The Puck Bunny

Thirty-Three

CARTER

I was livid with him.

He tries to bring up what happened and says he regrets it, then he flips and says he doesn't want to be friends with me?

L-I-V-I-D.

I didn't waste any time thinking on him after that. I was way too pissed to let him cloud my thoughts for a second more. I changed out of the clothes I was wearing, including the Green Day shirt Luke had once mocked, and changed into jeans and a sweater that belonged to my dad that I now claimed as my own. It felt good to have them off my body, knowing it was what I was wearing when he decided to say those words.

I was so caught up in what Luke had said to me that I didn't even rejoice in the way my arm now moved so freely without the cast on it. I rolled back my sleeves to examine my arm. I smiled at the sight until a sound broke my train of thought.

Luke's door closed.

I hadn't heard it close after our argument, and I hadn't heard it open just now. Had he been standing there that whole time? Was he going back inside or leaving somewhere? Where was he going? I found myself desperate to know what he might be thinking in that brain of his. If he was thinking at all. Everything that happened could just be a result of his brain not thinking.

No Carter, you don't make excuses for him. He's an adult and he made his own choices towards you. The sooner you can forget about him, the better your life will begin to feel.

The sound of footsteps outside in the hallway and the elevator opening told me he had left, rather than stayed. Where he would be going was a mystery to me and I was determined to keep it that way. I pulled my phone out and called Lexi.

"Hey Carter! What's up? How did your appointment go?"

"No cast, they're very happy with it. I'm not doing so good since being back"

"What happened?"

"He happened"

"Fraser?"

"The other one"

"Ah. Wait, didn't he drive you there? You didn't leave him there did you?"

"It's a long story"

"Wanna come over here and tell it?"

"Yes, yes I do. I'll come soon. I just need to finish tidying my room" Lexi and I hung up and I went about finishing the shit I was doing. I heard Luke's door open and close again, meaning he was back from wherever he'd gone after our 'chat'. Soon after my phone buzzed with a text from him.

*I'm honestly sorry about before. I'm not going to dinner, promise, you go*

I chuckled to myself and grabbed my keys. I didn't give two shits if he was at dinner or not. This wasn't like before, his behaviour wasn't about to dictate whether I hung out with my friends or not. I shut my door and locked is, making my way across the quad to Pioneer.

When Lexi opened the door, I chuckled as I walked in. Her worried look turned into a grin.

"I'm so excited to hear whatever it is you're going to tell me" She gushed.

"Oh, this tops all the shit I've been through since being here, no doubt."

We sat on her bed and I started the story from Luke and I being at the hospital, to me making him leave, then to Fraser giving me a ride back, to mine and Luke's argument and then ending with the text he sent me just before.

"Wait, you made him drive back here in your car?" I nodded.

"I told him if he didn't leave before I finished my appointment, I'd take the keys back and leave him there instead" Lexi laughed.