Charmed Life.

Chapter Eleven.

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I was just finishing chapter three of Treasure Island when a head popped around my half open door.

"Dinners ready." Nathan stated, not waiting for me to answer and leaving to go downstairs.

I marked where I was up to and stretched, looking at the time; I'd been reading for almost 2 hours.

Everyone was already seated by the time I walked into the kitchen, Carla motioned for me to come sit next to her and as soon as I did she started questioning me on my first day;

"Did you see any cute guys?" She beamed at me. Sam, Lucas, Jamie and Aiden all looked up and awaited my answer. I burned up at the question and the attention.

"I- I d-don't know."

"Carla, don't ask people embarrassing questions like that!" Karl jumped in, he must have known it would make me uncomfortable talking about guys given my past. Or he could see how beet red I was. Either way I was immensely grateful for the save.

"It's just some girl talk dad, calm down. We can gossip after dinner Alex, when all these losers aren't around." She giggled.

"Who you calling losers? You do know we're the most popular guys in school right. You know Alleycat if you wanted instant popularity you should totally get with one of us... I'm the most popular so I'm clearly the best option for your status." Lucas winked at me and chuckled at my reaction "I didn't know you could get any redder, my work here is done."

"Topic change. Now" Sandra said eyeing her children with a look that meant they better do as they're told.

By the time I'd finished my meal my face had cooled down. After helping clean up I once again retired to my room while the majority of the Spencer's went to the lounge to watch a movie together.

Carla followed me up to my room and sat cross legged on my bed looking at me expectedly.

"Soo... did you?" She continued her inquisition from dinner.

"I was too busy trying to not embarrass myself all day. I wasn't looking." I answered quietly looking at my bed spread. It really wouldn't matter if I saw cute guys, which I had; There's plenty of attractive students at school, but what would that matter to me... I didn't want to be involved in anything remotely relating to flirting or romance with anyone at school.

"Shame. There's plenty of hotties there, once you get the swing of the place you'll be noticing them left, right and centre. Trust me." She laughed "Most of my day is spent eyeing them, I actually just got partnered up with this guy in my class..." she gushed and fanned her face jokingly "He's beautiful, and I get to spend hours with him on this school project, who knows, all that time together, he might fall helplessly in love with me."

Carla was such a romantic, and I could feel green envy building up inside me at her carefree attitude to love and how she didn't see danger at every turn.

"Will you b-be studying at h-his place?" I ask.

"Mostly school I reckon. We didn't properly plan everything out today, but he could come here if he needed to, I've had school partners come here to work before, imaging I was at his, and we were alone laughing and joking and then he kissed me." She looked out dreamily, and did a quiet sigh.

"You should- you shouldn't work alone with him." I said before I could stop myself. Carla shook herself from her little day dream and raised a concerned eyebrow.

"Are you okay? You look really pale."

"Yeah, I'm just tired" I try and attempt a small smile and it seems to do the trick. She still looked uncertain but stands up and says she'll leave me to rest.