As much as Katherine had told herself that this shopping trip was just going to be for clothes for tomorrow night's party, with everything that had went on today, she had lost sight of that goal. Shopping tonight was being done for the sole purpose of retail therapy, and that was why she didn't care about how unnecessary the bathrobe, bikini, skirt, sweatshirt, and sneakers, that were hanging in the fitting room, were. Absolutely none of them were intended to be options for tomorrow, and all you needed to do was take one look at her closet to know that she didn't need any more "just because" clothes. This was what happened when Katherine was upset, though. The only thing that she wanted to do was shop or complain, and luckily for her, today she got to do both. Following Sebastian snapping on her, which Katherine would eagerly describe as him "just completely showing his true colors by being so dramatic and basically saying he wanted to kill me", Katherine had relayed the story at least twenty times throughout the rest of the day to anyone who asked. Unsurprisingly, she put far more effort into making sure that everyone knew that Lennox had stepped in to save her from "that maniac", than she did her school work, and by the time school let out, she was more than ready to do something relaxing. Relaxing didn't entail her letting up on the subject, though, but since she decided that she had made her point clear enough to Nat earlier in the day, she did a good job at showing self-restraint by waiting until she and Gabrielle had moved on to the Versace store, while Natalia and Arizona remained back in the Celine store. "I really just don't get what Nat sees in him. Sure, he's not the ugliest person in the world but that's exactly why they say that an ugly personality can make a person ugly either way. Like, I'm telling you Gabby, he was literally on his way to go find a baseball bat or something to attack me with when Lennox jumped in to save me. He's literally a psychotic maniac, and to think that I didn't even do anything to him! I mean, can you imagine what he's going to be like towards Nat if she says one thing wrong? We can tune into 'Dateline' in about three months to find out, at the rate that she's on!"
Gabrielle already had a neon green bikini that she was planning on wearing tomorrow. She had other options at home too, but the neon of this particular option made it seem like a statement piece. It would say that she was single, and proud of it, and even though that wasn't a state of mind that she was actually in, she wished she was, so she was content with allowing the rest of the world to think that she was already there. She knew that she would probably spend most of the night clothed, so she had a few rompers and dressed set aside as options to wear over the bikini too. Because of that, she wasn't as in need of a shopping trip as Kat insisted she was, but who was Gabby to say no to an afternoon on Rodeo Drive? She was always open to shopping, and agreed to accompany the trio of juniors after school. Although they stopped in a few stores before leaving Nat and Ari in Céline and moving on to Versace, all Gabby had purchased today was a new beach towel from Tory Burch. Only because of Katherine's insistence, she had taken a few things into the dressing room at Versace, and was in the middle of sliding into one of the dresses when Kat launched herself back into the same story that everyone within a five mile radius had probably heard today. Gabrielle had been sympathetic towards Kat, only because they were close friends though, and not because she believed what the girl said to be the truth. Gabby thought that Sebastian was a very good guy, and she had been close enough herself during the game to catch the end of the altercation. She had not heard what Bas had said to Kat, but she had seen him walk off (with no apparent signs of wanting to come back with a bat in hand to attack her...) and only then, be punched unexpectedly by Knox. Gabby was privy enough to know that Kat didn't want to her anything other than sympathy and confirmation that Bas was the worst person on the planet, and she had offered enough of that reassurance earlier to want to continue doing it now. Instead, she focused on another piece of what Kat said. "Don't you think it's weird that Timothy didn't stand up for you? That Lennox had to be the one to come over and defend your honor?" she inquired, her voice innocently curious, though the same couldn't exactly be said for her motives.
"He said he didn't even see what happened until Mr. Lessig had already pulled them apart," Katherine answered, her voice sounding frustrated, though it was only because she was staring at her reflection in the mirror, after trying on the bikini. She couldn't pinpoint what she hated about herself this time, but she knew that she hated something, and she instantly pulled the bathrobe on to cover up. "Knox is just such a good friend, he really is," she continued, though very distracted as she now took a picture of her reflection in the mirror, happier now that she was covered by the robe, before sending the picture to Natalia, followed by "yes or no".
"Oh, come on, Kat! You don't really believe that, do you? Everyone on the field turned to look when he started yelling at you. Even you said that he was basically screaming at you. Do you really think Timothy was that oblivious?"
"If he had heard, he would have come over," Katherine answered, though her tone was less certain than she wished it was, as she began to second guess what she thought to be true. "Why do you think he wouldn't have?"
"I'm not saying that I think anything. All I'm trying to say is that if I were you, I would be skeptical of the story. You have to remember that he and Sebastian are friends, and you know how boys are. They tell you that you're the most important person in the world, but that's never including their guy friends. They always put them first. Always."