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Chapter 14

After school was out, I was at my locker making sure I had everything I needed for my homework. As I was about to close my locker, somebody slammed it shut for me. When I looked up, I saw Carson leaning casually up against my locker.

“I thought we were meeting in front of your car?” I asked while readjusting the strap of my bag on my shoulder and looking at him questioningly.

He shrugged and threw an arm over my shoulder, which I let fall to his side. “I was walking this way and knew you wouldn’t be at my car yet because you are just so slow…”

“Hey!” I interrupted and hit him on the arm.

He chuckled. “Anyways, I knew you wouldn’t be there yet, so I just stopped by your locker to pick you up. It wasn’t a big deal”

“Whatever, so when we get to your house do you think you can cook something first? I am really hungry and I don’t think I can help you look for your mother’s blackmail on an empty stomach” I asked convincingly. I actually just wanted him to cook something because he was an amazing cook – better than me.

“Oh? So now I’m an awesome cook am I?” he asked smirking slightly.

“You’re just fishing for compliments that you aren’t about to catch bucko” I replied.

“Always” he said with a wink my way as I rolled my eyes. “But yeah, I’ll cook us something before we start searching the house, but we have to be done by 5 because my mom will be back and she can’t know that I either found and deleted the pictures or that I was looking for them”

“Okay, and how long will it take anyways?” I asked.

“Oh, you’d be surprised” he said once we reached the front of the school and headed towards the parking lot.

We both got into Carson’s truck and headed home.

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Carson unlocked the front door heading in before me and kicking off his shoes at the door, before heading towards the kitchen and I followed him. I threw my bag down beside a stool before climbing up and relaxing my head onto the countertop.

“What would like to eat my lady?” Carson asked in a medieval accent and an eyebrow raised.

I giggled quietly before answering, “I don’t know, something delicious?”

“Everything I make is delicious Lex” he boasted proudly.

“Well then” I said as I rolled my eyes. “I don’t mind, surprise me”

“Done and done!”

Carson was scrambling around the kitchen for a couple of minutes and working at the stove before he turned around 15 minutes later with some delicious looking pasta on a plate.

“Pasta a la Lexi is finished” he said in a very bad fake Italian accent.

The food looked delicious so I started eating right away as Carson sat down across from me with his own plate of food.

“MMMMHHMMMM” I said as Carson chuckled lightly while still eating. “This is really good, what is it?”

“Well, I know you like Italian so I thought I’d make a simple pasta dish”

“I got that stud, and how’d you know that I like Italian?” I asked questioningly.

“Lexi, I’ve been around you for about 11 years, I know what you like” he replied as he rolled his eyes at my question.

“Hmm, okay. But seriously, what is this?”

“It’s fettuccini alfredo with cut up green and red peppers, mushrooms, garlic and shredded cheese” he replied before returning his attention to his rather large helping of pasta.

“Well it’s good, really good” I said as I took another bite.

“You’ve said that…. three times already” Carson said as he stuck his tongue out and I chuckled quietly.

After we were finished eating, I helped Carson clean the dishes quickly before we started looking. As Carson was cleaning off his hands with a dishtowel, he started to talk. “Okay, so I say we split up. I take the bottom floor and you take you second floor. If we don’t find anything in a half hour we work together upstairs to find it. is that okay?”

“Yup, that’s good. See you in half an hour” I said before running upstairs to the second floor to start looking.

I had been up here plenty of times over the years when I was hanging out with Jaxon and Carson but I haven’t been up here for the last two years because I was trying to avoid Carson because of his man whore ways. All I knew was that there were three rooms on this floor – Tazmin’s room, a bathroom and Carson’s room. I decided to search the bathroom first because that would be the place that the camera would least likely be.

I looked everywhere in the bathroom; all the shelves, through the medicine cabinet, and took five minutes search through the closet which was filled with tons of hygiene products – but didn’t come across the camera.

Next I searched Tazmin’s room. I remember three years ago I had helped Mrs. Roberts decorate the room to look like a princess’s room. The walls were various colours of pink with a glitter lining where the walls met the ceiling. There were bright fluffy rugs all over the floor and a big canopy bed with light pink bedding. The room was really cute for a four year old.

I realized that it would take a bit longer to search this room than it did the bathroom so I started looking. I looked under the bed and under the sheets, in the bedside table and through every drawer in her dresser, through her closest and behind the curtains. I even looked through her pile off stuffed animals that were rested on a couch near the window but the camera was surely not in this room.

It had already been twenty five minutes so I had another five minutes to look through Carson’s room before he came and found me. I decided that I’d just look around quickly since I wouldn’t have enough time to search the whole room before he came upstairs.

I opened the door to his room expecting posters of girls to clutter his wall but I was mistaken, the walls were dark blue and almost bare. The only posters he had on his wall were one of his favourite hockey team and one of his favourite football team.

With the five minutes I had left, I quickly looked through his closet and a couple of his drawers, only coming across various clothes, a bunch of hair products and a box of unopened condoms which I rolled my eyes at. I was just finishing looking through his closet when I came across a box at the bottom that said memories. I didn’t want to look through it without his permission so I let it be, knowing that sometime this week I would look through that box.

Once I closed the closet doors I heard someone barreling up the stairs so I yelled “in here!” so Carson would know I was in his bedroom.

Carson came through the door with his hands on his hips. “You couldn’t get enough of me so you were looking through my stuff. I knew you wanted me” he said arrogantly and sarcastically.

“Ha. Ha. Very funny Carson” I said with heavy sarcasm. “And no, I just started searching your room for your mom’s camera. Did you already look everywhere downstairs?”

“Yeah, the camera is definitely not in the living room, the dining room, the kitchen, the downstairs bathroom or the game room in the basement. Have you already looked through the other two rooms?” he asked looking through some of his shelves and drawers on the side of the room I hadn’t checked yet.

“Yup, it’s not in Tazmin’s room or the bathroom. Oh and I already searched your closet and the drawers on that side of the room” I said pointing towards the opposite side of his room. “It isn’t there either”.

“Okay, so I’ll look through these drawers and you look around the bed, then if we don’t find it we’ll check my parents room upstairs” he said in a determined voice, so I complied.

I got on my knees and looked under his bed finding a bunch of dirty clothes but no camera so I got up and turned around only to come face to face with Carson. I stepped back to get away from him but ended up tripping on something and falling onto his bed.

Carson laughed slightly as I got up and headed out of his room. “You know, if you wanted me in bed, you’d only have to ask” he said wiggling his eyebrows with a smug smirk plastered on his face.

I rolled my eyes as a barely noticeable blush made it onto my face. “Get real Carson. Anyways, so if it’s not on this floor and it’s not downstairs, it has to be in your parent’s room” I stated as I walked towards the set of stairs that led to the third floor/attic that had been renovated into the master bedroom.

We both looked around the room for a couple of minutes coming up short on finding the camera. As Carson was looking around his parent’s dresser, I decided to check their en-suite bathroom. “I’m checking the bathroom” I told Carson before heading into the en-suite.

I looked in the shower quickly and through their closet, not finding the camera in question. Lastly, I looked through the cabinet under the sink and found a black camera case. I took it out and found the hidden camera in it. “FOUND IT!” I yelled as I took the camera out of the case and turned the power on.

Carson came barreling into the bathroom right away and tackled me in a hug. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!” he said while spinning me around as I was laughing. He put me down and kept his hands on my shoulders. “You don’t know how embarrassed I would’ve been if those pictures got out, so thank you for helping me” he said as he quickly hugged me again and went to grab the camera out of my hands but I moved it away.

“Ah ah ah. I helped you find the camera, so before I delete the pictures I get to see these dreaded pictures of you as a princess” I said smirking slightly.

Carson grumbled but didn’t try to grab the camera again so I took it as an okay to look. I looked through the most recent pictures and there were five of Carson as a princess. The first three looked like he was oblivious to the camera as he looked like he was talking to Tazmin while wearing a short light blue dress and a crown with bright pink shoes. I started laughing immediately.

“Yea, ha ha. Laugh it up, but hurry up because the rents are going to be home soon so we have to delete them quick” he said grumbling his words together.

“Okay, okay, it’s just funny. You look cute in a dress by the way” I said winking at Carson as I pressed delete on all five of the pictures.

“Ha. Ha” he said in a slightly harsh tone.

“Chill dude, I deleted the pictures, here take a look” I said as I passed the camera to Carson.

As he looked through the pictures he visibly relaxed because he realized that the pictures were no longer on the memory card. He put the camera down and walked towards me and gave me another hug, which I returned.

This hug felt different. His arms felt warm, and I felt safe with them wrapped around me. I also felt a case of light butterflies in my stomach which couldn’t be good. This was CARSON! C-A-R-S-O-N. Carson. Why am I feeling like this while I’m in his arms? I thought. I quickly shook those thoughts out of my head and just enjoyed the hug because it felt nice.

Carson pulled back slightly and looked me in the eyes. “Thanks for today Lexi. I wouldn’t have found those pictures without you and I really didn’t want to be embarrassed like that if they got out, so thanks” he said with a genuine smile on his face.

“It wasn’t a big deal and you know, nobody would make fun of you for playing with Tazmin. You act like a great big brother around her and it’s nothing to be ashamed of” I said smiling back at him.

Carson suddenly got this strange look in his eyes and his smile fell slightly as he gulped. I didn’t understand what he was thinking until I noticed he was slightly moving closer to me. He’s gonna kiss me! my mind was screaming. I was freaking out and my body was frozen. He was only a couple of centimetres away now and didn’t look like he was stopping. My eyes were closing on their own accord, and I felt his warm breath on my lips. Our lips were about to touch when we heard a car door slam outside and we jumped apart.

My mouth was hanging open slightly and his eyes were bulging slightly. We both realized what would’ve happened if his parents hadn’t come home when they did and were freaking out.

Carson rubbed the back of his neck looking at me with a worried expression. “Um….” he said slightly confused.

“I’ll be going now” I said quickly as I rushed past him, down all the stairs and into the kitchen to grab my bag. I walked towards the front door as Mr. and Mrs. Roberts came through with Tazmin.

“Hello Lexi, what are you doing here?” Mrs. Roberts asked nicely.

“I was just hanging out with Carson since Jaxon was at work but I have a lot of homework and I have to go now. Hope you have a good night” I said calmly and walked out the door and onto my lawn, running towards my front door.

I leant back against the front door once it was closed and slowed down my heart beat. I had almost kissed Carson Roberts. The Carson Roberts that I had known for the majority of my life, who was a man whore player at school, but outside of school, he was a sweet and nice guy. The problem wasn’t that we were about kiss – the problem was how much I WANTED to kiss him.

I quickly dialed Kylie’s number as my heart slowed down and she picked up on the second ring. “Hello, my sista. How you doing tonight?” she said in a gangster accent.

“Kylie, we have a problem. 9-1-1 emergency at my house – NOW” I said into the phone.

“Okay, okay. Keep calm and sit down. I’m at Zayn’s right now but I’m getting Alenna and telling her you need us. Me and her will be there in 10 minutes max, so sit tight until we get there” she said. I heard talking in the backround, so she mut have been telling Zayn there was an emergency and she had to leave.

“Okay, but hurry!” I said as I hung up the phone and sank back into the couch with a racing mind.

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