Chapter 13: Get even
Kate
There are a lot of things that Kate has never done before, like getting drunk, stealing, hitting someone or sitting in detention. As she enters the classroom, she kind of feels off place, because there are people sitting in this class she never thought that she would've something in common with.
The blonde girl feels like it's her first day in school. With small and cautious steps she walks into the room, scanning the already present students. Her gaze stops as she discovers Juliet in one of the backward seats. She heads straight towards her, happy that she found someone familiar. "Hi Juliet!" she says with a slight smile.
Juliet raises her sight from a magazine that she's reading, looking at the Christian girl in surprise. "Kate?! What the heck are you doing here?"
"I…uhm…I kinda made the mistake of backtalking to Mr. Peterson." Kate says shyly.
"Backtalking?" Juliet asks with furrowed eyebrows. "Doesn't sound like you. Why did you do it?"
'I shouldn't forget that Juliet is the queen of gossip at Blackwell. She has the gift to get information from everywhere and everyone. I definitely need to be cautious not to tell her everything!' Kate shrugs. "I didn't feel well and he didn't want to let me go to my dorm, so I told him that we'll see each other in detention."
Juliet whistles in recognition. "Wow, never guessed that Kate Marsh could be that badass. Looks like, your friendship with Max has improved your character."
Hearing Max's name makes her remember her girlfriend. She looks down at her hands and smiles wryly as she thinks about her. "Yeah, she kinda does this to you."
Kate's phone vibrates inside of her pocket. She takes it out, unlocks it and her smile grows a bit wider as she sees that Max has send her a message.
Max: Hi Katie. Need to take care of something…again. *insert groan here* Promise, that I'll take care of myself. See you later in my room. I'll explain everything to you. XOXOXOXO Max
Max: P.S.: Tomorrow we'll bail right after class, so try to stay out of trouble! ;-) Luv ya.
Kate: Take care, need you! Can't wait to see you again! Kisses, Kate.
'So she'll take me to our second date right after class. I wonder what she's planned for us.' she thought as Mr. Peterson enters the classroom.
"Alright, welcome to today's detention. Most of you are familiar with the procedure, but for those who are new here, I'll explain it again. I'll give you an assignment and you have two hours to solve it. If you don't do it in time or talk, I'll see you in tomorrow's detention again and so on. Well, let's get started." he speaks in a monotone voice, gives everyone a sheet of paper with the assignment and sits down at the teacher's desk, reading a magazine.
"Asshole!" Juliet mumbles.
Kate looks at the young reporter, hearing that she clearly has a problem with the teacher. 'He probably sent her here, too.' "Why are you here, Jules?" she whispers, trying not to draw Peterson's attention.
The brunette scoffs. "He caught me smoking pot and gave me a full month of detention."
"Ouch! That seems overrated when I think about that almost everyone in this school seems to at least take some sort of drugs."
"I know. And the worst part is that our Queen Bee was right beside me and she didn't get shit. That's why he's an asshole! But I never would've figured that he has the guts to send you to detention."
"Yeah, me neither. I'd rather spend some time with Max." she says, a bit absent, because she tries to solve the assignment, but reproves herself internally right after the words left her mouth. 'Curses, don't tell her too much! She'll see right through me.'
But it was too late, Juliet already picked up the information and her brain goes into detective-mode. "Max, huh? You two seem pretty close. Did you know that she's a lesbian?"
This question catches Kate completely off guard. She tries to fight down the emerging panic. 'Damn! Have I told her too much already? Okay Kate, keep calm. Just answer plainly; don't go into details.' "Mh-hm." she answers, focusing on the paper in front of her in order to avert the brunet girl's gaze.
"So you know. And it doesn't bother you?"
Now Kate drops her pen and raises her head to glimpse into Juliet's eyes. "Why should it? Oh, I know. Is this some 'all-Christians-are-homophobes-stereotypic-shit'?" the smaller girl says with an agitated voice.
Juliet raises her hands in defense. "Whoa, easy Katie-girl. That's not what I meant!"
"Then what did you mean?"
"Has she already tried to hit on you?"
Kate's anger dissipates in an instant. She knows that this question nails it. If she says yes, the conversation will get more into details and eventually leading to the truth. If she says no, Juliet would definitely ask more questions and more questions will again lead to the truth. Additionally, Kate wasn't good at lying. Juliet would probably look right through it. 'Damndamndamn! Well, time to get offensive. This way I'll at least take care that it doesn't become a stupid rumor.' The blonde girl sighs and leans closer to Juliet, making sure that no one else can hear her. "Jules, can you keep a secret?"
Juliet looks deep into her eyes. "Sure. I even swear, if I have to."
Kate could see that she tells the truth and continues, ready to come out to another person for the first time since she knows that she's in love with a girl. Her heart beats faster and her palms are getting clammy. "Jules, I'm…I…" She takes another deep draft, mustering all strength. "Max is my girlfriend."
The brunette's eyes widen in surprise. "You mean girlfriend as in 'girlfriend'?" Kate nods and Juliet's lips form a warm and joyful smile. "Congrats, Katie! Wow, never would've guessed that you're…y'know…into girls. Max really must've hit the jackpot with you."
"And I with her. She's the best girlfriend someone can wish for." Kate speaks with a warm voice, a smile on her face. But it vanishes instantly as she continues. "But please, Juliet, keep it a secret. I'm not ready to out myself to the public yet, because this is all so new to me."
"I swear to god that I'll keep my mouth shut!" she utters, laying her right hand over her heart and gestures to zip her mouth shut with the other one.
"Thanks."
"Miss Marsh, we'll see us in tomorrow's detention again." the voice of Mr. Peterson chimes from behind the magazine.
Panic engulfs the small girl's heart. 'No! He can't do this. Max is taking me out on a date tomorrow. That's not fair!'
Seeing the emotional pain in her friend's face, Juliet intervenes. "It was my fault, Mr. Peterson. I just asked Kate something about the assignment and she gave me an answer, that's all. So it's not her fault."
"Fine, then I'll add another week to your detention." he says nonchalantly, not even looking at her.
"Asshole!" Kate whispers, earning a smirk from Juliet. "Thanks, by the way."
"Don't mention it. From the look in your face I figure that you have something important to do tomorrow, probably a date. So, get crazy girl!"
Smiling at the brunette, Kate squeezes her arm in appreciation. "Thanks, again!"
Max
The door flies open and two persons enter the room, entangled into a wild dance of groping and kissing, emitting sounds of pure lust and longing. The blond woman's button shirt is already opened, one of her breasts hanging out of her bra. She breaks the kiss and goes slowly onto her knees, opening her lover's trousers.
"Yuck! If you continue doing this, I'm gonna vomit all over the place!" Max's voice chimes from a dark corner of the room.
The woman startles with a loud shriek and covers her bare breast, while almost falling on her ass. Sean Prescott's gaze falls onto the black-haired girl, who leans against the wall with her arms crossed. "Caulfield! What the fuck are you doing in my office!" he yells, clearly shocked.
"We need to talk. You…" She points at the woman. "…pack your rag and get the fuck out!"
The now blushing woman - Sean Prescott's assistant - just nods and wants to leave as fast as possible, but is stopped by brunet man. "You stay where you are and hand me my phone, because I'm going to call the police."
Unimpressed by Sean Prescott's threat, Max just shrugs. "Sure, do that. Tell the whole town that you're screwing your assistant behind your wife's back. This should definitely raise your reputation. And I'll be gone, before the cops even get here and there's no evidence that I was even here. By the way, you should buy a new surveillance system, 'cause I kinda fucked up your old one."
He musters her for a while, anger dwelling inside of him, but instead of getting furious, he stays calm. "Leave!" he addresses to his assistant, who follows his orders instantly. "Talk!" he then commands Max.
"You sent me this nice little message and I just wanted to tell you again that you can go and fuck yourself. I won't betray my friend and I won't definitely give in to your blackmailing." the freckled girl says with an agitated, but also calm voice.
Sean Prescott scoffs. "Well, Miss Caulfield, you just terminated your scholarship at Blackwell Academy." He sits down at his fancy mahogany desk and starts to rummage through one of the drawers. "And now get the hell out of my office or…wait, what the…where is…?"
"If you're searching for this," She holds up the firing pin of a gun. "You can start looking all around the office." And then throws it away. "Whoops! I just hate guns!" Then she walks over to the desk, sitting down in a chair on the opposite site. She rests her arms on the desktop and leans towards the now even more furious man. "Now listen up, dipshit! I'm getting tired of being blackmailed by you! So I'm gonna make this simple. You delete all the files you have about me by letting me download a virus on your computer. After all files are gone, I'll leave and we're done. Deal?"
Sean Prescott chuckles in amusement. "Miss Caulfield, you have no leverage against me, so why should I let you delete anything? With your action, you even made things worse."
Max sighs, her head almost dropping on the desk. "Okay, Seany-boy, you wanna play hardball, I can work with that. Does the name Alexei Stukov tell you something?" she says, looking deep into his brown eyes.
His eyes widen for a short moment, telling Max that she hit the right spot, before becoming emotionless again. "Never heard this name before."
"Oh really? Hm? That's awkward, 'cause this name is mentioned in the file you sent me and you fucked up one of his real-estate deals recently, pissing him off really bad, that's why he sent a killer to blow your tiny light out. Still doesn't ring a bell?"
Now Prescott's whole façade vanishes. He knows that he fucked with the wrong guy. But still, he tries to play it cool. "You're bluffing!"
Max shakes her head. "Nope, I don't. And I can proof it to you." She stands up and walks to the big window. "You have such a nice panorama window here. I bet it's possible to look at every angle of your office from outside." The black-haired girl faces him again. "You see my hand? Well, of course you do. It was just a metaphorical question. But, if I raise a flat hand…" She raises her flattened right hand. "…a red dot will appear right where your heart is."
A red dot appears at Sean Prescott's white shirt, making him almost jump.
"I suggest that you don't move, 'cause if you leave your nice cozy chair, you're dead. Now, where were we? Ahh, yes. If I clench my hand into a fist, you're dead, too. And if I take my hand down without a sign, the red dot disappears, but the rifle will still be aimed at your heart. So, if you let me delete the files, leave me and Chloe alone in future and give Stukov his real-estate back for underprice, I'm gonna leave this office and the killer leaves with me. But, if you resists…well...you know the drill. So, what's it gonna be?" Max takes down her hand the red laser dot vanishes. Prescott just sits there for a while, thinking about his options, which were neither much nor great. The girl could definitely see the fear in his eyes.
The brunet man sighs, nods and fires up his computer. After Max puts a flash drive into the USB port, she launches the virus. With some cracking sounds Prescott's PC dies and all he could do is standing by and watch.
'Whoops, seems like I fried his tech. Instant karma for being such a tool, bitch!' she thought and shrugs internally. "Okay, I deleted all files…and busted your PC…and maybe the server." The freckled girl walks towards the door, but glances one last time at Prescott, whose face is now deep red out of anger, because he is forced to let things happen without the possibility to interfere. "One last word of advice; don't EVER fuck with me or one of my friends again or else your IT system will be the least of your problems." she says and slams the door shut.
Max leaves the building, heading down the road until she reaches Chloe's truck where she leans against the site of the vehicle, waiting for her friend to return.
Chloe emerges from the underwood of the surrounding forest, packed with a bag and a tripod under her arm. A mischievous smile forms on her lips. "How did it go?"
Max grins back at her. "Worked like a charm. Just fascinating what a deep impact a laser pointer, a binocular, a tripod and a good friend hidden in the underwood are having on a conversation. Prescott nearly shit his pants!" Both girls burst out in laughter.
"Just like in old times, Maximus!" the bluenette, giving her friend a high five.
"Just like in old times, Chlo! But instead of eggs we use high-tech and kill threats now!" While her friend still giggles because of this comment, Max smile falters. "I hope that he got the gist now." she remarks with concern.
Chloe lays her hand on Max's shoulder, looking at her sternly. "Me too. C'mon, dude, let's get you back to Blackwell." she says, throwing the equipment on the back of the truck. Both girls enter the vehicle and drive off.
Max & Kate
Right after she's released from detention, Kate walks in a fast pace towards the dormitories, hoping that her girlfriend was already back. In her longing to see Max again and to get her well-deserved cuddling, the blonde girl heads straight to Max's room and enters it without knocking. She hasn't even closed the door as she's already embraced into a tight hug.
Without breaking the hug, Max slips off Kate's bag from her shoulder, letting it fall onto the floor and slams the door with her foot shut, losing her balance. Both girls land with a shriek on the black-haired girl's bed. Staring into their eyes deeply, they start to giggle. "Commencing cuddling-procedure." Max says with a warm smile, brushing over Kate's cheek.
"Affirmative! Proceed!" the blonde answers and leans forward to press her lips onto her girlfriend's.
The kiss, at first more casual, soon turns into a wild play of tongues and quiet moans. 'Gosh, she feels so amazing! I never want to let her go ever again! Hopefully all this previous shit is over now and I can finally give Kate my full attention.' Max thought. She breaks the kiss and takes a deep breath of her girl's scent, which paints another smile on her face.
They stay like this for a while, just enjoying their closeness and sharing some soft kisses from time to time.
"Where were you?" Kate speaks, breaking the silence with her soft voice.
Max looks at her for some time, thinking about what to tell her Katie. "I bet you heard that I gave Nathan Prescott a nice beat up?" Kate nods. "Well, I didn't do it without a cause."
"I know. I heard that he was about to shoot someone."
"Yup, that someone would be Chloe. I saved her by kicking his ass and the next day his father showed up at Blackwell and started to first bribe and later blackmailing me into giving Chloe the entire fault for this incident in order to safe his stupid company's reputation. Long story short, I had to take care of this whole messed up stuff or otherwise he would've made sure that I'd be expelled from Blackwell." Max takes a deep breathe. "But it's over now…hopefully."
"Wow, that's tough. Hopefully nobody got hurt." Kate says to her with a wry smile in an attempt to mock her a bit.
But Max's expression changes into a stern one. She stands up, looking down at the Christian girl, whose smile falters. "Are you cereal, Kate? I'm not a fucking thug!" the black-haired girl yells with emerging tears in her eyes. She turns around and walks to the window of her room, her arms wrapped around herself. Her body starts to tremble with every sob as all the events of this day are crashing down on her.
Kate stands up too. "Max, I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to…it was just a joke." She walks closer to her crying girlfriend, touching her shoulder cautiously, almost expecting her to withdraw it from her touch. But instead, she turns around and embraces the blonde girl in a tight hug, crying hard into her shoulder. Caressing her head softly she tries to comfort her, shedding some tears herself. 'My poor Max is so broken. Sometimes I have the feeling that I broke down a dam that was holding back all her emotions.' "Sssshh, I'm here, my love!" she says with a soothing voice.
"I-I don't…I don't want to fight anymore." Max starts to speak between the sobs. "For the last five years all I did was to fight. I want peace; finally some peace."
"Then stop fighting! You said it yourself, it's over. So just stop!"
Max breaks the hug, looking at Kate with her reddened eyes. "And how? How should I do this when everyone around me needs protection? You, Chloe and…and Sam. For everyone I ever loved I had to fight."
"But not for me, not anymore. I love you unconditionally and you already gave me enough confidence to defend myself against Victoria and her cronies. And Chloe, you're teaching her to fight for herself. And Sam…I don't know what happened between you and Sam, but whenever she's mentioned I can see the pain in your eyes. But I know that whatever happened to her wasn't your fault. Max, I beg you, stop this! You're destroying yourself and I don't want this. Please!" Kate takes Max's right hand with both of her hands and presses it against her heart, so that she freckled girl could feel it pounding. "Max, we all have to fight for ourselves sometimes. I know that you just want to help; that you have such a good heart, but you're not a superhero with superhuman powers, you're just an 18-years-old girl, like I am." The Christian girl brushes over her girlfriend's cheek and presses her lips onto her salty tasting ones for a soft kiss.
Both break the kiss and Max's expression has softened. "I love you, Katie!" she whispers. "Can we…can we just keep on cuddling the rest of the evening? I-I don't feel like watching a movie and stuff."
With a warm smile, Kate nods. "Sure! You know that I like to cuddle you into sleep. Just let me get some food from the cafeteria. And later, I'll make you a yellow tea. How does that sound?"
A wry smile rushes over Max's lips. "Too good to be true."
"You're definitely due for some spoiling!"
Embracing her into a hug again, Max whispers into Kate's ear. "Thank you! Thank you so much!"
"That's what I'm here for." she answers and breaks the hug to smile at Max. "Now, stay here. Get comfortable, while I go and get us some tasty food."
Max nods and gives her blond girlfriend another soft kiss for the way.
As Kate returns to Max's room 20 minutes later, the black-haired girl has already changed into some comfy shorts and a tank-top. Kate also took the time to change into some sweat pants and a wide t-shirt.
Because Max is still depressed, both girls eat their food in silence. Kate knows that her girlfriend doesn't want to talk right now and she definitely won't force her; she knows that her sheer presence and her touches are enough to sooth her.
After dinner, they both have a cup of tea and then lay down on Max's bed, facing each other. Kate brushes with her one hand through Max's hair and over her cheek; with the other one she holds her hand.
"How was detention?" the freckled girl suddenly asks.
At first surprised by this sudden question, Kate shrugs. "Boring. I solved the assignment in half an hour. The rest of the time I spent with drawing some sketches."
"Yeah, detention sucks. Peterson is such a tool." Max says with a wry smile.
The blonde girl chuckles. "I called him an asshole."
"What? Bad girl! Don't go down this dark road of cursing, Katie!" Max mocks with a grin.
"Too late, your good bad influence caught me." Kate says and Max couldn't suppress a snicker. "It's nice to see you laugh again." she adds.
"That is your completely good influence on me."
"So, why do you know how it is in detention? I mean, you're a straight-A-student."
Max's smile falters again as she sighs. "It's because of my meditation during class, which most of these buttheads interpret as 'zoning out'. It actually helps me focusing, but most of these dumbasses don't see it and that's why I was sent to detention multiple times."
"That sucks…fucking assholes!" the Christian girl speaks with an angry voice.
"Katie!"
"S-sorry." she apologizes, looking away shyly. Then there's a short period of silence again. Only the constant beats of raindrops, hitting the window fills the room. "I outed myself to Juliet today."
Max gazes at the blonde for some time. Her expression changes from surprise back to neutral. "Why?"
"She sat with me in detention, asked questions about our friendship and got too close to the truth. I thought it would be better to tell her and make her swear to keep it a secret rather than to let it become a stupid rumor. Are you mad at me now?"
Max gives her a warm smile, leans in for a kiss and brushes the back of her hand. "No. I think it was a wise decision. Eventually, it is always your choice who you're telling and who you're not."
Again, silence embraces both girls, only the lanterns above Max's bed are spending some weak light. Max has already closed her eyes, slowly falling asleep. "Katie?"
"Mh-hm?"
"Please, never leave me. I need you." Max mumbles sleepily.
"Never!" Kate answers firmly.
A faint smile forms on Max's lips and she cuddles herself a bit closer to her girlfriend. "I love you, Katie." she says right before dozing off.
"I love you too, Max!" Kate brushes through Max's black hair, watching her falling asleep. "Sleep now, my love. Sleep deep and tight, because nobody's gonna harm you ever again!"
Victoria
It knocks on Victoria's room window. 'Finally!' she thought, rolling with her eyes, while she walks over to the window. As soon as she's opened it, a completely drenched Nathan Prescott climbs in with a big groan. "You're late! Stay on the papers or you'll ruin my carpet. Now, spill!" the blonde commands agitated.
Nathan musters the Queen-Bee for a while. She's dressed in her violet silk pajamas, ready for her beauty sleep. As always, Nathan wears his blue jeans and red jacket. "Why am I the idiot who has to get wet?"
Victoria looks at him sternly. "Because I'm the lady and you're the gentleman, who brings me what I asked for." she says with some amusement.
He reaches into his pocket and brings forth a flash drive. "Here!"
The pixie blonde touches the drive with her thumb and pointing finger, looking at it like it's something disgusting. "And what is THIS?"
"Files. Some pretty hot stuff about this bitch. Looks like, she had a quite a wild time in Seattle."
After sticking the drive into her Laptop, she browses through the files. An evil grin forms on her lips as her plan entered the final stage of development. 'Oh Caulfield, you're so gonna be my bitch!' she thought. "Where did you get this stuff from, Nate?"
Nathan clenches his fists. "Stole them from my father, yesterday. He told me that he wanted to take care of this bitch, but I know him. It would've only been about his fucking foundation. He would've only bribed or blackmailed her, but I want her to suffer!" His face grimaces with anger. "I want this bitch lying on the ground, crying in pain. And I want this right now!"
"Yeahyeah, that's nice." Victoria speaks, plainly. She already lost interest in Nathan's jabbering, right after he answered her question. "Actually, I don't give a fuck about what you want. I have my own plans." Now she moves towards Nathan, looking into his brown eyes deeply. "Listen closely, Nate. You can do with her whateverthefuck you want, I don't care. But I'll have my revenge first!"
"When?"
"Give me until the party next week. After that she's all yours! Now, leave!" she orders, pointing at the window. At first, Nathan wants to backtalk to her, but he knows that it would only make her even more pissed. So he just nods, and climbs out of the window again, cursing on everything!
Victoria just closes the window, locking out Nathan's insults and takes another look at the files. 'Hmm, this looks very promising. I knew that it would someday come in handy to have someone like Nathan under my control. Even if I had to fuck him. But what is the saying? One time is no time. And eventually he will get his revenge. After my plan worked and I made an example on Caulfield, he can go rampage on her, because I'm not really interested in this dike, but in her sweet little girlfriend!' Another evil grin occurs on her face. 'Oh yes, my little Kate Marsh, your innocent ass will be mine!'
Max
The morning light shines through the windows as Max slowly wakes up. Reluctant to open her eyes and getting blinded by the brightness, she decides to just lay there and enjoy the moment. 'Last night was so great. Kate was there for me the whole time. She kept her promise and spoiled me till the end!' Focusing on her surroundings, she could feel that Kate is right beside her, still asleep. The black-haired girl takes in a deep draft to catch some of her girlfriend's sweet scent. 'Wowser! I can feel her warmth on my back; her closeness. Waking up right beside someone you love so much is the best thing ever! Bummer that I need to pee. Hopefully, I can get up without waking her.'
In her head Max plans how to get out of bed without causing too much commotion. 'Okay, she has her arm wrapped around me. So, I need to get rid of that first and…what the…?' Just now, Max realizes that Kate's hand rests way deeper on her belly than she thought. Parts of her fingers were under Max's waistline, right in her shorts, where her fingertips are already touching the freckled girl's pubic hair. The awareness of this intimate touch plus the proximity of her beloved girlfriend makes Max's heart race like crazy. Heat crawls into her face and she blushes. 'Oh…my…dog! Her fingers…she's touching me down there and it fucking turns me on! I need to get rid of that hand right now!'
Slowly, Max tries to move Kate's hand out of her shorts by touching the blonde's wrist softly. Millimeter by millimeter it moves, slightly brushing over Max's sensitive skin. A hot and tingling sensation forms inside of her stomach already. 'Okay, almost there…just a teeny-weeny-bit more, aaaand…'
Suddenly Kate starts to stir and stretch, although she's still asleep. The movement causes Kate's hand to slip away from Max's grasp, diving even deeper into the black-haired girl's shorts, now almost touching her sex. Max has to bite at her bottom lip to prevent a quiet moan from escaping her mouth, because of the now even more rising arousal inside of her. 'Ohshitohshitohshit! Notgoodnotgoodnotgood! Katie, stop this, please! Or else…' she pleads in her head, but another movement of the blonde's hand makes her moan and move her hips this time. 'Oh fuck! This feels so good! Nobody else touched me down there in years! I'm so sensitive right now! NO! I need to stop this! Meditation! I need to…' Kate moves again and this time Max's moan becomes louder. 'Fuck that, I want it! I want her! Right here, right now!'
"Max, are you alright?" Kate's soft, but still sleepy voice chimes from behind. "You sound like you're having a nightmare. Max?" The blonde girl realizes just now where her hand rests, gasps and withdraws it quickly. "Oh my! Max, I-I'm sorry!"
Max turns around and looks at Kate with a lustful gaze. The blonde girl is completely taken aback from the sudden movement, and as Max's lips collide with hers, she tries to back away from her. But as the kiss intensifies, Kate relaxes more and more, until she's ready to accept everything that's going to happen to her. Pressing her crotch against Kate's right leg, Max starts to grind. She wants her; she wants her badly and Kate would let her. Let her take her virginity on this Tuesday morning, right here in this very bed, without any romantic foreplay. Just a simple morning-fuck.
'NO! Not like this!' Max thought, breaking the kiss. "I-I'm sorry…" she says with a trembling voice, getting out of bed quickly. "I-I didn't mean to…just…"
She couldn't even finish her sentence as she decides to leave the room, heading straight for the showers, ignoring any other people on her way. Max takes the next stall, closes the curtain and turns on the cold water. Still dressed in her pajamas, the freezing liquid drenches her whole body. At first, she wants to scream, because of the coldness, but she keeps it inside of her, just letting her feelings cool down. 'This was really a close call. I hope Katie can forgive me that I'm such a perv.'
"Max? Are you in here?" Kates voice chimes, bringing Max back into reality.
"Yeah, I'm in here." she answers, turns off the shower and steps outside. Kate stands in front of her, shyly looking at her feet as soon as she sees her girlfriend, whose wet tank top doesn't conceal any details of her body anymore. Max makes a step towards her, touches her under her chin and softly raises her head until their gazes meet. "Katie? Are you okay?"
"Mh-hm." she speaks with quiet voice, clearly feeling uncomfortable and blushing.
"Listen, Katie, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have…" Max begins, but is interrupted as Victoria enters the showers, making the black-haired girl withdrawing her hand from Kate's face.
"Great, my day hasn't even started and it's ruined already." the blond girl with the pixie-cut, still dressed in her silk pajamas, says in an annoyed tone.
Max gives her an agitated glare, clenching one of her hands into a fist. "Nice to see you too, Icky-Vicky!"
The taller girl just scoffs. "Wow, didn't know that today's your laundry day. Y'know, Caulfield, some civilized people use laundry machines. Keeps them from showing around their embarrassing ugly bodies." she says, glancing hat Max's small breasts with disgust.
'I'd like to use your body as a punching bag, and then we would see who really has an ugly body!'
"At least she doesn't need to hide her body under a lot of overly expansive clothes." Kate suddenly shoots back, giving Victoria an evil glare.
'Did Katie just defend me? Wowser!'
"Says the girl with the most disturbing taste in style." Victoria mocks.
Now Kate's head gets deep-red as anger raises inside of her. "I don't need another style, because my friends like me for who I am and not for my clothes. Now fuck off, Bitchtoria!" Kate blurts out, earning a surprised look from Max and the most pissed-off expression everyone has ever seen from Victoria.
'Fuck off? Bitchtoria? Damn, I really left a mark on Kate. Hopefully I won't turn her into a hell raiser!'
"This is not over, Marsh!" the arrogant girl says with a poisonous voice, heads for an empty stall and closes the curtain with such force that it nearly rips off.
Max embraces the Christian girl into a tight hug, whispering in her ear. "You were sooo amazing! Thank you for having my back!"
"Sometimes even guardian angels need some help." The blonde girl says with a warm smile. "Let's get you back to your room and dried up!"
They almost reached the door, as Max suddenly spins around on her feet. "Wait, there's one thing left to do." With these words and a chuckle she turns on the hot water on one of the sinks, lowering the hot water pressure. 'Okay Icky-Vicky, let's see how your luxurious body takes this cooldown.'
Both girls run out of the shower room, laughing out loud as Victoria's loud screams are chiming through the whole building. "YOU STUPID BITCHES!"