Newsies Forever

The New Evan

Carmen POV:

I quickly made my way through the lunch line and joined the boys at their lunch table while they were already quickly chowing down on food.

"Guys, I didn't see Derek in second period today." I said.

"Told you we would take care of him." Nate winked at me.

"DID YOU GUYS KILL HIM?" I freaked.

"No!" Carter said as they all burst into laughter.

"We just exposed him for who he really is." Aaron said.

"Care to explain?" I asked.

"It wasn't that hard to do. We just followed him around for a day and caught plenty of pictures of him being a total perv." Carter said.

"Sneaking pictures under girls uniforms and my personal favorite, taking pictures of a girl through her bedroom window." Nate explained.

"What the fuck! How was nobody ever exposed this guy before?" I asked.

"Because he's a school golden boy and everybody was too scared to mess with him." Aaron said.

"And you guys aren't?" I asked.

"Does it look like we are scared?" Nate asked.

"So Car, any plans your 17th birthday yet?" Carter asked.

"Still not even sure if the party is happening. Ben is being a total pain about it." I said rolling my eyes. "I just never got to celebrate my birthday much growing up and now we get to have these huge parties. I really hope he caves."

"I forget all the time that you aren't actually Ben and Jordyn's kid." Aaron said.

"Yeah well they would've had me when they were like 12 or something, so thank goodness they aren't actually my parents." I joked. Truth be told, I do sometimes wish they were my actual parents. I just wish they had been in my life longer. Melina is lucky, she got to have them in her life when she was only 10. She probably hardly remembers life without them in it. I went to throw my trash away still totally caught up in my head. It's wrong to be jealous of your twin sister for something like that. It's wrong to be jealous of Maddie, Peyton, and Gabi for always getting to know Ben and Jordyn. All of the sudden I felt a crash into me and saw a bowl of chili go straight onto my shirt. I looked up to see Britney standing there laughing.

"Whoops!" She giggled holding her now empty tray. I'm completely covered in gross food! "Oh wait, I missed a spot!" she grabbed the half eaten bowl of ice cream from my tray and dumped it on my head. "Guess you should pay better attention to where you are walking." Laughter started to get louder as more people noticed and started taking pictures. My breathing started to get heavy and I instantly just ran. My vision started to get blurry from hot tears as I desperately tried to make it to the bathroom. I got in and locked myself in one of the stalls and completely lost it. What did I do to deserve this? What do I even do? I'm humiliated. I sat down on the toilet and buried my head into my hands sobbing. Fuck it's so hard to be strong all the time. Why do I deserve this?

Melina POV:

I sat in Maddie's dressing room throwing her ball at the wall over and over again. This sucks. Is it wrong to be jealous of a kid? It just seems like she gets everything. And she's Ben and Jordyn's actual kid. She's not going to have to go through the trauma I did. And now she gets to star in a tv show? I'm 10 years older than her, how is this fair? I heard a knock at the door.

"Come in!" I screamed spinning around in the chair to face the door. I put my feet on the ground to stop myself when I saw Max standing at the door. I suddenly lost my balance and completely fell off of the chair.