InuYasha Fan Fiction ❯ It's Not Over Yet... ❯ Halloween and Him Again? ( Chapter 15 )

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Wow…It's been a while since I last updated this fic. This chapter has been a long time coming, and this one will be an interesting one indeed. Some interesting points will come into view in this chapter, and it will be a bit longer than usual. Now that I no longer feel like I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off, I am sure that I will be able to update this fic more often. Once again, thank you very much for your support and I certainly hope you enjoy this chapter. Ja ne! {^_^}

Chapter 15: Halloween, and him again?

Well, Homecoming came and went, and so did Katie's liking for contacts.  Yes, she reverted to her spare pair of glasses due to her bad experience with Pink Eye.  She had learned her lesson in wearing them while she had a minor cold.   Go figure.  Due to that experience, she had missed one Homecoming.  The first one she had ever missed during her high school career so far.  She was a bit depressed, but she figured she'd get through it.  Brian and Katie had become a lot closer since that night when he came to her room unexpectedly.  There was still one thing she needed to know.   Where he lived.  Katie decided there was nothing he could say to deter her from knowing all about him.  She felt there was no reason for him to hide anything from her.

Her first day back to school, she decided that day would be the day when she would ask him if she could walk him home.  She had no homework that night, and she knew her parent's would not mind if she stayed by him and met his family finally.  He had been starting to catch Katie in the hallways between classes so that they could have a little more time during the day to be together, since they only had one class together.  Choir was always their favorite class; they could be in the same room, and they could hear each other perform.   

Katie always looked forward to hearing his voice while he sang.  He was one of the few tenors in the choir, and he was the leader because of his good ears.  His ears were soo in tune; he could sing one song in tune while another song was playing.  He was always dead on.  It amazed Katie to no end.  Especially since her ears were less than perfect.  

Katie had many ear infections as a child.  She even once had a double ear infection when she was just a toddler.   How her parents found out, was they found Katie standing in her crib banging her head against the wooden railing; causing her to have a huge goose-egg of a bump and bruise in the middle of her forehead.  Funny enough, Katie even remembered the experience.   She had done it merely because the inside of her head sounded very strange, and she couldn't quite understand what had caused that change.   It was her way of trying to figure out the problem.  She was not crying, nor did any of that hurt.  She just thought it was strange.  When Katie had that double whammy, it had caused her to go deaf for that short period.  Of course, that was not the only problem she had with her ears.  The most dramatic incident had been when Katie allowed her sister, Tabitha, try to clean out her ears, and due to a rough jab of the q-tip into Katie's ear caused Katie's ear to bleed severely, and lead to another doctor's visit.

Katie was an exceptional singer, but due to her ears, she had a hard time telling if she was slightly out of tune.   Her voice carried through the auditorium whenever she belted out a note with the greatest of ease.  She had a pair of strong lungs, lungs that caused people to believe that she would go into opera in her adulthood.  Though Katie's voice grew through voice lessons, she still had the problem with hearing the differences between the tones.

After the last class of the day ended Brian found Katie at her locker, smile on his face and his duffle bag on his shoulder.  Katie turned as she felt him tap her shoulder, returned the smile and gave him a hug.  Katie turned back to her locker after the hug ended and she finished grabbing her books and materials for homework and closed her locker.  Brian and Katie walked hand in hand down the halls towards the exit doors leading to the student parking lot.

Katie usually either walked home or took the bus since she still didn't have her license.  So, she just followed Brian out the opposite way she normally left the school.  Katie wanted to make sure she could get him to allow her to see where he lived.  As he stopped after they exited the doors, he turned to her and grabbed her other hand as well.

"Well, I guess I'll see you tomorrow." Brian said as he stepped closer to Katie, and kissed her softly on the lips.  Katie put her arms around his neck, signaling she wanted the kiss to be more than just a peck on the lips.   Brian responded by wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling her close to him, deepening the kiss.  The two lost themselves in their own little world as their peers walked by making comments on how they should just get a room.   Katie didn't want him to leave her there, alone to walk home by herself.   She wanted to spend more time with him.   He was becoming the air she breathed.  He made school bearable.

As Brian pulled away, panting, he looked into her eyes and saw longing.   "What is it?" He asked as he put his hand upon her cheek.

"I was wondering about something.  Could I spend more time with you tonight?  I have no homework, and I don't have to be home right away." Katie replied pleadingly.

"Oh…Uh…Where do you wanna go?" Brian answered, skirting around what he knew she really meant.  He may not have been her boyfriend for very long, but he learned she could be a little sneaky when it came to her wanting something.

"Oh…Anywhere, as long as we're together.   You have any idea of a placed in mind?" Katie asked, knowing he was trying to avoid the issue of his home.

"Huh…I know what you're really talking about.  You're still curious about my home, aren't you?" Brian shot back with a sly smile on his face.

"Well, you could say that.  I still don't see why you're still shy about it." Katie shrugged, as she looked him in the eye.

"You honestly don't wanna meet my family.  Seriously.  Please stop asking, okay?" Brian responded as he turned his back and began to walk down the steps to the sidewalk.

"No!  Please!  Brian!" Katie exclaimed as she followed him down the steps and ran in front of him to stop him.

"Katie, please.  I'm not comfortable about it!  You have a beautiful family!   You have a nice home!  One could almost call you rich!  I don't want to find out what you would think about `My Life' if you had a glimpse of it!" Brian shouted.   Katie looked him in the eye as teens walked around them, staring.

"Brian…You know me.  I'm not rich.  I'm not someone without hardship either.  My family has had it's ups and downs.  We all do.  What makes your family life soo terrible, may not affect me at all.  You know I'm not one to judge you because of the hand you've been dealt.  You know of my life.  I've been completely open about everything!  Why can't you accept me into your heart and let me into your life as I have done for you?" Katie responded as she stepped closer and put her hand on his cheek.

Brian closed his eyes and took a deep breathe.  She was right.  She had let him into her life soo easily, yet he had kept her at such a distance that she didn't even know him.  He was being a fool.  No matter how ashamed of his life he was, he never kept himself from anyone like he has from her.  It had become clear to him that he was trying to live as if his world didn't exist.  He opened his eyes to stare into her trusting eyes.  So far, she had accepted him no matter what he had done in his past.  She understood him like no other.   He knew what he had to do.

"Okay.  I'll take you to see my home and family.  It's not much, but I have no where else to go." Brian replied, a solemn look in his eyes.

"It's okay, I see this as a chance to get to know more about you, and help you to open up to me.  There's nothing to be afraid of.  You can trust me to love you the same." Katie said reassuringly as Brian smiled.  He took her hand and led her through the parking lot into the less desirable area of homes nearest the school.

Katie walked beside Brian as she looked around, recognizing a friend's house, and pointing it out to Brian to help him to feel better that she knew someone who lived near him.  Brian smiled and brought her hand to his lips for a kiss.  That action moved Katie's heart.   None of the guys she had previous relationships with ever did that.  It sent chills up her arm giving her goose bumps.  They told jokes, stories, and laughed the short distance to his house.  

When they came to a stop at the corner of Sheldon and Plum avenues, Brian let go of her hand, stood facing her, and spread his arms out wide as he said, "This is it, this is where I live.   Pathetic, huh?" Brian said as his arms fell to his sides and he searched her face for her reaction.

Katie smiled genuinely and said, "Oh.   Nice, thanks for bringing me."

"You're not embarrassed to see this?" Brian asked as he gestured behind him.

"No.  It's a part of you, Brian.  It's where you grew up.  I love everything about you, and that includes your family and home.  Thank you, Brian"

Katie walked up to him, wrapped her arms around his neck, leaned her body in close as he relaxed finally, and held her back.  He kissed her lightly and then laid his head on her shoulder and said, "Thank you, Katie."

Katie gave him a reassuring squeeze, pulled back and gave him a smile in acknowledgement.  After that, he lead her into the house to allow her into his life even more.  He felt he owed it to her for being soo wonderful to him.  He felt at ease with her, and was happy to know he could trust her fully.  Not even Ted touched his heart as she had, and up to the time he met her, Ted was all he had.  She brought him another family of people to love and made him feel at home.  Another place to go.

His house was not much.  The house was small for a family of seven.  His mom and dad had one bedroom.  His two younger sisters shared the other bedroom, and Brian and his younger brother shared a storage space only large enough to fit a bunk bed set, and a wardrobe for their clothes.  Since the oldest of the siblings had moved out long ago, Brian and his younger brother ceased sharing a bed at night due to space constraints.   There was a nice sized dining area, nice sized living room, and a kitchen with plenty of cabinet space and washer and dryer.  Seven tenants and one small bathroom for all of them.  

The house implored closeness, and struggle.  Katie knew that no matter how constrained the family might have been that circumstance helped him to be whom he was turning out to be.  Katie realized what he tried to hide.  Poverty.  Katie felt sad about their situation financial wise, but the fact that he was born into humble surroundings is what made him humble himself.  She understood why he was a bit rough around the edges in his youth.  He had to be to keep the kids at bay from his situation.  The first thing she decided she would do was tell him his circumstance was a part of him.  

"Mom will be home soon.  I think you'll like her.  Your Mom reminds me of my Mom." Brian said with a smile as he looked to the clock on the wall.

"Oh! I would love to meet your Mom!" Katie exclaimed as Brian then gestured for her to sit down as he lead her into the living room.  Katie sat down on the couch, and faced Brian as he sat beside her.

Katie and Brian talked until his mother returned home, and then his father shortly after.  Katie was very polite and kind to both and they had a nice evening visiting.  Brian's mother fell in love with Katie the moment they were introduced.  She was very proud that her son found such a wonderful girl, and she accepted Katie as one of her own that very night.  Katie didn't talk much with his dad, as his dad spent most of the time in the master bedroom, relaxing after a hard day of work.  Katie even met his two younger sisters and his younger brother.  Natalie apologized for her behavior, as she saw how nice Katie was.  Natalie even asked Katie to join her outside for a cigarette so they could get to know each other a bit better.  Katie stayed well into the evening, just talking away mainly with Brian's mother, and having a great time.

Once it got late, Brian offered to walk Katie home.  But since it was late, she decided she wanted to ask if her parents could pick her up so that Brian would not have to walk home alone late at night.  As they waited outside, they leaned up next to the tree in the front yard and held each other tenderly.  Brian was amazed at how accepting she was especially since he figured the worst, and got the best instead.

`Katie never ceases to amaze me' He thought to himself.  He was shocked to know that a girl of her caliber would see him as the best thing that has ever happened to her.  She was the most beautiful girl he had ever encountered.   She was there for him in ways no one else had ever been.  Not even Ted.  

When Katie's dad showed up, he pulled up next to the grass and just unlocked the doors to the suburban.  Katie and Brian turned and looked at the vehicle.   Katie turned back to Brian and looked into his dreamy eyes.  "So, I guess I'll see you tomorrow at school?" Brian asked.

"Yeah, I'll be there.  I had a great time here tonight.  I'm glad I asked again." Katie replied with a smile.

Brian laughed and said, "Yeah, you really got me this time, didn't ya?  I'm glad I let you in." That's when they shared their goodnight kiss under the tree on that beautiful night as Katie's father sat in the driver's seat of the suburban waiting for his daughter to be ready to go home.


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A couple weeks later, Katie was walking home from school, when she saw a pickup truck in her parent's driveway.  The pickup truck was unrecognizable.  She shrugged and walked up to the door and let herself in.  What she saw shocked her, or should it be put as…who she saw.   The last person she expected to see was sitting there on the couch waiting for her.

The person waiting for her was none other than Jason.  Apparently, he had been visiting over at the high school library as he would periodically, and decided to come by and pay Katie a visit.  Katie was shocked to see him again, but more importantly, he decided to make the effort to come out and see her.  Katie didn't know what else to do but greet him and give him a big hug.   For some reason, even with the relationship she had established with Brian, she still felt drawn to Jason somehow.

"Hey Katie!  How have you been?  It's been a while." Jason asked as Katie and he sat down on the couch, and Katie's mother left to go work in the kitchen.

"I've been good.  I had no idea you were visiting today.  What brings you here?" She asked as she eyed him with curiosity.  Since they broke up and her sister's wedding, they had not kept in touch at all.

"Well, I was wondering why you hadn't asked me to Homecoming.  I saw today that it had been a couple of weeks ago.  Did you go?" Jason enquired.

"Homecoming?  I didn't go.  I was sick.  I had a case of Pink Eye." Katie replied.

"Oh."

"Why do you ask?"

"Well, I was just wondering if you were asked by anyone else.  I hadn't heard from you in a while, so I was wondering if you were still free." Jason replied with a tinge of red in his cheeks.

"Oh…Well, I had planned to ask my boyfriend, but I got sick.  So it was pretty much out of the question." Katie replied thinking, `Man…He has the nerve to think I'd still be free for him ONLY when HE wants my attention?!'

"Oh…you DO have someone.  I'm sorry." Jason said as his face turned to his hands; melancholy.

`*sigh* Here we go…He can leave me, but I can't have another boyfriend.' Katie inwardly shook her head as she thought about how this was going.

"I'm sorry, Katie.  I just miss you is all.  You mind if we see each other more often?" Jason asked as his eyes wandered up to Katie's hoping she would accept.

"I don't mind seeing you more often.  You are my friend after all.  Plus, the family likes you.  You're always welcome here." Katie responded with a smile.

"Okay, thanks.  Hey, uh…You got a bike?" Jason asked as he remembered what he truly wanted to ask her.  He had planned the whole evening.  A nice bike ride on the trail with the gorgeous trees and their changing leaves.  He was originally planning to ask her out again, but since she had someone already, he'd just be with her for the evening.

"Oh, yeah.  I haven't ridden it since this summer, but sure.  It's still beautiful out.  Why not?" Katie answered as she shrugged her shoulders.

"Great!  I have my bike in the back of the pickup.  Where's yours?  We can stick it back there with mine.  Sound good?"

"Sure.  It's in the garage.  Hold on, let me tell mom, k?" Katie said as she got up from the couch and walked into the kitchen.

Jason listened to the exchange between Katie and her mom.  He leaned back on the couch, put his hands behind his head, and crossed his left calve over his right knee.  He had it all planned out.   He'd take her biking, then a nice dinner or desert, his treat of course.   One thing she always did to him, was whenever she was with him, he'd want to treat her like a queen.  She made him want to be a better man.  To him, she was everything.  He loved everything about her.  All the other girls he got involved with could never compare to Katie.  The last thing he wanted was to loose her completely.

Katie's mom said she could go, and only if she was brought home at a decent hour.  Katie led Jason to the garage after she put her backpack and purse in her room.  They grabbed her bike, and put it in the back of the truck.  That's when Katie had remembered something she had to do first before they left.

"Oh, hold on a second.  I have to do something really quick.  Wait for me, k?" Katie asked as Jason smiled and watched her run back into the house.  

What Katie had run to do, was call Brian to let him know she was going out bike riding with Jason.  Brian was not happy, but as soon as Katie assured him that it was innocent, and they were just catching up since they were friends to begin with, Brian accepted and told her he'd see her at school.   Katie felt weird after asking Brian if she could spend some time with her ex…But she saw no harm in catching up with an old friend.  She kept thinking about it while they rode to the bike trails.

They had talked about everything that had happened since they last saw each other at the wedding.  Jason and Katie had no idea how much time had flown by when they found themselves back at The Root beer, a restaurant just a mile from where they parked the truck.  Jason asked Katie if she was hungry and she nodded.  So, they walked their bikes up the steep hill, locked their bikes up to the bike rack, and walked into the fast food restaurant.  Jason and Katie ordered hot dogs and root beer and sat in a booth, periodically putting change into the sixties style jukebox.  They reminisced about old times, and remembered all the things that happened when they first met in Junior high.  He was the only boy out of that whole school who respected her, and treated her like a lady.  He looked out for her, and sat with her at lunch when they had the same lunch hour.  Jason was never afraid to be seen with Katie.  He wanted her near even then.

Katie could tell what it was he was doing.  He was not only hoping to spend time with her, it was as if he was trying to get her interested in him again.  She did feel many emotions for Brian, but when it came to Jason, there was just something about him that made her proud to be with him.  He was in fact the cliché` she chased for years.  Since she felt that way about him for as long as she had, it was hard for her to feel different about him.  Deep down, she still loved him.  In her mind, she felt bad because of the possibility of Jason coming around more often, she wasn't sure if it would be fair to Brian if she went off with him once again.  That was something she began to think very hard about.

Brian had asked Katie about what had happened, and why she and Jason were still keeping in touch after what he did to her.  In Brian's mind, Jason was an idiot who had no heart.  To Brian, Jason only cared about `getting' with Katie, but not treating her the way she deserved to be treated.  Brian was reluctant to become possessive of her.   He wanted to trust her, not smother her.   Yes, Katie meeting with `him' the other day angered him, but he kept it to himself, and decided to watch and see what would happen.  He would go on with his relationship with Katie as he had been and just hope that was just a `once in a blue moon' happening.
       
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Halloween week had come quickly for West High school students.  What that meant for them was "The Ghost Walk".   Katie had been involved with the Drama Club specifically for that one reason alone.  Her sister, Tabitha, was involved in it the year she graduated and Katie was a freshman.  Tabitha got Katie involved with it her freshman year, and they had a blast.  When West High's Drama Club hosted the Ghost Walk, they took over a historical farm nearby and they decorated it for the Halloween weekend.   They would bring in the crowds every year, and each year was a success.  Katie enjoyed being able to dress up as a dead person, however she chose to dress, and she was given permission to scare.  She enjoyed scaring the bageezes out of people.  It was also a chance for her to use her acting skills she had always harbored.  

One year, she was asked to fill in for someone who was sick.  The display she became a part of that night was one where it looked like someone was being dismembered by a psychopathic doctor.   She had to sit on a stool under a table.   Her upper body sat over the table through a hole strategically placed in the middle.  Then she was asked to lay the rest of her oversized shirt over the table, and lay her back and head against the top of the table…Making it look like she had been cut in half.   Katie asked if there was anything special they wanted her to say, and they told her to just adlib.  So, she chose to either scream loudly, or to ask anyone who came by to help her find her legs.  She got quite a few laughs, and she was also able to scare the wits out of the ones who were gullible.  The only drawback in being a part of the Ghost Walk was most of those kids got sick or just lost their voices.  The choir teachers didn't like the idea of the choir members being involved due to that very reason.

Katie had finished her night with the Ghost Walk on Saturday night, the 28th.   Brian had met her there at the Ghost Walk and decided to catch a ride home with Katie.  They ended up in Katie's bedroom with her door cracked.  They had been making out heavily when Brian accidentally brushed his hand against her chest.  Katie gasped and pulled away.   Brian blushed as he apologized, and said he lost his head for a second.   Katie thought his apology was genuine and gentlemanly.  She asked him the question he never thought she'd ask.

"Do you want to see me?"

Brian choked and his eyes got big as he just stared at her in disbelief.  He had never gone that far with her before, nor any other girl since Katie was his first.  He couldn't move his mouth, so he nodded sheepishly instead.  Katie trusted Brian enough to know he would never hurt her, no matter how far she let him go with her.  She knew he had never seen a girl topless before, and she wondered how he would react.  With her parents downstairs watching movies, she knew they would not be interrupted any time soon.

Brian's heart jumped up in his throat as he watched Katie untuck her black turtleneck from her black sweat pants and then proceed to lift it over her head.  What he saw kept his interest for eternity it seemed.  Katie tossed the shirt to the side and smiled.  She had on a black push-up bra that made her look well endowed.  Brian's breath began to accelerate as she reached back to undue the clasps of her bra.

As soon as nothing stood between his eyes and her skin, he couldn't help but reach forward and touch her.  Her skin did something amazing to him.  As he touched her, she let out a few moans and he began to loose himself once again.  He kissed her lips long and hard as he held her close, touching and caressing her slim back.  Now he knew she was truly an angel.  To him she was perfect in every way.  She was everything he had imagined her to be.  She felt good to him in his arms, her soft skin under his hands.  He wound up hovering over her on the bed, touching and kissing her exposed skin.  He wanted to see more of her, but was afraid he wouldn't turn back if he did.  

  
Once Brian was able to contain himself, he pulled away from her lips and looked upon her as she laid there.  Her lips swollen and her eyes set to bedroom.  He knew exactly what to say.  "You are gorgeous, every inch of you.  You are soo beautiful, Katie.  What you do to me is amazing.  I've never felt this way before, and I just want to tell you something.  I love you, Katie.  You mean more to me than anything I could ever ask for.  I don't want to scare you, but you have no idea what you're doing to me." Brian said as he panted above her.

"What am I doing to you?" Katie asked innocently, this too being the furthest she had ever gone.

"This." He simply replied as he grabbed her hand and placed it on him.  She gasped as she felt his hardness.  She had never touched a guy before.  That being very unexpected, she quickly pulled her hand away and began to sit up and cover herself out of shyness.  She didn't realize what that would do to him.  Brian sat there, watched her cover her beauty, and reached out to her cheek.   "You don't have to worry, I won't go any further.  I could never let myself hurt you.  Here." He said as he pulled her close into a hug and just held her.

As he held her, he tried to calm himself.  He tried to think about how bad it could have gotten had he not stopped.   Yes, he wanted her badly, but he knew it would be the worst mistake he could ever commit if he had.  If he were to loose control, he would never forgive himself, and he knew he'd more than likely loose her forever.  He connected with her soul, and her heart.  But most of all, she had helped him to open up about his feelings, and his emotions.  He felt he was worthless before she came into his life.  He vowed to live for her.   He vowed to devote his life to her.  To protect her, to love her, and to give her everything he could.

Okay…Now I'm really fanning myself! Phew! *sweating* And yes…I had expected that juicy but innocent scene to be written in this chapter. Ta think that was the boldest thing I had ever done. This story being based on my life and my relationship with this wonderful man, my husband, as far as what's written here, is true. Yeah…If I could get the chance to relive these scenes, I wouldn't change a thing. So, hope you enjoyed this chappy, and the next one, I'm betting you guys will be more than shocked. I'm not saying why, but hopefully I can have that chappy out by this coming Friday or Saturday. And don't worry; Thanksgiving will not affect my posting pattern, since I do most of my writing at work. So, I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and I'll post to ya later! Ja ne!