This chapter is for Hera another person who stayed with the story from the start. Thankyou for you for your support ( also check out her story The A.C.T its different and interesting)

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Me and Ally were standing in the parking lot. She was searching her bag for her phone.

"You know my mom's going crazy" she said still rummaging through her bag.

"Why?" I asked watching her.

"Somebody told her about a cereal that's very healthy and she's literally been feeding us that for three mornings now" She said finally finding phone.

"That's bad" I replied.

From the corner of my eye I saw Carter standing near his car, his arm draped around Caroline's shoulder as they listened to something their friend Bill was saying. Caroline slowly rested her head on his shoulder and I looked away, wishing I hadn't looked in the first place.

"Let's go" said Ally.

We walked towards the building but were stopped when someone called Ally's name. We turned around to see Drake running towards us, his bag hanging by his side.

"Hey" he said reaching her, breathing heavily.

"What do you want?" Asked Ally.

"Nothing...um....I was wondering if your were okay?" He said and I could see the surprise on Ally's face though she recovered quickly and raised her left eyebrow.

"Oh...Um....I saw you yesterday, at the park? You were crying, so I was just  wondering if everything is okay" He stuttered.

Ally was crying in the park? She really needs to let go of what happened and move on.

"Everything is fine Drake" She said walking away but Drake took hold of her arm.

"Then why were you crying?"

Ally sighed and looked at him.

"I saw a movie where the girl cried sitting in the park and her prince showed up, so I was just trying it out, apparently it didn't work. Now stop bothering me." She said and started walking towards the glass door, Drake didn't stop her this time. I just walked behind her, confused.

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"I'd like a coffee" 

I looked up and saw Carter standing in front of me.

Did he come here to see me? He looked tired like hasn't slept in a while.

I grabbed a cup from nearby as he sat down in the chair in front of me and poured freshly brewed coffee in it, he handed me money as I placed the cup in front of him. He took a sip staring at me, I shifted my gaze away from his, feeling intimidated. His stare has so much power in it.

I heard some shuffling and looked up again to see him opening his bag and taking out a folder from it.

"Here, our complete project" He said handing it to me.

I felt sad suddenly realizing he didn't come here to see me but to give the project. I don't why I am feeling like this lately. Why do I like his attention towards me?

"Thank you" I said holding it.

I placed the folder on the shelf below the counter, Carter was still sitting on the chair in front of me taking a sip of the coffee while looking around the cafe.

"Doesn't it get boring? Doing this every day?" He questioned me.

"It does sometime but I'm used to it" I replied.

"Why don't you leave it?"

"Not everyone has a lot of money like you Carter" 

He nodded and looked at his cup.

"Where is Kaiden these days?" He asked suddenly.

"Why" 

"Just wondering, haven't seen him around lately" he said shrugging his shoulders.

Coming to think of it he was right, Kaiden hasn't been to school for two days now neither did he come by the cafe or my house. Should I be worried? I decided to give him a call when I go back home just to make sure he's fine and besides we're going to meet on Sunday for the family dinner anyways.

"I'm sure he just didn't felt like coming to school, you do it too" I replied.

"You've been paying attention to me" said Carter, ghost of a smile on his face.

"You know something strange happened today" I said changing  the topic.

"what? Is everything okay?" He asked looking concerned suddenly.

Not understanding his reaction I carried on.

"Drake came and ask Ally if she was okay" I said looking at Carter, he didn't seem surprised at all.

"What's strange in that?" He asked taking another sip of his coffee.

"Are you kidding me? Its Drake we're talking about and why would he come and ask Ally if she's okay? OKAY?" I said trying to make him understand.

"Do you know Ally and Drake used to be friends" He said looking at me.

"WHAT?" I said looking at him surprised.

"You do know that Ally and Caroline used to be-"

"Best friends, yea I know" I said completing his sentence.

"Yea, well Drake was the third one, when Ally and Caroline had a fight he was asked to choose and he chose Caroline" said Carter.

"What a stupid jerk,choosing Caroline over Ally" I said a little angry.

"Not really, I mean we became friends through Caroline and I'm really thankful for that, you know Drake isn't really a bad guy"

"I highly doubt that" I huffed. "But why would he come and ask her if she's okay now?"

"It takes sometime I guess" He said and then looked directly at me "realizing your feelings"

He took the last sip of his coffee and got up. I didn't want him to leave so quickly.

"I guess this is it then?" I said.

"What?"

"You and me, I mean the projects done now"

"I don't think so" He said, that same blank expression on his face.

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"Here we go" said my mom placing the cookie batter in front of me to mix.

My mom picked me up way before time so we can cook together.

"Really? Mom" I said.

"What?" She asked innocently.

"I cannot believe this" I muttered and started mixing the batter.

"So how's your school going?" She asked shuffling through the cupboards.

"Its good" I replied.

"How are your friends? Maybe we ypu could bring Ally and Mason here someday, we can have our own little get together. Its been so long since I last saw them"

"We'll see" I replied.

Its not that I don't want my friends to meet my mom they have met her alot of times, its just that I don't think Mason and Ally would like to go anywhere together.

We finished the dinner before Henry and Kaiden came. We sat in the living area waiting for them. I was feeling sleepy already and tomorrow was monday, I hate mondays.

"So Eva is there someone you like?" Asked my mom.

I looked at her confused. Why would she suddenly ask me this question? When I thought about the question Carter's face came into my mind. I closed my eyes to get rid of it.

"No" I replied.

"You took awfully long to say that" sais my mom with a cheeky smile.

"No mom there is no one okay?" I said hurriedly.

"Okay, if you say so but I want you to know that if you ever want anyone to talk to I'm here"

She reached out and held my hand. Before I could think od something to say we heard the bell ring.

"They're here" squecked my mom and jumped of the couch and literally ran to the door.

I stood up to staring at the clock, how long is it going to take? Henry came in first followed my Kaiden and my mom.

"Eva" said Henry walking towards me and shaking my hand.

"Hi" I replied with a smile.

Kaiden looked at me and nodded with a smile. We all sat down, Kaiden sitting next to me. There was an awkward pause, a really awkward one but my mom broke it.

"You know Kaiden and Eva are getting along very well and that makes me so happy" she said to Henry as if we were not in the same room as hers.

"That's great" replied Henry smiling at her.

They both got into their own conversations which I was thankful for. I don't do quite well awkward.

"So where have you been for the past few days" I turned towards Kaiden.

"Just at home, you know relaxing" he replied.

But it didn't look like there was any relaxing. He looked tired and there were bags under his eyes.

"You don't look relax" I voiced my thoughts.

"Oh yea well I have been staying up late playing video games" he said with a smile.

I nodded and then saw him smirk.

"Have you been missing me?" He said.

I rolled my eyes at him as he laughed. We started the dinner soon after, the food was good we had done a good job and I can see my mom beaming. She's been waiting for this moment for so long.

"Eva you know you can come by my office some day, see how things work around in the building, maybe if you choose to study business in the future this could give you a lot of exposure" said Henry.

"Thankyou but I'm not really interested in business" I replied honestly.

"Still it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot" said my mom.

I nodded looking at her and she went back to talking to Henry who was telling her about something that happened at work today. I watched them carefully.

Mom had a smile everytime she talked to Henry while he would stop everything he's doing to listen carefully to every word she said. They would put food in each other's plate and hold hand sometimes. Totally lost in their own world. They both seemed happy, sitting here doing this. Maybe they really were in love, maybe this was the right thing after all but in all of this what about my dad? What was he in this story? And did my mom ever loved him?

I turned away from them and focused on my food. I miss my father.

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I was in Ally's kitchen, her parents had gone to visit some relatives of them and so we had the whole house to ourselves. Ally had ordered a pizza and was taking out the cold drinks.

"You and Drake used to be friends." I stated eating a chocolate I found on the counter.

"Yea, didn't you know?" She replied totally unbothered.

"No!"

"Well it isn't exactly your fault, Drake wasn't an eye catcher back then. Anyways it was a long time ago"

"But he came up and asked you how you were today" I said trying to get her attention.

"Yea well its too late for that" she replied like that.

"Stop being like this"

"Like what?"

"Like this mean person that your not" I stated.

"What? You want me to be nice towards Drake?" She asked looking at me finally.

"No, screw Drake I'm talking about you okay. Look Ally I get it. It sucks to get your heart broken but you need to get over it, you need to move on cause the only person who's going to get affected by this is you" I said a little more harshly than intended.

She was my best friend and I hated to see her like this. She needs to realize there's so much more to life than this. There are better moments awaiting her than this sad one.

We heard the door bell ring ending the conversation.

"I'll get the pizza" she said walking out the kitchen.

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Question. Who do you imagine Eva as? Comment and vote. Happy weekend.