master of puppets |eddie munson|

3. affairs and bucket lists

                            September of 85'

     Almost a month had passed since the first day and Kat was really busy with school, work and band (When she could sneak out). She was also really grounded

   When her parents took a look at her that night they realized that she had been high. They didn't really care that she had weed, they mostly cared that she didn't tell them, so just like the last time she'd been caught they were furious, sought on grounding her till she moved out, however with Phillip's convincing they lowered the sentence to a month. Now that month was finally over.

    Being grounded meant her keys were locked up in her dad's safe, so the only way she could get anywhere was if she asked her parents or brothers. Everyday Kats' brother mark would pick her and max up to take them to school, then he'd take them home.

     They really only allowed her to go to school and work, except for the few times they let her hang out with her new friends from school. She had finally taken a good liking to Judith and Lori. Her cousin she was more tolerable then she thought she would be . She learned a lot more then she had known before, but her jealousy still got the better of her.

    Despite the jealousy, even though Kathryn really didn't want to admit it Cady was actually okay to be around, so much so that on one stormy Saturday in the middle of  September when Kat was still Grounded she was planning on asking her parents if she could go to the mall in the next town over with all of her friends. She head down stairs stopping in the kitchen before hand, extremely dehydrated. She hated water sometimes forgetting to even drink it. After grabbing her water it was then that she heard her brother Mark ranting furiously to her parents in the next room over.

      "Calm down mark. It's gonna be okay." Kathryn's mother soothed him down. He had been shouting, Kathryn hadn't heard him act like that since he broke his elbow at the lake tubing on 4th of July nearly 3 years ago.

      "What's going on?" Kathryn walked in the living room with her glass.

        "Mark and Amy aren't doing very well right now." Her father broke the news.

       "She fucking cheated on me." Mark was heartbroken. Amy was his pregnant, wife of only four months that he had known almost his whole life.

     "Holy shit." Kathryn replied.

     "Language the both of you." Their mother hissed.

        "Sorry, sorry. I just can't believe it, how did you find out?" Kat asked.

      "I walked in on her having sex with Daniel McPeterson." Daniel McPeterson was one of Mark's biggest competitors, from work, to hobbies, to family life.

      "You're kidding, where at?"

       "God I wish I was. At our house. She brought him into our home."

    He was sitting down on their couch and rested his arms on his knees before he buried his head in them.

     "How could I be so stupid, what if this baby isn't even mine?" He shook his head.

"Mark you are not stupid honey." Their mother rubbed his back.

"No son you aren't. That bitch is." Their dad fussed.

      "Robert!"

    "Dad!" Mark still cared about her.

    "Cheating is a bitchy move." Kathryn agreed with her dad for once.

     "I'm sorry I don't want dad to call the girl that I've been in love with since highschool a bitch." He frowned.

"That's fair im sorry."