I was at the cafe, in the kitchen eating a donut. Sandy always lets us have little sweets from the kitchen and there so good no one can resist.

"Eva table number four" said Paul entering the kitchen with a tray full of dirty plates.

I hurriedly gulped down the last bit of donut that was left and moved outside. I walked towards the table four getting the notepad out of my pocket.

Upon reaching there I saw it was Carter's gang and Caroline. I groaned imwardly, why do i always have to serve them?

"What do you want to order" I said with a smile.

"Caroline do you remember Eva?" Said Diana sweetly.

Caroline who was busy in her phone looked up at me. Her perfect auburn hair flowing down, her green eyes, long lashes and those full lips. Caroline Richards is a beauty.

"Nope" She said.

"Thats fine, nobody really remembers or care about Eva Evans" said Haley as the rest of them snickered.

"You know Eva's mother is marrying a really rich guy" said Diana again. "She invited everyone in school to come to her mom's wedding."

"Really?" Said Caroline leaning forward. "How does it feel having two dads?"

The table erupted in laughter including Carter. I was about to speak but Haley beat me to it.

"You know Carter is so generous he told Eva he'd ask his mother to give them discount wedding clothes" said Haley.

"Really Carter?" Said Caroline looking at Carter.

"Yea, my mom told me to help needy people."

They all laughed again, I could feel my cheeks turning red, this was beyond humiliating.

"Hey Eva" came Kaiden's voice from behind me and I turned around to look at him.

"What are you doing here" I asked.

"Your shift is off, lets go home" He said.

"Hi, how are you" said Haley before I could answer Kaiden.

He looked towards her and nodded.
"I haven't seen you around"

"Your the new kid in school right?" Said Diana. "Your getting really popular already"

"Why don't you sit with us" said Haley.

"There's no need to do that Haley" growled Drake.

Kaiden's eyes shifted from Drake to Caroline and stood there, Caroline looked back at him, there was somwthing happening there that I didn't quite understood.

"Nice watch" said Haley staring at the expensive Rolex Kaiden was wearing.
"I think it runs in the family, going for the rich guy" said Caroline, her eyes shifting between me and Kaiden.

"Shut up" I finally said, having enough of what they were saying.

"Or what?"

"Or I'll kick your ass"

"Don't you dare speak to her like that" Said Carter standing up and towering over me. I was angry at all of them but more on Carter. Why is he standing up for Caroline? Why is he protecting her? I wanted to say something, do something but wasn't able to. Kaiden lightly grasped my hand and pulled me to his side.

"Don't you ever speak to her like that" he said to Carter and dragged me away.

We were walking back to my house.
I sniffed and wiped the little tears that dared to escape. Kaiden was walking beside me, we hadn't uttered a word yet and somehow I was thankful for that.

"Now you get it? This is what happens when your mother marries a really rich guy. Everyome in the family gets humiliated" I said.

"Eva-"

"Do you even think what my father goes through"

I stopped walking and faced Kaiden.

"Do you know what people talk about him? That he's the man whose wife left him for another guy, a rich guy. Can you feel the embarrassement my father feels because of my mother"

I took a deep breath, trying to relax a bit.

"I can't even blame people, I myself doubted my mother on this" I said with a light laugh.

"Okay okay, Eva lets just leave it-"

"No I mean it Kaiden, make sure my mother is marrying your father beause she loves him, not for the money"

"Okay, relax now" He said holding my both of my arms. I nodded and we walk towards my house again.

"Hey what's the relationship between you and Carter" asked Kaiden after a little while.

"Nothing, he is just a selfish, arrogant little prick. I curse the day I became his partner in the english project, everything would have been fine of it wasn't for that.

Kaiden nodded but didn't say anything. After five more minutes we reached my house.

"That's me, you can come in if you want, my dad won't mind" I said.
Kaiden wasn't really that bad, he stood up for me which was nice of him and stayed by my side after that, while I was crying and cursing.

"Thankyou for earlier, for standing up for me" I added.

"No problem and I can't stay I have some business do to" He said.

I didn't ask him what business he had.

"Okay then, bye" I said and turned around to leave but felt Kaiden hold my hand to stop me.

"Eva, I think you should avoid Carter, he doesn't seem like a nice guy, he isn't a nice guy" He said staring at me intently and then let go of my hand.

"So how long are you going to be mad at Mason?" I asked Ally as we made our way towards the cafeteria.

"Hey Eva, I bought a tux yesterday to wear at your mother's wedding" said Drake as I passed him. He was standing with Carter and Caroline and both of them were laughing.

Ally stopped in her tracks and turned towards them.

"How about you buy some class to wear to the wedding?" She growled.

"Well, well, well look who it is the great Ally James" said Caroline crossing her arms.

"Not in the mood Caroline" said Ally rolling her eyes and walking away. I followed behind.

"Ally wait-"

We entered the cafeteria and spotted our friends, we reached them and sat down.

"What happened between you and Mason after I left" I tried again with Ally.

"Mason is a jerk, I don't even know why I was friends with him in the first place"

I stopped talking, clearly she was still very much angry and you cannot deal with an angry Ally.

"Oh hi Mason" said Nina.

Mason nodded her way and was about to sit down next to her when his eyes shifted to Ally.

"I am not sitting on the same table as Ally" He stampered.

"Then leave" replied Ally, gritting her teeth.

"Stop it right now" said Claud, pulling Mason down to sit.

Mason didn't protest but the table filled up with an awkward silence.

"Hey everything okay" asked Kaiden approaching us.

"Yea yea everything is alright" said Nina as Kaiden sat down.

"Okay great so I was thinkinh maybe we could all go for bowling on saturday. What do you say?"

"Actually thats a good idea" said Claud.

"Great! so you all in?" Asked Kaiden looking at me.

Everyone agreed as I nodded towards him.

I was trying to find Mason so I could reason with him, something I can't do with Ally. As i was walking down the hallway I saw Carter coming from the other side. As he passed me I grasped his arm and stopped him. Glaring at him I said:

"Who do you think you are? You think  my life is a joke? One where you can comment and laugh at with your friends?"

He pushed my hand away but I wasn't going to stop.

"Why are you always such a jerk with your friends? While you were trying to impress your sweet Caroline did even once think about how I felt?"

He turned away from me while I talked. I couldn't believe this guy one second he's so calm and reasonable and the next I want to rip his head apart.

He turned towards me, anger running in his eyes.

"Why don't you go to your Kaiden? Your just a neive girl who doesn't know who's right for her"

I was in the kitchen cleaning the dishes.

"Can I have some water?" Said Alex standing behind me.

"Why don't you get it yourself?"

"Cause im small" he replied with a toothy smile, I couldn't help but smile myself.

I washed the last dish and picked Alex up, making him sit on the counter.

"Someone is getting heavy" I said and poured him a glass of water. While I watched him drink Daniel came running towards us.

"Eva can you please take us to park someday?"

"Why don't you go with dad?"

"Because its more fun with you, you can bring Ally along if you want" he said coming into my arms so I placed him with Alex.

"Eva what do you think about our stepbrother" asked Alex timidly.

"What do you two think about him?"

Both of them looked at each other and said bluntly:

"We don't like him"

I laughed at their answer and how quick it was.

"Really? I don't think he's that bad
"Oh no she's falling for it" said Alex.

"Eva Evans you are allowed to have only two brothers" said Daniel pointing his finger at me.

"Okay I won't, lets get you to bed now" I replied laughing.

After tucking the twins and Millie in for the night and wishing goodnight to dad I made my way back to my room, to my beautiful bed. I lay down and closed my eyes, drifting of to another world when I heard a knock.

I sat up and groaned. As I made my way to the door the knock came again and I realised that it wasn't coming from the door, it was coming from the window.

I rushed over to the window located next to my bed and saw who it was. It was Carter. I was stunned to see him What was he doing here? Why was he here at this time? And why didn't he come through the front door? All these questions were running through my mind as Carter gestured me to open the window. I hesitated for a second and then went forward to open it.

Carter climbed in and collapsed on the floor, breathing heavily. I watched him horrified, he was wearing a white shirt which was covered in blood so were his hands and face.

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