Kiss and tell

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda left her DADA class in a bit of a rush, she hadn't wanted to speak to Zuka or Brian right away there was so much whirling about in her head. For one thing the trip to the dungeon where she had met up with Chace had been a bit of a revelation. Besides finding the small red book, almost as if she was meant to find it Andy had also the kiss to consider. She had ever had only one boyfriend and that had been Blane back just before they had started in first year. They had lasted all of two weeks or so and she had only been 11 then. Their kisses had been almost pretend play kisses in comparison with the hard, adrenaline fueled kiss that Chace had planted on her. Even the gentle tender kiss she had given Brian was so much more than any of the kisses she had shared with her first and only boyfriend.

She instinctively touched her mouth and wondered briefly what would kissing Chace back have been like? She didn't think of him in that way though but then again, she had never had any reason too. Maybe it was her way of getting over Brian. She sighed, how could she get over someone that easy especially Brian. She climbed the stairwell up to the second floor as she made her way back to her dormitory. In the space of a few weeks she had kissed one boy and been kissed by another. It was either a feast or a famine in her view, she hadn't wanted to date at all because of the whole werewolf thing but perhaps she was ready now.

 

[Katalina Harker]

Kat was rushing out of the prefects common room, hoping to head up to the owlery and send a few letters home. She was trying to settle her bag over her shoulder when she bumped into someone and knocked herself backwards. "SWEET HEAVENS!! I swear I get clumsier with each passing day this school is going to be the death of me yet!" she exclaimed loudly as she picked herself up off the ground and dusted herself off then turned to see what the damage was to the other person.

"Oh my gosh...Andy are you okay? Sorry! I wasn't paying much attention to where I was going," she said rather sheepishly. Big shocker there she scolded herself. Kat really hoped that her friend was okay and that she hadn't hurt her or anything in her own bout of clumsiness.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda was lost in your own daydream when her room mate collided with her, Andy fell against the bannister railing but was otherwise unscathed. Kat on the other hand fell to the ground. Late in reacting to helping Kat up, she shrugged off Kats assistance.
"I'm fine no damage done at all, honestly" she smiled, "I was in a world of my own actually so not your fault at all, really. Where were you rushing too?"

Andy figured that if Kat had a moment perhaps she could off load some of this girly stuff on her. Being a tom-boy for as long as she had been hadn't helped her in the dating front at all, boys just never looked at her that way. Which was why the kiss from Chace had been more perplexing than anything. She knew she looked strange, she knew she was too tall and willowy of form for any boy to look at her and think she was pretty and yet, this fourth year had just grabbed her and kissed her. So maybe she wasn't so bad looking or maybe he really had been so terrified kissing her had been his way of calming down. She was out of her depth here but knew Kat had dated and she was the older of the two so would or should hopefully know alot more.

Isabella had been fine to talk out her feelings with but this kissing business was a whole new ball game entirely.
"Can you spare a minute, to talk?"

 

[Katalina Harker]

"Just the owlery. Haven't written home in about a week and mum gets her knickers in a knot if the letters start dawdling. I really am sorry. I keep meaning to pay more attention to where it is I'm going, but no such luck yet," she joked as she readjusted her bag on her shoulder. She noticed that Andy seemed to be deep in thought about something, but Kat wasn't really sure of just what it was. She was glad when her friend asked if she could talk to her and Kat replied with, "Sure! What's up?" She was glad that Andy felt like she could talk to her and tell her things. It helped her get over missing Serena quite as badly.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andy listened with a smile to Kat as she apologised again for being clumsy. Kat was one of the more easier girls to talk to and as she was also Andy's room-mate, she knew she could be trusted. It wasn't usually Andromeda's thing to blab about events that happened to her, especially as these type of events didn't happen every day.
"Well, it's a boy thing really" she let out a gust of air in a big sigh, "A boy kissed me. I don't really know him and I'm not sure if it was one of those pity kisses or ... well, we were running like crazy and at the end of it, he just turned me around and ... and kissed me. I think you see it could be just some kind of reaction to the situation we were in type of thing but I don't know. Boys just don't go kissing me Kat, they never have and I really don't think that except for this instance they ever will" Andy leaned her head over the bannister to look down the long flight of stairs to the entrance hall far below.

She had always considered herself alright looking but had never thought about how boys saw her at all, at least not until she had kissed Brian and he had announced he loved Zuka. Self-esteem regarding her appearance she discovered was not a high commodity of hers.
"You see, the thing is. I really really like another boy and I kissed this other boy. But well, when Chace kissed me it was totally different. Miss Inexperienced here I guess. Is it normal for boys to go around doing that type of thing Kat?"

 

[Katalina Harker]

Kat smirked when Andy said it was a 'boy thing'. It was cute to see that Andy was crushing on someone and had even gotten kissed. She listened as her friend explained the whole situation in what seemed like all in one breath. Then she heard the name of who it was that had kissed her fellow Gryffindor and it just about damned near knocked the wind out of her. Surely it's not him...it can't be...must be another Chace...yeah, that's it totally different boy she tried to convince herself as she swallowed back the lump forming in her throat. Kat forced a smile and replied, "I don't even attempt to contemplate what goes on inside of the male mind. I guess for some people it's a normal thing, but I've never had it happen to me. So you say you like another boy. May I ask who?" She paused for only a brief second and nearly didn't ask the question that she was so desperate to know the answer to, but she bit the bullet and asked anyways...almost certain she wouldn't like the answer. "And who did you say this other boy was? The one who kissed you after running like crazy?" Kat asked, trying not to sound like she had to absolutely know who it was. If it really was 'her' Chace then this was definitely going to hurt like hell and she honestly didn't know how she'd handle it.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda didn't know whether to smile or not when Kat reassured her that she didn't think it was a normal thing for boys to go and kiss someone just on a whim. She thought once more about the time she had kissed Brian and a dreamy smile flitted across her face.
"Brian Getathorn" she gasped then, after promising herself that she would not tell anyone she was disgusted she had broken a promise even to herself but when it came to Brian she never really thought straight.
"I... well... Kat no-one knows. He doesn't, Zazuka doesn't and I want it to stay that way. We're all best friends and me liking him as much as I do will just get in the way of that and I don't want that to ever happen. So I sort of decided that ... well, I'm not going to go down the unrequited love road. He doesn't feel the same way about me so I refuse for my own peace of mind to keep living in hope. My heart couldn't cope with that kind of rejection" she would have said again but didn't want to then have to go into explanations about what had happened on the North Tower.

When Kat asked her who it was who had kissed her, she rolled her eyes with a smile.
"Sorry Kat, I thought I had said. Chace Harker I think he said his name was. Yeah, definitely Harker he's a Slytherin but at least a year or two ahead of me. He might actually be in your year but I'm not certain. He's awfully cute I'll give him that much but... well, he just isn't Brian".

 

[Katalina Harker]

Kat only half got what Andy was talking about as far as her friendship with Zazuka and Brian went and the complexity of her crush on the Ravenclaw boy. She was far to worried that she was going to hear the answer that she really didn't want to get. She nodded and 'mhmm'd in the appropriate places, but on the inside she felt like she was going to be sick. And then Andy gave her the piece of news that nearly shattered Kat. "He...he kissed you? Wha...how...why...oh gosh!" was all she could manage to sputter out before her eyes welled up and spilled over. "I thou...well you see...we...oh hell with it. I freaking give up!" Kat said more than slightly irritated at this point. Once again she had read all the signs the wrong way. How could I have been so stupid again? To think that he liked me the way I liked him. Never ever again. I've got my guard up from now on she harshly scolded herself. This was definitely going to make things awkward in classes as she couldn't very well just not attend those. She didn't know what she was going to do, but she'd have to figure it out and quickly.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda looked bewildered at Kat who seemed to have gotten a bit tongue tied and flustered. She couldn't fathom what had brought this reaction on and desperately attempted to remember all she had said. Soon coming to the conclusion that Kat's frustration lay in the mentioning of Chace Harker and the kiss. Gulping down a groan, Andy wondered what she had done wrong now, were Kat and Chace an item? If so what in the world was the guy kissing Andy for? She could only look bewildered herself at Kat as her friend spluttered about giving up.

"Kat what's wrong? Did I do or say something wrong?" she had to be sure first, there was no point in thinking she may have said the wrong thing and going all postal. No Andy tried to be logical for a change and giving Chace Harker the benefit of the doubt was all she could do for now. It would be just typical though that the first boy in like forever to willingly kiss her would have to turn out to be the worlds greatest jerk.

 

[Katalina Harker]

Tears spilled down her cheeks faster than she could wipe them away. She was genuinely hurt by what Chace had done. She tried to think back to all their past times spent together which only confused her more. She thought that they had been on the right path to maybe being more than friends, but apparently she was dead wrong. Kat's already fragile teenage heart was truly broken. This was all together a different kind of hurt than she'd ever felt before and it sucked.

She was pulled out of her own thoughts by Andy's voice. "Oh Andy, it's nothing you did. It's just...it doesn't matter now I guess. He made his choice and I guess that choice didn't include me. I just thought that...ahh heck I don't know what I thought." Kat choked out wiping her now tear stained face with the sleeve of her robes.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Somehow the sickle dropped and Andy thought she now understood, Kat was referring cryptically to Chace and his kissing her. She didn't believe he had made a choice at all, some people did stupid things in the heat of the moment and that certainly was what it surely was. To say they were pushing on terrified by the time they got to the corridor was an understatement. Biting her lip, a slight frown appeared on her brow as she touched Kat's arm.
"Kat I don't think it was like that really. Did you and Chace have some kind of understanding?" it sounded awfully old fashioned but she didn't know what other way to put it. She wasn't sure if she should mention the room at all but seeing how hurt her friend was thought details so obviously mattered here. The fact that Kat knew about her werewolf ability was a huge help of course, she would surely understand how intrigued Andy had been to find the room and search it out more.
"I was heading to a room Kat that was scary beyond belief, myself and Ford had found it last year before I got transferred. It was on my mind for the longest time as everything in it seemed to be about werewolves. You can imagine I was beyond curious Kat" she continued to explain about how Chace had come upon her and with nothing else better to do, had decided to follow her. Explaining about the mess the small room had been in and their entering the secret passage to find the ante-chamber with so many skeletons and different passages leading off from it, of how they got creeped out completely and sensing they weren't alone down there had made a run for it. She kept the details to a minimum after that, about how pumped with fear and adrenaline they eventually found themselves back into the dungeon corridor where Chace proceeded to kiss her.
"It didn't feel as if it meant anything to him", she certainly wasn't doing herself any favours now either but convincing herself that the boy had simply done it on a rush than meaning to made more sense to her.

 

[Katalina Harker]

Kat listened to Andy's entire story without a word and a slight pout on her lips. She was extremely upset that she'd let herself get roped in by yet another stupid boy. When was she gonna learn? Would she ever learn was probably the better question. I must have something written across my forehead that says 'Break My Heart' or something she thought with a scowl on her face.

"I don't care what it was like. He did it and I hope he's happy with it." Kat snapped, but then felt extremely bad for getting short with her friend. "Sorry Andy. It's not your fault. I shouldn't have yelled at you. It's just...argh...I don't know. I like him and I thought he liked me so...I guess I was just being silly," she said with a few stray tears streaming down her cheeks.

Kat looked Andy straight in the face and said, "You don't just kiss someone and not mean it Andy. Now tell me something and I want you to be one hundred percent honest because I will know if you are lying to me...did it mean anything to you?" She wanted the truth because if it meant anything to her friend then she would let go of this as best she could and never look back. She could easily suffer in silence if it meant sparing her friends feelings.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda was upset for Kat and wished to goodness she had the sense and good grace to have kept her mouth shut. Would she ever learn? She sometimes wished she had the power of foreseeing the future so she wouldn't keep hurting or upsetting her friends. Had the kiss meant anything to her? She could seriously say it hadn't, it had merely made her compare the kiss she had given Brian. And for days after wondered what it would have felt like if it had been Brian who had kissed her like that. There was no contest there, there was no reason to hurt her friend anymore than what she had.

"Kat it didn't mean the slightest thing. I was completely caught off guard and barely know him. I think I've spent more time imagining someone else being the one to kiss me instead of it being Chace" she wondered was she truly blameless though and rattled her brain to see if she had given off any singles to that end but could honestly say after some deliberation that she hadn't. There was only room for one in her heart and Chace Harker was not it.

 

[Katalina Harker]

Kat slumped down to sit on the steps, not really caring if she was blocking the walkway. In the pit of her stomach she was relieved that the kiss had meant nothing to Andy though she wouldn't admit that out loud. She wondered if she confront Chace about it after class one day and just get it over with...maybe find some sort of closure or whatnot. What Kat really wanted to know was why? Or at least she thought she wanted to know. A million thoughts her whirling about in her head and she desperately wanted to go somewhere alone where she could just think and figure out what happens now.

Wiping her eyes for the final time, not wanting to let anyone else see her like this, Kat stood up and looked Andy square in the eyes. "Thank you. You probably just saved me a world of hurt and regret. Now I know how he feels and maybe I can start to get over him." she said and then she hugged her roommate and headed down the stairs, not really sure of where she was going, but just having to get away.

 

[Andromeda Fiorelli]

Andromeda embraced her friend in return but felt like the biggest heel in the world. She had just dumped a whole lot of hurt on her friend when she had never intented for that to happen. What in the world was Chace Harker thinking when he had kissed her? Obviously not alot, it was sad in itself that Andy's own self esteem didn't allow her to even think once that he may have wanted to. She couldn't say anymore to Kat for fear she would only upset her further but watched instead as she walked down the stairs. Andy turned and began to walk up to the Gryffindor house but after a few steps, simply sat on the steps with her chin in her hands.
"Can you never do or say anything right, you clod" she chided herself, this was just another one of the many stupid things she seemed to be doing lately. Boy was she ever on a role.