Perspective

Chapter 7 (Carter)

I wake up to see Ariana standing at the bottom of my bed. She walks over and lies down on top of me as she kisses me. "Morning, cutie." She smiles. "What time is it?" I ask confused. "It doesn't matter, remember? We're skipping today." "Wait, what? When did I ever say that?!" I ask. "Babe, I don't think you remember anything from last night. We were at Kyles and you had a few shots." I jolt up, knocking her on her back. "What? Why would you let me drink?" I yell. "I'm underage Ariana! What's wrong with you?!" Ariana walks over to me and starts rubbing my back trying to console me. "Ar, stop! I'm pissed off right now. What else did I say?!" I ask. She hugs me and I push her away. "You told me you loved me." I shriek. "WHAT?!" "That's not all," She starts, "You gave me a ring." She looks down and I see a tear drip onto the floor. "So everything you did last night, was just because you were intoxicated?" She asks. "Yes! I would never give you a ring and I don't love you!" I realize what I've said as I turn around to see her in full-on tears. "Ariana, I didn't mean that. I was just mad, wait. Please." She stops at the door and looks into my eyes. "You're not intoxicated now. If that's how you feel, you shouldn't waste your time with me." She grabs her purse and walks out of my room, closing the door behind her. I sink down onto my bed and stare at the ceiling.

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"So, how was your night? I noticed you were late this morning." Skyla asks me as we walk to the cafeteria together. "Uh, not great. Apparently I had some shots and said some things that I didn't mean." Her jaw drops as she grabs my arm and stops me in the middle of the hallway. "You took shots?!" I shush her. "Stop yelling!" I pull her aside to the lockers near us. "Okay, I know I'm underage. I didn't mean to. I can't remember one thing from last night. I don't even remember going to Kyle's. I thought I was with Ariana last night. Wait a second. I was with Ari. I never went to Kyle's or took shots." She nods her head agreeing that this could be possible. She turns around and grabs me. "Theres Kyle! Go ask him." I run over to him across the hall and tap him on the shoulder. "Oh, hey man." He says in a woozy voice. "Dude. Did I come by your place last night and have some shots?" I ask.  "No, man. But I did." He says in the most drugged voice. "I don't feel well man. Can you carry me to the bathroom? Like now?" I look at him as his face starts to get green. Hangover. I think. I put his arm around my shoulder as I start to walk faster. Skyla puts her shoulder under his other arm and we start to walk just as Kyle stops, in the middle of the hallway. "Uh." Skyla says as she looks down at Kyle's face and I just freeze when I see him throw up all over the green and white tiles. "I feel better." He says as he smiles. We rush him to the bathroom and leave him there. "Carter, I have barf on my shirt." Skyla says as she gags. She takes off her hoodie to reveal a very tight tank top which she looks pretty good in. It's been a few months into school, man it goes fast. Skyla and I have gotten a lot closer, and we're pretty good friends now, which I like. I hold her sweater for her as she grabs another shirt from her locker. "So, what was the stuff that you didn't mean to say? Which Ariana obviously lied about?" She asks as she puts on her Adidas gym shirt. I sigh. "She told me that I said I loved her and that I gave her a ring." Skyla closes her locker to look at me. "Ouch. She probably wanted you to believe her because she wants you to love her." "But I don't! I don't think I ever could. She's way too self absorbed. I mean, she's nice and all but I could never see us lasting." "You two were together for like 2 years or something!" "All I did was tolerate her, Skyla. It was barely a relationship." I say as I hold the front door for her. "Thanks. Listen, maybe you should try and make this work. She said she loved you!" "She only said that because she needed to have a boyfriend by her side. At all times. That's the only reason I was with her. It was because she wanted to have the most popular guy in school by her side. So now, she'll move down the popularity list until someone will take her. That's how she rolls." I smile at Skyla as she smiles back, knowing that I'm right. "So, do you want to grab pizza and then come back?" She asks. "Sounds good." I say. We walk to the pizzeria which is right next door to the school and wait in line.

Hey, this is where you should start reading again, I changed a lot of things, and it's also shorter this time. Thanks guys. Enjoy! XOXO-Elizabeth

I look outside and see Ariana, talking to my best friend, Zack. She has her hands on his chest as she giggles at all the things he says. "Skyla, can we hurry up?" I ask. "Yeah, of course." I block her from looking outside. We grab our pizza and walk out the door as I try to shield her from seeing Ariana. She gasps. "Wow, you really are a tramp, aren't you?" She says as she approaches Ariana. "All that crying crap, 'I love you Carter, Oh, don't ever leave me' , just shut up already. Alright?" Skyla says as she walks over to me and kisses me on the lips. I try to push her off of me but she just grabs my arms and doesn't let me go. I hear Ariana storm away with Zack and I try to pull away from Skyla again, finally letting me go. She lets out a big breath. "Skyla, what the hell was that?" She looks down at her shoes, embarrassed. "Just helping a friend out. Sorry, I didn't realize she left, that was sort of long." I grab her arm tightly, pulling her back towards school. "I didn't want you to kiss me. I didn't want to make her jealous, alright?" "Okay, sorry. I was just trying to help." "No. I don't need your help Skyla. I wanted to handle this the right way, and you just ruined it." "Carter, I'm sorry, alright? I thought it was the right thing to do, but obviously not." I start to walk back to school and she runs up to walk beside me. I don't say a word and we walk back to school in silence.