Carter Mahone 2

Chapter 4

~Ali's POV~

I left Carters with tears streaming down my face, I thought maybe after last night he had forgiven me.. I guess I was wrong. I walked around for about an hour before finally stopping at a park, the same park I sat in a few months ago, right after this whole mess started. I sat down next to a tree and closed my eyes, remembering that day just like it was yesterday. God, I'm such an idiot. Why do I always have to screw things up? I reached for my phone so that I could play music to get my mind off things. Unfortunately I had apparently left my phone at Carters. That's just great..

~Carter's POV~

"What do you want?" I asked Alex, who had shown up at my house about an hour after Ali left.

"Just to talk, come on we can get through this. We've been friends for years. You're not just going to hate me now because of one little thing, are you?"

"No, I wouldn't hate you for one little thing. But this isn't just any little thing. This is huge, she was the best thing in my life!"

"I know.. I messed up, I'm sorry." He did have a point I guess, we have been friends forever and I really don't want this to screw that up. I sighed, looking down at my feet. The truth is I'm not even mad at them, I'm mad at myself for letting someone so close that it hurts this much.. I was about to respond but there was a knock on the door.

I got up and opened the door, disappointed that instead of the pizza that I had ordered it was Ali again. "I told you to leave.."

"Right, and I did leave. But I forgot my phone." I moved over so she could walk through the door and I motioned upstairs to let her know she could go get it, unfortunately she didn't make it up the stairs. "You wont forgive me but you're fine with Alex sitting in your living room!?" Ali turned to me, an annoyed look on her face.

"We're trying to talk about this.." Alex told her. She rolled her eyes and looked back at me.

"I came here to talk about it too, didn't do much of that, did we?" with that she went to my room to grab her phone. I walked back into the living room, sitting on the couch again.

"You guys had sex!? Seriously? And you still wont forgive me?"

"It wasn't like that..I didn't mean for it to happen."

"I'm sure, you just accidentally had sex with her, because that kind of thing happens."

"What kind of thing happens?" Ali asked sitting down on the couch across from me.

"Nothing.."

"Okay? Well anyway, we need to talk about this. Because we made a mistake," She looked at Alex and then back at me. "But we're sorry and all I want is for you to forgive me."

"I want that too.." I told her, "Believe me, I wish I could just forgive you and we could go back to how things were before. I wish that I could just forget about all of this and we could be happy again..but how am I supposed to forget something like this?" I saw Ali open her mouth to talk again but I continued to talk anyway. "That's the hard part..no matter what we choose to do I still have all these thoughts I can't get rid of. If you guys come back I still wont be able to forget walking in on you.. But if you leave I still wont be able to stop thinking about you.."

"I'm not saying you should just forget about it..I'm saying we should all try to move past it."

"I'm not sure if I can do that.."

The conversation probably would have continued if Robert wouldn't have walked in the door right after I said that, wearing nothing but boxers and his shoes.

"What happened to you?" Alex asked, obviously trying hard not to burst out laughing.

"I met a girl last night...we went back to her place and uh.." he kicked off his shoes "this morning I woke up to a very unhappy looking, tall, guy standing above me.. Turns out she wasn't single..so anyway I got up and went to grab my clothes but I wasn't really sure where they were and the guy got pissed and told me to just leave so I grabbed my shoes and ran out."

"Wait did you walk all the way here in just that?" Alex laughed.

"Yeah, I left with the girl last night so Zach has the car.." After that Rob left, probably to go find some clothes. Shortly after that, Ali and Alex decided they should leave for now too but they both said they would come back tomorrow so we could talk more. That's something I'm definitely not looking forward to..

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Okay, so this was a bit shorter than I would have liked it to be but I haven't posted anything in a while so I decided to just hurry and post what i had written. I probably wont update at all for a bit longer because I'm really behind at school and I need to get caught up..plus to be honest I'm really not sure what direction I want the story to go from here..anyway please comment letting me know what you thought!