Just A Bet

Carter's story Pt 1

*****Carter's pov*****
I woke up around 11:30am. Grace was still in my arms and she still had her arm around my waist and her head on my shoulder. I could hear her soft breathing. I felt really bad for her Darren had worn me about this he said if I didn't go back to him he would hurt her and he did not physically but emotionally this is all my fault if I would have listened to Darren her dad would still be alive and her mom would have said all that stuff to her. I should have just stayed away but now it's too late and I need to protect her. I tightened my grip on her. I started falling asleep again until I finally fell into a deep sleep.

*****Grace's pov*****

I woke up I was still in carters arms my arm was still around his waist and my head was on his chest my wrist were kind of hurting I sat up and carter groaned and pulled me back making me lay down he opened his eyes looked at me and said morning beautiful I smiled and said morning he put his arm around my waist and said how are you feeling I remembered everything that happened last night and my eyes started getting teary I said I'm feeling better he said that's good you want some breakfast I said no he said why not and I said I'm not hungry he got up and said ok I'll be back in a few minutes I just nodded my head he stood up and walked in the bathroom and brushed his teeth he came back out and said I'll be in the kitchen if you need me I'll be back in a little while ok there’s a new toothbrush on the bathroom sink area for you to use I nodded my head he left and I was still laying on his bed it smelled just like carter I started feeling really upset again I had tears in my eyes I can’t accept the fact my dad died I really wish I could have my mom holding me in her arms telling me it was all going to be ok. Carter walked in the room and sat next to me and wrapped his arms around me and asked what would make me feel better I said well I want my mom or at least someone to treat me like their daughter I need some mother love. He smiled and said I can’t get you your mom but I have something better before I said anything the doorbell rang carter went downstairs and opened it he came back and said grace your sisters hear do you want to talk to her I said no he said she said it was something really important I said I don’t care I don’t want to talk to her. He said ok and left. He came back a few minutes later and had keys and an envelope in his hand he walked over to

 Them and handed them to me. I sat up and asked what they were he sat next to me and said your sister said to open it and read everything in it and those are the keys to your car. I opened the envelope and took out all the papers in it there was about ten carter said um ill leave you alone to ready that just call me if you need me. I read the piece of paper that was on top first it was a letter from my dad it said

  Dear grace,

If your reading this it’s because I m gone I want you to be strong. I don’t want you to be sad I want you to live your life to the fullest don’t regret anything. I'm always going to be with you. I love you very much. I know I promised I would always be there but I couldn’t I'm sorry. I want you to know you mean the world to me you my little girl. I love your sister very much to but there’s something special about you. I hope that you and your mom go through this together even if I'm not there for you she will be. You’re going to be someone someday I will be really proud I already am proud of you. I'm proud of you because you managed to keep a smile on your face even though life hasn’t been that good with you. I know you have many bad memories from the past but I want you to forget them. I love you and I hope you know that. I’ll be watching over you. Take care.

                                               Sincerely you’re loving dad

I finished reading the letter and tears were rolling down my cheeks. I put the letter back in the envelope and I noticed there was still some things in there I took them out and it was a picture of me and my dad when I was 8 and he had taken me to Disney land I was dressed like a princess and he was carrying me I was very happy and so was he. The other was a folded piece of paper I unfolded it and it was a picture I drew of me and my dad when I was 6 it said happy father’s day and it also said I love you daddy you’re my favorite person in the whole world I love you to the moon and back. I smiled I remember the day I gave this to my dad he took me out to buy some ice cream and on our way there we were arguing about how who love who more. I put the picture and the drawing in the envelope with the letter I read the rest of the papers. They said how he had left me half of his fortune the lake house that we go to every summer and the house he has in Europe. I put all the papers in the envelope carter walked in and asked if I was ok I nodded he came and sat next to me and said ready I said for what and he said were going somewhere. I said where and he said to get you some mother love. I smiled and said ok  he stood up and said ok lets go I stood up he looked at me and bit his lip he looked me up and down I looked at what I was wearing and I was only wearing his shirt that was kind of short but not that short. I could feel my cheeks turning red I gave him my car keys and said can you go get the backpack that’s in the back of my car for me please it has some extra clothes for me to wear. He chuckled and said why I like you better wearing my clothes I said please you don’t expect me to go outside wearing just this do you. He chuckled and said yes. I rolled my eyes and said fine I started walking down stairs he pulled towards him there was no space in between us he looked at me in the eyes and said I was just kidding princess he reached the keys from my hand and touched my bare leg while doing it that sent shivers all over my body he let go of me and left downstairs he came back a few minutes later and had the backpack I had in my car he gave it to me and said ill be downstairs if you need me I nodded I walked in his room and closed the door. I took out the clothes the shirt was missing there was only my black toms a pair of shorts a hair brush hair cream and a makeup bag.  I put on the shorts and the toms I guess I'm going to have to wear carters shirt. I went in the bathroom and brushed my teeth I put on some concealer and mascara. I brushed my hair and fixed it so that it was all frizzy. I was still very sad my dad died but I'm feeling a little better after reading the letter. I put the dress I had on last night and the heels in the backpack and went downstairs I walked over to carter and he chuckled I rolled my eyes I knew he was laughing because I still had on his shirt I got my phone from where I had left it last night and I sat on the sofa I had many missed calls and texts from Sarah Lucy and Luke. I looked at Sarah’s and they all said omg babe I just found out why didn’t you tell me last night I'm so sorry please stay strong I love you. I didn’t reply back I checked Lucy’s and they were all I'm sorry please forgive me or call me we need to talk. Luke’s were mostly how he was sorry and he loved me and all this crap I checked my kik and same thing I checked my voicemails and they were all from Luke I could tell he was crying in most of them. I didn’t reply to him or Lucy and I turned off my phone carter said so you ready to go I said yea I guess he stood up and so did I we walked to his car and got in he turned it on and started driving the drive to where ever we were going was really long I fell asleep like 40 minutes after carter started driving. I felt someone tap my shoulder causing me to wake up it was around 4 or 5 we were parked in someone’s drive way carter looked at me and said were here I said where and he said you said you wanted some mother love so I brought you here now come on we got out the car and walked to the front door and carter knocked on it. And a lady opened it she was really pretty. She looked at carter and hugged him and said Austin I've missed you so much. He hugged her back and groaned and said I told you not to call me that she pulled away and said I'm sorry she looked at me and smiled at me and said hello I'm Michele who are you I said I'm grace she told us to come in and we walked in I wonder why Michele called carter Austin? We sat down on a sofa and carter whispered something in Michele’s ear she nodded and smiled carter stood up and said I’ll be back text me if you need anything. I nodded. Is he really going to leave me by myself here? He walked to the door and left. Michele looked at me and smiled she said are you hungry I said um a little she said come on ill make you something to eat I nodded and I stood up and walked with her into a kitchen she told me to sit down on the table so I did she asked what I wanted to eat and I said um it doesn’t matter she said ok and she made me a sandwich with some orange juice a serving of fruits and some ice cream I couldn’t finish it all but it was all very delicious I thanked her and she nodded. She said come on lets go to the living room. We walked to the living room and sat down she turned on the TV and put on a random channel we sat there quietly just staring at the TV when she said so grace how are you feeling carter told me about you going through a rough time I nodded and she asked do you want to talk about. I don’t know why but I trusted her I could tell she honestly cared and she wasn’t just being nice. I said um sure. I told her everything and I had tears in my eyes by now she looked at me and said hugged me I hugged her back she rubbed my back and said let it all out sweetheart let it all out it will make you feel better. I cried on her shoulder for a few minutes and I finally pulled away and she said are you feeling better I smiled and said yes I am I'm feeling much better I honestly was. I was still curious about why she called carter Austin so I said Michele can I ask you something she said sure go ahead and I said why did you call carter Austin she sighed and said carter would never speak to me if I told you I said please I really want to know she nodded and said ok come here she took me upstairs and we went into a room she said this is carters room it was full of posters letters and drawings. She took out a box from the closet in his room and said carters real name is Austin carter is his middle name. When carter was 14 him and Alex made a YouTube channel carter posted videos of him singing he's really good actually he had many fans he called them his mahomies. During that time he met this girl he fell in love with her he would do anything for her. One day he found her kissing one of her friends he confronted her and she told him she had never liked him she just wanted to go out with him for the popularity she completely destroyed him. A few days after that carter started receiving all this hate about his singing and stuff that broke him even more he couldn’t take it anymore he had just lost the girl he loved and he was getting hate he deleted all his videos and made a video telling his fans to forget about him and to delete everything they had of him singing or pictures or whatever they did as he asked them to. Ever since that day carter was never the same he would be really rude he acted like he had no heart. On his 15 birthday he left I don’t know where he went but I never found him he came back a year later but he was different he didn’t want to be called Austin just carter. He didn’t care about school he moved into his own place and left me it’s really odd for him to come and visit me. I said are you serious. She smiled and said yep hard to believe huh I said yea. She said he was never the same he's not a bad person he's just afraid of getting hurt again. I said do you have any videos of carter singing she smiled and opened the box she took out a disc macbook some ear buds and a journal she said read it and watch the videos she handed everything to me and said ill be downstairs if you need me. I said ok and she left I opened the journal it said Austin’s song book I started reading all the songs he had written my favorite one was “all I ever need” I closed the journal and I opened the macbook and put the disc in I put the headphones on and pressed play it was carter he was singing beautiful soul by Jesse McCartney. He was really good I continued watching the videos until someone walked in it was carter he looked at me and said what are you doing I said none of your business he said let me see I said nope   he walked over to me and I quickly closed the laptop he took it out my hands and opened it he looked at me and said you’re not supposed to be watching this. This is none of your business I said well I don’t care and your really good you should have never gave up you could have become someone big Austin. He looked at me with pure anger in his eyes he grabbed me and yelled out don’t call me that I'm not Austin I'm carter just carter you don’t know what it like to get all that hate to have the person you love tell you that you never meant anything to them I was really scared right now he had never yelled at me I had tears in my eyes I don’t know why I'm just really sensitive he let me go and hugged and said I'm so sorry princess I didn’t mean to yell at you please don’t cry please. He wiped my tears and kissed my forehead. I just nodded my he got the Mac book and the journal and put It in the box and put the box in the closet he sat next to me and said please don’t tell anyone ok I nodded and said you’re really good and the songs you wrote are really nice especially “all I ever need” he smiled and said thanks so now that you know my story you tell me yours why are you so insecure. I said if I tell you promise not to judge me and don’t tell anyone. You promise he stood up closed the door locked sat next to me and said I promise.

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