Chapter 15

"Kate are you okay, you sound really upset?" I didn't want to tell him but I had to.

"I haven't been completely honest with you." I grabbed a tissue and blew my nose

"Please don't cry, did you talk to Brian after I left?"

"Yeah I did after you guys talked I called him to ask him what you guys talked about. He wants to tell you things about me that I should tell you first, not him." It was silent for about a minute and it was killing me, I just wanted him to say something.

"What is it that you need to tell me." He sounded concerned but I knew he was very curious

"Some things about my past I'm not proud of, I just don't want you to think of me differently."

"Kate I want you to know I care about you very much, and I do want you to be honest with me but I can't force you, I want you to be comfortable enough to tell me and don't feel obligated." At this point I felt like I could really trust him.

"Well when I was younger I."

"Kate wait.... I don't want you to tell me over the phone, I want to be with you, sitting with you so I can at least comfort you if you get upset." for some reason I felt like he didn't care, but I knew he was just saying this because he really did want to be there for me, I was never used to this, the only person I could ever compare him to was Brian and he was nothing like him.

"I am so sorry we have a team practice, I don't want to leave you upset so if you need me call me back I will stop what I'm doing and answer it, I care about you so much and want to protect you."

"Okay, good luck with your game I will be watching and we can talk about this when you get back."

"alright I will call you when the practice is over, bye sweetheart."

"Bye."

I hung up and laid down on my bed. I fell asleep for about an hour until Josh came into my room and sat on my bed.

"Kat, can I talk to you for a second?" I stretched and turned over.

"What's up?" He looked very upset and I sat up and looked at him. "What's wrong?"

"I saw Brian here the other night..... I don't think he should be here, I called your mom."

"Josh!"

"Kat just listen please." He rubbed my head like a mother would do to her kid "He is not welcome here and your mom doesn't want you talking to him, he is bad news."

"I did talk to him today."

"What?! why?" He seemed very agitated.

"He talked to Nick and he wants to tell him everything, his motive is pretty much to break us up." He smiled a little and it put me more at ease.

"I know how Nick feels about you, your past is your past, it doesn't define who you are today and I'm sure he will understand that."

"How can you be sure of that, yeah it's in the past but it still bothers me today and I still think about it, if I tell him how will I know if he will still feel the same about me." My head was down and Josh pushed my chin up and looked at me with a very sincere way.

"I know you will never forget, and every time you see your brother and his family you are always going to remember but you are a stronger person know and if he cannot see that, than I'm sorry Kat but he is not worth it."

"I know, thank you so much."

"Whatever you need Kat, I love you and your blood, oh and if I see Brian but I'm sorry I'm going to shoot him with my bee bee gun and squirt him with water." I laughed and rolled back over to go to sleep. My phone began to ring an hour later.

"Hey Nick."

"I have a great idea, start packing!"