genre: modern, high school preferences: het warnings: tba
School had finished an hour go but Katherine had no intention of going home, her head has been in a mess and it hadn’t been helpful when she was on the ice with her team, she had been too distracted and missed a clear shot. Her brother was the first one to express his disappointment, but he, out of all people knew her mind had been elsewhere. There was no training that particular afternoon when Katherine found herself back at the school’s ice rink, it was practically empty as Katherine watched the stragglers leave, she could hear cleaners were around but they would have known her by now, if it wasn’t her at the rink it would be her brother or other members of the team, most of them would go there when they didn’t have too if they needed to clear their minds. Katherine wished her mind would stop racing and thinking about him. Everybody warned her. Even though he was a fellow team mate, he was a player on and off the ice, he was a ladies man come lunch time and she used to watch him with a different girl each lunch time. She didn’t even think she would like him that way. Apparently she did. Apparently he liked her too and their… not even a friendship grew into a relationship during a weekend getaway to Chicago. She stupidly enough wanted to go and find her birth father and he got a whim of her plan, catching her off guard at the train station and said he was going with her. She hadn’t been to Chicago before and he was from there, pretty logical don’t you think? The thing was, they hadn’t really held a conversation before, he would have been as her opposite, rude and a pig they were snarky towards each other and other days they would simple ignore one another. Then that all seemed to change in Chicago. She found her biological father and wanted to see him, he warned her not to get her hopes up because he had been in the same situation a few years ago but her mother was getting remarried and she wanted to know her father again, how hard could it be for a father/daughter reunion?
She asked him to go with her when she had located her father, at first her father didn’t recognise her then it dawned on her. It wasn’t the reunion she wanted to be. He was happy to have his daughter back in his life, but she could not stay with him. Katherine later found out he had his own family, two daughters and a wife, so he didn’t want to mix his past and present together? Katherine wasn’t happy she probably would have lost it if it weren’t for her team mate it was getting late that they decided to crash at a hotel and that’s when the confessions happened: he thought she was with his best friend and he kept his distance from her. Katherine reassured him they were only friends and she wasn’t attached to anyone. They kissed and you could imagine what happened next.
They would have dated for about a year and half when drama happened, they lost someone close and he left without a word, Katherine couldn’t understand why he would just up and leave without saying anything to her or anyone as matter of fact, he just went awol. It was getting close to a month without hearing from him and Katherine didn’t know what to do, she was on the ice now in the rink and had been skating several laps, almost out of breath, she skated towards the middle where black pucks had been lined up and whacked them as hard as she could some into the net, most missed, Katherine didn’t care, she was letting out her frustration. She just wanted him back.