What Goes Around Comes Back Around

I stayed in the park for a while; I checked my pocket for my phone. I groaned not finding my phone; I probably left it in the hotel. Most likely I did, I sighed deeply and closed my notebook. How was I supposed to write four songs with a guy I really hated at the moment…AGAIN? John was going to love this > NOT!!!!

‘Willow?’ I heard and my head shot up, meeting Katie waving at me. I waved back to her, not really feeling like talking, though it was better company than Luke.

‘what are you doing here?’ I wondered

‘I just got out of work and I walk through here to my apartment’ Katie explained, sitting next to me on the other swing.

‘oh I see’ I half smiled at her

‘what’s wrong?’

‘can we not talk about my problems right now?’ I questioned sounding a little harsh, Katie leaned back a little ‘sorry, didn’t mean it like that’

‘I get it and sure we can not talk about it’ she nodded ‘want to come to my place to catch up?’

I looked around me, the sun had started to drop, what time was it? My stomach started to make a horrible noise and I nodded. It was better then staying outside all night wondering the streets alone and getting cold.

‘let’s go’ I said jumping to my feet, clutching the notebook to my chest.

‘still scribbling down ideas?’ Katie asked pointing at my notebook

‘more like lyrics these kind of days’ I confessed

‘oh right, yeah your parents said something about you becoming a songwriter’

‘how are they?’ I asked Katie’s parents were still really close friends with my parents, so she would know.

‘they are doing good, you can go by you know’

‘I know, I just wish not too’

‘why not?’

‘long story’ I cut Katie short, she didn’t have to know everything.

‘alright, nothing really bad?’

‘nope, just disagreements and not supporting what I do. Nothing major’ I winked at her ‘how have you been?’

‘I’m doing good, broke up with Mark and trying to find out who I am again’

‘you and Mark…broke up?’ I summed up confused

‘yeah, he wasn’t right for me’ Katie spoke sounding mysterious and slightly hurt

‘something happened?’

‘yeah, but just like you; I don’t want to talk about it’

‘we’re like unions, need to peel of the layers to get to the bottom’ I laughed

‘we always have been’ Katie laughed along; she started fumbling in her pockets, so I guess we were close to the apartment. She took out her keys and pushed me into a little pathway leading up to a front door. She unlocked the door and I followed her inside.

It was an old apartment building and she ran up softly four staircases and I jogged after her. slightly out of breath when we reached her front door, she opened up, holding the door open for me. I placed my notebook on the side table and took off my jacket and shoes. When I was done I followed Katie into he little living room, the apartment was sort of small, but it screamed Katie; happy, cosy, colourful and full of stuff that held memories.

‘you kept that picture of us’ I laughed looking at the wall

‘it was the best day ever’ Katie smiled and I nodded.

It was a picture of us when we were six year old, both in our cute tiny wellies and all sorts of kitchen stuff gathered around us in the vegetable garden. I had a colander on my head, while Katie was digging in the ground, while eating a muddy carrot. It brought back a lot of happy memories, memories before Luke even existed. I dozed off into my own trail of thoughts, not noticing that Katie had gotten up.

‘want to stay for dinner?’ Katie yelled and I was snapped out of my thoughts.

‘what do you have in mind?’

‘pizza?’

‘sounds perfect’ I smiled

‘Hawaiian with mushrooms one for you?’

‘you don’t know me at all’ I laughed

‘I’ll order you one’ Katie smiled, I heard her dial a number and ordered two pizzas. She returned with a bottle of wine and two glasses ‘we both could use a drink’

‘I think we both do indeed’ I sighed ‘it’s just, it’s Luke’

‘I know’

‘how?’

‘you always avoid boy talk when you are mad’

‘he’s just an annoying piece of shit’ I said

‘what did he do and please do start from the beginning’

‘I used to be best friends with him and then all of a sudden he asked me out on a date. We dated for a year when suddenly all sorts of rumours were spread about me, hurtful ones, secrets only Luke knew, even stuff that wasn’t true at all. Also a picture leaked out where it looked like Luke was kissing Kara’

‘urgh, the one you always hated and the one Luke was with this afternoon right?’

‘yes that one and I don’t know if it was her’

‘yeah it was, anyway…continue please’ Katie poured us both a glass and handed me one. We both took a sip before I continued talking.

‘they ended up dating though Luke said it was a mistake and that I misunderstood. Anyway years later Rose got a phone call from John Feldman’s people if we are interested in working with some upcoming band. We meet and guess who’s standing in the room, greeting me like nothing has ever happened?’

‘Luke!’

‘yeah and since then all he does is make up excuses for Kara and then he says he still likes me and he even bloody kissed me. Today I came back from lunch and went into my room to scribble down some ideas for a song and I noticed his handwriting in my notebook. Everything is in there; every song I have written is a song about him. I don’t think I can forgive him for this and if I don’t John will be pissed off and we will lose this job and I don’t want to, because it pays well, but Luke is being such a stupid baby’

‘it’s not just Luke who acts like a baby’ Katie stood up as the doorbell rang

Was I being a baby? Was I handling this particular situation like a five year old? Was john right? We were both in the wrong, but he had no business in my notebook…at all, that was all Luke.

Notes

ANOTHER UPDATE.....YAY!!!

Ari is superbusy, so she asked me to update again :), bit of a filler, hope you enjoyed it anyway