take your necklace back," Kate said quietly, with a deadly venom in her tone, removing the offending object from around her neck and throwing it in poor Pogue's face.
"Fine." Pogue said, looking at her with weary eyes. "I'm sick of your bullshit anyway.
"Pogue!" Sarah said, appaled that he could be doing something like that to her best friend.
"Sarah, leave it. It's their choice." Caleb said quietly.
"You're asking me to keep silent while he hurts my best friend to go be with some whore with two kids!" sje asked incredulously.
"Sarah, Kat is not a whore. She is one of the nicest people you will ever meet." Caleb explained, while Kate smiled at her and the boys all glared.
"She sounds like a slut to me." she said matter-of-factly. Caleb looked at her, appalled.
"You know what? You're not the girl I thought you were, we're through too." he said, watching her with sad eyes.
"Fine." she said, tossing her hair over her shoulder. "Have a nice life." she spun on her heel and grabbed Kate's hand, and the two girls walked outside together.
The boys watched her for a second before Tyler broke the silence.
"Dude, sorry about that. Really. But, is Kat really back? And did she really have Pogue's kids?" he asked. Caleb laughed.
"Its no big deal, baby boy, and yeah, she is and does, not did." Caleb said, a smile tugged at the corners of Pogue's mouth.
"I don't wanna be a downer, but this is confusing me. Kids, as in, plural?" Reid asked.
"Yeah, twins. A boy and a girl." Caleb said, not grasping the point of what Reid was saying.
"I thought our lines only produced one, a boy." Reid said, looking Caleb dead in the eye.
"You think shes lying?" Tyler asked.
"Not likely. They looked exactly like a mix of Kat and Pogue would look. They both had Pogue's hair and eyes, and the boy looked just like Pogue when he was three." Caleb explained.
"Well hell, boys. I think we should celebrate!" Reid said, accepting Caleb's comment immidiatley, throwing his ams over Tyler's and Pogue's shoulders. Pogue smiled.
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