Chapter 7

The jarring sound of the alarm interrupted Kate's sleep as she rolled over on the bed, using the pillow to cover her ears.

As usual her alarm goes off by six am and she wakes up to prepare for the day but today, of all days, she was not rushing off the bed as usual.

Irritated by the sound of the alarm which made its way through the pillow on her ears, she pushed the pillow off and stared at the duck shaped clock.

A day won't hurt, right? She can sleep in and turn off the alarm instead of living like a robot as soon as the alarm goes off.

A small smile crawled up her face as the idea of living a different life, even if it was just for a day, crossed her mind and she turned off the alarm.

Sighing with relief as soon as the blaring noise was turned off, She snugged her bedsheet closer and closed her eyes.

Yet she wasn't feeling okay. She wanted to rebel but the idea of rebelling was still strange to her. She can't believe that for the first time in a long time, if not Since she was born, she was sleeping in, instead of doing as her mom had always taught her, following the alarm clock and working at the time.

She rolled on the bed for sometime, her body feeling uneasy at the sudden change in pattern.

True, Rome wasn't built in a day, she can't expect that her body would be okay after skipping a normal daily routine.

But what was the need of waking up early? There wasn't any class today but ballet practice so why should she be up by this time when she wouldn't be in class?

After about what seemed like fifteen minutes of rolling over on the bed and fighting the urge to get up, she finally got up from the bed and walked lazily to the bathroom.

Even though it was just barely fifteen minutes or so she felt so relieved and lighter as she realized that she had just passed a huge moment in her life ... skipping her mother's routine and doing as she wants.

The usual rushing to get ready was changed to a slow and calm movement as Kate walked around the room trying to arrange her room.

She finally took her bath and dressed up in her ballet dress before grabbing her bag and walking out of the room.

The door opposite hers was still closed and there was no sound coming out of it and she knew immediately that her roommate was either still asleep or has gone to the practice room.

She rushed down the stairs and flagged a taxi to the practice room, her head twirling around the things that happened to her when she saw Grace and Liam together.

The sound of classical music as she walked down the practice hall to the room where they dance, filled her ears and she walked to the door.

She pushed the door open and walked in, the sound of laughter, sighs, And the smell of feminine sweat and perfume hit her nose.

Among the rest practicing and dancing was Grace who was on her toes, her hands gracefully hanging in the air.

She turned to look at the door that opened and her eyes made contact with Kate's. The fact that kate was at the practice room, by that time, made her feel greatly uncomfortable because she couldn't practice in front of her.

Pretending not to see Kate, Grace turned her face to the other side and continued practicing.

Kate saw the look Grace gave her before turning her face away and purposely ignoring her and she scoffed.

"If you can act like you didn't see me, well, I can too," She muttered and walked past Grace pretending not to see her also.

As usual, she plugged in her earphones and started dancing but this time it was different from her usual graceful ballet steps.

She was twirling around but in anger. The image of Liam together with grace, the look on his face when she saw both of them together last night and how they all pretended like she was still a child and wouldn't understand what was going on.

It all made her angry, especially the fact that after he dropped them off, Liam tried to kiss her.

The fucking audacity of the guy! To try to kiss her when he has been messing around with her roommate.

Her twirls weren't as smooth as it usually was and she fell a couple of times all because she wasn't concentrating as she usually does.

"What's wrong?" The sultry voice that usually irritates her called and she turned to see Grace looking at her with a smirk.

"What do you mean?"

"Your turns were rusty and I saw that you fell a couple of times. It's unlike you so what's the matter?"

The question annoyed her so bad that she wanted to grab her hair and push her on the floor but she stopped herself and gave a short laugh.

"Nothing.. I'm just tired and I have a headache," She lied.

Grace nodded her head and watched as Kate bent down to pick up her bag.

"Guess who I heard is around?" She asked, hiding the smile on her face as she anticipated Kate's reaction.

Kate turned to look at her.

"Who?"

"Lucas! I heard he's back in town and boy, the rumors about him being hotter than ever had better be true!"

But contrary to her expectation, Kate didn't react as she had expected her to, instead she simply gave her a forced smile and continued untying her shoe.

"I need to hit the gym," She finally muttered Loud enough to be heard by Grace.

"Oh really? I think you should. You look like you've gained some weight."

That did it! Gained some reaction from Kate because she immediately stood up and glared at Grace.

"No, I didn't. I look the same as I did two days ago, a week ago and a month ago."

Grace hid a smile and nodded her head.

"Alright, fine. You're on your way to the gym, right? I'll go with you."

Kate didn't say anything and simply walked out with Grace trailing behind her.

They got to the gym and worked out in silence with Grace casting confused look occasionally at Kate.

"So.." she started, trying to get Kate's attention.

Kate looked up at her.

"So you don't want to talk about Liam?"

It was unusual to her because their usual conversation was about Liam because every single time, she's always telling Grace about how she finds it hard to hide what she feels for him.

Kate shook her head.

"No. I'm good."

The bland statement confused Grace and Kate noticed it, glad that she had finally been able to mess with Grace.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Grace asked.

"I'm fine and not hiding anything from you. You're my best friend, I'll tell you every single thing."