She dreamt of paradise.

Chapter 2- Carter goes undercover

Chapter 2- Carter goes undercover

I stare at the silhouette for a while, making sure it was Carter. For all I know if I'd open the door it wasn't him, thus letting some robbers in our house. But after a couple of times blinking and rubbing my eyes it was him, I can still distinguish his features in the dark. His bleach blond hair that resembles a cheerleader's, somehow glows in the night. This guy is never great at sneaking, every step he'd take, he'd snap a twig or step on a leaf that makes a crunchy sound, so much for going undercover.

I let out a laugh which is probably the ugliest laugh that is between across a whimper or a snort.  Carter thinks that when a dog snarls at you, the great solution is snarling back at it. He'd make a great dog whisperer. (The power of sarcasm). When the sound his making woke our neighbor's dogs they were barking and snarling at him, and it just makes me laugh more. Even though he has no ninja powers on tip toeing, he does have a super ninja sense of hearing. When I probably laughed too much he must've heard it. He looked at my way, still wearing his snarl face, saw that I was enjoying this. Indeed I was. I gestured my hand for me to tell him to carry on snarling at the pack of dogs. Unfortunately the dogs we're hold out by the fence.

Finally some sense knocked on to him, and he stopped snarling at the dogs, he found his way to our porch. I hurriedly scampered downstairs. I was wondering why he was sneaking around, he isn't even a known fugitive, well he is, if you count the time when he stole my chocolates from my secret stash. I still didn't get it why he was like this, while my mom has full knowledge that me and Carter were having a slumber party. I opened the door, demanding for explanations. But all I see was darkness. What? Now he turned all camouflage on me with his so called 'ninja powers'.

I feel something moving at my back. When I whip out to see what is was, Carter let out a shriek, that he thought would scare me. I wasn't surprised at all, I knew Carter too well.

"What are you doing! Sneaking around this village like a smooth criminal, which you aren't! Do you know how the dogs feel, dreaming and just suddenly woke up by someone snarling at you!" I rambled on and on about alternative things that might've happened, but i must admit I did have fun just looking at him snarling. The idea just made me laugh. He just let out a bored sigh, when he remembered he was supposed to be undercover.

"Hey! Shut up! Your gonna wake up the neighbors!" he suddenly said, stopping my joy of laughter.

"Whatever, they've already been wake up, by you ,stomping your huge feet on to each debris laying on the ground, and snarling." I laughed out teasingly "besides, everybody is up, it's the night before Christmas." Then Carter grabs hold on my hips with his hands and lays his other hand on my mouth.

"Shhhhhhh! Be quiet! They're gonna know I'm here!" He said

"They who? My mother already knows you're coming here." I replied

"No, not you! My dad."

"What? You possibly think that he'd hear us from your house, which is two blocks away." Sometimes Carter's idiocy makes me sad. But that's what I like about him, we can be both idiots.

"For all we know. Where do you think my super hearing powers came from?" He said

"Maybe you were adopted, and found in a sewer where you were bitten by a spider." I laughed at my own joke, but he didn't laughed along. I waved off the subject. "Come on now, let's get inside, it's getting cold here."

My sister's gone to her friend's house, or shall I say, she sneaked out of the house. We're practically alone, except for my mother sleeping at her room. I don't get it why mom is sleeping on the night before Christmas, while some of us awaits for the  clock to land on 12. We poured ourselves some hot eggnogs on our mug and drank until our belly was satisfied. Then we headed our way upstairs. Upstairs where Zoe was peacefully sleeping until Carter came.