Room 324, Monday Afternoon

[vanillajello]

After the arrest and everything, yesterday had continued to be just as moodswingy a day as many of the others before it. On one hand, her video had gained more than 250,000 hits in a single day, and Lynda had invited her to the Crossroads art shindig this Friday. On the other, she and her brother had had to listen to their parents fighting for like two hours in the evening. That always made her feel like an orphan. It sucked.

As did having to leave Marshall alone with the mess she could escape, especially when it was going to be his sixteenth birthday tomorrow. But Kate was still insanely glad when she finally managed to convince her parents to unground her so she could come back to Fandom.

She flew back, her parents paid for the tickets. She was too late for her classes, and probably would've skipped them anyway, so once she made it into her room, she just dropped her bags on the floor and fell over onto her bed, burying her face in her pillows.

Home sweet home, or something.

[ooc: Door is cracked, post is open, girl is... a lot of things.]

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[vanillajello]

"Yes," Kate replied evenly. "Why wouldn't I be?"

Which was probably too avoidy to make her sound believable. Oh well. She honestly didn't think this should've hit her any harder than any of the other times things had crumbled down around her.

But of course it had.

[Making this an early one omg. Night!]

[therewaslife]

"You don't sound all that convincing," he answered, shrugging a shoulder, "so I'm not sure I believe that. Obviously something occurred and I think you're upset."

[NIGHT!]

[vanillajello]

"Guess you have a right to think that," she said quietly, shrugging, as she zipped up her bag again. "Mom's transitioning again. Or, pretending, or something. And Dad got arrested."

[therewaslife]

"Oh." For a moment, Bod didn't know what to say to that. He looked down and frowned, trying to find something that might help. "Is your dad all right?"

[vanillajello]

Kate shrugged. "Well, they let him come home and have a massive fight with Mom last night, so... I guess."

[therewaslife]

"I'm sorry," Bod said, frowning at that. "Is your mother all right?"

Well, he'd asked about her father so it was only logical to ask about the other parent.

[vanillajello]

"Ugh, who the fuck knows," she replied, wandering over to the bed to flop down beside him again. "Don't even know if she wasn't just faking being better. Or if she's always been faking."

[therewaslife]

Bod raised his eyebrows at that reaction and glanced down at her. "Why do you think she'd be faking being recovered?"

[vanillajello]

Kate closed her eyes and rubbed at her forehead. This was all just such... Ugh. "Buck's been seeing some random lady for like three weeks."

[therewaslife]

"Bu -- Oh." It didn't take long for Bod to understand what she meant by that and he frowned again. "That sounds very complicated. And difficult."

Bod knew it was an understatement and it meant little coming from someone not going through it but he felt compelled to say something.

"You're angry with her."

[vanillajello]

She let out a frustrtaed sigh, keeping her hand over her eyes.

"I'm not really talking to her at the moment."

Which was to say that yes, Kate was angry with her. And disappointed. And also felt generally betrayed and hurt, just as a nice added bonus.

[therewaslife]

"Perhaps there was a...reason that she kept it from you and your family?"

Bod was trying to see all sides of the issue even if he really just should have been on Kate's side. It was difficult to remember the boyfriend duties when his logical mind was so loud.

[vanillajello]

And that got him... about half of a frown and a look, as Kate turned her head some, her hand only covering one of her eyes.

"Sure, Bod," she drawled. "Maybe we just didn't deserve to know."

[therewaslife]

"I didn't mean it like that," Bod sighed, rubbing his face and shaking his head. "I meant, I don't know. Maybe she was embarrassed that she wasn't really all the way recovered? Maybe something else happened to her?"

Bod shrugged and would probably later rethink trying to be helpful like this.

[vanillajello]

They were all valid points, but Kate was not at all in the state of mind to accept them. It had just been too hard a blow, even if she was now telling herself that she should've seen it coming, should've known it would happen.

Shouln't have trusted, shouldn't have believed.

She looked up at the ceiling, still frowning. "I don't care. She should've told us."

[therewaslife]

"Are you going to give her a chance to explain?" Bod wondered quietly, looking down at her. "She didn't tell you when it happened and she should have, yes. Are you going to give her a chance to tell you why?"

[vanillajello]

Kate crossed her arms over her chest.

"I don't need to know why," she told the ceiling. "What's done is done."

[therewaslife]

"She's your mother, Kate," Bod said gently, shaking his head. "You might not need to know why but you can't not talk to her forever. You don't think you'll be able to forgive her?"

[vanillajello]

"She's my mother, and a whole bunch of other people," Kate retorted, not even approaching gentle. "I'm not sure I have that kind of forgiveness."

[therewaslife]

"That's unfair," Bod said, frowning. "I really can't see your mother meaning to hurt you or the rest of your family just because of what she might be struggling with. I don't think she did it on purpose."

[vanillajello]

"Does that matter?" Kate asked, sharply. She turned to look at him again.

"Wanna know how we found out? We went ice skating Thursday night, and that woman followed us to the ice skating rink, and announced her love for Buck over the fucking sound system."

[therewaslife]

Bod winced but nodded. That sounded unfortunate and very, very public which probably only added to Kate's current mood.

"I'm sorry for that," he said sincerely. "I just think it does matter, that she didn't set out to hurt you or your father or your brother. Do you really think she'd think of herself first? Before her family?"

[vanillajello]

"Yes! Because everything's always about her!" Okay, so maybe Kate was kind of really losing it now. Too much. It was just too much, when she'd been bottling this all up since she'd come down from her high on Thursday night.

She pushed herself up on her elbows some, nails digging into her sheets. "God, could you please just be on my side for two fucking seconds?"

[therewaslife]

"I'm not on anybody's side," Bod said, maintaining his calm in spite of her getting angry. He'd half been expecting the explosion of emotion at some point.

"I'm trying to have a logical conversation with you based on the facts I have," he added. "I haven't degraded your point of view at all."

[vanillajello]

"Well don't!" Kate knew she was being unfair by targeting her anger on him. She always knew when she was being unfair. She just couldn't bring herself to care about it.

She pushed herself all the way up to a sitting position, now. "I don't need any fucking logic, okay? My mom's crazy. I thought she was better but she's not. So excuse me if I'm not exactly in the mood for being logical."