Thanks to Kate, again. And to everyone who keeps R&R.

Chapter 10

Before anyone could acknowledge Kat's presence, she tried to listen to their conversation. She wasn't lucky. They were talking in a rather fast in Spanish.

"Hey, Kat. I was waiting for you." Patrick said with enthusiasm as soon as he saw her.

"Hi, Patrick" Kat said coldly, she was angry and she wasn't about to hide it.

"Come here, I would like you to meet Dani She's my best friend." Patrick said happily, he didn't seem to realise that she was angry; maybe he had really hit his head.

"Nice to meet, you, I'm..." Kat said shaking the girl's hand, while noticing how really beautiful she was for the first time. She had long and black hair, and a sexy smile. Dani looked like Penelope Cruz, or at least that was what Kat thought.

"Kat, his girlfriend. I know, he always writes about you in his emails." Dani said

"That's weird, because..."

"Nice to see you so well accompanied."Said the doctor who had just entered the room. "Now, if you would please leave me alone with Mr. Verona here, I need to check on him"

Dani and Kat left the room and sat facing each other, as soon as the door was closed, Dani's face changed.

"Ok, spill it here and not in front of Patrick" Dani's voice sounded as dangerous as Patrick's.

"Oh someone knows how to be hypocritical" Kat said

"And someone doesn't know how to hide their feelings, even if it is in their best interest."

"When he told me you were a bad liar, I didn't quite believe him. I guess he was right."

"He told you that?" Kat felt shocked that someone besides Patrick and herself knew about the time he asked her in his weird way to go to a concert.

"Of course he told me, we have known each other since we were born."

The doctor left Patrick's room and told the two girls they could come in and Dani went directly to Patrick's bed, while Kat was left behind.

"How are you feeling?" Dani asked as she took Patrick's hand between hers.

"Just tired and a little dizzy, I guess" Patrick answered. "Ey, why are we talking in English?" He asked as soon as he realised it.

"I thought it was the polite way to behave ourselves in front of Kat." Dani answered with another one of her gorgeous smile, that were soon beginning to annoy Kat.

"That's right. By the way, would it be too much to ask for you to call David? He must be worried by now." Patrick said quietly. Kat was so confused. Patrick was acting like a sick boy who needed to be taken care of Well, he was damaged, but Kat suspected it had more to do with Dani than the injure itself.

Dani nodded and left the room with a big smile on her face. Patrick patted the bed hoping for Kat to come and sit, so Kat sat on his bed. she was about to burst, but he caught her attention just on time

"Finally, alone." He whispered, and made her lean on him.

Before she could say anything, he was kissing her exactly like she had been dreaming before entering to the room. Nevertheless, her anger got the best of her, she knew what she was doing was wrong, and she hated herself for not being like Bianca and only focussing on the good. But she was Kat Stratford and she needed to know.

"Stop, Patrick, We need to talk. Who is she?" Kat looked directly into Patrick's eyes.

"I told you Dani is my best friend."

"That doesn't explain much." Kat said, and since Patrick didn't answer, she kept going. "You never mention her before, She seems to know everything about me but I just acknowledge her existence an hour ago."

"Of course, she knows about you I told her, ever since I met you in the parking lot."

"Why don't you talk about her?"

"Because there is nothing to say." Patrick said exasperated. Kat didn't give away, so now it was Patrick's turn to keep going. "She is the daughter of my dad's oldest friend, she lived next door to my grandparent's. For the year, I lived in Chile we were inseparables. She is here because she is studying engineering at Texas. She drove all night when she heard about me being in the hospital."

Kat felt so unsure now; maybe Dani was right, she should have pretended. Because, now she knew much more than she intended to. Dani knocked on the door, and made her way in the room.

"David says he is coming in the night train, he should be here by morning." Dani sat in the other side of the bed. "We should play" she said grinning.

"Oh, no! We haven't played that thing since..."

"Last year, so stop being so difficult" Dani said. "Besides, Kat, here, won't think any different if she knows you like to play Guess who, am I right?"

"You like to play Guess who?" Kat asked in disbelief.

"We don't follow the regular rules" Patrick answered quietly. "We play a grown up way."

"Oh, yea, Sheldon Cooper. How can you play Guess Who and don't look like a toddler?" Kat was smiling for the first time in the last twenty four hours.

"Well, see it for yourself" Dani invited her. "I have to warn you, it is not political correct but it is a lot of fun."

Kat realised, Dani and Patrick were in synchrony. They didn't even have to talk to know who took care of what. She felt like an intruder. When they were settle, which took less time than the one Kat felt. They started.

"Does your character looks like a character from Mean Girls?" Dani asked.

"I hate you" Patrick answered.

"That means, yes." Dani told Kat.

"Does your character look like he has commit murdered?"

"No, I don't think so." Dani answered after looking carefully at her picture. "Does your character look like they would have been the queen bee of the school?"

"I completely hate you." Patrick said.

"Does someone actually get it right?" Kat interrupted.

"Of course." Patrick said giving her a full smile. "We are pretty good with stereotypes."

"Not as good as Hollywood". Dani continued.

"But we could run a casting agency, fairly easily" Patrick finished. "Is your character a nerd?"

"What kind of nerd?" Dani asked.

"Theatre nerd" Patrick kept looking at the pictures in front of him.

"Oh, yes. I think he or she knows her Lope de Vega" Dani said "he is one of our Shakespeare's." Dani told Kat. "You know, in Spanish it would be hard to pick a Shakespeare. Your boyfriend here likes Pedro Calderon, I'm a Lope Fan."

"We could never agree on that one." Patrick said. "How old were we anyway?"

"Like ten." Dani turned around to face Kat again. "His grandma took us to this really big Theatre festival. We complained the whole way there, thank god she didn't care."

"After the first play, we didn't want to leave." Patrick smiled at the memory.

"And then..." Dani kept smiling too.

"We complained because we had to leave." Patrick finished.

"We wanted to be play writers after that. We even wrote a play. Do you remember?"

"What was it about?" Kat asked feeling a knot in her throat.

"Like every play of the time." Patrick answered. "Dani wanted to marry me, but her brother wanted to marry her with a rich and old men. So I have to beat him in a duel. It was great, she would use my grandma's dresses, and I could use my grandpa's sword."

"That sounds fun." Kat said fighting the tears from running from her face. "You guys keep playing. I'm going to phone Bianca, she wanted to know if you were all right."

"Sure. Tell her I said hi and sorry for ruining her date with the Hogwarts student." Patrick said.

As soon as Kat reached the door, she felt tears falling from her face. She hadn't lied though; she was going to call Bianca. Because in all those moments of fighting and flirting with Patrick it never occurred to her, that maybe, just maybe, he was already taken. It didn't matter if he knew it or not.

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