the Fragment Chronicles: Katherine [Rewriting] ⊸

Chapter Fifteen : Perry and Seth Tyler 2.0

Perry and Seth Tyler 2.0

so i'd ran into perry at a bar in pittsburgh

we had sex in the ladies restroom

i swear i'm gonna get aids

not a joking matter but seriously im a whore

so glad im atheist

i nervous sweat

anyways i walked out and he said he'd be back

i left

i went to another bar where oh guess who

seth

was the bartender

it was four in the morning and he was locking up...

just after we had sex on the bar

did someone hear serena van der woodsen ?

god i need a life

one that doesn't consist of just sex and teen dramas

broke two hearts in one night

AGAIN

2009

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Jesus fucking Christ.

"How come you get to sit in the front?" Uri continues to yell at Katherine. The two have been going back and forth for the last twelve minutes.

"Why do you get to sit in the front seat?" Katherine retorts.

"I'm six foot two! There's no way in Hell I'm sitting in the back seat of Wally's Mustang for fifty-three motherfucking minutes!"

Faith and I exchange glances, rolling our eyes as we stood outside Simon's house.

Katherine glares at Uri. "Rock — "

"No." Uri interrupts.

"Come on —"

"Kathy, I said no —" Katherine walks up to him on the pavement road, grabbing his hands and forming a fist in his palm. She does the same.

Katherine smiles. "Rock, paper, scissors..." She waits for his response.

Uri sighs, rolling his eyes. "Lizard, Spock." He finishes and peats his fist on his palm.

I watch their hand movements as Katherine's hand is Spock and Uri's is scissors. Katherine smiles cheekily, "Enjoy the back seat, Uri."

My brother growls before ducking his head before he climbs into the backseat of my 2005 Mustang. Stella is a beaut. Bucket seats. Red racing stripes. The only thing remotely awkward about it is that when I was twenty-two, I was driving my pregnant neighbor to the hospital and she ended up delivering her daughter in my backseat. She named her daughter Stella. Ergo bucket seats.

After Faith climbs in besides Uri, Katherine and I get into the driver and passenger seats respectively. "Sorry, you mind?" Uri says to Faith as he pulls up his legs to stretch them out over the center console. He shrugs, "You wanted to play, Kathy."

"What exactly is rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock?" Faith asks.

"Lord, save me."

"Well," Uri jumps in. "rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock was invented by Sam Kass and Karen Bryla, which adds Spock (which is signified with the Star Trek Vulcan salute) and lizard, which is a sock-puppet-like mouth. All hail Sam Kass."

Uri, Katherine and I all lift our arms. "Hail." we say collectively.

-

About an hour into the drive Uri falls asleep and Faith is busy reading my copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I can say I am very, very proud.

"You said the theme is eighteen-hundreds right?" Katherine asks for clarification as I drive on the highway.

I nod. "Yeah. Xenia really likes this one book series that takes place in that time period, so I'm guessing she convinced Zev to make that the theme."

"What's she like?" Katherine asks.

"Z? Um, she's really bubbly. And gets sensitive easily but she's also a real hardass."

"Sounds like Belle."

"Belle is sensitive!?" I can't believe my ears, they must be lying to me.

"When she wants to be." Katherine answers. "Ever since JT was born...I guess she felt I was starting to slip away from her. You know, since I wasn't in the system anymore and she didn't have our parents. Don't get me wrong, she loves JT like he's her own but I think she's just scared that I'll always have someone to put first before her."

I move over into the right lane and take an exit.

"Promise me you'll ask your mom about your dad." Katherine says.

I glance at her, shortly.

"Put yourself first before you have someone else to." She continues. "Promise?"

I nod. "Promise."

She smiles, staring out the windshield. "Where are you from?"

"Me? Oh — um, well my mother is Filipino and Spanish and Aram is Pakistani, Indonesian and German."

"Your mom never told you anything about your dad?"

I shook my head. "I found a picture of my grandfather once. I look just like him. My mom, she huh, she yelled at me when I found it taped under the coffee table in the parlor room. I was nine, still thought Aram was my birth-father."

"Well, I can't wait to meet them."

"Xenia called me in the middle of the night, last night, she wanted me to get ordained online because I'm a teacher and used to public speaking. So until four o'clock in the morning, she was helping with the ordainment process."

Katherine puts her head back and giggles. "She seems like quite the keeper."

"The girl's eighteen, I just hope she doesn't do something she'll regret." I say aloud before thinking. I look through the rear view mirror to make sure Uri is still sleeping.

"She's young and in love, we've all been there." Katherine says absentmindedly, staring out the car door window.

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A/N: THREE CHAPTERS LEFT UNTIL THE EPILOGUE + SEQUEL TO KATHERINE.

It's called WICK ((((((((((((((:

btw no one knows this but the cover shows the three sides of Katherine. The left being who she was before the List started, the right being who she is currently, and the center being Katherine during her relationship with Heath aka Uri.

btw Xenia's name is pronounced both zeh-knee-uh + sen-EE-ah

also happy easter, unless u don't celebrate it then happy regular day