A/N: After I wrote a part for Emily I had to write one for Katie! One reason was because she's my favorite Character of Gen.2 but the main reason was because I feel Emily isn't anything without Katie (more for sibling stability than anything) and vice versa, as you know by now Emily and Katie have gone through some screwed up shit with their mother and in this story I felt they had to be close to be able to get through the divorce as whole as their person as they could.
Chapter Eight: Fashion Victims (Katie's POV)
"Hurry up! We're gonna be late!" Effy screamed at Katie, honking her car horn. Katie rolled her eyes and went back to straightening up her clothes. Katie wasn't about to go to one of their legendary parties looking less than perfect. Katie hated imperfection and she didn't settle for anything less than what she deemed perfection, never had and never will.
"Come on, Katie before she has an even bigger cow." Emily left her spot from next to Katie at the vanity and slipped on her flannel shirt. Katie groaned.
"You are not seriously wearing that tonight?" Katie loved her sister but the girl lacked serious fashion skills, how they came out of the same womb was a mystery to Katie sometimes.
"What's wrong with what I'm wearing?" Emily asked confused.
Oh, poor thing she seriously doesn't know what was wrong with what she was wearing Katie gave Emily a pitting look.
"I can count on all my fingers with what the hell is wrong with that godforsaken outfit." Katie turned back to the mirror. She almost looked perfect. One more touch up and… done! Katie than turned her attention back to her fashion victim of a sister.
"Prey tell." Emily asked with an annoyed look on her face. I'd be annoyed too if I was wearing that goddamn thing! Katie thought with a raise of her eyebrow.
"Well, one thing it's flannel." Katie dropped her makeup back in her purse "and another thing it's like two sizes too big."
"I like my shirts baggy." Emily's answer was simple but not an any better one. Katie rolled her eyes.
"That's the ugliest brown I've ever seen." Katie answered back to Emily's idiotic answer.
"It's a dark brown." Emily pulled at her shirt a little before looking back at Katie.
"It looks someone shit on your shirt." Katie was growing annoyed. Why did her sister have to so damn stubborn?
"Whatever, Katie! Think you can do it better!" Emily took off the shirt and throw it over on Katie's side of the room "Then do it better!"
"I will!" Effy honked her damn horn again.
"We don't have time for this. Let's go." Emily raced to get the shirt back off Katie's floor but instead Katie grabbed her hand and pulled her toward Emily's side of the room and her closet.
"Her Cookie fix is not that damn important to me then my sister making an idiot out of herself." Katie rummaged through Emily's closet before deeming it useless and moved back to her own closet.
Pandora came in the room then, "You bitches better hurry up before she leaves us all." It was then that Pandora took in a shirtless Emily and a determined looking Katie and understood what was happening.
"Katie won't let you leave the room until you change." Emily nodded her head in response and Katie throw a skirt at Pandora.
"I'll tell Effy to cool down; that should give you about five minutes" And Pandora was gone again. Katie continued to look through her own closet for something that not only looked perfect but was something she was sure Emily would wear (Or not bitch about as much.) and then she also deemed that impossible; Emily would never go for leather or leopard print.
"You done?" Emily raised her eyebrow.
Katie sighed in defeat but added, "Just not that godforsaken brown one!"
"Fine" Emily rapped back. Emily went searching for a few minutes before she pulled out a neon orange v-neck that had the logo of some band that Katie had never heard of.
"Better?" Emily held her hands up, waiting for Katie's appraisal.
"Fuck No!" Katie spat.
"Well, get over it. I'm not changing again." Emily than went to grab her horrendous brown and grey flannel jacket God! The bitch never learns! Katie was losing an uphill battle.
"I give up! Be a dork!" Katie said throwing up her hands in the air, "But if I start ignoring you in the halls than you'll know why." Katie went to grab her own coat, a nice black jacket that was made of 100% genuine custom made leather. Dad almost had a cow when she came home with this baby and demanded that Katie bring it back and get a refund but a little tears and a pout had fixed that.
"Same to you." Emily smiled at that and headed for the door. Katie couldn't help but smile as well, her sister maybe annoying but she could never stay mad at her long and vice versa.
Katie locked their bedroom door behind herself. If she didn't she'd come home to her bras and thongs missing (James and his perverted hands!)
Katie kicked the fallen sexy sign out of the way and made her way downstairs; heading to the front door to join Emily but she was stopped by her dad's stern voice.
"Where you girls going?" Robert Fitch asked, wrinkling his newspaper.
"Out, Dad." Emily answered in response.
"Out, where?" Robert dropped his paper altogether and walked over to Katie and Emily, "And where you going dressed like that?" he pointed to Katie's outfit. Katie was wearing her brand new black tight pants and tight white top she had bought yesterday to wear to the party, she had wanted to show off her curves and this outfit did that. Katie was on a mission tonight.
"Dad, remember what you promised?" Emily asked with a hint of annoyance.
"Yeah, but…"
"No questions as long as we are going with the girls." Katie reminded him with a cross of her arms and a tap of her heels.
"I know what I promised! Is it so wrong to want to know where my daughters are going? At least I'll be about to tell the police where my daughter's bodies might be." Their dad was laying on the guilt trip and dammit it was working!
Emily sighed and said, "This underground rave in a northern part of Bristol, happy?" Their dad's face lit up at that and he answered with a smile, "Very. I love you, girls. Have fun." Katie's face lit up at that and she could tell so had Emily's .Their dad always told them he loved every day since their parents' divorce and it never failed to make neither Katie or Emily smile unlike when their mother said it: It made Emily cringe (Even though their mother hadn't told Emily she loved her in a long time) and it made Katie just frown (She felt her mother only loved her because Katie was her mother's definition of Perfect).
Their parent's divorce had been hard on Katie. Katie had believed up until that moment that love and marriage lasted forever, if you loved someone you just didn't leave them in the dust; not only had Katie believed that about a husband but of your children as well. Jenna Fitch had shattered that belief, not only had she leaved her husband but three children all because they had all loved each other more than her silly ideas of right and wrong; because Emily had been gay.
Emily coming out had been a shock to Katie as well, but not a surprising on. Katie had suspected it for years (With all the half- naked women on her walls, who wouldn't suspect?) but Katie had been happy to ignore it; it made no matter to Katie wither Emily was gay or not she loved her sister and that was all that mattered but when Emily had come out, Katie could no longer push it to the back burner: Half of it had been because their mother felt the need to bring it up any chance she got but the main reason had been because it disrupted the way she looked at her sister. Katie still loved Emily (Emily was her twin after all) but for a while it was a sort of a bitter kind of love, Katie couldn't help but blame her sister a little for ruining their parent's marriage; they had been happy until she had come out, hadn't they? She remembered smiles and laughter but were they as fake and perfect as her mother, as well? Katie still didn't have answers to these questions and she probably never would but it took a long time to see Emily in the way she used to.
Living with Effy and her mother had helped her with that and her mother's mission to make everyone's life extremely miserable during the divorce was an even big helper as well. What caused it to go over the edge and solidify her belief that her sister wasn't the wrong in all this was when their mother had only wanted custody of her and James and not Emily and had told her the she hated Emily right in front of Emily herself! If there was a rift in her relationship with her mother back than; that had caused the complete break. It was one thing to break from your husband but to break from your kids and in that matter was another: Katie cut her mom out of her life that night. That had been nearly two years ago.
"Love you too, dad!" Katie and Emily had said at the same time before heading out the door.
Katie and Emily were greeted by an impatient looking Effy and Katie smirked She loved to annoy Effy. Effy and Katie had once been best friends but now they simply tolerated each other for Emily's sake; Katie had also blamed Emily about the break in their friendship as well but it actually had nothing to do with Emily. It was Katie's fault they weren't as close: Katie had known that Effy at the time had an even bigger thing for Cook than she did now. Katie had used that to her advantaged and she had seduced Cook into her bed, she had immediately regretted it but what was done is done and Katie thought if she had to regret it, she might as well regret it over and over again while Cook maybe a sexist ass but he sure did know how to fuck!
Katie now wished she hadn't gone there but there was no way of getting whatever friendship her and Effy used to have and Katie just accepted what they had now.
"What took you two so fucking long?" Effy spat with a roll of her eyes, opening the driver door and getting in.
"Katie decided I needed a fashion lesson." Emily answered back.
"Still do." Katie took a look at her nails.
"Then our dad wanted to know where we were going." Emily choose to ignore Katie's comment.
Pandora quirked her eyebrow, "Don't you guys have an unspoken rule or something?"
"Yeah, thought he didn't ask questions if you always left with me and Pandora." Effy stuck her head out the window.
"Yeah but that lasted about a month." Emily smirked getting in behind Effy; Katie quickly followed taking the front seat, Pandora got in last setting next to Emily.
"What he say?" Effy asked putting her key into the ignition.
"Nothing, just wanted to know where our bodies might be buried." Katie responded with flick of her hair.
"Yeah, you know typical dad stuff." Emily clicked her tongue.
"Wish my dad cared enough to ask." Effy grumbled. Effy's dad had left behind her and her older brother Tony Stonem emotionally about three years ago when Tony had been in a terrible car accident when Effy had been thirteen and Tony seventeen even though Tony had recovered and was now a successful lawyer, Effy's father had never returned to what he had once been and probably never would be. Katie was glad that at least her parent's had got out but that wasn't the case for Effy's parents: they were still together and miserable.
"Let's go." Katie said abruptly. Katie didn't want anything to bring her down tonight not when it looked so promising.
Effy started the car and drove out of the driveway. Usually the car ride to their parties was filled with laughter, talk about recent conquests, and loud music but tonight the car ride was filled with silence and soft breathing; Katie was sure Emily was probably (Most likely) thinking of Naomi, whenever Pandora was silent she thought about Thomas (Always), and who knew what the fuck Effy was thinking about (Probably Cook), and Katie was thinking about her plan to finally sleep with JJ.
Katie had been making JJ's life miserable all right but not for the reasons that everybody thought. Katie believed if a man could put up with anything from her especially at her worst (Which was almost always) than he deserved to get to know her best and not only did JJ earn that right, he had earned a great deal more for what she had dished out at him.
Was Katie proud of being so mean? No, but Katie believed it was for a good cause, she wasn't about to invest sexual time in a man that couldn't handle her. In Katie's mind, JJ had proved he was the perfect guy or at least the perfect guy to fuck around with for a little while.
Despite the party being two hours out of their way, Katie felt like they had gotten there in no time. The ride had been silent and brooding but everybody clicked those emotions off and put their party faces on, no need to bring everyone down with their foul mood.
Nobody throw great parties like they did with an attitude like that. Katie checked herself one more time in the car mirror, making sure she had hit perfection before she felt worthy of leaving the car to join the others.
"Who's handling the invitations?" Effy asked with an authoritative voice.
"Why, Tom-o, silly." Pandora said with a light laugh.
"Good, let's go." Effy applied last minute makeup and charged on like she was going to war.
"Yeah, let's go." Emily mumbled and followed Effy. Katie lingered back for a moment taking in everything before heading toward the hatch. Katie always took in her surrounding before heading to a party, she felt it was the last minute she could be herself before she had to turn on popular girl from Roundview persona; for those few seconds she wasn't a beauty just Katie but the feeling of power Katie got from this was short lived and she decided it was now or never and headed towards the hatch.
Once Katie closed the hatch, she was greeted by beaming lights and extremely loud music (Mostly dud-step and rap, Thomas's favorite.) and she couldn't help but be impressed Thomas knows what he's doing Katie smiled The lights are killing my eyes though Katie took her time getting adjusted to the strange way the strobe lights reflecting off the cave walls causing kaleidoscope like patterns that had Katie hypnotized.
"Yous got an invitation?"A thick French accent snapped Katie out her daze; Katie would recognize that voice anywhere. It was Thomas and he was checking invitations.
"Huh?" Katie would also recognize that voice from anywhere. It was JJ.
Katie whipped her head around and was greeted by the sight of the man of her desires (or at least for tonight) and he looked… lost? His wardrobe wasn't as bad as Emily's but it a complete disaster, he was wearing a plaid shirt that was a horrible green and black color, a faded black jacket that seemed a few sizes too large and had about a hundred and one pockets and zippers, and a old worn out pair of blue jeans that looked ready to fall apart.
Oh, dear! Another fashionably retarded idiot there was no malice in Katie's thought, just amusement. Katie decided to take her time and watch JJ before she made her move, leaning against the wall behind her before crossing her arms.
"Invitation?" Thomas repeated pointing a finger at the invitations already in his hand. JJ's face seemed to light up in understanding and he began reaching in his pockets for the invitation. Katie saw her moment to make a move when JJ's hand stalled in his pockets.
He forgot his invitation Katie pushed herself from her spot against the wall and readied herself any moment now!
JJ seemed to just stare for a moment (Probably at the bouncers next to Thomas) and ran a hand through his hair before he spoke "You see…" JJ started to play with his hands and Katie knew this was her moment to strike and with a flip of her hair she was on the move.
"He's with me, Thomas." Katie answered smiling. She could see JJ tense at her voice and immediately felt bad He thinks I'm gonna torture him that's not what Katie had planned tonight, nope she has plans for a different kind of torture. One that hopefully benefited the both of them, if he could keep up with her.
Thomas sent her a stunning smile and nodded them both through.
"Tell Panda, I'll see her in a bit." Thomas said through a big smile which Katie returned (You couldn't help it when Thomas smiled.)
"Sure, Thomas." It was the least Katie could do.
Once JJ and Katie were really inside the party, JJ turned his attention toward Katie.
"Thanks." Katie was barely able to hear his soft reply over the loud music.
"No, Problem" Katie said with the same smile from early still playing on her face and this seemed to make JJ nervous.
"Calm down, I'm not here to bother you tonight." Katie said with a roll of her eyes.
"Really?" JJ shoot her a suspicious glance, Katie merely shook her head at that.
"No." Katie said simply "Not everything's about making you miserable, JJ." Katie was a little hurt that he thought so but she didn't show it, she never did.
"Hmm… seems like it to me, Katie" JJ stuffed his hands in his pockets and sent her a patronizing look.
"Jesus, JJ! I'm not this devil you're making me out to be," Katie crossed her arms "I'm not being an outright bitch, It's just light joking between friends." Katie wasn't going to stand there and have JJ be a dick to her; she wasn't looking for that tonight. If she wanted to sleep with an asshole, she'd still be fucking Cook!
"Since when are we friends, Katie?" JJ was still giving her that same stupid patronizing look.
"Since when are we not?" Katie was actually confused, Katie may be a bitch to him sometimes but she did consider JJ a friend.
"Katie, you've been making fun of me since first year! Before that even!" Okay, Katie could take ownership of that. She hadn't been the nicest to JJ back before 6th form.
But couldn't he tell the teasing had changed though? Katie scratched her head. She wasn't teasing just to be mean anymore, she was teasing because she liked him.
"Okay, so I may have been a bitch the last couple of years but so what?" This wasn't going how Katie wanted.
"Whatever, Katie." was all JJ said in response and Katie took that as a dismissal. Nobody dismisses Katie Fitch!
With a scowl on her face, Katie said "Look, JJ I thought we could bury the hatchet tonight and have a few drinks," JJ still wasn't looking at her and Katie's patience was waning "But if you wanna be a dick then fine by me!" Katie had had an enough. She had done nothing to deserve him treating her this way (Not tonight at least) and she wasn't going to stand for him being rude.
Katie pushed her way through the crowd and almost made half way to the bar before she felt a hand on her arm Who dared grab her?! Katie whipped her head around, ready to punch whoever had the audacity to manhandle her but instead come face to face with apologetic looking JJ, she immediately went off of defense mood but she was still angry and sent him a glare to show him that.
JJ let go of her arm and said "I'm sorry." JJ started at his hands "It's just a little disarming to see you being nice to me." Katie was still glaring at him. "I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." Katie relented a little when she saw how ashamed of himself JJ looked but she was still mad and she was going to let him know it.
"Let me buy you a drink, Huh?" JJ said with a shy smile. All the fight had went out of Katie at that smile of his and she had instantly forgiven him but she was going to have him buy her a few drinks first before she told him so.
"I'll let you buy me a drink, if you do one thing." JJ looked a mixture between relieved and nervous.
"What?" JJ asked rubbing his eyebrow.
"Take off that god awful Jacket!" Katie laughed.
JJ looked beyond confused and Katie smiled at that.
"What's wrong with my jacket?" he looked down.
Katie rubbed her own eyebrow at that, "Where do I start? For one, it's got like a zillion zippers on it…"