InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's Not Over Yet... ❯ The Meeting ( Chapter 6 )

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Hey everyone! Yes! It's another chappie of Katie's life. Yes, a lot of things were skipped, but I'll tell ya what, what's here is important to the plot. Here, in this chappie, Brian and Katie actually meet!!! Yes! Inuyasha's reincarnation speaks, and there's a quiz at the end, so yes, you must take notes once again, students! You will be tested! Just kidding! Hee hee! Thanks go out to all those who have read and reviewed, and those wonderful buddies of mine who have made sure I wasn't making a fool out of myself! LOL!…yes, you all know who you are…I love you guys so much! Well, enjoy the chappie, while I write more just to keep up with you guys!

Chapter 6: The Meeting

Well, the summer after that was all a blur. Tabitha had a fiancé' named Dan whom she had been dating for the past year, and they were engaged the last Christmas. The family was so happy, and excited. Tabitha spent most of the summer planning the wedding, and they were able to take a few small boating trips up to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. That became the family outing place during the summer. Almost every weekend, the Lindens were seen enjoying their 25 1/2 foot Marlin. The kids were hanging on for dear life to the tube, or to the rope while on their skis. Tabitha was a great skier, on the water and on the slopes. Katie, however, was just the opposite. She loved skiing on the slopes also, but she couldn't keep her balance on the water long enough to keep hold of the rope. So, she stuck to the tube, and ignored the rub burns she received on her shins.

"Dang, Katie, doesn't it hurt?" Tabitha asked as her legs dried in the sun.

"Yeah, but it's well worth it! I enjoy being towed like a salmon on a string! It's fun!"

"You shouldn't do that! You should just dangle your legs out behind the tube, not inside the cover where the vinyl can burn you!"

"Why do I care? I'd rather have burns on my legs, then a hurt back! Plus the water soothes the burns anyways."

Katie was looked upon as somewhat of a tomboy by her sister because of the fact that she would climb trees, and she didn't mind getting dirty. But there was a contradiction about her. Whenever she got hurt, like a cut or a scrape, she would always rush for the band aides. That was when she was younger. The older Katie got, the stronger she became and not as afraid of infection. She did take care of herself, but yet, she wanted to have fun. Boating was a family passion. Tabitha still claims to this day that she was conceived on a boat. Katie always laughed at that. Before they were born, their parents owned a boat and went boating all the time. Once their father, Patrick, got the chance, he bought the Marlin which was much bigger than the 18 footer they had previously owned. With the Marlin, they were all able to sleep on the boat. There were two compartments for sleeping. Just enough for two adults and two children up to teens in age. Ah, yes, that was the life. On the boat with the slight rocking of the water, and the feeling of being connected with nature as they slept peacefully.

Katie thought often about Brian through the summer. Since she never got the guts again to say how she enjoyed his performance, she never got the chance to even find out where he lived or what he did throughout the summer. She did a lot with her family and a lot with her friends. But Brian stuck in her mind like glue. She realized then that she would probably never be able to forget him. She also decided that she would try to talk to him once school started again.

Well, I guess you could say Yeah right! She never did say anything to him; due to the fact that she wound up very busy her junior year. She was involved in A Capella choir and Madrigals. She did, however, see Brian and his friend walking the halls between classes. She once followed them to see if she could overhear their conversation, but the halls were too noisy, and she noticed they were walking in a circle. As soon and the bell rang to get to the classes, she dashed off to her first class. She had French class first. Man, that was the hardest class she had to overtake this year, at least at that point.

The previous year, she had been involved in Earth Club. She was the first freshman to ever be elected into a club position. Funny enough, the position she ran for and won was the vice president position. She had enough friends involved in the club to get her elected. There was only one vote that determined the winner between Katie, and her friend Kristy. Kristy was a year ahead of Katie and she had been in Earth Club longer than Katie, and Katie felt bad that she won. It all worked out in the end seeing as how Katie was so involved with the club, and the president that was elected, was impeached due to not attending any of the club outings as required. Katie handled the year quite well, and she even learned of an old friend of hers during that year. An old friend she used to go to school with. His name was Jason. Katie liked him a lot. Especially when she got to see him grown up. They were the same age, but he looked older than Katie. Katie found out that he had moved and he was living in a city about an hour away. They kept in touch and became close as friends.

Back to Katie's junior year, she was paying more attention to school, and the events. She became involved in plays and she was involved with the drama club. Since her fall semester was filled with obligations for the choirs, she was busy up until after Christmas. Jason came down from Rockford and visited his grandmother for Christmas. Katie got the chance to hang out with Jason and get to know him even more. He drove her home from school one of the days he had been visiting the library and took her to meet his Grandma. Katie had a good time. While he was driving Katie home, he asked her to be his girlfriend. Katie had liked Jason since she met him in junior high, and couldn't refuse. Jason was tall, had brown hair, and had the cutest face. When he looked her in the eyes, she would just melt.

Well, needless to say, after the holidays, Katie's spring semester started. She was going through one of the easiest days she had gone through in a while. With the start of each new semester, she got new teachers, and new classes. All except for her choir and French classes. Her gym class was also the same as it was the semester before due to what activities she could handle. Reason for that was Katie had developed asthma the year before. So, in turn, she couldn't take a class where she had to do any amount of running, and she couldn't stay active like she used to. It was required through all the years of high school to be able to run the mile. She ran the mile without a problem her freshman year. The previous year, she had only gotten a quarter of the way around the track the first round when she collapsed face first onto the track, struggling to breathe. That was the year she was diagnosed with asthma. No one in her family had asthma, so it was awfully strange that she should wind up with it. So, Katie had to choose her gym classes carefully, and they allowed her to take the same class twice in the same year.

While she was stepping into the field house for her class, she stopped dead in her tracks. She couldn't breathe, or move because of what she was seeing. She couldn't believe it. Straight ahead of her, where her gym class mates would be sitting at in tem minutes, was Brian. Of course, his back was facing her, so he didn't see her state of utter shock.

'This is too perfect! How can this be? Why's he in my class? He's a year behind me! This never happens in real life! I must be living in a movie!' Katie gathered her wits about her and decided to stay calm and just sit down and not look his way. As soon as she was sitting down on the number she sat on the semester before, which was oddly enough almost right in front of him, she felt eyes burning through her. She had never felt that nervous before in her life. She had to hold herself back from turning around and looking him straight in the eyes.

Class started ten minutes later, and with the role call being different from the semester before, Katie and Brian wound up on opposite sides of the class. The schedule was to be volleyball first. Since the first thing to be done was to get teams set up, the teacher asked everybody to line up against the wall and asked if anyone wanted to be captains. Brian, surprisingly, raised his hand as a captain. 'O.K., this is starting to get weird. I think I know this one, he picks me, and we become really good pals' Katie snickered to herself. She just couldn't get over how this was unfolding. Sure enough, Katie was picked by Brian to be on his team. She tried to keep her feelings all to herself. She even looked at him as she walked past, and he watched her intently with eyes of recognition. 'Man, I've got the chills now!' Katie thought and she took her place at the end of the team line.

Once the teams were given their numbers, they were set up against other teams and sent off to their courts. Katie, who loved volleyball, was a heavy hitter due to the fact that she couldn't judge distance very well when it came to her arms. Instead of bumping the ball on her forearms, she wound up bumping on the insides of her wrists, making the ball hit bone and it would sail great distances. Katie took her place in the middle back of the court. Brian so casually took his place right next to her in the serving position. Katie was shocked that he was sticking right by her, and looking at her from the corner of his left eye.

'Is it possible that he knew I was following him all those times?' she asked herself as she steadily got nervous. The other team won the coin toss and they served first. Who did the serve go to, you ask? Yup, right to Katie. She readied herself and bumped the ball straight back to the other team and the ball was avoided and hit just inside of their court line, making it her team's turn to serve. Everyone on both teams was shocked at such precision on a bump that they just stared at Katie, and she didn't even know what to do. It seemed like an eternity that the stares lasted when Brian turned to her and said, "You know, you don't have to bump it that hard."

"I didn't, honest! It accidentally hit my wrists! I didn't mean to hit it that hard!"

"Yes you did! You were ready for it! I saw you!" He looked at Katie with a stern look in his eyes.

Katie got nervous and told him she would try to get it right next time. 'What's he so upset about? I got him the ball! C'mon! Duh!' Katie thought to herself as she tried to be more gentle with the ball. Brian was a good player. He served well, and it looked like he was very muscular and strong. She thought to herself, 'Why isn't he in football?' Well, the rest of the game was a smash. They all had a good time, and Brian's team won the first match. She was surprised at their first conversation, being an argument of things. And him watching her like he knew her somehow. The strangest part was that she felt she knew him too, but how? That was the first time they had even spoken to each other. Something was very strange about this.

Well, not only did she gain a strange relationship with Brian, but she also gained two new friends in that gym class. Her friends, Cassey and Sherry. Cassey fessed up and said that she knew Brian. When that happened, Brian opened up more and they became like a small group for a few different team activities. Brian and Katie got to know each other a little more. Once volleyball was over, they had badminton. Katie did the most unusual thing. She ran up to Brian and said, "I'll be your partner!" Brian looked at Katie cross-eyed and said, "O.K." That was when they started to get to know each other. After that, they were inseparable, as far as team and group activities were in order.

When it came to Pickle ball (If you're confused as to what that is, it's like tennis with a whiffle ball and wooden paddles, same rules apply.), Brian and Katie were partners once again. They had a good time, and they were great together. She was quick while he was strong. At one point, they both went for the ball at the same time and they collided! Brian didn't move an inch. Katie, however, was the unlucky one. She bounced off of Brian with enough force to cause her to go skidding on the concrete floor of the field house, scraping her knees and her left elbow. How it happened to her, was all a blur. Brian ran up to her, hoping she wasn't hurt too badly.

"Are you all right? Oh My God! I can't believe I did that! I'm so sorry, are you hurt?" Brian asked with urgency.

"I'm O.K. I'm just surprised I bounced off of you like that!" Katie said while laughing and crying at the same time. To Katie it was funny. But to Brian, seeing the bloody scrapes, he was upset because it was his fault that she got hurt.

"Man you've got a great center of gravity! I've never gone through something like that before!!! It didn't even hurt!" Then she looked down and noticed her knee and realized the damage inflicted by that skidding and she then started to wince instead of laugh. All of it happened so fast that before she knew it, the teacher was there and Brian was asked to help her up and take her to the nurse with the hall pass.

Okay, kiddies…Can you tell me what similarities have been mentioned between our favorite hunk Inuyasha and Brian? C'mon, I know you can pick them out. I know you're all intelligent enough…Uh…Right? Okay, well email me or leave the answers in a review, K? `Till tomorrow! Ja ne! {^_^}