When Kat woke up she felt arms around her. She looked up and saw Brian's peaceful face as he slept. She sighed and lay back against him.
"What have I done?" She thought, "I just told him everything, everything I worked so hard to keep a secret. I didn't want him to worry about me, but I let go; now nothing will ever be the same. But it never was the same."
Just then Brian woke up and saw Kat staring out the window.
"Hey Kat, sleep well?" Brian asked while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. She smiled a small smile at him and nodded.
"That's good." He said softly. He looked at her and realized how much she grew up. She wasn't the same Kat. She went through so much. All he wanted to do now was protect her.
"Brian, about what happened. I'm so sorry, I didn't want you to find out because, because I didn't want you to worry about me. And I figured if everyone believed I was the same person, then I would believe it. Also, I thought if I told you, you wouldn't want to be my friend, why would you want to be friend with a person who couldn't keep her life together, who actually let a person hit her, and never tried to stop it. A person who couldn't even tell her best friend she was getting hurt, when her best friend was the one person she should trust the most." Kat said softly, and looked at him. "Why do you even put up with me? I don't deserve you as a friend, especially not my best friend. Why do you care about me so much?" Tears fell from Kat's eyes, she needed an answer.
"Kat, remember when I was going through that surgery and I was so scared? You traveled half way across the country to see me, and stay with me while I was getting the surgery done. When I woke up after the surgery you were the first person I saw sitting by my bed holding my hand. You stayed every night before and after the surgery with me. And remember when Leann and I broke up, and I was upset. I was all the way in Germany, but the moment I called you, you used your savings to fly to me, you were the one that told me everything was going to be ok. Kat, you did so many things for me that I'm never going to forget. You were there when I needed you, you cared about me enough that you did anything as long as I was ok. You see, I don't put up with you. I don't need to, you are my best friend, and it's still a wonder to me why you put up with me." Brian smiled at her and kissed the top of her head. "Kat, I don't know how else to tell you, but you are my best friend, nothing's going to change that."
Kat smiled at him, but his words repeated in her head.
"you are my best friend, nothing's going to change that." Kat's heart broke a little,
"Best friends, that's it." She thought and sighed.