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[sub]A [@smarty0114] and [@Hey Im Jordan] collab
Featuring: [color=e2e520]Scott Lyon[/color] &  [color=ba314c]Katie Callaghan[/color] 
Location: The Mall -> Shake Shack (Saturday Afternoon)[/sub][/center][hr][hr]


As Katie stomped out of the mall and out into the parking garage, she was smacked in the face by the realization that she didn’t have a car. Scott had dropped her and Joy off, and she hadn’t texted him to come pick her up, so she was effectively stranded for the time being. Just perfect. She sent Scott a short text, her anger still bubbling over, and took a seat on a bench outside the entrance. 

For a few minutes, Katie simply sat with her rage, turning over her and Joy’s conversation repeatedly in her head. She wanted to punch something, hard, but considering her current surroundings, she settled for crossing her arms and scowling at the space in front of her. She looked over as a car passed by and ground her teeth together when she saw it wasn’t Scott’s. Where the fuck was he? She looked down at her watch and saw that only five minutes had passed since taking her place on the bench. LA traffic wouldn’t make Scott’s trip quicker. She was gonna have to stew here for a while. The idea annoyed her for a moment, before she decided it was probably for the best. She needed to cool down, or else she was certain she’d bite Scott’s head off the moment she got in the car.

Scott had a few different cars, but he’d had to take one of the cars that had more than two seats in it when he’d dropped Joy and Katie off, so when he’d been told that he didn’t have to pick Joy up, Scott hadn’t thought about it twice: he’d just jumped in one of his sports cars, and then… he had to hurry up and wait. Every second of stop and go traffic, he knew that Katie was probably just getting angrier. Scott didn’t know [i]for sure[/i] that Katie was angry, but he was able to confidently assume.

After all, he’d been dealing with her being angry for longer than anyone except [i]maybe[/i] Jamie.

When he finally got to pull up to where Katie was waiting, Scott prepared himself for the worst. The shortness of her texts had let him know that she was most likely [i]already[/i] kind of angry, and his lateness was only going to make it worse — he’d have to get her some food to make up for this. Food would fix it, right? Probably not.

Scott finally stopped at the curb and rolled the window down to look at Katie. [color=e2e520][b]“Hey, sorry that took so long. Traffic is shitty in downtown LA.”[/b][/color]

Katie silently stood and walked over to Scott’s car. She opened the door and sat down in the passenger seat, pulling the door shut with a slam behind her. [color=ba314c][b]“If I don’t get Shake Shack immediately, I’m going to fucking kill someone.”[/b][/color] Her voice was a low grumble, and her eyes never even glanced towards Scott. She was still going over what Joy had said, finding new pieces to get pissed off at. [color=ba314c][b]“Do you hate my brother?”[/b][/color] Katie posed the question out of the blue, after a moment of silence, this time turning to face Scott.

That was a hard hitting question. On the one hand, he could handle getting her Shake Shack. That was simple enough, it was just like, a food run. The other question, though? That was hard hitting! That was tough to answer; there was obviously a wrong answer, saying that he hated Jamie would end in a fight… Not that Scott did! It’s just, the truth wasn’t much better. [color=e2e520][b]“Well… No, I don’t [i]hate[/i] Jamie. It’s just that, uh,”[/b][/color] Scott decided that, fuck it, the truth was for the best. [color=e2e520][b]“I don’t really care about Jamie?”[/b][/color]

[color=ba314c][b]“Right answer,”[/b][/color] Katie said, staring out the window as they entered Downtown LA. [color=ba314c][b]“I don’t even care if you’re lying, you know, at least you had the good fucking sense not to tell me! But really, I mean, AJ’s your best friend, and Owen’s your family. [i]You[/i] have good reason to hate Jamie, but you don’t! People need people you know, we can’t just give up on them cause they fuck up! You tell them it was fucked and then you help them fix it! That’s not complacency that’s just called being a good fucking person!”[/b][/color]  It wasn’t that Katie was being intentionally vague, it was just that when her mind was working like this, she had a tendency to forget the rest of the world, and the fact that they weren’t clued in to her thoughts.

Okay, she was yelling again. Well, on the bright side, at least Katie was pretty hot when she yelled… Everything had a bright side, right? Scott turned the car on an exit, heading toward the restaurant that Katie wanted. As she yelled, Scott kind of nodded, but did his best to stay safe. He didn’t want to start fighting with her, like, already. [color=e2e520][b]“What happened? Did Joy say something fucked up?”[/b][/color] There was no other way around it, he had to just face check it. Once he figured out what happened, he could get to calming her down, as best he could.

[color=ba314c][b]“She did say something fucked up! She said that my brother’s fucked for writing that article, which I want to say, I did not dispute. I just said that I would stand by him and that I don’t really see why everyone cares about it now! I mean, no one said anything when he was writing about Becca and Damian hooking up, so why the fuck does she suddenly care! And then she said that me supporting him is just encouraging him! Like what the fuck! That’s fucked right?”[/b][/color] Katie’s hands were flying as she told her story. Talking about it seemed to just fire her up more, and as she became more and more animated.

Scott didn’t really read the paper — he was a little surprised that they still had one, really? It seemed like a relic of the past… — but he felt like what Katie was saying made sense! [color=e2e520][b]“You’re right. It is kinda weird.”[/b][/color] Scott could sense that something big had happened, and it was something that he had a lot of experience with. She’d had a fight with her best friend… Scott had been down that road more than once; he and AJ weren’t perfect, that much was for sure, and that wound up with them screaming at each other every once in a while. [color=e2e520][b]“Is this the first time you and Joy have fought?”[/b][/color] He decided to just stick with being honest, but without waiting for an answer, Scott added. [color=e2e520][b]“Fighting with your best friend can be like… painful, sometimes. Trust me, I know. Especially over something like this.”[/b][/color]

[color=ba314c][b]“I mean we’ve disagreed before, but not like this,”[/b][/color] Katie said. Having Scott on her side strengthened her convictions, and her tone softened slightly. She wasn’t yelling anymore, and it seemed that the world might be safe from the wrath of Katie Callaghan. [color=ba314c][b]“I just don’t  understand why she cares. I mean, what, Damian makes out with her and suddenly she’s the Queen of the Broken and the Damned?”[/b][/color]

[color=e2e520][b]“Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Damian and Joy, I mean. It’s kind of weird with Damian sort of… not being in the forefront anymore? Who knew that dropping from the football team would lead to him being so… distant, huh?”[/b][/color] Scott was maybe getting a little off track, but he didn’t think that was a bad thing! Calming Katie down was what was important now, and he felt like a little off track might be the right way to do that. [color=e2e520][b]“Are you gonna talk to her about it? I mean, you guys aren’t just gonna [i]not[/i] be best buds, right?”[/b][/color]

Katie sighed. [i]That[/i] was a question right there. She didn’t not want to be friends with Joy, she knew that even with the rage that was currently driving her forward. She knew this would pass, but at the same time, she wasn’t going to just apologize for doing nothing. [color=ba314c][b]“I mean, I didn’t do anything right? Like, I’m not the one who needs to apologize. Okay, I did yell, but to be fair, my indoor voice is pretty much a yell.”[/b][/color] Katie chewed on her lip struggling to see the way through this mess. [color=ba314c][b]“What would you do?”[/b][/color]

[color=e2e520][b]“I’ll tell you, but I’m going to be honest — and you’re probably not going to like it.”[/b][/color] Scott said, parking the car in front of the restaurant. So this was what being in a relationship was like, huh? He could get used to this. Still, he knew that he was going to let Katie down, or at least not feed her an answer that she wanted to hear. This was part of the job sometimes, though, right? [color=e2e520][b]“I’d talk to her, sooner rather than later. And I’d apologize — not for what you did, but for fighting.”[/b][/color] Scott was almost lucky that the first time she needed boyfriendly advice it was on something he was intimately familiar with. [color=e2e520][b]“You can stick to your guns, while apologizing for yelling. If she’s [i]really[/i] your [i]best[/i] friend? She’ll apologize for the same thing.”[/b][/color]

[color=e2e520][b]“I know it sucks, believe me, but sometimes you just have to swallow the pride and be the bigger person, I think this is one of those times.”[/b][/color]

Katie chewed her lip some more, before releasing it from between her teeth. [color=ba314c][b]“You were right about one thing. I didn’t like it.”[/b][/color] Katie opened her door and turned back to Scott. [color=ba314c][b]“Let’s get food, I don’t want to think about this anymore,”[/b][/color] she said, stepping out onto the sidewalk.

[color=e2e520][b]“Yeah, that sounds good.”[/b][/color] Well, she’d asked, and Scott wasn’t going to start nerfing himself in their conversations just to make her happy. That wasn’t what they had been about before, and he didn’t want that to be what they were about now. [color=e2e520][b]“I’ll pay.”[/b][/color] He was still the boyfriend, though.

Katie rolled her eyes, but that didn’t stop the smile from spreading across her face. [color=ba314c][b]“I’m going to let you pay, but I still want to say that the patriarchal system of forcing a man to pay for a woman is stupid.”[/b][/color] 

As Scott got out of the car and hit the button to lock it, a smile came on his face too, while he took his spot by Katie, and reached out to grab her hand. As he interlocked their fingers, he looked over at her. [color=e2e520][b]“Hey, that’s my girl.”[/b][/color]