AHH! IM BACK!
I am the worst updater ever :D I will not give you guys the crappy excuse of being too busy with school and all that fun stuff because honestly, I have had A LOT of free time lately :)
Well, I hope you guys can forgive me for the extremely delayed update (since August :D) and for this probably poorly written chapter!
Oh and warning! There are a couple spoilers for Crazy, Stupid, Love for those who haven't watched it yet! Most will be small scenes that don't spoil much so, I'll try not to put any big spoilers cause I really hate spoiling things :)
Enjoy!
I do not own PJO or anything else mentioned in here.
Two weeks have passed since Travis and Katie had started "dating" and Katie couldn't have been more impatient with Brendan. Sure she has seen him shoot a couple glances at the couple when they walked the halls, but other than that absolutely nothing has happened. Macy on the other hand had started to miss the goofy teenage boy that always seemed to brighten her lunch hours. Even though it had only been fourteen short days, (ten if you dont count weekends), things had really changed.
However, the worst one to take the blow of the new couple "Tratie" would have to be Travis' very own brother, Connor. For the past week there had been no more video game nights with piles of empty pizza boxes thrown around their basement floor, or immature pranks pulled on pretty girls' lockers. If Connor hadn't known better, he would say his brother was truly... whipped.
~Liiiinnnnnneeeeee breakkkkk~
It is currently four thirty on a monday afternoon and sprawled across the couch was a tired Travis Stoll. The presentations of the Shakespeare scenes had started today, and Katie and Travis were due to present on Wednesday. Because of the free day Katie had, she decided to force Travis to rehearse at her house afterschool which had soon led to the teenage boy tired from fifty run-throughs of a two minute scene.
"Travis! Get off the dang couch!" Katie exclaimed throwing her script at the sleeping boy.
"Come on Gardner! We've been going at it since three okay! You even made us start in the car!" With a groan, Travis sat up from the comfortable couch and ran a hand through his messy hair. "Can we please give it a rest and start again tomorrow! If you really want, I'll stay for a bit longer or something, just please let me take a break!"
With a sigh Katie nodded and slumped on the couch beside Travis. "Okay fine. We can start again tomorrow."
Grinning Travis fell back in the couch and swung his legs on Katie's lap. "So, what would you like to do now? Play a game, watch a movie?"
"Ooh! Let's watch a movie." Katie excitedly jumped up pushing Travis legs off and running to the shelf holding a wide selection of movies.
"Sure, as long as it's not a chick-" Travis stopped talking to realize "Crazy Stupid Love" appeared on the screen in front of him. "Seriously? Movies like this suck!"
"Oh come on! Just watch it, maybe you'll learn to like it." Katie smiled nudging Travis leg.
"If I fall asleep, it's not my fault." Travis grumbled leaning more into the couch and grudgingly turned his head to the screen.
(Time Skip to the wonderful scene of a shirtless Ryan Gosling.)
"Isn't Ryan Gosling just a god?" Katie swooned as she leaned into the comfy blue couch.
"No, a god is someone from Greek Mythology. This is a human. A petty little human that has many blind women and girls chasing after him." Travis grumbled as Emma Stone ran towards Ryan Gosling.
"Psh.. Yah, you're just jealous because you don't have the sexy abs that Ryan has." With a scoff Katie turned back to watch her favourite scene.
"I most definitley have the same abs he does!" Travis protested threatening to lift up his scruffy blue shirt.
With a crazy wave of her hands Katie motioned for Travis to stop. "Please, I do not want to see that." Katie laughed. "Plus, this is the best part."
"How? Because he doesn't sleep with her? Isn't that supposed to be a sad thing?" Travis questioned raising his eyebrows.
"It's cute because he doesn't sleep with her!" Katie smiled. "Staying up all night talking is like the most romantic thing ever."
Sighing, Travis flipped back on his side and continued to watch as Hannah and Jacob laughed away. Moments passed and the scene finally ended with Jacob talking about his famiy.
"You know Travis, I think the only reason you think this is stupid is because you would never do it." Katie smirked.
"Oh you seriously want to go there? I can be as romantic as I want!" With a frustrated wave of his hand, Travis snagged the remote and paused the movie.
"Hey! I was watching that." Katie glared as Travis took her small hand and dragged her to the kitchen.
"Do you want juice or milk?" He called from the fridge.
With a questioning look, Katie crossed her arms and watched as the curly-haired boy tried to find some cups.
"Fine, I'll give you some juice." Afterwards, Travis grabbed the two cups, handed one to Katie and dragged her back to the couch.
"Travis, what on earth are we doing?" Katie placed her cup on the glass table in front of her and looked at her smiling "boyfriend."
"That," he said, motioning to the cup on the table. "Is your alcohol. This couch, is the bed and right now we'll pretend you ran into a bar soaked from the rain and forcefully pulled me into a kiss."
"Wha-?"
"Shut up and drink your juice."
Anyone could say that what Travis was doing was completely adorable. Others, could say it was something they wished their boyfriend would do. But this, this was Katie Gardner and she thought it was competely ridiculous (and a bit cute but she would never tell him that). The clock on the table beside the couch currently read 9:04 pm. Katie's father was out on a short two-day trip with his buddies and Travis' mother already called and recieved a reply of "I'm going to stay over at Katie's house to rehearse is that alright? Awesome! Love you!"
Travis was currently laying sprawled across the beaten up love-seat as Katie was sitting cross legged infront of him on the ground.
"Wait, so let me get this straight... While everyone collected, I don't know Pokemon or whatever, you, oh wonderful Travis Stoll collected Hannah Montana Cards?" Katie asked with a small smile.
Travis turned to her with a serious expression. "Hey, she was a legend."
Turning herself around, Katie sat up straight and rested her head on the couch facing Travis. "Huh, so maybe she was, but that doesn't help your said manly attitude."
"Oh yes it does! A proud man will have Hannah Montana trading cards." Travis exclaimed.
"Yes, but a proud man will never admit he has Hannah Montana trading cards." Katie smirked.
"Whatever, but hey. On the topic of men, does this live up to your expectations?"
Pretending to think Katie sighed and looked at Travis with a dissapointed expression. "I guess so."
"You guess so?! You guess so?! That does not satisfy me! I shall forever try to impress thy Katie Gardner!" Travis proclaimed sitting upright.
Laughing. Katie shrugged and fell down to the ground with a pillow cushioning her head. "I have a question."
"Yes Katie-Kat?" Travis answered peering over the couch and looking straight at the brunette.
"If this bothers you I apologize and you don't have to answer."
"Just ask the dang question Gardner."
"Fine... What happened to your dad?" Katie hesitantly waited as Travis took a deep breath.
"Oh, uh him? He left when I was in grade four and Connor was in the third grade." Travis explained. "I guess it didn't hurt us that much though, he was barely home before he left."
"How'd your mom do?"
"She was devestated at first. Then she started going out with friends and came home really late. One time, she broke down completely and Connor and I were forced to stay with our neighbours for a couple weeks. Finally, she got a hold of herself and became the best mother ever." Travis smiled and turned to face Katie.
"How about you? What about that picture I saw a while ago?"
Closing her eyes, Katie ran her hands down her face and took a deep breath. After a couple silent moments she looked back up to the curly haired boy waiting patiently.
"Before I came to New York with my dad I used to live in Tennessee. I lived on a farm with my mom, dad and older brother."
Travis nodded and motioned for Katie to continue.
"One night, we were driving home from Leo's championship football game. They won, and we were driving to a restaurant to celebrate. Leo wanted to go to this pizza place but I didn't so we started arguing in the back of the car. My mom tried to break it up but we wouldn't listen to her so my dad turned around to us at a red light and told us to knock it off. He didn't notice that the light had turned green, and once a car honked my dad jolted around and moved forward. However, a car on the right side was speeding towards us and-."
By now, Katie had tears forming in her eyes and her voice began to get hitched in her throat.
"The ambulance came and rushed them to the hospital. They didn't make it Travis." Quickly Travis jumped off the couch and crawled to the ground beside Katie. He pulled her to his side as she began to cry.
"I know it's not my fault. But I can't help but think that I shouldn't have been such a brat." Katie sobbed into his shoulder.
"It's okay Katie, it was the dumb-ass driver that didn't care about the red light." Travis rubbed the broken girl's back reassuringly as her muffled sobs grew heavier.
The girl beside Travis was not Katie Gardner. This girl looked like her, but she didn't have that same fierceness to her. The girl beside Travis was broken and needed help.
The girl beside Travis needed to be fixed.
And Travis swore to himself that he would be the one to do it.
Wow, that was depressing.
I really need to work on my emotional writing!
ANNNYYYWWAAAYYYS! I hope that this didn't truly suck. But, it was the best I could do after my stupid computer decided to delete what I wrote.
REVIEWS MAKE ME HAPPY! And I cannot promise when the next chapter will be up, but hopefully it'll be up soon.
I love you guys so much!
-Chrissy! (Oh and check out my new one-shot. It's titled "The Girl from the Coffee Shop)