You Are Sad and That Sucks A Lot by Oliver Schminkey

But as it happened, she was dealing with a heartbreak she seemed to know intuitively would be just around the corner. If Kate weren’t devastated, not to mention blindsided, she’d have been thisclose to slapping the smug look off of his face. I’m told she’s been hanging around you quite a bit these last weeks? Know where I can find her?” “Keen insight, Miss Messner, but I was asking about my girlfriend. “Oh…you’re back.” Kate’s tone was a mix of defeat and horrible, unwanted surprise.

She’d realized it because Oliver was suddenly there, in front of her locker, asking if she’d seen Emaline. Messner - a heap of takeout from The Crouton Factory that Emaline had picked up to win him over), Kate finally realized what was keeping her from trusting Emaline completely. Less than two weeks after their first kiss on the stage, and just two days after Emaline had officially asked Kate to be her girlfriend (during their first dinner with Mr. Kate had never gotten exactly the thing she’d wanted most in the world before, and in that moment she found she didn’t quite know how to handle it. But Emaline was warm, and considerate, and the moments they shared in the days after her stairway confession were some of the sweetest of Kate’s life.Īnd though she loved – loved- the feeling of being with Emaline, she didn’t quite trust it. “You know what I mean.” Emaline fiddled with Kate’s pant cuff nervously. (Even if they did share the most incredible almost-kiss in history at a hotel in California.) Having experienced the Oliver and Emaline show for the better part of a year, Kate was understandably surprised when Emaline came to her mere days after Oliver’s departure, eyes soft and vulnerable, and confessed her feelings in the stairwell. The world was their stage, and they were more than happy to put on a show. They didn’t seem to care who saw them, who envied them, or who was disgusted by them. Oliver and Emaline could, in their prime, be spotted devouring each other anywhere and everywhere in Boring High. (In fairness, Emaline was equally guilty of these qualities, but Kate could always find a reason not to fault her for it. Kate Messner never expected the girl of her dreams to look twice at her.Įmaline Addario was beautiful, bold, talented…everything Kate wanted to be, but never quite felt like she was.Īnd then there was the complicating factor of Emaline’s boyfriend, Oliver, who openly disrespected Emaline and thrived on airing their personal business.

You Are Sad and That Sucks A Lot by Oliver Schminkey