"Only Rumors"?

Chapter 10-Disappearances and Crazy Romance

We stare, gaping at the place where Mason just occupied.

“Wha…wha…” Ella said, trying to ask “What?” as she struggles to figure out what just happens. James gives the handle one last weak tug, and unsurprisingly it opens.

He looks at it dumbly, us all in shock. We all just stare until Carter just kind of nervously laughs; he takes a few nervous steps forward and says; “Come on, Mason, cut it out...you can come out now,” he said, and I didn’t have the heart to tell him there was no way he could be hiding.

He walks inside, along with Archie, and they both search the compartment. Carter looks around one last time, after searching the whole place, and then falls on his knees and breaks down.

I walk to him and awkwardly pat his back. After a few minutes of him hopelessly sobbing, I gently take his arm and guide him over back into our previous compartment. That other one creeped me out; no wonder, though, considering what had just happened.

I led Carter into a seat, letting him have the ‘window’ seat. He was still crying, but the tears had drastically lessened since I had gotten him out of the room. I wrapped my arms around him and he leaned into me.

I couldn’t help but feeling odd about this; just a bit ago he was comforting me after my mental breakdown. But I guess this was me kind of repaying him, though, right?

His shaking slowed down and he looked at me. “Thanks,” he muttered, probably feeling embarrassed now. “Sorry about...that…” he said.

I smiled at him and lifted his chin up as he looked down shyly, unable to stop thinking about how cute that was. “Hey,” I said. “It’s fine. You just lost one of your best friends...it’s not your fault. I completely understand.”

He smiled at me, and before I knew it we were both leaning in. “You know…” he whispered into my lips when we were only an inch apart. “I’ve always really liked you.” He said, before closing the remaining space and placing his lips on mine.

Our lips moved in sync. I was a bit disappointed when I didn’t feel sparks; but then again, that’s only in fairytales, right? I wrapped my arms around his neck, and pulled him closer when all of a sudden someone interrupted. I heard a crash, and immediately jumped away from Carter.

I glared over at whoever had interrupted, finding James with a broken plate near his feet. Carter and I looked at him in shock, as James’ chest heaved up and down as he tried to control his breathing.

I took in his appearance, confused. “Our friend just disappeared, right in front of our eyes, and you’re making out with someone!? Did he even matter to you!?” James yelled, causing a scene. Now everyone was staring at us. My cheeks were blushing bright red.

“Of course he mattered to me!” Carter yelled back. James took one glance at me, an unreadable emotion in his eyes, but surprisingly he backed off.

“Sure, whatever,” he muttered, stalking away quickly. I was honestly shocked that he let it go that quickly; he obviously seemed mad. I turned to Carter, confused.. He ran his hand angrily through his hair, then looked at me. I bit my lip and his angry expression lessened a little.

“Aw, I know I’m supposed to be mad and feeling guilty over just kissing you, but when you do that...it makes me want to kiss you again. So stop.” He told me, grinning a little. A blushed even more and looked down. He brought my chin up and stared at me.

“Don’t be guilty, okay? I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have kissed you..” suddenly remorse filled me. Did he not like the kiss? Was that what he was saying? He took in my expression and quickly backtracked. “I mean, I really enjoyed the kiss…” he took a look at me and grinned again. “Really enjoyed the kiss. But James was right, I shouldn’t have kissed you after what just happened. I suppose I was just caught up in the moment.” He said. I nodded in understanding.

“I think you should go talk to him,” I said, nodding to James. I bet it was even more annoying to James that he couldn’t just stalk away; he was stuck with only a limited amount of space. He nodded.

“I suppose.” He said. I got up and he scooted out of the seat. Before going to see James, he gave me a quick kiss on the cheek.

I walked over to Pepper, who was raising her eyebrows at me. I flushed again. “Whoa, so what’s this I hear? You’re getting it on with Carter, your long time crush?” She said, wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. I rolled my eyes.

“I’m not ‘getting it on’. He just kissed me...it was nothing.” I said. She immediately got closer and grinned.

“Oooh, tell me more. How was the kiss?” She asked, grinning wickedly at me. I rolled my eyes again at her enthusiasm.

I shrugged. “It was okay.” She looked disappointed by my response.

“‘Okay’? You’ve had a major crush on him forever, and it was ‘okay’?” She asked, frowning.

“Well, I mean, he is an amazing kisser and all…” I said.

“But?” Pepper said.

“But I didn’t feel sparks, I guess. I enjoyed it, but it wasn’t what I expected.” She rolled her eyes at me.

“Wow, you’re such a romantic. You’re not actually supposed to feel sparks,” she said, looking at me like I was an idiot. “That’s only in stories.”

I frowned, a little disappointed. “Oh. Oh, well, I guess I’m just being silly then.” I said, and then gave her a shaky grin. “In that case, the kiss was freakin’ amazing,” I said, and she grinned back at me, apparently not noticing my doubt.

After that, I couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed. I mean...I didn’t actually think you were supposed to feel sparks, but it’d be nice, ya know?

Oh well. I guess you don’t always get what you want.

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A/N: I know, I know, I'm a terrible terrible person. :( I understand that you hate me. Sorry if this chapter kinda sucks. I'm kinda out of it right now:/ Woke up at 3:30 a.m. yesterday for band and still haven't gotten over it.

I think this story is kinda going downhill...what do you guys think? Should I still write? :/ I dunno. I'm not just gonna ditch you guys, but if you don't think that it's going well then I won't continue. I'm really bad at continuing writing xD I hoped this one would be better, but I dunno what you guys think? Please comment and tell me what you think! PLEEAAASEE? (See, I'm begging you! xD) 

Yeah, well, anyways..

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