Episode 2

Katie’s heart ached a little more than she wanted it to at that moment. She moved back to the kitchen as tears started to flood her eyes. She hated the way memories like that stuck so close to her. It was like a curse, a silent curse that could strike without warning. Up until she read the note on the fridge, her day had been normal.

Now…

“Katie, I am so sorry about Peter… I had no idea…”

“It’s fine, Sarah, I promise. Please. I just want to go home.”

“I know. We are. Nick is going with Peter. It’s just us. Okay?”

“Yes.”

“I can’t believe he said those things.”

“Some people are just like that.”

“You should prove him wrong.”

“Prove what?”

“Oh my gosh, Katie… imagine if you went and, like, lost a ton of weight and then flaunted yourself in front of him… how amazing would that be?”

“You want me to lose weight?”

“NO! I mean, no, not like that. To make Peter… you know… jealous…”

It was the same thing all the time. Everyone always had a way to hint at Katie. She wanted to be proud of herself and pretended to be, but her size was nothing but a piece of a much larger puzzle. A puzzle that had a couple of pieces missing, a couple of pieces used, bent and ripped. A puzzle that Katie didn’t want to see the result of.

We need to talk.

The door opened and Sarah came rushing in holding bags from an evening of shopping and a smile on her face. She first looked at the clock, then quickly dropped all the bags on the floor.

“I’m sorry I’m late,” she said.

“You live here,” Katie replied. “There is no late…”

“Did you get my note?”

Katie nodded. “What do we have to talk about?”

Sarah bit on her lip and bent her knees. Katie knew this routine, having first witnessed it the first day she met Sarah. Her father had been trying to leave the dorm and Sarah waited until the last second to ask for money, claiming she forgot to take money out and didn’t have much, to begin with. Katie watched in awe as Sarah’s father dished out five hundred dollars telling her it was an investment in her future.

Sarah had the money gone by the end of the third day of classes.

Her father had since lost his big insurance job and cut Sarah off from the loose ends of his wallet but that’s right where Nick stepped in. Katie wasn’t exactly sure what the hell Nick did for a living but it involved computers or software and he made a nice buck for himself… which was now being used on Sarah.

“Shopping?” Katie asked. “Get anything nice?”

“Oh, I have to show you…”

Sarah bent over and started to dig through the bags. Far from having an urge for a woman or the urge to experiment, the look Katie had as she stared at Sarah’s small, tight backside was anything but sexual. It was jealousy. She admired the tiny curves and could see how any guy would want that. Even a smaller sized guy could grip one of Sarah’s cheeks with their entire hand. Let alone, someone who was taller, stronger, bigger… they’d love to hold onto Sarah tight. Moving her. Enjoying her.

Katie looked away and felt her face heating up. She always swore she wouldn’t get jealous of Sarah. No matter how much of a pain in the *** the girl was, she was one of Katie’s closest friends. Or something like a friend. Well, they were close.

They lived close.

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