Forced Love

Chapter 33 Stage

"They stole our sketch." Charlie hissed, I nodded, how on earth did they get it? No, I may have thought this would happen, just never thought they would stoop so low as to do this. Charlie was boiling mad, but we had to think of something quick, something right after the date they just performed. John took care of all the planning with Andrew and me but he's the one who came up with the concept. He looked like he was going to burst, we had to think of something, anything.

"I've got it." Alex piped up. He whispered into Emma's ear and she nodded very fast. "Just follow me." he said and they quickly went off stage. Before that, Alex asked me to do something. I nodded and went quickly to turn on some music. I rushed as quickly as I could and got the music on, when I rushed back I almost fell flat on my face until someone caught me.

"Thanks."

"No problem, how about a little kiss for ransom?" Adam asked. I quickly got up and shook my head. "Maybe later, I have to be there for Charlie." I said as I scampered off, I could hear his low chuckle and for some reason my cheeks heated for a second. I came to the stage and it all had started, the scenerary was the same except the bench was gone. Charlie had on Alex's jacket and hat she gave the jacket back to him when she was about to leave she let out a sad smile as Alex held her hand. She turned and started walking away but Alex twisted her around to face him and they looked at each other with intimacy. I noticed Carter by me and I smirked. "Don't you wish you were him?" He didn't say anything in response and I kept looking, instead of kissing her on the lips, Alex held her hand up to his face and then kissed her on the hand and then swayed off taking the hat off her tiny head and winked. Charlie put her hand to her cheek and sighed heavily and the lights were off. Charlie quickly got off the stage not even acknowledging Carter was here and she just ran straight to the area as I followed behind.

"Absolutely brilliant, loved it darling." John said coming over to her and picking her up.

"Great improv." Andrew said slapping Alex's back.

"Hey, it's from this great mind here." Alex said pointing to his smart head. I laughed from behind but of course they wouldn't notice. I'm always like this, in the shadows trying so hard to be in it but nothing I do will change. I go over to the mirror where Charlie had her makeup and hair done by us and sit on the stool looking at the happy crowd. We had a little break since the audience was deciding right now, maybe we had a chance, maybe we could win at least 2 to 1. I don't know, we all had a little break asa the voting commenced and we would the last part of the task was only to get some people to change there minds on the thing. You see, everyone has a cell phone now, so they can vote anytime they want, the third round is only to confirm there descision. They vote for each task, which one they liked best, I hope we would win because I put too much on the line.

"Hey, thanks for everything Katie." Charlie said looking up to me.

"No problem."

"No, I mean thanks for being here for me and making these descisions." I smiled and she smiled back. I went around the building, might as well go up on the roof for some fresh air. I came up and there was someone already there sitting back in the yellow bright sun.

"Katie, is that you?" he asked turning.

"Yes Carter." he was already dressed in a little puffy dark blue suit ready to dance. "What are you doing here?"

"Fresh air, Alice is calling a professional hair dresser and make-up artist." he said knowing that I would probably ask why he wasn't with Alice. I sighed and started heading back down but then he stopped me.

"Sit with me?" I sighed and sat with him. "What is it?"

"Are they really together?"

"Why ever not?" I said exasperated, this love sick fool. I have no time for his feelings to be poured out.

"Listen, it's partially your fault for not trusting her in the first place so I suggest manning up and taking her back before you go pouring out your feelings to people." I snapped. He stared at me for a moment then bursted out laughing. "You're right, I'm acting like a kid." he said as he continued on laughing. I stood there, dumbstruck, he was laughing at my retort.

"You're weird."

"Yeah, I know, thanks."

"For calling you weird?"

"No, for putting some sense into me." he grinned laying on his back smiling. I scoffed but I quietly smiled, at least he was getting some sense of how girls are. I came downstairs quickly but my stupid shoe lace came undone and made me fall, but I was caught, I was expecting you know who and he was there.

"That's double the ransom." he smirked, "You must really want to keep owing me."

"In your dreams Summers."

"Oo, already at the nickname stage." I scoffed and rolled my eyes, I took his hands off me and started walking with a steady pace. I got down to tie the dang shoe and got up but he was there when I bumped into him and fell flat on my butt.

"Are you okay?" A foreign voice said, I guess it wasn't Adam. He held out his hand and I looked up to see who it was. It was Mason Lock, the calm looking boy. He helped me up and I thanked him, I felt a strange aura piercing through me.

"Well if you're done, then shoo." Adam said putting his arms around me and leaning against me. I tried to shift away from his grasp but he wouldn't budge and kept a really firm grip on me. "Hey, you should let the lady go." Mason said politely.

"Hmm, no, I like my position." he said strongly, Mason just gave a skeptical look and walked off, as soon as he turned Adam's grip loosened. I got out and turned at him.

"What?" he said.

"Why did you keep me in that position?"

"It was entertaining, besides you are my fiancee."

"Canidate." I firmly said. I shook him off and left asa he was laughing, what was with him, why is he being so grabby all of a sudden. I shook my head and came back to the built in dressing room, I searched for everyone before Nick suddenly came in.

"We lost them!"

"What, what do you mean?" I blithered out.

"Charlie and Alex, they're gone!" he said.

"We just left them to do the rest of the touch ups though!"

"Yeah, and they're suddenly gone!"

"Aish, did you call them?"

"Yeah, but there phones are on the table." I didn't need this to happen, the show was about to start in 10 minutes.

"Is everyone looking for them right now?"

"Yes, we're all searching for them but we don't have much time." I called Moose and he was also searching with Mace and Luke. "Keep looking." I said on the phone. Where could they have been, the show was abou to start. Moose came up and shook his curls. Adam came around right behind him but I ignored him.

"There's no time, the show is starting in 5 minutes." I bit the lower part of my lip, what were we going to do? The bet required us to stay in at all times, what could we do. I noticed Moose had a little bag and I wondered if that would help any.

"Moose, what's that?" I asked.

"A wig for Charlie since her hair is so short." I got it, no, Nick is too short. I looked around and Adam was there, I took him by the collar and dragged him over to Moose.

"This is a bit direct don't you think?"

" I need your help so shut up and listen." I said looking at him in the eye, instead of having a teasing or an amusing look, he looked stunned, ready to listen and impressed. I hoped we could pull this off, I turned to Moose and he realized what I was thinking, I pushed Adam into Moose and Adam was a bit confused at what was happening. Well at least he won't be asking a lot of questions now.