This is for crazy_catalyst (I don't know your real name, sorry) one of the first people who read my story from the start and stuck with it. Believe me there was a time when I was writing just for your one vote. Thank you for your support.

We were all sitting in the cafeteria, Ally finally decided to be strong and showed up at school. She was sitting beside me, staring at the fries in front of her. She hasn't taken a bite yet although these are her favorite. I'm worried about her, this shouldn't continue happening.

"Oh here comes Mason and Nina" said Claud waving behind us I could feel Ally tense up beside me, sitting a little straighter.

"Hey guys" said Nina sitting down next to Ally, Mason sat down next to her.

"I need to go to the bathroom" said Ally standing up quickly.

"No wait, I need to tell you all something" said Nina grabbing her hand and pushing her down.

she looked at Mason and smiled taking his hand in hers, I saw the way Mason smiled back at her.

"Me and Mason are dating" she said with a big grin.

"WHAT!?" said Claud jumping out of his seat, while the rest gawked at Nina and Mason.

"Really?"Said Sarah.

"No kidding?" Said Justin.

"I knew it!!" said Claud still standing up as Nina and Mason both laughed at everyone's reaction.

"Congratulations" I said with a smile.

" Yeah, congratulations you two" said Ally beside me, trying her best to smile at Nina.

Mason didn't look our way, he was ignoring Ally and I could see that. This is not what I wanted for us three. Our friendship cannot frizzle out like this. We don't deserve that.

"Oh check that out" Said Claud finally sitting down.

we all turned to see Carter and Caroline walk into the cafeteria holding hands. Everyone was staring at them, Caroline had a big fat grin on her face that I wanted to smash off of her. Carter had the same expression he always has. Blank. Giving nothing away. they walked to their royal table, Haley and the rest lingering behind them. The look on Haley's face was priceless, she looked at Caroline like she was about to murder her. I wouldn't really mind if she did that. 

I turned away cause I really need to stop looking at them. At him. I tried to calm myself down, not trying to react in anyway. The cafeteria was still quite.

"Stop watching them" I snapped at my friends and they all came out of their daze.

"Well it was about time" said Sarah, taking a sip of her juice.

"This is so last year" said Ally standing up. She grabbed her bag and left, my eyes trailing behind her back.

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I was sleeping in my room peacefully when I was woken up by the piercing sound of my ringtune. I rubbed my eyes and sat up, leaning against the headboard. Reaching for my mobile phone on the side I glanced at the screen and saw that it was an unknown number.

I thought a minute not sure if I should pick it up. I closed my eyes but the phone started to ring again. Groaning I anwered the call.

"Hello" I said with a yawn.

"Its Carter" came a voice and I straightened up. Sleep gone from my eyes.

"How did you get my number?" I asked.

"I told you I am stalking you" he replied.

Out of instinct I looked out of my window in the street.

"No, I'm not outside your house"

"How did you know I was looking out the window?" I enquired.

"Cause your predictable Eva Evans"

"What do you want?" I asked irritated rubbing my forehead as a pain started to form.

"You do rememner that next monday is the day we have to submit our project right? So I was wondering maybe you could come over at my house and we can finish it" He said.

His voice has always been deep with a hint of crisp, like a melody. I think I like the sound of it.

"Okay" I replied without arguing surprising myself.

He didn't say anything for a moment surprised too and me agreeing so easily.

"Okay, see you tomorrow" he said and hanged up.

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I was walking to school today, my bicycle's back tyre had punctured yesterday when I was coming back home from the cafe. The sun shone between the splits in the clouds. It was getting colder and colder everyday.

"Eva, wait up" came a voice from behind me and I turned to see Mason running towards me.

"Good morning" I said with a smile.

"You too" he replied breathing heavily.

We walked side by side, not talking with each other and for the first time it was awkward. And that killed me.

"Um...hey about the Nina thing-" started Mason.

"I'm happy for you Mason, I really am" I said looking at him.

"No I mean thankyou but I don't want you to think anything would change between us after this, we're always going to be the same right?"

Even though he was saying it I could see he wasn't sure of it himself.

"Yea I hope nothing changes between you and me but what about Ally?"

His expression darkened when I said that.

"She told you?" He asked.

"Mason I've been known for a long time now"

"What!? And you never told me?" He asked and stopped walking.

"It was never my confession to tell" I replied, standing too.

"Listen Eva its not my fault okay? I have never seen Ally in that way, she was a friend to me and still is. If something changes its all on her"

"Mason I never said its your fault I get it you like who you like but she is heartbroken right now and you ignoring her like this is not going to help"  I said crossing my arms.

"Eva what can I do then? I still cannot believe it that Ally likes me in that way, I need time to process okay? And I'm with Nina now, she shouldn't feel bitter about it or her." Said Mason frustrated.

"Yea about Nina how come you never told me and Ally about liking her before, if you had a lot of damage would not have happened"

"Its because you never tell me anything, you think I'm not seeing you and that new guy Kaiden hanging out together lately?"

"Gosh Kaiden he is my mom's fiance's son" I said.

"What? See you never told me about it I bet Ally knows" he said angrily.

"Ah, Mason that's not the point what we are talking about is you and Ally and how we're going to fix this"

Mason started walking again, I followed behind him. I don't know what he is thinking but him and Ally have to get through this together, its not worth costing a friendship.

"We'll see what happens" he said after awhile.

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I rang the bell again, standing outside Carter's house, half expecting Caroline to jump out. He opened the door looking a little flustered.

"Hey, come on in" he said stepping aside to give me way.

I stepped inside and was instantly hot by a sharp smell of burnt food.

"What's that?" I said coughing from all the smoke.

"Oh I was trying to cook for you.....and me I mean we're going to get hungry studying so....." he said.

I nodded looking at him. He went to open the windows so fresh air could come in. His house was the same magnificient one I came to before, just cleaner.

"Wait here a minute" he said walkibg back to the kitchen.

I walked over to the couch and sat down, it was softer than I thought. Im front on the wall was the television with a big screen, the sound system, play station and dvd below it. In the corner stood a guitar in black colour. I walked towards it and picked it up, strumming the strings lightly with my hand. It created a strange sound.

"Okay, lets go to my room" said Carter scaring me at his sudden arrival.

"Yeah" I said recovering and placed the guitar down where it was before.

We walked up the stairs to his room, I remember it from the time I came here to use the bathroom. When Haley spilled the drink on me ruining my shirt that I loved so much.

"So I wrote the end, you can read it to fix grammatic errors" he said walking over to his study table and opening his bag.

I walked over to his dressing table and saw perfumes and deodrants of different brands placed on it.

"This is how you do it?" I said looking at him.

He looked at me confused.

"Do what?"

"Get the girl? Spray a perfume and put them under a spell, is there some kind of magic in it?" I said walking away from the dressing table.

"Eva?" He said with a small laugh, so small I could have missed it, but I didn't.

"Tell me is there a specific perfume for a specific type? This kind of girl is going to be attracted with this, something like that. And that guitar outside? I bet you bring them home and sing a beautiful romantic song to them" I said laughing.

"Eva" said Carter laughing with me now.

"I caught you didn't I? I caught your techniques Carter William I did.

"Eva, you look adorable right now" he said softly and I stopped talking. My heart beating a little faster and a strange kind of tug in my stomach.

"Anyways? What you're going to do with them? My techniques?" He asked.

"Im going to give them to Mason" I said walking towards him.

"Yeah if that's going to help him" he said with a laugh.

"Don't talk about him like that, don't talk about my friend like that." I said all homour gone from my voice.

He looked at me and sighed.

"I'm sorry" he said walking towards the bed.

"You know you have to apologize to Mason about punching him in the face" I said walking to the other side of bed.

"No I'm not, he was being a jerk" said Mason opening his notebook.

"What? He was being a friend because someone else was being a jerk" I retorted back.

"Eva can we focus on the project"

"I'll punch you in the face and you'll know how much it hurts" I said raising my fist, looking at him seriously.

He looked at the my hand and then at me.

"You won't punch me" He said with so much confidence that I was surprised.

"What makes you think that?" I said.

"You can't hurt me"

"Yea cause that's something only you do" I replied catching him off guard.

He chose to ignore that and handed me the notebook.

We worked on the project for a while. I observed Carter as I did the project, he scrunched his face a little when he is concentrating hard. His eyes moving from one place to other, keeping everything in view. It was a habit of his to push his hair away when he was stuck at something. His bruises from that night had healed alot, you can only see them if you look carefully.

I leaned back against the headboard tired. My eyes shifted to the side table. There were two framed photographs on it. I picked one up and looked at it.

There was Carter as a kid, about eleven years old with his parents. His mother looked fresh wearing a green dress while his father stood next to her with a big smile on his face. Carter was standing in front of them as they hugging him from behind.

"Where is this one from?" I asked turning the photo so he could see it.

"This was Paris, we went there in summer vacations, it was the best trip I had"

I could see the hint of sadness in his eyes as he looked at the photo.

"You know you should ask your parents more forcefully to come back and spend time with you" I said.

"You think I haven't tried that? Nothing works with them" he replied going back to his work.

I didn't push the subject forward, it was his personal matter. Instead I reached out for the other photo.

It was of him and Drake on a beach, the picture wasn't an old one. They were both laughing, Drake was facing the sky while Carter looked down as they laughed. Both of their hairs flying around because of the wind.He looked so carefree and normal, he always look like that when he's laughing. All his pretence and guard gone.

I looked at him again as he as he wrote something on a paper. What is he doing to me?
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Here you go another chapter! Do you like my speed of updating huh? I had fun writing this one especially the Carter and Eva scene. Do tell me what you think about and don't forget to vote. I love you all. Happy reading.