Our Secret

Four

Caron's POV

Everything that happened between Jace and I last night is still running through my mind while I get ready for school this morning. I go to the bathroom in my room and turn on the shower hoping that the hot water will relax me. I remove my clothes that still smell like his delicious cologne and step in, every word he said to me is playing on a constant loop as the water flows down my body. 

It all happened so quickly and if my lips weren't so swollen right now I could easily convince myself that I dreamt the whole thing up. I practically had to fucking pry myself off of Jace and make him leave after about an hour of us making out because I don't fully trust myself yet whenever he's around.

"Bitch you better hurry up and get out of the shower or Jet's going to eat all the pancakes!" I hear Dylan yell as she yanks open the shower curtain. 

"Girl do you ever fucking knock?" I squeal as I shut off the water.

"Nope!" she smiles and walks back into the kitchen.

I wrap myself in a towel before heading towards my room and pull on a flowy white tank top,  some extra tight skinny jeans and a pair of converse after I pat myself dry. While I look over my appearance in the mirror I see that my lips have drastically reduced in size and are no longer as puffy as they were a few hours ago. I don't know how I would have explained that to everyone so I'm happy that I won't have to.

Everybody is sitting around the kitchen table when I walk in and I see that I wasn't fast enough getting to breakfast because Jet and Dylan have shoved the last two pancakes in their mouths.

I guess it's another pop-tart day for me. Jet's lucky it's his birthday today.

"Mrs. White I know Carson is still grounded and I fully respect that, but can you pleaseeeee let her out just for my birthday party tonight!" Jet asks my mom in the fakest voice I've ever heard.

You can hear the crickets all the way in China before my mother finally decides to answer. 

She turns to face me "I guess you can go but JUST for tonight, then it's straight back home,  understand?" 

I jump off my chair and run over to hug her "Thank you, thank you, thank you! I promise I'll behave." I say hugging her tightly.

She doesn't look like she believes me but doesn't say another word before turning around to finish washing the dishes. 

"Lets go to the mall after school and get some cute outfits for tonight" I whisper to Dylan so my mom can't hear.

"Best idea ever! We need to find you something super hot to wear so we can get you a man already" she playfully remarks. 

Oh bestie, if only you knew.

Once we've all finished our breakfast and said goodbye to my mom we head out the door and link our arms together as we walk to school. I can't help but think how silly we must all look right now, three high school seniors literally skipping down the road, but we're too excited about the party to care. 

"Oh before I forget, here are the invitations for tonight" Jet says, as we stop just outside  our school. He pulls out two sparkly gold envelopes from his bag and hands one to each of us.