Chapter 5

Chapter 5 1

Carrie woke up to the sound of Rachel drying her hair.  She had just gotten out of the shower.  Rachel looked in the mirror to  see her face.  It looked better, which is a surprise because usually things don't heal that fast.  But you could still see a huge bruise.  She actually couldn't wait till Monday so she could tell everyone what a jackass Tyler really is, but she might not have the guts to do it.  She was wearing her clothes, but she didn't care. She always borrowed Rachel's wen she felt like it.  Carrie and Rachel assumed that they were friends again because of all that they had been thought and they did;t even have to say that they were friends again, that's how well they knew each other.  2

Rachel saw Carrie in the mirror.  "Sorry, did I wake you up with the hair dryer??" Carrie shook her head and put it back down on the pillow because she was still half asleep and half awake.  But she still got up. "I'm going to Starbucks later, Are you coming with me?"  She knew she would go with her, but she wanted to make sure. It also surprised her that she would go outside where there were a lot of people from their school with that cut and bruise on her face.  But to Rachel, it didn't matter for some odd reason.  3

"When are you going?"4

"In about a half hour." 5

"Let me get a shower and stuff, then I'll go." 6

"Okay. But don't forget to tell Donna."7

"Whatever.  I'm going to get something to eat."8

Rachel was excited for Carrie because she was going to eat.   Rachel had only actually seen her eat like once.  See, she didn't eat because she thought she was fat, it was just that she  was almost never hungry.  Which seems weird, but it was true.  "Carrie, so you're actually going to eat?"  Carrie was looking confused.   She said that she was getting something to eat because her stomach hurt and Donna said to have crackers.  Usually,  if Donna said something like that, she just forgot about it and waited for to get better rather than eating. 'Maybe what happened to me last night had changed her' Rachel thought to herself, but she thought nothing else of it. 9

Donna woke up a few hours before Rachel and Carrie did and now, she was downstairs making toast and getting out the cereal.  She was wondering when they would get up until she saw Carrie coming down the stairs.  "Good Morning." Donna said. "Are you hungry or are you and Rachel going somewhere. Donna still remembered that Carrie probably wouldn't eat, but she always tried.  "10

"No, wait...." Donna looked up from the pan she was using and waited for her to finish. "I think I'll have some...Orange juice." Donna thought she wanted something to eat. See, Carrie wanted something to eat, but something told her not to eat anything that morning. It wasn't a big deal.  To her, it just felt like she was breaking some rule that she had in her head. Like if she took a step forward, she would have to take two steps back. But she didn't know why she thought that. 11

Donna was also surprised that Carrie even said something to someone other than Rachel.  But she wanted to say nothing about it to Carrie because she didn't want anything to stop her from talking to her.  "Are you and Rachel going to go out today? If you are just lave a not on the door because I have to go to a meeting." Donna said.  She was going to finish making her breakfast and then run. 12

The hair dryer had stopped from upstairs.  Rachel started coming down the stairs. Carrie counted each time time Rachel came down a step. There were 2 stairs where she was coming down, but she only counted about 18.  "Carrie, when are we going?' Cause  I'm calling my mom and telling her that I'd be home later." 13

Donna Leaned over the counter to see her coming around the corner.  "I have to go yo a meeting, but both of you have a key and you can do whatever, but if you leave, post a not on the door in case i get home earlier that you do. But i doubt that will happen."  Carrie and Rachel said okay and went back upstairs to get dressed and grab purses. 14

Donna was on her way out the door when they came back downstairs.  She left a note on the door. 15

Girls, 16

wet to meetings.    I will be back by about 5 if the traffic17

isn't bad.18

But it will be so call me wen u get home. 19

cell--846-856320

Carrie watched Donna get into her silver explorer and close the door.  Rachel walked into the kitchen and took a sip of water from the glass on the table.  "Carrie...." she started, "weren't you getting something to eat?"  Carrie looked.............. [expression too hard to explain so I'm gonna say confused and forgotten].  She tool a sip of the glass Rachel put back down. Rachel thought she would make a big deal of it, but she didn't. She just looked at her blankly. 21

"I was, but i guess i lost interest." she said this like it was a movie they wanted to see. Within a few moments, Sean called. Yes, the Sean that my friend Shelby said was supposed to make out with Carrie at that party when she read the draft. Anyways, The caller id said Thomson, so Carrie thought it was Adriane. She picked up the phone and aid"Hey, Addi." She was soft and slow with this. It was like she had been locked up for a while and just found out that she had to be kept in prison for another like, 10 years. That would suck."Me and Ray are going to Starbucks. Wanna come?" But you gotta deal when something similar to that happens 22

On the other line was Sean. "Um....... this is Sean, but I'll come to Starbucks anyways." he laughed that Carrie thought he was Addi. But it was her house so he would have thought the same thing if he were her. "I'm at Adriane's house because I'm babysitting Monica. Her and her parents went out for the day to see some play or something like that." Monica was Addi's little sister. She was a hyper child. She was always jumping around and teasing everyone. That's why you could  either hear screaming in the background, or laughing.  23

This is the part of the story where Carrie says. Hey, I'm gonna have fun with this story. If you get confused, too bad for you because i can't do anything about that. 24

Rachel went into the livingroom and watch the T.V. in the family room while i was still on the phone. "Carrie?" Sean said. i was listening to what he was saying, but none of it actually stayed in my head.  He asked if me and Rachel could hang around  for a while until he was "off duty". I told him that my mom would flip if we were out when she got back. This was half true. I wanted him to go, but i didn't. I can't say why i did, but i didn't want him to go because we would be spending more time together and that wouldn't be good.  That could make it so that i actually liked him.  Which i didn't want.  I mean, Just because he was best friends with Tyler, doesn't mean that he acted like him. Tyler was husky and full of muslce and you could instantly tell he was a cheerleader-loving jock even if you had never met him before. But Sean was different. He was scrawny, but not like gross scrawny.  He was always shaking his head sop that his hair would fall over his eyes.  I thought he looked major hot like that. Like an Ashton Keutcher clone, but shorter and i bet if me and Sean were going out, he would be that kind of guy with clean shaggy hair and let me play with it before make-out sessions.  But only because i don't want this sweaty, muscleman being my boyfriend, much less even knowing someone like that thankyouverymuch.  Okay, okay, okay i can't even lie too myself, i thin i like Sean, but i just don't want to admit it. After he hung up, i realized that there was no point to him calling. 25

After he hung up, i walked into the living room to tell Rachel to hurry up and get going. The reason that we watched T.V. from the living room was because the room that it was already in was always messy. even when it was fully cleaned, it still looked messy.  So Rachel and i usually sat on the couch in that room and watched it from there. That room was just more peaceful. We had thought about bringing the T.V. into there, but it would disturb the silence and boldness of the room. So we just left it in the messy room. 26

As we opened the glassed front door, we could feel the cool, misty, ocean breeze against our faces and arms.  I love days like this. It looked like it had just stopped raining,, only it hadden't rained at all. But the sky was dark and clouds were covering the sky like a big hospital gown because in front of me the sky was cloudy, and when i turned around it was clearer.  I could tell it was going to rain. 27

I told you.  As me and Rachel were walking down the path behind the Miami condos it started raining. The condos, actually, didn't have anything to do with Miami.  To me, they just looked like those condos from one of those cheesy MTV shows where they give teams two fancy houses or something like it, and call it roughing it. Of course they don't know what camping is if they think living in a hotel like house is hard. I just called them the Miami condos.  So the trees were blocking most of the rain but it wasn't enough to stop my eyeliner from dripping. It made it look like i was crying, but i was actually fine. My hair was soaked.  I looked like  I was from one of those sexist adds in Cosmo for perfume or something that had a whom and in the rain and her hair was in small, long, brown curls in the front of her face. The only difference was that my curls were blond. But i still thought it made me look hott with a double 't'. 28

Rachel took the ends of her black blazer, puller it over her head, looked at me and said, "so, why did Sean call?" and i said  "Actually......... i don't know. He was babysitting Addi's sister and i said we were going to Starbucks. He couldn't go because he was on duty." see, if i had told Rachel that he asked up to wait and stuff, she would have asked me why i said no. Then i would have said that it would have been raining even harder when we had to leave that it already was. She would have said that Sean could have driven us. Then i would have sis that his car was full of eggs and crap from last night. Than she would have said something else to twist that. The point ids, the conversation would have gone on forever so i just shut myself up. 29

When we were crossing the road that lead to the boardwalk, we saw a red shiny convertiable pull into Starbucks. We both admired the car, but thought nothing else of it after that.  We were both soaked when we walked into the coffee-smelling place.  It was almost empty except for an old couple in the back, a business worker at her laptop, and these wet surfers that probably had just come in from the beach because it was raining.  30

The cashier was a young 17 year old maned Stacy. I could tell my her voice how old she was, and by her name tag that her name was Stacy.  "Have you made you decision yet?" she said. 'You mean on weather i like Sean, than no.' I made up a story to go along with her looks. 31

She took this job because her parents refused to give her allowance anymore and she just got dumped by he "gorgeous" boyfriend. She needed something to pick her up. So that's why she's here. But there is a guy that stops  by on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays that she secretly has a huge crush on and is waiting for him to ask her out on a romantic date. 32

Rachel looked back at Stacy from the Menu on the wall behind her. "'ll have a mocha cappichino" she said. "Carrie what do you want?" she asked me.  But i could tell by her tone of voice that she really wanted me to get something. So i said "Same." to Stacy who rung up the total and took the two boys behind us. Their orders I mean.  HA!  Rachel and i didn't even look at the people behind us when we were in line because we actually thought that they were old people.  33

"uh.... I'll have a Vanilla frappe and a piece of banana bread." Said one.  As Rachel and I walked to the back of the coffee shop to sit in the big, fuzzy chairs, we both realized that we had heard that voice before!!!!! Just guess who it was...............Tyler. 34

Oh, and whoever Tyler's friend was. 35