“If you need more weird dresses and candles in your life, all you have to do is come to church with me sometimes, you’ll have plenty of opportunities,” Kat hadn’t yet found a local church to attend whenever she felt the need to check in with Jesus and make sure they were still cool. It hadn’t slipped her mind however - she was just trying to delay it for as long as possible before the guilt of ghosting God outweighed her desire to not sit around listening to scripture without even being able to pull her phone out to kill time.
“Wow,” was Kat’s only response to the revelation for the time being. Both girls knew that Drea had not already told Kat about the development but this wasn’t unusual for them and it rarely bothered Kat. Katherine trusted Drea and knew that though she was inclined to withhold some things until the very last moment before they were forcefully squeezed out of her, Kat knew that Drea was honest when it mattered.
Their disparate willingness to be candid was one of the many characteristics that distinguished Kat and Drea. While Andrea was more reserved when it came to the intimate details of her life, Katherine would share them with just about anyone that allowed her the opportunity. It wasn’t that Drea was shy, nobody had ever accused her of that, she was private. Having grown up in a household that was so overpopulated by fair-haired children that it never knew a moment’s peace, privacy was a concept almost foreign to Kat. “Did he do all that?” Kat questioned, struggling to picture the boy she had known in high school organising anything, to be perfectly frank, let alone something even remotely romantic. Maybe she ought to cut him some slack, Katherine considered. “It sounds so nice - can I see photos?” she tried not to let jealously tarnish her words, nor the genuine sentiment in her tone of voice. It was a nasty thing, jealousy and she had tried to train herself to not fall victim to it.
“Oh my God, you can’t say this now that I’m here- okay, so maybe my husband can wait but a good- decent boyfriend at least. Any chance?” It sounded to Kat like Ben had managed to clean up his act. Surely he had a friend he could vouch for? “We have to have a double date,” and how awful that would be for the poor sucker who got tagged into that one. Without a doubt it would be an evening of wistful reminiscing about their boarding school days with little room for outsider contributions.
Drea’s nose crinkled as she gave a noncommittal hum in response to Kat’s offered. “ I might be all white dress and candles-ed out. ” And what she meant by that was she was church-ed out. For like, the rest of her life she thought. The fact that she no longer had to sit quietly in uncomfortable chairs and listen to hymns and psalms and homilies for minimum an hour a week was an incredible relief.
There’s some sort of lump in her chest at Kat’s reaction. A tensity, that she had expected but not quite been prepared for. If she could keep her entire life private from everyone around her, she might have. But she knew better now than she did as a teenager that it wasn’t sustainable to close off. It wasn’t even nice or what she wanted most of the time. And this was something she certainly didn’t want to keep to herself. What she and Ben had was good. Better than good, she didn’t even really know how to start. But she wanted to try to share it, and have people know that she was happy. “ Mmhmm, ” She nodded, assuring her that Ben had in fact organised an extremely nice date for them. “ Yeah, it was really sweet. ” She wasn’t oblivious and thus the slightly dubious tone didn’t go unnoticed, but she didn’t connect that the doubt was surrounding Ben doing something romantic like he had. She assumed it was more that he had done it for Drea, given the way they used to behave. The way they used to treat one another. “ Oh my god, yeah, ” She answered with enthusiasm, patting her back pocket in search of phone before turning to grab it off bed where she’d left it before Kat arrived. She would almost always take the option to show someone something rather than attempt to tell them. She quickly opened up her photos, and found the day from a few weeks ago as she took up position beside Kat. “ Okay, here we are, ” She opened up towards the start of the few photos she’d taken in the gallery. Mostly of the gallery and the art inside, a couple with Ben wandering in front of her, a selfie of the two of them outside. “ It was, like, a local showing. So all artists from the area, kinda unintentionally sea themed, I think. ” She mused with soft smile.
Drea chuckled, “ I could have told you before, ” She insisted, though truthfully she should have known Kat would be coming back with some sort of absurd goal like that. She hummed in thought for a moment, lips tugged to one side. Her truthful answer was no, probably not. As far as she could tell, the graph of guys Kat was interested in and guys that Drea approved of for Kat never ever crossed. They didn’t even exist on the same dimension. But the good news was that Kat hadn’t really ever let Drea’s approval stop her. “ Maybe. ” She said after a beat, her smile cracking through her features again. “ Maybe, maybe I can find someone for that. ” She allowed, a playfulness to her voice. “ Oh my god, ” She said, grabbing Kat’s arm as she mentioned the idea of a double date. Mostly the idea made her want to stab herself in the eye, and she imagined it would be a similar feeling on Ben’s part. But it would be a really easy way to see if a guy could handle Kat. And that was something she would be willing to both put up with and drag Ben through for her. “ That would be the real test, huh, if he could survive that. ” She grinned.
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