Cormac | Katie - Brief moment alone.
He really hadn't intended to come along. No, that was wrong. He had intended to come along and then Katie had gone and pissed him off, which turned into him telling himself that he wasn't going to go. It was just too bloody convenient for her if he did come and wasn't that just the problem? Regardless, there he was, doing the one thing he didn't want to be fucking doing. Really, the only thing he could tell himself now was that he'd only come because he'd told Ali and Ange that he'd carry their shit too ... which wasn't entirely wrong. He had told them he would.
Despite his reluctance, he spilled a little bit of his guts to Ali over the journals which, he felt, just made the whole situation more awkward. Or, at the very least, more awkward for himself. Cormac McLaggen was not one to have overly emotional moments ... even if this one had been in the works for years. The walk up had been mostly the girls talking, a sign in and of itself that not everything was perfect in paradise, but the tension had seemed to ease off once they'd gotten going and he'd been steadily ignoring anything that might remain.
He hadn't really been expecting to avoid her ... well, perhaps he'd been hoping to, but it was a ridiculous dream since it was not only her birthday but there were only four of them. The truth of it was sitting down beside him, cool water dripping onto the rock beneath only to be heated and dried by the overhead sun.
"I told them I'd carry their things, didn't I?" he muttered, glancing down to where the other two were still in the water.