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Again, I gli at me

He hadn’t said a word I was sure I’d feel a little better if he spoke to me casually, like the past was behind us Yet it felt like the opposite

Not wanting to stand around and look lost, I decided to help Marlena carry out the trays of snacks on the table It was on the trip there that I instantly regretted doing it I was only feet away from Carter, and I felt dizzy from the nerves Confidence, confidence But that was easier said than done I’d never felt this rattled in my life The tray I picked up quaked in ain to his

He was still staring atat me like that? Do you hate me?

I didn’t realize the tray had tilted on its side, until the crackers fell off, landing noisily on the table I startled and looked down, feeling my cheeks heat in embarrassment as I quickly picked them all up one by one It could have been a few seconds, but it felt like an eternity tohand reached over and grabbed at a few others I knew that hand; it had been on me – and in me –in ways that were both sinful and sweet

Startled, I watched Carter pick up the rest and place them on the tray I wanted to thank him for the help, but his eyes appeared harder than before, cutting through me like a knife

"Sorry," I whispered, and I wasn’t really sure as to what I was sorry for The crackers? The last three years of zero co a fucking idiot, driving him away from me to follow his dreams

Stupid dreams Who needed the her slender hand around Carter’s bulging bicep "Carter’s used to fans acting like star-struck idiots around hi at her, I was half-tempted to smash the tray over her head for that re I needed was a cri positions

Instead, I used ue

"Well, without those star-struck idiots, he’d be absolutely nothing," I told her sweetly

Ignoring ned tooth and replied, "The band doesn’t need a fan-base to be huge Theiridiot? "That’s like saying a book can be ait"

She shook her head and glanced at Carter "So art? I wanted to ask, but then that would appear obvious I’d taken seconds out of ive the gorgeous looking giraffe the satisfaction

Carter didn’t respond to her He seerasp

Oh, boy, trouble in paradise

I stiffly turned away from this odd as hell conversation and hurried into the kitchen, nearly tripping over my feet in the process I set the tray down and studiedto irl I was usually so sure ofit most of the tih ht have at least emotionally prepared myself for it But it’d corips with this

It was shock, I toldhim naked

I wasn’t