A new beginning

Chapter 9

CARTER'S POV;

James kiss was soft and sweet, I can still feel it on my lips. We are now heading for bed, I smile at him. No reaction, no smile, nothing, "Good night, James?" He looks at me.
"Night." he walks into his room and closes the door.
"Um, okay." I say back, now just looking and the door to James's room. I walk a little bit more down the hall and turn into my room, I close the door and pull off my shirt as I walk towards my dresser. I pull off my jeans and leave them laying on the floor as I open a drawer and pull out a pair of pj pants. They are a light blue colour and, because my legs are short, go past my feet onto the floor. I casually walk towards my bed and sit on the side, I fall back, my feet still touching the ground slightly. I sigh and close my eyes reliving the moment that happened not too long ago, the feeling I had of me actually having a chance.

JAMES POV;

"Good night, James?" I looked up at Carter, I sighed quietly.
"Night." I walk into my room and close the door, I lean my forehead against it and sigh once again. I feel really confused, maybe I should see a therapist or something? I feel like an asshole for kissing Carter and saying I loved him, love is a strong word, a really strong word and I just told Carter that I loved HIM, But I didn't mean too, I don't love him, at least I don't think so. That's when I begin to sing, it has nothing to do how I feel, I just sing to release stress sometimes;

Baby, you light up my world like nobody else.

The way that you flip your hair gets my over whelmed.

But when you smile at the ground it ain't hard to tell...;

I begin to walk to my bed and lay there under my covers, my eyes closed;

You don't know, you don't know your beautiful.
~*~*~
And when I see your face, there's not a thing that I would change 'cause boy you're amazing just the way you are.

And when you smile, the whole world stops and stays for a while 'cause boy you're amazing just the way you are;

Okay, maybe I do sing about how I feel, sometimes. That's when I get a text message from Amelia and I read it out loud to myself, "you still owe me a second chance... Wink face." I text her back once again saying out loud, "fine, i'll take you out for dinner tomorrow around five." I turn off my phone and fall to sleep.
I wake up to the sound of rain, great. I sigh at sit up stretching, I check my clock, "it's only 5:30 in the morning?" I fall back down on my bed and try to fall back asleep, why did I even wake up!?

CARTER'S POV;

I get up at 3:00am and quietly walk into the kitchen, I open the fridge and grab some iced tea and place it on the counter. I grab a cup from the dishwasher and pour some iced tea in the cup, I take a sip of the cold, refreshing drink and place the jug back in the fridge. As I walk back to my room I stop in front of James door, I sigh at my thought. I open the door slowly and peek inside, I smiled looking at sleeping James, man I'm creepy. I close the door and it slams, oops, I quickly but quietly walk to my room and lay back in bed. I put the cup on the end table and close my eyes.
Later that morning, around 10:00am, I get up to go to the daycare in town, I have a part-time job there, I got there at least twelve times a month and this is probably my eleventh time. I get $20 an hour so I think it's a good amount for doing something I enjoy, kids are so cute and they love me just as much as I love them.
I grab my tea from the counter an slip on my jacket, it's still raining from earlier but worse. I slipped on my shoes and grabbed my keys, "Are you leaving to go to the day care?" James asked as he walked out of the hallway.
"Yeah." I open the door, "I will be back around 5:00pm, okay?"
"Alright, I will be leaving sometime around then, just so you know."
"Where are you going?"
"A date." he said quietly. I nodded and opened the door.
"Bye."
"Bye." he walked into the kitchen as I left and closed the door behind me. I am very shocked that James is going on a date with someone after what happened the night before, it was probably Amelia again. James likes her, I can tell and I don't want to make him choose between us. I promised myself and to James no matter what happened we will be friends, I won't back out on that, ever. I park in the parking lot and walk inside, I hang up my jacket on a hanger.
"Carter!" A group of children cheered as they ran towards me and hugged my legs, I bent down and hugged them back.
"Hey, guys. How are you guys today?"
"Good." They answered with laughter, I love that sound, the sound of happy and cheerful children.
"That's good." Then I looked up and saw a child I didn't notice before, "who's that?"
"That's the new girl, her names Annie," one of the children, Cassidy said, she waved her hand to tell me to come closer so she could whisper in my ear, "she's an orphan. She lives at foster care." I gasped and looked at her, I walked towards Annie, she was sitting on a chair... alone. I sat beside her.
"Hello. I am Carter." She looked up at me.
"Hi," She had a quiet, sweet voice, "I am Annie." She gave me a smile.
"Why aren't you playing with the other kids?" I asked from beside her.
"They say I am different because my parents left me." She looked down as her smile faded.
"I think different is good. I like people who are different." I nudged her with my elbow and she chuckled. At that moment I totally forgot about James, I am too happy to worry now.