Dancing Girl

Brian POV

“FUCK”. I feel sharping pain in my right palm. I look down and realise I am bleeding, I must have cut it with the glass that I just smashed. Right now I don’t care much of the pain, I’m much more worried about Katelyn. My gesture made her leave town, leave our neighbourhood and leave her friends, her family behind. I head to the bathroom, to get a clean towel for my hand. I should have gone after her, I should have stopped her when she was heading out of my home the other night. Maybe she’s different than Michelle. Maybe I should have given it a shot. Stupid me!
But now I fear that’s it’s too late. What if she doesn’t want to come back?

“Brian, you’re bleeding for Christ sake!” Nina starts yelling.
“It’s nothing” I try to re-assure her.
“God, why are you so difficult huh?” she grabs my hand and starts cleaning it under the cold water. I squirm at the feeling of the water on the cut, and honestly I’m not feeling too well.
“Haner, I think you need to get some stitches for that cut” Matt tells me after looking at my palm.
This day just keeps getting better and better.

Matt is the one driving me to the hospital and Nina came along. She seems like she has calmed herself down, and she keeps checking my hand every once in a while. I grab my phone and phone Katelyn, without telling the others I’m doing so.
Nothing. She doesn’t pick up. I try calling her twice more, all for nothing.
“She’s not going to pick up”, Nina says from the back seat.
I look at her from the mirror, Matt does the same.
“No-one knows Katelyn better than I do. For now she won’t pick up the phone, not even if I call her. Try later on today”, she tells me quietly.

We remain quiet until we arrive at the hospital. We didn’t stay long there, they just did some stitches and that’s it.
“For now try not to do much stuff with your right hand Mr. Haner”, the doctor tells me.
“Well, I play the guitar doc. I do it for a living,” I respond immediately.
“Well for now it’s better if you leave the guitar alone, or else you mess up the stitches”.
Like I’m going to listen from him. I just nod at him, in my mind I was saying: “Screw you! I’m still going to pick up my fucking guitar”.

Once we got finished from the hospital Matt drives me home.
“You sure you don’t want us to stay over just for today?” Nina asks me.
It’s strange just how quickly her mood changes. But I guess it’s because she is protective of her loved ones. She was worried about Katelyn, and now I guess she’s a tad worried about me.
“No, no it’s fine! Seriously, my hand is fine. Thank you for your concern and offer though”.
“Remember what the doc told you, no guitar for now”, Matt tells me laughing.
“Of course, I’m going to obey” I flip him off and both of them start laughing.
“Anyways, thanks again. You need to go, both of you are looking so damn tired. I can imagine why”, I wink at them and notice Nina blushing next to Matt.
“Jokes aside, I’m sorry. I didn’t want all this to happen. Honestly. And I wasn’t using Katelyn, I do care about her Nina. Please believe me”.
“But you made some wrong decisions Brian. I guess it’s ok, I do accept for apology”, she hugs me tightly and they leave.

I spend the rest of the day just cleaning and getting rid of the damn glass that was scattered everywhere in the living room. I kept thinking about Katelyn, and decided to call her tonight.

I sit down, grab my phone and re-dial her number. I can remember the phone number by now, I have dialed it way too much in just one day. As soon as I’m about to hang up, I hear a voice. The voice I’ve been yearning for.
“Hello”….she says softly.
I am relieved. Relieved for her picking up the phone and that she sounds ok. “Hi.”
There was silence on the other hand of the line, so I continue. “How are you?”
“Honestly? Been better”
“Yeah I feel you.”

Silence came over once more. “Can I ask you something Katelyn?”
“Sure”
“Why did you leave?”
“I felt like I should leave for a while. Nothing personal”.
“Katelyn, will you believe me when I tell you that I never meant for this to happen? I didn’t want to hurt you in any way, I do care about you. Do you believe me?”
I hear her sigh. “Yes, I do believe you.”
“Thank you. Listen, I will explain everything that happened with Alexandra and everything that’s on my mind, just come back. We already miss you, Nina is going insane without you and I just…..well, I miss you and I am sorry”. I haven’t been this honest with a girl in a really long time. It’s almost weird, hearing myself being like this with the opposite sex.
“I appreciate what you just told me. I do. But for now I think it’s best if I do not come back. I miss you all as well, fuck, you became part of my soul. But I need this. Honestly, now thinking about it, I admit that I over-reacted about the Alexandra thing. We weren’t a couple or anything else, so I had no right to react in such way. I guess I did because……” she stops, in hesitation.
“Because of what?” I ask her softly. I have a feeling I know what she’s about to tell me. But I want her to go on, say it herself.

“I think I have grown some feelings towards you. I like spending time with you and you make me feel like a real woman, the opposite of what I used to feel with Rick. You are protective of me. And I can only thank you for where I am now, the fact that I’m done from Rick. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you Brian. So I guess I over-reacted because.. I like you…a little”
“Just a little? Damn”, I chuckle over the phone, trying to ease both the conversation and the situation.
“Fuck, you have to comment about that part, for real now brown eyes?”
“I’m just messing with you”.
“Good. So yeah, I think it’s best if I stay here for a while. Until I get my head back in its place”.
“I’m not going to force you, you know me now. Although if I could I come for you, tie you with a rope and drag your pretty ass over here”.
I hear her laugh, I have missed it. “Good luck with that.”
“So, you’re still with that decision, staying over there?”
“For now yes. I will come back, I’m not going to stay here forever. So you aren’t done with me brown eyes”.
“Well, you bet that I ain’t done with you huh?!”
I try one more time. “Can’t you at least tell me where you are? Maybe I’ll just drop by one time, that’s all”.
She sighs yet for another time, “Don’t make it harder than it already it. I haven’t told Nina as well.”
“Okay Okay…I officially give up!”
“Good for you’, she chuckles. I hear someone yelling next to her, but can’t actually make the sentence. “Listen Brian I have to go, we’re going out in a bit and need to get ready.”
“Enjoy yourself beautiful! I will call you….” At that instant she cuts me off.
“Uh-uh-uh..what did I just tell you? Don’t make it harder for me. Don’t call me, or at least maybe just once a week, that’s it”
Is she for real now?! Once a week!? “Oh for fuck’s sake Katelyn!”
“Bye Brian. Say hi to the others for me please. And please, write some new songs with them, maybe I’ll listen to some on the radio over here”.

She hangs up. She didn’t even give me a chance to tell her goodbye.
How am I supposed to be feeling right now? She just confessed to me that she likes me. As much as I am thrilled to hear that from her, I am confused as well. Since Michelle I changed my perspective on girls, I used to just use them for sex and pleasure. This one is, fuck, she’s making me lose my mind! I spend most of the time thinking about her, I feel guilty that she left and I’m dying to know where she’s living to go there and surprise her. Is it possible, that I like her…at least just a little?

Notes

Hmmm..Brian and Katelyn spoke over the phone.. and someone is sharing some feelings ;) What do you guys think about it? Will Katelyn come back soon? How is Brian going to react for now?

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