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her physical
reaction to him.  Robyn was no more interested in Andrew than she was in
any other man, but Kat clearly didn’t believe that.  Her friend stared
Robyn down with narrowed eyes and squared shoulders, one hand clenching and
unclenching continually at her side.
    “And
finally, I must inform you that Darren Pascoe will be out for the week. 
Because exams are getting nearer, I ask that all who teach him please leave
suitable work at the front desk to be sent home.  I wouldn’t want to
jeopardise his chances of achieving good grades, he is, after all, one of our
best.”
    The
meeting finished with that last statement.  Darren was one of Robyn’s and
she had heard rumours that he had been taken home ill after P. E. last
week.  She would pull out some worksheets for him later.
    Andrew
left the room as soon as the meeting ended.  His frame was stiff as he
stepped around Robyn, but she saw him raise a single eyebrow in her direction
in abject dismissal before he exited.  The gesture angered her.
    Kat
stalked over, grabbed Robyn’s arm and dragged her out of the room, past the
staircase and into a relatively quiet corridor.
    “You
like him.”  Kat hissed in her ear.
    “What
the hell.”  Robyn wasn’t used to being dragged around.  “Kat, what do
you think you’re doing?”
    “You
like him, I saw you fawning over him.”
    “Oh. 
No. I . . . ,” She didn’t like Andrew and certainly wasn’t interested.  If
anything, she was a little scared of her own reaction to him as in order to
function normally she needed to control her emotions.  Andrew; he took
that control away from her.  She should explain all that to Kat . . . hang on, what the hell was she doing?  “Wait a
minute.  What if do like him?  Are you going to ban me from seeing
him?”
    Kat
all but growled like her namesake.  “I told you he was mine.”
    Robyn’s
rage became a palpable thing.  Her control snapped.  “Is that
right?  Do you have rights over all the single men in town, in Cornwall,
on the bloody planet?  Because if that’s the case, just tell me
now.”  Kat let go of Robyn and stepped back.   Robyn’s rage was feral, it coursed through her body making her shake with
every word.  She was unable to back down.  “You’ve had every fucking
man we’ve met, every one.  Don’t you dare say that I can’t have this one. ”
    Kat
blinked.  “Robyn, you said you weren’t interested.”
    “That’s
not the fucking point, is it?  You don’t want me to be interested in
anyone that you like and you want them all.  Afraid of
the competition, Blondie?   From now on, you don’t tell me who or
what I can have.”
    Robyn knew she’d gone
too far, way too far, but nothing was going to stop her, the button had been
pushed.  Turning before she could say anything else, she stormed away.

CHAPTER
FIVE
     
    How do you say
you’re sorry when you truly believe that you were right?  Yes, she’d gone
too far, Robyn had do doubts of that, but the gist of her argument remained
true.  Kat had no right to tell her who she could or couldn’t be involved
with.  The fact that the argument had been about Andrew Obursen was irrelevant, it could have been about anybody. 
Robyn was in no position to entangle herself in a
relationship.  She had no time or energy for such entrapments and was
certainly not going to risk the fallout when things would inevitably go
wrong.  But Kat didn’t know that.
    With
neither willing to back down, the next few days saw Kat and Robyn living
entirely separate lives.  If one was in the house, the other was
out.  At work they were silent and at home, positively frosty.  Robyn
didn’t like it.  It was like they were surviving, not living.  Kat
had become such an integral part of her life over the months they had lived
together that losing her was like losing a limb.  But the stubborn side of
her just wouldn’t allow her to back down.
    Days
became weeks.
    Kat’s
triathlon was fast