It's the middle of the sixth period and not seeing carter all day was eating from the inside out, also the fact that I was being blackmailed but you get the point. The numbers 12-32-7 were running through my head all day, what was gonna be in that locker? Apparently, I spaced out for the rest of the class because Owen had to tap on my shoulder to tell me that class was over. "Hey, don't mind me just spaced out..like usual."
"It's no problem with me, you look cute spaced out." Owen smiled Now in my head right now id be screaming but it was just foggy in there. I couldn't comprehend that Owen Tiller just called me cute, so I got weird and told him,"your face looks squishy"
"Thank you... I think" he said, walking away
Great, this is just great. That incident just made me want to die, but I didn't have time to think about how I was going to fix things with Owen. I had to get tho that god damn locker before I'd have to suffer "consequences." I was hoping on my way to the locker room I'd bump into carter then again I wasn't. I silently reached the door and tugged at the handle with no regrets because my life was already going downhill. I shut my eyes in fright because whatever I was about to walk in on was gonna be a nightmare.
"Spence?"
"who's there?" I said slowly opening an eye.
"What the hell are you doing?" carter said while dragging be away from the open door behind me.
"Um, what are you doing carter?" Now I only said this because in my mind I thought for a second that maybe carter was the anonymous writer.
"I'm dressing... In the Boys Locker Room, Did you need something" He said laughing
1. STAY AWAY FROM CARTER
"No, I mean yes. I wanna know why you are avoiding me and haven't answered my texts or why you had that book in the first place, and how long and who number 13 and 17 are because clearly you're connected!" I rambled and came to a pause
"I really wanna kiss you right now."
The blush crept onto my face like an allergic reaction" That has nothing to do with what I asked" I spoke quietly. He put his hand onto my cheek and rubbed it with his thumb. "Look Spence, I've been avoiding you all day because, to be honest, I'm a little hurt. I just thought that we told each other everything, and I thought we did everything together and-
The blushing attacks were constant, " Carter what do you mean by that.?"
"Spence! For once let me talk, please. I mean that I should've said something a long time ago, but I like you, Scratch that Spence I fucking love you. I thought that id has more time before you started doing that with other guys and trust me I know I'm not supposed to have an opinion about what you did or what you do. And if you're thinking that I'm a part of that idiotic book your wrong, I just found the book in my locker so to answer your question Spencer I don't know who 13 and 15 are."
"It's 13 and 17," I said, he shot me a stop being a smart ass look.I had about three seconds before I had to respond to his heartfelt speech, but I was saved by a ring literally. Locker 37 echoed from across the locker room. Carter didn't seem shocked but I did. I attempted to walk fast to the locker but the anticipation slowed me down."Spence it's just a phone what are you doing? You're freaking me out you OK?"
My breaths got heavy and in the blur of the moment the combination of the locker flew out my head. Rushing to get a piece of paper out of my backpack I felt a hand on my back. "Spence tells me what's going on, you can't keep shutting me out " Tears started to form in the underlining of my eyes as I backed up against the lockers and handed carter the note. " Spence what is this," I told him to read it while my voice cracked up because I hadn't realized how much holding a secret like this could damage someone.
It seemed like he was reading it forever. He was. Carter picked up his eyes and threw them towards me but didn't say a word. He slowly walked past me to locker 39 and managed to put in the combo I was searching for in my head. Throwing it open he reached in and grabbed the phone we heard ringing earlier. It was an old model of a flip phone, he opened the phone and Redialed the caller with the ID of 18. The phone stopped ringing and so did the anticipation.
"Hello..."
