Chapter 14

Kat POV

"Are you in love with Riker?" Ross asked me.

"Ummm…"

"Don't answer that. I… shouldn't have asked that. I'll just… I have to go ok?"

"Ok… Bye Ross."

I hung up the phone and headed to my bedroom. Hopefully my dad and Cody could survive without me until tomorrow morning.

Ross POV

"Riker?" I called through Riker's closed door.

No answer.

"Riker please! Open up."

Much to my surprise, the door opened. But it wasn't Riker that stood in front of me. It was Rocky.

"Ross, I really don't think you should be here right now."

"I need to talk to Riker."

"I know. He just needs a little more time though, ok?"

Rocky POV

"Ok…"

I closed the door and sat down on my bed again. I looked at my brother who was staring right back at me. I had never seen him so hurt before. His eyes were full of so much anger and hurt, yet seemed so empty at the same time.

"Riker, I know Ross kissed Kat, but-"

"Wait! You knew!?"

"I-I-"

"You knew and you didn't tell me!? When did you find out!?"

"Last night, but-"

"Why didn't you tell me!?"

"Riker, I-"

"I can't believe you would keep something like that from me!"

"Riker please, I-"

*Slam

Riker was gone. I looked out the window and saw him walking down the road. I'll just have to give him some time to cool down. He'll be back later…

Kat POV

So close to falling asleep, and my phone just has to ring…

"Hello?" I asked.

"Kat?"

"Yeah?"

"It's Cody."

I rolled my eyes.

"Why are you calling me?"

"Dad and I went to get the mail together, and we kind of got locked out."

They're such geniuses…It's not like they've lived in this house with the self-locking door for 15 years! Oh wait…

"Ugh. I'll be right there…" I said, hanging up.

I jogged down the stairs and unlocked the door for them.

"You know we have a spare key out here!" I said.

"Then why didn't you just tell us where it was?" Cody asked.

"Knowing you, you wouldn't have been able to find it!"

Cody rolled his eyes and pushed past me into the house.

"Thank you Kat," said my dad happily, also walking inside.

Weird how he says that like nothing's wrong.

I went back upstairs to my room, and answered my phone that had started ringing.

Cody POV

I walked upstairs after grabbing a bag of chips from the kitchen. I walked past Kat's room, and noticed she was on the phone. I stood in her doorway until she hung up.

"Who was that?" I asked.

"The guy mom hired to work on my laptop," said Kat, almost angrily it seemed.

"What does he want?"

"He wants me to pick up my laptop tomorrow."

"So why are you mad?"

"Because he can't get my pictures back! If you hadn't erased my phone, I'd still have most of them!"

"Kat-"

"Just leave me alone!"

Kat POV

I stormed out of my house and down the street. I headed to the park. I knew I wasn't really supposed to be there, but I decided to go anyway. The park was closed at dusk, and it was almost midnight! I hopped over the fence, and walked down the path to the picnic and playground area. When I got there, I noticed someone sitting at one of the picnic tables. My heart nearly missed a beat when I thought it was a police officer, but I realized it was Riker. What on earth was he doing here?

As mad as I was, I decided to walk over and sit down across from him at the picnic table. He seemed shocked to see me.

"What are you doing here?" Riker mumbled.

"I always come here when I'm upset."

"Why are you upset?"

"The guy working on my laptop called. He can't get my pictures back. Everything's really gone."

"I'm sorry to hear that…"

"Well why are you here?"

"I needed to get away from home."

"Why?"

"I can't seem to get along with anyone right now…"

"Anyone in particular?"

"Ross and Rocky."

"Why? What happened?"

"WELL YOU KISSED ROSS! AND ROCKY KNEW!"

"I did not kiss Ross!" I shouted.

"Kat, Ross even told me. I know you did!"

"No. I didn't kiss Ross. Ross kissed me."

"Really?"

I could tell Riker didn't really believe me, but I was actually telling the truth.

"Riker, Ross really kissed me. It was completely his idea, and it came out of nowhere. I didn't know he was going to."

"I don't know how you expect me to believe that."

"Well I guess we're even then. You won't believe me, and I won't believe you!"

Riker looked down at his hands.

"Riker, look. I know you're upset about the breakup and everything, but I wouldn't just go out and kiss someone, especially your brother, knowing how upset you were! That's just plain mean! I would never want to hurt you like that."

"You seemed fine about not believing me!"

"That's different."

Riker sighed, and wouldn't look me in the eyes.

"Riker, I really wouldn't do something that mean."

"Then tell me exactly what happened."

I took a deep breath and exhaled slowly.

"Ok… Well, Ross took me out to dinner. It wasn't like a date or anything. Just a random restaurant. We mostly talked about skateboarding since that's all we did that day. After dinner he drove me home. He stopped his car outside of my house, and walked me to the door. I thanked him and told him I had a lot of fun. He said he had a lot of fun too. Then, he kissed me."

"What happened after that?"

"I pushed him off and told him I couldn't do that."

"Why?"

"Because I just broke up with you."

"Then what?"

"He apologized and went home."

Riker looked down again.

"Well what happened today?"

"I don't know. We just hung out. Nothing else like that happened though if that's what you mean. But I made him promise to tell you what happened. And judging by everything, he wasn't lying when he said he told you."

"Yeah…"

"Riker… I'm so sorry."

"What for?"

"For everything. It's not fair I'm ruining your life just because mine sucks."

"You're not ruining my life."

"Riker, Ross told me you've been practically locked in your room since we broke up. He said you were devastated."

"I was, and I am. But I still love you."

"Really? After all this? You said you didn't even believe me about the whole me and Ross thing."

"Well, I do believe you… I just wish you believed me…"

"Well in 2 weeks, that won't be a problem, right?"

"My interviewer called me. Something went wrong, and they can't publish the article after all."

"Really?"

"Yup…"

Riker looked down again and sighed.

"We should probably get out of here. We don't want to get in trouble," said Riker.

"Riker, wait. I-I need to tell you something…"