AncilChapter 8: The Unexpected Visit
“What are you doing?!” Kate shouted while pulling me away. Three men came up behind her and one of the men was clearly Tom Hiddens. The other two were his bodyguards.
I was lost for words when she asked me what I was doing because what I was doing was beating a homeless man. In my attempt to prove to her that I was different. I showed her that I was just the same as the people who broke her heart.
“Were you just beating Mr. Peters?” Kate asked, flustered and confused.
“Where were you?” I asked.
“With me,” Tom Hiddens answered for Kate.
“You left our date to go with Tom Hiddens?” I asked Kate.
“Don’t change the subject,” Kate said.
“I have the right to know why you just left me, embarrassing me in front of my friends,” I protested.
“And I have the right to know why you were beating Mr. Peters,” Kate said.
Mr. Peters was on the ground crying in pain from the blows.
“She asked you first man, so it’s only fair that-” Tom Hiddens started.
“Excuse me. Was anyone talking to you?” I interrupted rudely.
Tom Hiddens pursed his lips and tilted his head. His two bodyguards were smiling menacingly at me knowing very well that they could have beaten me to a pulp if I tried anything.
“Okay, I’ll go first,” Kate started. “Do you want to know why I was with Tom? I’ll tell you why. He was the inspiration for my book and everything I wrote in it was based on our very, very short time together.”
“That explains nothing,” I said.
“Let me finish,” Kate said, sounding a bit annoyed. “Notes Of A Love Affair was supposed to be a memoir with the main character, Ariel, being me, Kate Ariel Warren. It started off as a diary then, I transcribed the pages of my diary into a novel because I wanted to include some fictional events since the facts weren’t all that intriguing anymore. But I didn’t get too far into the story because one day when I got home from school there was a for sale sign in front of Tom’s home and he was gone. He didn’t even say goodbye.”
Kate turned to Tom Hiddens and gave him a piercing look.
“Everything in my life was happening so quickly that I didn’t find the time to say goodbye. I signed a recording contract with RIC Records and since then I’ve been extremely busy recording and touring. But I’m here now. That’s all that matters,” Tom blurted.
“But the least you could have done was reply to one of her notes,” I said.
“Who said that I didn’t reply?” Tom said.
“The novel didn’t completely tell the story of our affair,” Kate said to me. “After Tom left, I just stopped writing; not because I didn’t have material but because I wasn’t motivated to write the story again after Tom left. That’s one cause of writer’s block; demotivation. In the book, the words on Tom’s one note weren’t revealed but there was something on that note. A paper plane glided perfectly into my room one day and it read Meet me outside. I looked out the window and I saw him in the yard waving at me. I couldn’t hold back my smile.” She smiled just thinking about it. “My dad was sleeping and his parents seemed to be as well so I sneaked outside and met up with him. We introduced ourselves and I awkwardly tried to explain why I was throwing a bunch of love letters through the window of a complete stranger. But, he cut off my awkward rambling with a kiss that seemed to last forever. He then told me to meet him in the same spot the next day. He walked off leaving me in a daze, unsure of what caused the guy of my dreams to kiss me. Since then, I yearned to know about him but the next day, he just left and we never met again, until today.”
