The Auction Off

Chapter 5: Layla's Party

Chapter 5: Layla's Party

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I go over to the box and see a tag on it.  It had 3 words on it and they were Here's my Surprise. 

What surprise?!?

I open up the box and in it is a corsage that matched my dress for Layla's party perfectly.  Who could have sent this to me? Carter? I didn't think he was into giving girls presents.  I unwrap the packaging, and slide it onto my wrist to see how it would look.  It looked really good actually, I just really wanted to know who sent it to me.  I pick up the extra tissue paper at the bottom of the box to see an envelope.  Hmm that's a good clue, maybe it said their name in it.  I rip open the envelope to see a like clue to go somewhere.

First Clue it had said in big black letters. I look down the card to the words written tiny at the bottom,

:Go to the ice cream parlor and get a vanilla icecream.  There will be something in it, I promise. <3

Who could be sending these messages to me.  I mean I have to do what it tells me, even if it was very late out.  I quietly sneak down my front stairs, so I don't wake up anyone.  I wasn't the girl to sneak out of the house at 9 o'clock in the evening, but I had to.  I needed to figure out who sent me this. I get out of the house safe, and start walking down my street.  The ice cream parlor was only like 5 minutes away so I thought might as well take a walk.  I walk past Carter's house and see every light in the house turned on, and then I hear something else, someone yelling in the house.  I also hear lots of screaming and someone crying.  Who could be crying? Carter?  I run up his yard and knock on his door. 

The door opens after 5 minutes and Carter opens it.  His face is bruised and he has tears streaming down his face.

"Carter.  Oh my are you okay?" I ask grabbing him and pulling him outside.  He lets me pull him down his yard to his bench infront of his house.  We sit down and I sit criss cross facing him.

"No do I look like im okay?" He says leaning his head against the bench.

"What happened?" I ask.

"Nothing just my dad.  Nothing to worry about." He says shrugging it off.

"Carter you are all bruised up, something happened, you can't just shrug it off." I say breathing.

"Why do you care so much, it isn't your problem Anna." He says.

"Did you send me this?" I ask showing him the note, with the scribbled words on it.

"No?" He says quickly grabbing it from my hands.

"Then who did?" I ask.

"I don't know.  Must have been when you were at the mall, weren't your parents home?" He asks.

"Yeah they were, but the person must have known a way to get into my room." I ask shivering at the thought of someone random in my room.

"It's say go to the ice cream parlor and get a vanilla ice cream, and that's what WE are going to do." Carter says getting up and grabbing hold of my hand.  I instantly get shocks of electricity through my body.  He looks over at me, and I smile awkwardly. He lets go of my hand, and enters the ice cream parlor.  I go over to a table and sit down and wait for him to come back with our ice creams.  He comes back with two ice creams and gives me mine before sitting down across from me.  I grab my spoon but before I do that, I see something underneath the ice cream bowl.  Its yet again a note from that same person.