I massaged the dye into her hair watching the chemicals change her hair color.
"So, about this whole murderer thing. . ."
I put my dye covered hand in front of her mouth, "Stop right there. The more you talk about it the more creepy it seems. And who knows, maybe the murderer will, oh, I dunno, catch the vibe of your fear." I trailed off.
"They can actually do that!" She squirmed in front of me in a bit of a panic.
"Katie, I'm kidding!" I protested with a laugh.
"That's so not funny!" she exclaimed laughing a little herself.
"Sure it's not." I rolled my eyes pushing down on her head scrubbing her hair then finally rolling it up into a bun and pinning it on top of her head.
"Now, c'mon. Let's go watch One Missed Call."
"Oh god," she said in grief.
Sitting through a horror movie with Katie is like sitting with a friend that's seen a movie over three hundred times. She will not shut up!
"I-I mean, there's no possible way that this dead chick is gonna call us right? Please say right!" Katie panicked.
"Katheryn! Would it kill you to shut your mouth for five minutes and just watch the damn movie?" I snapped and rolled my eyes.
"I'm sorry, Rach. You know I'm not the biggest fan of movies though," she reminded me.
"I know. I'm sorry for snappin' but you really should stop talking so much during the movie." I sighed. I searched about for her remote to pause the movie. "Katie, where's the remote?"
"What remote?" She asked with a confused expression.
I looked at her with confusion. "You're remote? What happened to it?"
"Oh, that remote." She laughed nervously. "Um, I don't really. . ."
I cut her off, "You lost the remote, didn't you?" I looked at her in irritation.
"Yep," she admitted with an innocent smile.
I rolled my eyes, stood up and pressed the pause button on her DVD player. I turned to her with her look I knew she was about to be asking why I paused the movie.
"Let's go, brat. You need to wash your hair out. Then let's get popcorn and finish watching the movie." I smirked and walked out of her room.
"Yes, mother!" I heard her call after me sarcastically. I snickered a little.
I jumped down the stairs and grabbed the box of popcorn taking out one packet. Katie's mom, Linda, walked into the kitchen and gave me a kind smile.
I smiled back and asked, "What, you happy you don't have to be listening to Katie's blab-talk while dying her hair?" The shower upstairs started running and I shut the microwave and pushed the popcorn button and after one beep the microwave started rotating the popcorn.
"That could not be more true, Rach, but just the sight of you living and breathing in my house has always warmed me you know that?" Pop, pop, pop went the popcorn.
"That's kind of you, Linda. Thanks." I gave her a wide smile.
"Oh, but of course, Rachel. So, how's you're mother? The baby?" She asked.
"It's gonna be a boy. My little baby brother," I announced with a proud smile.
"Oh that's wonderful!" She said clapping her hands together with an excited smile. "You must be so thrilled!"
I nodded keeping my kind smile. "Indeed, I am."
"Don't get me wrong, I'm young enough to know what other teenagers would think about this. 'Ew! Our parents still do it!' I'm so glad you're not like that. You're maturing up dear. You were always a very mature girl, like, the one in the pack of wolves that's the leader."
I blushed and laughed at her analogy. "You know me all too well that wolves are my favorite animal."
"You've been around for so long, dear. What would we do without you?" Her voice became more gentle instead of exciting. At least I know where Katie's babbling comes from.
"I'm sure some people would be able to do a lot without me." I said settling my smile.
Her bold smile disappeared and brought a look of sadness to her face as if she changed lives with a lost puppy and looked away from me asking "Is it those boys again?"
I nodded slowly, she definitely knew me all too well.
"I don't know what's gotten into Derek. He use to be such a good boy. Now he's just, one of those guys. Those guys that think they run this world." She looked back at me. "In reality, Rachel, you need to realize they don't run this world. Those who are kind but strong, those are the people who succeed. Nothing bad ever happens to those people. To people like you." She stepped up to me and cupped my face in her hands. "Don't let them bring you down, you hear me? Focus on better things in life. Think of your future brother." She smiled sadly and hugged me.
The people around me were good but weren't good at making me want to look happy despite how happy I feel. Each person, they made me want to cry and let my inner child come out. I always fought against that though. I always fought against those tears. Right here, I'm fighting against the tears and hugging her back tightly not wanting to let go.
"Hey! I wanna join the hug fest!" Katie interrupted the beautiful moment.
Both Linda and I couldn't help but laugh and break our hug. She ran over to me and hugged me.
"Hey, easy! You dyed your hair light brown, so stop acting like a dumb blonde." I laughed.
"Hey!" she broke our hug and gave me a grimace.
I matched her face best I could and then we all began laughing.
"Come on. Let's go finish watching the movie." I started towards the stairs.
"Um, I'd rather paint our nails. Like you said?" She gave me an innocent smile.
"Katie, that was a suggestion, and you just don't wanna watch the movie do you?" I raised an eyebrow and gawked at her.
"No! That's not it!"–she tapped her chin– "Well, kind of. I just don't wanna be scared right now!"
"Well, you girls have all day. Go paint your nails," Linda instructed pulling out her bag of nail polish which held possibly every color you could find of nail polish. "Be scared, watch movies." –she poured popcorn into a large bowl– "go enjoy yourselves." She handed Katie the bowl and shooed us off.
Katie shoved the bag in my hands and grabbed my hand, dragging me up the stairs with a "let's go!" Her mother is definitely one of my favorite people in the world. She's always so kind. She has Katie's babble, but when she babble's, it's always for a good reason. Katie, she just rambles about random crap.