Because It Was Meant To Be... (Chapter 4)

Kate’s P.O.V.

The week went by smoothly with these three idiots around… We used to hangout at each other's place or just roam around in our neighbourhood... Eating Ice-creams… Pampering each other…

And that's when he crossed my path…

SHAGGY… he has been my friend since 4th grade… It's like we have been best friends since forever… Fighting… Screaming… Beating each other up… I still remember when we were in 4th grade...

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Kate’s P.O.V.

My mom had a habit of checking my notebooks every evening after school… I was a fast-learner but a slow-writer… So I always came home with Incomplete books… and used to have my fare share of scolding and sometimes even used to get beaten up for being a slow writer… You see, it was always about being the best for my parents… They never wanted a kid who was a Loser…

So most of the days, after school I had to go to his place and ask for his books to complete mine… I used to be very chubby, short heighted girl with two ponytails dangling on either sides of my shoulder… And that's what I get teased about even today after almost 8 years…

SHAGGY, a thin guy with an olive shade of skin, who loves to play Football… has a family of six people… which includes His parents, His sister and two brothers excluding him… So when I visit them now-a-days (which basically was around 6 months ago) they used to tease me saying, “ Hie Kate… Mom look who's here…” shouted Trevor who is 4 years older than us… Shaggy’s Mom being the sweetest woman I’ve ever met wraps me in her arms and asks, “How are u Kate..? It's been a while…” and I reply saying, “I was just tied up in studies… Sorry couldn't visit…” and that's when Janice comes running, she is almost 6 years older than me,  saying, “Look who’s here… The girl with dangling ponytails... huh..? Where were you kiddo… We missed you..?” I just gave here a sweet smile and replied, “I missed you too oldie…” and she laughed… Her laugh was the sweetest kind of laugh one could ever see… After a few minutes Shaggy enters the living area with his hair still wait from which I can assume he just had a shower… Looking at me he says, “Still looking for Books Kate..?” with a smirk on his face… and just his smile could relieve me from everything… I take a look at him and reply slyly, “You wish…”

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I had been building up courage to meet him someday… But not so soon…

He saw me outside his building and here he comes walking in his usual I-Am-The-King-Of-This-Goddamn-World way which kinds of irritates me alot…

He won't learn ever.. Will he..?

I can see the anger that’s welling up in him, with his chest rising and dropping swiftly due to his heavy breathing… He comes upto to me, taking a glimpse at me and checking the area around us… I can assume from his behaviour that he is just checking if there are people around us who could be possibly eavesdropping on our conversation… But when he feels that we are alone, He speaks, “How could you do that to Us..?” I look up at him in Awe… I couldn't possibly sum up words to speak... so he continues, “You know how much of a pain in the ass you have been to Us..? We had been searching you for a week… A whole goddamn week Kate… We didn't sleep… We didn't eat… You could have at least informed us…”

I look at him and try to say something but end up asking, “US..?” and just like that I could see the anger boil up in his eyes… When he continues saying, “Yes… Of course US… Me… Sam… Victor… and the others... anyone from us… At Least one of us..!” I was surprised to know that they all were searching for me.. But why..? They never cared for me before… or Did they..? Was I the one to be blamed to ignore all their concern for me and Judge that they didn't care enough about my Existence..? Or was it my Mental Breakdown which never let me see through it..?

I was already in tears, when I heard that… Coming from one of my friends whom I thought never cared about my existence… He was worried sick because I went Missing… I shut them all out… thats the first time I felt that I did Wrong… I shouldn't have shut them out…

I shouldn't have done it…

I shouldn't have left...

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Authir's Note:-
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