Previously on Different Worlds Collide
My muscles were so tight from sleeping in the tiny space so I got out of the car. I was stretching my muscles out when I heard them.
Paparazzi
They started shouting out the most random things that I had no clue as to what they were talking about. Some were about my unheard of disappearance, but I wasn't going to answer that. What I heard from one man was when I really listened.
"Karina, Karina! Is it true that you're in between three different men? None of which know that your cheating on any of them."
Then there was the other reporter.
"How long have you been seeing these three different men? How long have you been cheating on your loyal boyfriend, Luke Michelson?"
And finally there was him.
"You're cheating on me?"
Korra's POV
After quickly grabbing onto Luke's forearm, I forcefully shoved him in the passenger's and stole his car keys from his hand. I got into the driver's seat and I tried my absolute best not to run over any of the paparazzi. Note the sarcasm. I ended up driving to his house without even realizing it. I just knew I needed a private enclosure so I could yell at him.
I knew what he had done. Everything about that homecoming was a damn ploy. He was seeking revenge on me. He probably knew I was going to break up with him, but he wanted to do it in private so he'd have a head start before the paparazzi. He wanted to make me look like the bad guy with him being the angel in this situation.
"What the fuck? I know you planned this damn thing! Just because I didn't want to be with you, you made a ploy that made look like was a cheating bitch!" I yelled as I hit him repeatedly in his bicep.
"I told you that you were going to put this on yourself and you gave me more than I needed," he explained while chuckling to himself, not acknowledging that I was more than pissed at him.
"You're a bastard! I can't believe you did this to me. I knew I was going to suspect something from you, but you took it too far! You planned making Howl come on to me! Don't think this won't come back to you 'cause you're in this too!"
"Korra, Korra, Korra, I'm the innocent one in this situation, and no one will believe anything that you say that concerns me. No matter what happens, people will know that you cheated on me. You can't undo the history that you already created. For the next few months, the paps will be up your ass about it whether they actually believe it or not, but the evidence is accurate. Once they retreat, the evidence will still be there. I could've done much worse than this cheating scandal, but I think you'll learn your lesson with this.
"Run along before the paps come and find you." This was definitely not the kid I knew when I was ten. His eyes were dark and filled with immorality. All of this drama just because I didn't want to be with him anymore. He went through all that trouble just to destroy part of my life.
"Why?"
"No one will make a fool out of me. You would've made a fool out of me if you break up with me, and this way you get out of our relationship and I get to destroy part of you like I promised when I was drunk. Although I was drunk and didn't know what I was saying, it was the best idea I ever had. That's all I'll tell you, but I think you better scurry along now because you're only making the paparazzi suspect something else. All of this was because of you."
I couldn't believe that he did this, yet I knew was real. He always got what he wanted. He only did this to boost his own career and to get revenge. I got mixed into the wrong situation and I only made it worst. I guess I was at fault for some things, but he was the one who initialized this scandal. How he did it all, I had no idea, but he was twisted and dangerous.
I could either smack the shit out of him and eventually get into legal trouble along with the scandal or I could leave and take my anger out of something at my house. I choose the latter because I didn't need to get into legal trouble too. I punched him in his arm before I exited the car with a loud door slam, grabbing my stuff of out of the back first. Thus, began my hitchhike back to my own home.
It didn't help that we lived on opposite sides of the city. Once I was far enough from the road, I pulled out my phone. I was going to initially going to call Mako to come pick me up, but then I thought different. Bolin was out too because he'd just tell Mako everything that he'd probably ask about. I could've ignored either of them, but I had to complain to someone in person. Then one person came to mind.
I dialed my phone while I continued to walk, and she picked up on the third ring.
"Hello?"
"Asami, it's Karina. I need a lift back home. I'm a little past West Point Avenue on the other side of town." Yep, I was most likely going by Karina for a while without the one person who actually knew my real identity out of my life.
"Karina, I'm on my way. Go to the Sheetz that's over there. And you're explaining to me everything that happened!"
Asami hung up after that. I knew she was going to want the details to everything and hopefully she'd understand that everything was a scam. Once I got to the gas station, I hid in the corner so no one would acknowledge me. It was times like this that I once again craved a caner stick in my mouth because I was stressed to the max, but I shook it off. I couldn't go back to that.
After about twenty minutes, I saw a red Porsche pull up, and I immediately knew it was Asami. I grabbed my bag from the ground so I could face my walk of shame. She had popped her trunk so I threw the stuff in there before I quietly got into her car. She drove out of the parking lot, not saying a thing, but when she arrived at a red light, she bombarded me.
"Karina, what the hell? Now I know the paparazzi make up the stupidest lies, but how can someone fake this unless you're in a movie? It's all over the internet and I usually don't read these articles, but I heard some teens in the grocery store talking about it so I checked it out. So I'm going to say it again, what the hell?" As she ranted she made gesticulations with her hands flying everywhere until she had to start driving again.
"I wasn't cheating on him! I broke up with him and now everyone thinks I cheated on him because apparently someone must've seen me kissing Howl, the guy from the pizza place, and called the story over to here."
"Karina, there's pictures of you kissing him then Luke, and with your head on another man's shoulder-" I cut her off right there. I knew word must've gotten out, but pictures, damn! It was then that I realized something else.
"Fucking asshole! Luke must've hired someone to stalk me to get those pictures. I felt like someone was constantly watching me for most of the damn trip. I'll admit one thing, I kissed the one guy from the pizza place, but I was only playing him. I kneed him in his junk while we were kissing. I just wanted to have some fun with him!"
"Well, what about the guy from the movie theater?"
"He's an old friend and he was the one who did my tattoos. My head was on his shoulder because I fell asleep because the movie was so bad. I did not and I repeat did not kiss Luke. He forcefully kissed me in my family's restaurant before I shoved him away and broke up with him for the final time. All the articles are complete bullshit."
The car fell silent with only the engine's sound left. Neither of us were mad at each other, but more with the situation. I didn't like this situation more than anyone else. I hated the paparazzi. They were no good except for capturing the most embarrassing, most false stories about famous people out there. Who even invented them?
"I guess I've gave you enough crap about this situation. It's Mako that's you're going to have to deal with. I don't get why he's so mad at it. You've only known each other for a while, but he's acting like an over protective brother. On to the actual trip, was it any good?"
I looked over to her like she was crazy. I just explained that I was accused of cheating on my "boyfriend," and I saw a horrible movie. That sounded like an amazing weekend. Sarcasm as usual.
"No, I had the most wonderful weekend ever. I kissed two asses, got accused of cheating that will follow me for the rest of my career, I'll have the paparazzi on my ass for the next few months, I almost broke my leg by falling down treacherous stairs, made a scene at my family's restaurant, and will most likely being lectured by the stupid movie director on my set because this most likely will affect the filming of the movie because paps will keep following me. Other than that, everything was dandy and peachy."
"Okay, it was a stupid question, but, Karina, everyone has ended up in one of these situations in their career. This is just your first major one. My first one was when the paps thought I was a lesbian." I raised my eyebrow at that. "Long story short, my one girl friend and I were drunk at a bar one night and ended up kissing each other. It was a stupid bet. It happened years ago; I haven't let it get in the way of my career."
Usually I just ignored the paparazzi, but I knew now they'd be digging for personal information when it was usually information about my career. I didn't really care if they asked about that, but the personal information was what got me because I hated it. That's probably another reason why I made up another name; I was lucky they hadn't figured out I was lying yet.
Eventually, Asami pulled up in my driveway where we parted ways. I got out of her car with my stuff and she gave me a way then drove away. It felt like an eternity since I was at my house, but it was really three days.
I opened the front door of my house when Naga came barreling towards me. I had gotten my neighbor to check up on her while I was out of time. I'd been away from her much longer than three days, but no matter how long it was, Naga always missed me and gave me an amazing welcome home. After petting Naga for a while, I went to my bedroom and threw my bag on my bed. I'd deal with unpacking later because there was somewhere I had to visit for the first time since I moved into this house.
I walked down the hall to the spare bedroom that had been converted into a memory hall for me. I always kept the door closed because I didn't like remembering any of it. The heinous memories overruled the good ones. I opened the door slowly like I was avoiding being caught by someone. Once the door was completely open, I was about to step inside when I heard my phone ringing from my room.
It was a sign. It wasn't the right time for me to do this. I sighed and closed the door before going to my room to get my phone. Of course it was Tenzin.
"Hello?"
"Karina, I know you're back in town! Get your ass over here so we can get this movie done and over with! And you better not be bringing any of your boy toys or the paparazzi."
Not the welcome home I exactly wanted from an actual human.
It'd been a week since I'd returned from Colorado, and I had been working my ass off. Almost all the scenes that contained me in them were we over with so I'd be done with Tenzin until the whole thing was complete which was scheduled for another three weeks. I would've had to start the other movie that I had auditioned for, but my manager had told me that had kicked the bucket due to lack of funds or something like that, I wasn't really paying attention.
I finally had a day off from Tenzin which was nice. Things with the cheating scandal weren't working that well. I think things had gotten worse by this point. They were treating it like I committed a first degree murder. One thing was peculiar about it though. I hadn't heard from Mako, Bolin, or Asami since then. I had talked to Dakota, Tahno, and my family about it, and they all believed that I was telling the truth and not Luke. However, Asami had told me that Mako was going nuts over it, yet I hadn't heard a thing from him since the day that the articles had been released.
I had checked out the articles that were online, and they were completely brutal. They were written like I cheated on a man almost double my age with children and a wife. Cough…Kristen Stewart…Cough. Big difference, my scandal was not real at all, I wasn't in love with my current boyfriend, my boyfriend was not married with kids, and my boyfriend framed the whole scandal! Why the hell was mine such a huge deal?
Nevertheless, I just persevered with staying hidden even more. Although, that didn't exactly work so I ended up staying my own house when I wasn't working. I was so bored with staying at home with nothing to do but watch TV which is what I was doing.
I was sitting on my couch watching a rerun of Family Guy with Naga on the couch beside me. I laid my head on the back of the couch, looking at the ceiling. Hiding in my own house wasn't exactly helping anything, but I didn't want to deal with the paparazzi for the day. I was thinking about something that I could do in my house when my cell phone rang.
"Girl stuck at her house because of bastard ex-boyfriend. How may I help you?" I greeted. Hey, I was bored and I need to do something.
"Karina?"
Oh boy. He had to call when I wanted to make a joke.
I sat up suddenly like I had to look presentable. "Hey, Mako, I haven't talked to you in a while. How've you been?"
"Good. Hey, my brother, Asami, myself, and a few others are having a bon fire in my backyard tonight; I was wondering if you wanted to come?"
"Umm…sure, I'll come to it." I was thinking he called to ask about the cheating thing finally.
"Okay, come to my place around eight."
We hung up shortly afterwards. I guessed that I'd need to think of an explanation that he'd understand. For Asami it was easy enough because she understood it because she was a girl and been in my boat before. Although I wasn't best buddies with Mako, I didn't want him to think of me as a cheating bitch like a bunch of other actresses were out there. If we did become great friends eventually, he might consider me a lying bitch, but that had nothing to do with the cheating scandal.
Bon fire of hell here I come.
"Karina, you made it!" Bolin greeted me at his brother's door, enclosing me in a hug.
"Hey, Bolin, it's been a while," I laughed while I hugged him back.
We walked to the backyard to find a decent fire pit with a lot of wood and paper in it. I'd seen better in my hometown. Lawn chairs were spewed about the yard, and I saw Asami with her husband in two of them. Asami failed to notice my presence until Bolin decided to rudely break up whatever they were talking about.
"Asami, Karina is here! Where's that brother of mine?"
Asami turned from her conversation with her husband to come over to hug me. She whispered in my ear that she was glad that I came and that she had explained the cheating thing to him and Bolin. However, she wasn't exactly sure how convinced Mako was about it, and that he was going to have to hear it from her. I still didn't know why it was such a big deal to him.
Asami, Bolin, Iroh, myself, and the few other stragglers who were there, sat around the fire that Bolin eventually lit, but still no sign of Mako. This was his house, where the hell could he have been? Bolin was in the middle of telling the story of some man from his gym when the devil finally came out.
"Mako, where've you been?" Bolin questioned with his mouth full from some chips that he had been eating.
"I had some stuff to do inside," he mumbled, taking a seat in a chair that was beside Bolin.
I continued to talk to Asami and Bolin about several different topics. I was irritated yet amused when Bolin interrupted anyone's story with his own narration and gesticulations. It was the best I felt for the past week. That was when I realized that there were no paparazzi anywhere. I knew it was too good to be true so I excused myself and took a scope around his backyard then I went inside so I could check the front to make sure there was no one. Once I made sure no one who was looking for dirt was near Mako's house, I went into his kitchen to fetch myself a beer to relax.
I finally found his beer in his fridge and grabbed one. I closed his fridge and turned around then I screamed because I didn't suspect to find him right behind him. If my beer was open, it would've spilt everywhere.
"Damn, don't sneak up on me!" I hissed at him, walking past him to take a seat at his kitchen table. It was obvious as to what he scared me half to death for.
"Sorry, but I want to know what really happened with your ex-boyfriend," he started as he too took a seat next to me.
I explained the whole situation to him and what had happened on my trip back home. His body remained still, but his eyes spoke words that he didn't. They were full of fury. I bet he wanted to kill Luke and I didn't blame him. I would've if it wouldn't have drawn attention to me and ended up with me in jail.
"Mako, you know that half the crap about famous people isn't true unless you hear it right from their mouths. I did not cheat on anyone nor did I kiss any of those guys because I was willing to. One was forced and the other was to have some fun. The other guy was my tattoo artist and I fell asleep on his shoulder because the movie sucked. I'm not a cheating two time bitch."
He just stared at me for a few moments with his amber colored eyes filled with something that I couldn't place at the moment. I hoped he believed me because I didn't want to destroy whatever we were and the future whatever we were. He was a nice guy, but at the moment I wasn't concerned with dating anyone because I didn't want people to think I was a slut too.
"I believe you. I just needed to hear it from you."
I looked into his eyes again and saw something in them. Desire? I didn't know, but something brought me on to him. I moved myself closer to him before I threw caution into the wind and kissed him on his lips. He seemed surprised at first, but then he responded. It wasn't anything too serious by any means. Soft and gentle. Kind of like a goodbye kiss, but much longer. He was the first one to pull away.
"Umm…I have to go back outside, make sure Bo doesn't burn down the yard," he whispered, getting up without another word from him.
I wanted to yell at myself at that moment, but I was sure everyone in the yard would be able to hear it. I may have just ruined everything again. I just had to kiss him. Why the hell couldn't I ever think of consequences before I do something?
Dammit, I always screw everything up!
Posted: December 14, 2013
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