Notes and Kisses

Part Two - Kisses

                                                   - P A R T  T W O -

                                                          K I S S E S

Trece

I think there's a time where you just wanted to disappear. Like, if something went wrong and you couldn't take the result of that, you would wish to never have seen that or experienced that. It's funny sometimes how one simple note could make you feel special. Butterflies were forming in the pit of your stomach even though you didn't exactly know who sent you that note. But since that day... the day that I knew what those two guys did, I just wanted to move to another place. Somewhere where they couldn't find me. But one thing that came to my mind, I shouldn't feel bad about it.

                 I felt lucky, actually, that they both like me and they did something like that just to make a move on me. But I think it would be best if they come to me and just man up and ask me out. Maybe they were afraid of rejections...

                 I laughed a little at that thought. Guys shouldn't feel afraid about rejections, right? Or I wasn't thinking right? They humans, too, and maybe just like me and other people around us, they didn't want to feel unwanted as well. It's hard to deal with rejections, yes, I know. But they were still a little wrong about doing that.

                 I suspected that it's either one of them. But I never thought—it didn’t even cross mind—that it’s the two of them. I was also thinking why Aaron would even want to join forces with Stephen when he knew that he was his rival, right? If he really likes me, he should have done something that was different to what Stephen was capable of doing.

                 Since it’s summer at this time, I wouldn’t be able to see Aaron for two months because—since he’s been my neighbour for four years now, I knew already what they usually do during summer—they would be going to Europe for their vacation trip or something. And Stephen and Sam would spend their summer at their grandparents place to who knew where. I didn’t bother to know. I just felt glad that they wouldn’t be here for the summer and no one would…

                 “Carter! You have a visitor!” I heard mom shouted from the outside.

                 Oh, great. Who would that be now?

                 I went downstairs immediately. I fumbled with my steps a little causing me to fall on the last two steps of the stairs. Huh, clumsy much?

                 When I opened the front door, my mouth fell on the ground. Okay, maybe that was just an exaggerated reaction but you know what I meant. Aaron was standing on the front door with—didn’t expect that coming, actually—flowers on his hands. It’s a bouquet of different flowers but that wasn’t caught my attention, it’s Aaron. I was expecting him to be out of the country now. This was the second week since summer vacation had started. Why was he still here?

                 “Honey, close your mouth. We don’t want to see a fly get in there,” mom teased as she moved a pot of her flower on the backyard.

                 “What…” was all I was able to say.

                 And Aaron found it funny! He chuckled before saying, “I didn’t go along with my family. I decided to stay here…” he paused, smirking at the end.

                 I scowled at him. “What? Spit it out, jerk. I don’t have time for your games,” I yelped out in frustration.

                 He shook his head. “To man up and maybe ask you out?” he said the last part in a questioning tone.

                 “You know, if you really want to man up, why don’t you start acting like some kind of a decent man here and ask me properly without all the smirks and the pausing in your sentences. Aaron, all I’m saying is… do something about yourself first before you start making your moves to me because apparently, all I’ve seen for the last three years was you making fun of other people, making a fool out of themselves and be a jerk. So yeah, do something about yourself. And if ever you are able to fix yourself, come back here and ask me again. Who knows, I might go out with you. But right now…” I smiled sweetly, not even finishing my statement. I slammed the door in front of his face.

                 Ha, take that, Aaron Fletcher!

                 Just that moment, the phone rang. I answered it right away.

                 But you know, that was the biggest mistake that I did. I should have waited for mom to answer it.

                 “Hello, Carter,” Stephen said on the other line. What’s with this people? They never stopped making my day bad.

                 “What do you want, Stephen?” I asked in a very cold tone that hopefully he got immediately.

                 “Well, I just want to ask if you’ll be available this weekend?” he asked, wincing at the end.

                 I shook my head. Another guy that had to do something about himself. “Why would you even ask that? You’re going to ask me out? I don’t know… I think I’ll be busy since you are going to ask me out on that day. So yeah…” I concluded.

                 I didn’t exactly know when I started to act such a bitch to these guys. A week after I found out their little secret, I ignored them. And when I came back to school, that’s how I talked to them already. Hmm… Bad things could make someone bad as well, I guess.

                 “Carter—”

                 “Look, Stephen. I don’t have time for you nor to Aaron. You want to ask me out, do it personally. But since I still can’t forget what you did, you better stay away from me as possible for the meantime, okay? Bye.” Just like what I did to Aaron—although this was a phone and not a door—I slammed the phone down.

                 I sighed. I didn’t want this new self of me. It was so not like me… at all!

                 I’d have to figure out how to go back to that old Carter. Well, this new Carter was not that bad. I just have to avoid being such a bitch. Hopefully, though, I could face those two guys already. Even though I was doing those actions to them, they were still doing their best to make it up to me.

                 Oh, I just wish for something amazing to happen to me this summer.

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*So, hey guys! This is back. And this is the part two of the book, I guess. The chapters are continuous. I decided to just post the part two here instead of putting it to another book. But I still hope you will like Carter's comeback.