4:3 Cursing The Gift

Caution: very mild partial nudity, references to violence,

and the finest ass this side of Riverview.
(which I unfortunatly didn't use pics of from the right angle)

 "Shae? Are you ok?" 

Kaity had been woken by the sound of Shaena walking down the stairs a little over an hour ago. She'd assumed she was getting a glass of water, and fallen back asleep. She wasn't sure what woke her up the second time, perhaps guilt? Whatever it was, she'd found Shaena curled up on the couch staring blankly into space.

"I think it's over, Kait." Shaena's voice was emotionless, and she didn't even blink when Kaity plopped herself down next to her.

"Did he break up with you?" Kaity secretly hoped he had, but she felt Shaena needed a friend more than a lecture right now.

"No." She wasn't giving anything away.

"Did you break up with him?"

"No."

 Kaity re-adjusted herself. This could be a long conversation by the looks of things.

"Do you want it to be over?" Please say yes, she thought to herself.

"I don't think so."

"You're gunna have to give me more than that." Kaity said, her calm voice starting to carry a harsh tone. "Why are you here?"

Shaena sat herself up a little. She looked nervous now, almost like she was afraid to admit something.

"Shae? What's going on?" Kaity's tone was laced with worry now. Shaena glanced at her friend before looking at the floor again. "Shaena. Tell me." Kaity said, firmly.

"After you beat him up..." Kaity flashed a look of guilt, before bringing back her 'I'm listening' face. "We went home, and he blamed me for it. We had this massive argument, he started telling me that I should have learned to control you by now, and that you were out of control. I should have just nodded along, just agreed with him, but I stood up for you, told him you were drunk and didn't mean it..."

Shaena folded herself back up, and looked away. Hiding something.

"And then what, Shae? What did he do?"

"He threw a plate at my head." She muttered.

Kaity jumped up at stared at her cousin.

"Are you kidding me?! You are never going back there, I'll get your stuff and you can live here."

"Stop, Kaity. He said he was sorry, and he missed anyway, I ducked."

"That's besides the point, Shae. He could've killed you!"

"Don't be stupid-"

"I'm not being stupid. I'm pretty sure a plate to the head could kill you. And if not, you'd be in hospital or seriously disfigured or something." Kaity started pacing the small space between the sofa and the TV, trying to calm herself down. If she raised her voice too much, the twins would wake up.

"Kaity, calm down. He won't do it again." Kaity stopped, her back to her, and twisted a little to look her in the eyes, Shaena repositioned, seeing the seriousness on her friends face.

"And how do you know that, Shae? Have you seen the future?" Shaena's face dropped.

"You lied." She accused through gritted teeth. "You told me you'd not seen anything bad." She stood from the seat, and strode quickly towards the door. Kaity caught her waist as she passed.

"Stop, Shae. Just listen, please." Kaity was desperate, she'd never intended Shaena to find out, or go through, what her vision had portrayed.

"You lied to me, Kaity. You promised me you'd not seen anything other than a happy ending. You could have stopped this. You knew all along, and you never said a word. Do you know how much that hurts?" Shaena broke free from Kaity's grip as it loosened at her words.

Kaity watched as her best friend stormed out the door. Her words hurt, but she was right. If Kaity had told her all those years ago, she'd have broken up with him then and there, and none of this would have happened. At the time it seemed only logical to let her have the good times, and be there for her when it all fell apart, but what if he had taken it further? What if he'd killed her?

She moved forward to apologise again, try and undo what she'd done, but the door slammed in her face as she got there. She moved to push it open again, but decided against it. She needed time, they both did. She'd betrayed her friend's trust, and she just hoped she'd take her up on her offer of staying here.

She leaned herself against the wall as she heard Shaena enter the bathroom.

Please don't be washing up to leave... she thought to herself.

"Stupid." Thinking aloud now. "You stupid, stupid girl, Kaity."

She let herself sink to the floor, and picked at an invisible spot on her arm as she listened to Shaena draw herself a bath.

Why me? Why do I have to be the one with a gift? 
Some gift. When has it ever come in any use?

Her mind responded to her by reminding her of the times it had been of use.

She sighed to herself. "Get out of my head." She breathed. Meaning her ability, but knowing there was nothing she could do. It was part of her, there was nothing she could do about that, and without it she wouldn't have a career. Who would she be without the sight? She'd moulded her whole life around it, and at times she thought it was the only interesting thing about her, even if it did feel like a curse a lot of the time.

Shaena relaxed herself into the bath, letting the hot water try to wash away the events of the past few days.

She lied. How could she lie?

They had been best friends pretty much their whole lives. Had she lied about anything else?

She sat herself up a little, gently sponging off her body.

She was lying to protect me. Maybe she didn't think he'd really do it. Maybe he didn't. She looked surprised when I told her, maybe she saw something else.

Maybe he won't do it. What if this is the turning point? 

                           What if this event changes the event Kaity saw?

It was a lot of maybe's, but it made sense to her.

She's not out the bath yet. What's she doing in there?

"MOMMIIIEEEE!!!!!" The cry was muffled by the distance, but it was unmistakably Jaydean.

"Oh plumbob above, Jay, don't wake Soph!" Kaity muttered to herself as she went to see to her children.

Kaity had no idea why babies were so loud about eating. After she'd dressed them both, and given them both a bottle of formula, she left them screeching to each other in their room as she went to shower and get herself ready for work. She'd hardly had any sleep, and still hadn't caught up from the other night when she'd got drunk, but she still needed to work.

Shaena cornered her on her way to get breakfast.

"Kait, look, I'm sorry about earlier-" The hot bath had changed her whole outlook.

"No, you're right. I should have just told you, but I didn't, I kept it to myself and just assumed I'd be able to know when it would happen and stop it in time.

"It was the most stupid thing I've ever done, and I promise, from now on I'll tell you everything, and I'll be there to protect you if Alex ever dares to go anywhere near you-"

"Kaity. Stop. It's fine. I'm going to talk to Alex after work, see if we can work somethi-"

"No! Shae, please!"

"Kaity. I'm doing this." Shaena stated, and Kaity knew she should stop arguing now. She took a deep breath.

"Ok." She replied, as she let her breath out. She'd be there when this fell apart.

"I'm so glad you're letting me do this my way." Shaena said as she pulled her into a hug. 

Best friends again.

The girls sat down to breakfast, Shaena made pancakes, disproving Kaity's earlier theory that she could only make waffles. And Shaena headed over to the shop to open up while Kaity gathered the twins.

*Unknown Number*

Kaity looked at her phone for a moment before answering. It wasn't often she got calls from an unknown number.

"Hello?"

"Hello is that Kaity Mattell?"

"Who's asking?"

"This is Celia Goth, calling from the Goth hotel in Starlight Shores."

"Uh, hello, Celia, how can I help?"

"I'm calling to invite you to a psychic's convention..."






By the way, I put up gen 3 summary, and added a new section for gen 4: character profiles. They're just a couple of lines about who's who, because there will be a lot of outside characters this gen. I'll add to it as I introduce more. It's here btw.

Also, Taylor broke up with Bebe and started dating Rose's best friend Shavon. I dunno how I'm gunna write that one in :|