Carter

Chapter 3: Cinderella's Dress

I'd already had supper and was just about done in the shower. I turned off the water and got out, drying off my body. I wrapped myself in my robe, as I got my short white dress out of my closet. I put it on my bed, making sure that I didn't wrinkle it. Then I brushed my hair, and teeth.

After blow drying and straightening my hair, I put on my makeup.

Just then, the doorbell rang.

"Carter can you get that!" JoJo called from the bathroom.

Ugh. I grunted. Still in my robe, I walked out in the hallway wondering who would be at the door. But unfortunately, Hailey stands in my way. She had on her pink flower shirt, covered with dirt and filth. That was her favourite shirt, and you could tell. She ate in it, she slept in it, she even takes baths in it. Yes. I know. She baths in a shirt. But she refuses to take it off, because it is from Auntie Annie. Hailey and Auntie Annie have a special bond, because they are the only children that were born without a twin, or two people beside them.

"What do you want, Hailey?" I sigh.

"Upy!" She says smiling, holding her arms out.

"No, Hailey, you're not a baby anymore, remember?" I said to her. She squinted her eyes and turned her smile into a pouty frown. She started to cry.

"No!"

The doorbell rang again.

"No, Hailey please don't cry! Ugh! Fine! come up!" She immediately smiled as I pulled her up onto my hip. We went to the door and I peered through the peep hole. I thought that I was imagining things when I saw David. I peered through again. Nope, not imagining things, or dreaming.

"Carter Farter! Let me see who's at the door." She said. I showed her.

"Ooh! Is that your boyfriend Carter?"

"No, it's-"

"Oh! It is your boyfriend! MOMMY!! CARTER HAS A BOYFRIEND!!" She yelled.

"No! Shut up Hailey, he's not my boyfriend."

"Ooh, you said a bad word. MOMMY!! CARTER SAID A SWEAR WORD!!" She yelled.

"Ugh!" I put Hailey back on the floor as JoJo came out from the bathroom in her pyjamas.

Oh, you are not about to do this Carter!

"JoJo, can you please answer the door for me? It's David. I just have to get dressed. I don't know why he's here. Can you just..."

"Don't worry kiddo, I got this." She said. "Hailey, go find Emma and EJ. Play Barbie dolls with them, okay?" She said, giving Hailey a gentle push on the back. She ran to the elevator.

Yep that's right. We have an elevator in our house. It was here when Spook and I moved in. This is JoJo's childhood home. She says that they had to put the elevator in because her mother was sick, she couldn't use her legs and she refused to stay in a hospital so she gave a company a huge check and they put it in.

I raced back to my room, Trying as fast as I could to put on my dress. I catch a glimpse of myself in my dress. It's white, flowy and hugs my body tightly until just above my knees, where it ends. I quickly put in some blonde extensions to match my bleached hair.

I straightened out the dress, and then started searching for a cute purse to put my phone in. I finally found one, and as I picked it up I put my phone in it, the phone fell out, and it was ringing. I took it off the ground and brushed it off before clicking talk.

"Hello?" I say

"Hey Carter. So, how do you like your surprise?" She asked.

"You made David come to my house!?" I yell in a whisper tone.

"MmHmm." I could tell she was smiling. " When we hung up I saw him after school in the field playing soccer with a couple of his friends. I just told him that you need a date to the dance, and that if he's interested he'll be there at eight. Tell me you love me!"

"Well usually I would Liss, but I didn't have any clothes on when he rang the doorbell."

Lissy was silent at the other end.

"OMG! He caught you nude?"

"No, I was in my robe."

"Oh."

"Well I gotta go, Dave is waiting."

"Okay then, Lovey Dovey. You two have fun. We'll see you soon hon."

"Bye Liss."

"Bye Carter." She laughed as we hung up.

I looked at myself in the mirror one more time, and then left.