Can You Hear Me Now?

Chapter 4: Wait Right Here

"I call shotgun!" Logan calls out.

I end up sitting in between Ashton and Jayden. Jayden's arm keeps brushing over mine. I know he's a major player at school and has probably slept with the entire senior class of girls. Ashton gets around. I think he was in a band a while ago but they didn't make it far. Logan is the nice one. I don't know how he's friends with these people. He was the smartest kid in the grade last year. I was so close to being the highest, but I'm over it now. Zander is a whole other story. I heard he went to Juvie for beating up a guy really badly. He always has a scowl on his face. It's like his resting bitch face. Either way they are all so very good looking. I won't deny it.

"Carter?" Someone says snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Yeah?" I ask uncertain of who called my name.

"I asked what do your parents do," Zander says looking at me through the rear view mirror.

I've never had to answer this question. My parents aren't really role models.

"Um my mom is in sales," I say a little uncertain.

" And what about your dad?" He asks again.

"What about your dad?" I ask changing the subject off of my sorry excuse of a father.

" We're talking about you, sweetheart. Not me," he replies pulling up to an apartment building.

" My dad left when I was 14," I mumble.

They must have some good ass hearing cause they all say "bummer".

"This is a nice place your family has," I say admiring the outside of the building.

"It's not my families. It's mine," he corrects me.

"You have your own apartment?" I ask a little too loudly.

"It's nothing. Let's go inside, I'm hungry," he says as he walks into the building.

We call the elevator and wait. It finally comes. We get in and right before it closes a guy who was probably 20 comes into it. He keeps staring at me, and now I'm really uncomfortable.

"Who's the pretty little lady you got here Zander?" The guy asks looking me up and down once again.

"No one," he replies and steps in front of me.

Jayden comes closer to me while Logan, Ashton, and Zander block me from the view of the man. I don't like to depend on people to keep me safe. Fuck it.

" I'm Carter," I say pushing past the boys and extending my hand out.

"Nice to meet you Carter, I'm Daniel," he replies bringing my hand up and kissing it. I can feel my cheeks burning.

I finally get a good look at him. He has the bluest eyes I've ever seen. His hair is gelled up perfectly. He is fucking hot. His cute little dimples are showing and I can't help but smile. Let me just say that I'd let him hit.

"Oh this is my floor. Nice meeting you Carter," Daniel says stepping off the elevator.

I don't say anything and the doors close. We go up a few more floors silently." This is our floor. C'mon Carter," Zander says between gritted teeth.

We stop in front of a door that says 106E. Zander opens the door wordlessly. The apartment is huge. Surprisingly it's clean. There's a big 70' flat screen on one wall, and a big kitchen off to the side. A nice open floor plan. I see a hallway heading to the bedrooms is what I'm guessing.

"If you're done gaping at my home, we can get started," Zander says smirking at me.

"Hold on," I say looking around once more,"ok let's get down to business," I say walking and sitting on the couch.