Secret world

New Frienships

This chapter is written in Jen's perspective. Enjoy!

I can't believe that I am such a drama queen, well at least that's how I feel after I basically had an overdramatised sobbing session with the guy I have a crush on. Wait... Did I just admit that I have a crush on the guy who bullied me at school. What's happening to me?
I looked over at Carl who was peeking through the door to see if anyone was near, he then looked at the broken lock on the door and started to slowly fix it. I wonder who actually broke the lock because I am sure that it wasn't us. After Carl fixed the lock he closed the door and locked it so that no one can open it from the outside, he then took a small shelf that was next to a bunch of beakers and pushed it to the door for extra protection.
I touched my face which now had dry tear stains on it, I patted down my brown hair and decided to tie it up in a pony tail. I must look like a real baby now with a tear stained face and my hair up in a pony tail. After that I decided to circumspectly look around the room, it was fascinating, it looked just like a mad scientist's laboratory with beaker and test tubes filled with different coloured liquid. The room was quite bright because of the many tube lights that were in the room but the room had no windows. there was a small stand in the conner of the room which had three lab coats on it. As I kept looking at the captivating room I couldn't help but feel something odd about this room. something didn't seen right but I couldn't put my finger on it. I was about to look around the room again to figure out what was odd about it but at that moment I heard an irritating voice say my name.
"Jen."
I turned to look at carl, I had a scowl on my face but it quickly faded as I kept looking at him.
in a gentle voice he said "I fixed the lock and locked the door so that no one will come in this room, I also pushed a shelf towards the door, you know... just in case."
I kept looking at him as he spoke but it was hard to concentrate on what he was saying because he stared right into my eyes the whole time. It was like he was staring into my soul.
"We will stay here tonight just till the situation dies down because now they are on the look out for us and I don't want to take any chances," he said in one big breath, his voice was serious but also calm. He waited for me to respond.
"That's fine by me," was all I said. I felt weird talking to him because he was just to handsome that I got really nervous, this was one reason but the other reason was that I was more or less scared. I was scared because I thought that one small word could make me a victim of being bullied by him again. He kept staring at me, gosh his eyes were amazing but I looked away. I then found an empty space on the floor and sat down and looked at my hands. they were pale and freezing cold but I didn't care.
Carl sat next to me and I started to feel really uncomfortable. He raised his knees and put one hand over his left knee.
"I'm sorry," he said with a sympathetic smile. I on the other hand was absolutely shocked by his words. I decided that it would be best to keep quiet and just listen to what else he has to say... if he has anything more to say.
I kept playing with my fingers and didn't look at Carl as he continued.
"I'm sorry that I bullied you at school because to be honest I only bullied you because my friends did and that was really horrible of me." He kept starring at me but I promised myself that I wouldn't look at him, I knew that if he kept talking, I would break that promise.
"I'm sorry that I was nasty to you during this week because you trusted me with how you felt even after I bullied you at school and all I did was bully you more."
I started to mentally say to myself, 'don't look at him Jen, don't look at him Jen'
"That's three sorry's, do you want more," he said with a hint of amusement in his tone.
"It's okay," I said quickly without looking at him.
"I would ask if we can be friends but we're not babies so..."
I looked at him and it was when I looked at him that I knew that I broke my promise to myself. He smiled at me and I realised that we were so close to each other. I slowly shifted away from him so that he wouldn't notice.
"Who cares if we're babies, do you want to be friends because we can't solve this issue if we aren't nice to each other," he said mocking a babies voice. I couldn't help but laugh unattractively and quickly covered my mouth before I snorted. He chuckled under his breath and kept smiling at me.
"What do you say?" He asked me with amusement. "I'm not a bad guy once you get to know me." He had his hand out so that I can shake it.
"I will be your friend on one condition," I said waiting for a response.
"Hmm?" He said with a smirk.
"You can never bully me or hurt me again, even if we go back to school you can never bully me, understood," I said with a firm voice.
"Yes ma'am," he said laughing and I started laughing with him.
"So tell me about yourself," he said in a normal voice.
"What," I said with a laugh.
"Yeah I want to know, who is Jen Dawson," he said.
"Well there is not much to know," I said in artificial bored ness but on the inside I was like, yes!! Carl wants to know what I'm like.
"Okay, I'll ask the questions and you give the answers, ready," he said seating himself differently like he was about to play a game.
"Okay," I said with a large smile.
"Favourite colour?"
"Blue,"
"Age?"
"17,"
"Full name?"
"Jennifer Maddison Dawson."
"Favourite subject?"
Science but I also really like mathematics"
"Interesting I absolutely love science as well, what's you favourite song, you know before the government banned listening to music?"
I really like the song 'Love me like you do' by Ellie Goulding, but my favourite song changes all the time."
"I hate the movie that song was in,"he said with a disgusted look.
"Yes me too," I said while laughing
"Anyway, what's your favourite movie?"
"The fault in our stars," I said with a smile as I remembered the movie.
"Of course, all girls like that movie," he said rolling his eyes "I don't have a favourite movie I like all action movies, right now I feel like I am living in one." he said in a blank face.
"How many siblings do you have?"
"None, I'm an only child," I said. I wonder what it would be like to have siblings. would we always fight like in the movies or would we do anything for each other? But I am also relieved that I am an only child, I don't know why I mean yes it gets lonely but like I said i'm used to it.
"I have two siblings, a brother who is four years older than me and a sister who is eight, they all disappeared along with my mother."

Awkward silence

I decided to break the silence by Saying "what about your father?" I realised that I shouldn't have asked that, after I said it but I was a curious cat. (metaphorically speaking).
"Oh, he left us right before my sister, Taylor was born." he said looking down.
"I'm sorry Carl," I said in a sympathetic voice.
"It's okay, it's not you fault. you didn't know, it was probably my fault."
"No Carl, it was never your fault, if your idiot father decided to leave, he missed out on seeing what an amazing son he's got," I said hoping that he wouldn't be mad that I called his father an idiot. After I said that he thought for a moment and smiled.
"Yeah your right, that's his problem not mine." He said with a smirk.
"Exactly," I said laughing.
"What did you want to be when you were older?" He asked me.
"Well... I wanted to do something that involved science and I love mystery so I wanted to be a forensic scientist or a detective." I said with enthusiasm.
"Oh... I get it now, that's why you wanted to solve this, because one, it's like a mystery and two, you knew that almost everyone is being treated unfairly and you wanted to provide justice, just like a true detective," he said with an amused face like he just won the lottery.
It took me a while to process what he said and when I did I realised that he was absolutely right.
"That's absolutely right," I said with a laugh, as I kept laughing I did something completely embarrassing because I did a loud snort. Just when I thought that I was going to get teased Carl started laughing with me instead of at me and we both started having a laughing fit.
I guess I did make a new friend. Not another enemy.

A/N: hey guys, so yes
I hope you liked this chapter because I personally do. what a change in Carl's character am I right? But there is something Carl is hiding about his father and if you can guess what it is, I will dedicate the next chapter to that person. But until then.
See you!!!😃😃😃😝