Girl Next Door - Christian Novelli Fanfic

Your Lost Boy

"Psst, Christian!" a quiet feminine voice whispers and pokes my cheek.

"Go away mum." I mumble and roll over so my back is facing the person.

She giggles and crawls onto my next next to me. "I'm not your mom."

Oh, that's Carter. A smile blossoms on my face as I turn to face her.

"Well then, good morning to you Carter." I smirk sleepily and sit up.

"Morning Novelli." she smiles and jumps out of my room and down the stairs.

Thank god, I don't think I could've gotten out of bed with her in her. One: I'm not wearing pants nor a shirt and Two: I think I have a boner. I sigh to myself as I start a moderately cold shower.

"Ehh, Christian's cute." Carter's muffled voice says.

"Go for it, he likes you!" Jason groans as something lightweight hits the floor.

Carter giggles quietly and murmurs a quiet "thank you" to Jason and climbs the stairs.

Holy shit, she's coming in here and I don't a shirt nor pants and I have an erection.

Carter knocks on the door patiently and waits. What the fuck do I do?

"I'm in the shower!" my voice cracks.

"Liar!" Carter giggles adorably. "Open the door, I need to talk to you!"

"In a minute, I promise!" she doesn't say anything after a while so I assume she went downstairs with Jason.

I sigh in relief and begin to shed my boxers and find a decent outfit. I give up until I find a pastel hoodie and a pair of black skinny jeans. I mentally congratulate myself and take a shower.

Honestly, Carter is the most gorgeous girl I've ever met. Long, soft black hair, percing grey-blue eyes, knee weakening pearly white smile and cutely stretched ears.

The blistering cold water hits my chest as I come back to reality. First: Carter probably doesn't even like me like that. Second: She probably didn't mean what she said to Jason. Last: Carter is so breathtakingly gorgeous, why should like an awkward fool like me?

I turn the shower off because I feel like I'll get frost bite if I don't and wrap a towel around my waist.

I step out of the icy bathroom and into my slightly warmer bedroom. The outfit I chose was most definitely not going to impress Carter at all. I put the clothes neatly in the color coordinated closet and picked out a better outfit. Sky blue button down shirt, a black Bugs Bunny tie, black skinny jeans and black TOMS.

I slid on a pair of black boxer-briefs, the outfit I chose and my TOMS. Now the worst part - doing my hair. I combed through the wet mop of black fluff and blow dried it. It was still kinda fluffy so I brushed it down the best I could and added excessive amounts of hair spray.

"Christian, you've been in there for...45 minutes now, aren't you ready?" Carter whines and knocks impatiently on the door.

"You can open it." I call shakily.

She twists the door knob ever so slowly. Her gorgeous dark hair and shiny grey-blue eyes are the first thing I notice as she steps into full view.

"You look, um, yeah." I mutter awkwardly and she blushes shyly. The black lace-y dress really looks stunning, matched along with black laced TOMS. I smile at her and pat the space next to me on my bed. She takes the hint and lies next to me.

"So, what'd you need to talk about?" I ask and move a bit farther from her, in case she decides not to tell me.

"Uh yeah, about that..." she falsely giggles and uncomfortably runs her hands down her already straight dress.

"I have a crush on you, although I met you yesterday. Is that weird? I think that's weird. Unless you like me too then that wouldn't be weird, actually I would be ecstatic. But if you don't that's okay too cause we can always remain friends." She rambled on for about 5 minutes before I silenced her with a small, innocent kiss.

"I like you too, but let's take it slow alright?" I smile as she nods against my chest.

"Christian, we're going to Hot Topic!" Jason yells from downstairs, his loud voice echoing through the almost silent house. Carter shrieks with excitement, grabs my hand and sprints out my bedroom like a madman.

"Slow down, we're gonna fall!" I sputter through desperate pants.

"Oh my god, Hot Topic!" she squeaks even louder. "Where I lived in America, which was Alabama, our mall didn't have Hot Topic. We always had to order online and it would take about 6 days to get there." She shrugged and walked to the door as Patty stood there and stared at her.

"How would you live without HotTopic though?" Patty whispered and pulled her into a friendly hug. "I feel so sorry for you." he began to fake cry into her hair as Jason began to start the car.

"Get off of me Patty!" she giigles and push him of her her playfully. She looks at me and motions me to come on. We walk hand in hand to the car. Jason is first to notice our linked fingers and he gives Carter a grin. It wasn't an inappropriate grin, more like an I-told-you-so mixed with never-underestimate-my-abilities. A weird combination but whatever.

"Paint the walls with lots of band merch, falalalala lalalala!" She sang that to the tune of Deck The Hall as we backed out of the driveway and towards the nearest mall.

How did I end up with such a gorgeous girl? I smile to myself as she rests her head on my shoulder and gives my hand a small squeeze before shutting her eyes and silencing.

"Awe, so cute!" Patty whispers and takes a photo of us on his phone.

Carter mutters something groggily once we reach halfway to the mall and wiggles uncomfortably in her seatbelt and cuddles further into me. She smiles in content and falls asleep again.