Play Bad Girl:
It was around noon when Carly had actually gotten out of bed and ready the following day. However since she didn't have work that day she decided she was just going to head into town to go for a little bit of shopping, grab some lunch and just relax for the rest of the day since things had been a bit busy at the station, she was only now getting use to her new schedule.
Although she missed being in the routine of getting up, getting ready for work and then being at the station for most of the day, it was actually nice to be able to relax and do her own thing without having to carry out number of tasks to a tight schedule. She had not had a day yet to just relax and visit some of the places in town.
She would have loved to spend the with her Dad or her friend Brooke but with her father working late shifts last night then sleeping through the day and Brooke in another state in the country, it was impossible for her to be accompanied on her trip out.
Carly exited out of her apartment building in some mid-wash ripped at the knee skinny jeans, a navy and white striped crop t-shirt, a light grey blazer jacket, tan leather tassel loafers, a tan leather tote and her hair was straightened with her usual nude coloured makeup.
She decided to walk into town since it was quite a nice day outside for the time of year and it would make a change from the driving. It only took her twenty minutes to reach the centre of town where she first headed towards the Brew to grab a drink and something to eat since she had missed breakfast due to being in bed.
She ordered herself a coffee and a toasty, before making her way back out of the Brew and heading towards the main shopping area of the town to look for some new bits to make her home a little more 'homely'.
Carly returned home later that day around 5pm with some groceries, a few ornaments and pictures for her home decorations, as well as some new clothes to add to her wardrobe.
She was feeling pretty worn out and hungry from walking around town all day, as well as heading to the mall so she decided to put some food in the oven and make herself a nice refreshing glass of water to snuggle in front of the TV with to watch a movie.
As she waited for her food to cook, she picked up her phone and decided to make a phone call to Brooke since she had not spoken to her properly, since she had to end the call so abruptly the other day when Jason turned up.
She had text her a few times apologising for having to hang up and had to make up some little white lie that someone from another apartment needed her help with something and by the time she had finished helping them it was late so she just headed straight to bed.
She could not tell her about what happened with Jason because she knew just how Brooke would react and no doubt her best friend would end up telling her Dad someway.
It was just best if she didn't find out because it was a one off and would never end up happening again. Jason was long gone now to god knows where and Carly had her career to focus on.
Of course, Brooke being Brooke was suspicious at first but dropped it and told Carly to call her back another day, so she decided this would be the perfect time for a much needed catch up and gossip.
After three rings, the dialling tone ended and the voice of Brooke picked up the other end "Hello stranger."
"Hey Brooke." Cary smiled making herself comfortable on the couch. "I am still so sorry about the other day, it was completely my fault."
"It's fine." Brooke replied with a cheery tone. "I was just worried something had happened to you I nearly called your Dad."
"I was fine honestly." Carly laughed awkwardly and thought how worse the situation would have gotten if her Dad had turned up at her apartment when Jason was there, on her couch, in her bed, naked. It would not have ended well.
"I'm glad about that." Brooke answered. "So how is Carly Monroe since I don't get any life updates anymore from Papa Monroe?"
"Yeah about that…." Carly trailed off with a half joking and half annoyed tone.
"He told me he talked to you and said that he was only allowed to talk to me now if something was wrong. He sounded quite upset actually." Brooke laughed causing Carly to roll her eyes playfully.
"That is so weird." Carly chuckled. "It is not normal that my best friend and my father communicate daily."
"As I said before, how else am I supposed to keep up to date with your busy life?" Brooke proclaimed "You're basically always in the office with Detective Holbrook and then when you're not you're helping out neighbours."
"It's not that busy Brooke." Carly responded with a small sigh. "It's literally a routine. I had my first day off today and I have been all alone, I would much rather have you or Dad here with me. Anyway, how is the job hunting going? Any luck?"
"I had a few interviews but I haven't heard anything back. It's hopeless Carl's." She groaned.
"I could always keep an eye out for you if anything comes up in Rosewood?" Carly suggested.
She was actually hoping that Brooke would be accepting of the offer and would even consider moving to Rosewood so that they could be closer together. She honestly missed having a best friend and it didn't feel like to her that right now she had any friends, could she even count Holbrook as one since all he seemed to do was hit on her?
"Maybe but it's only because you want me to move to Rosewood." Brooke pointed out before letting out a giggle.
"You know me too well." Carly joined in the laughter just as the timer on the oven went off.
Getting up off the couch, Carly wondered over to get her food out of the oven and plate it up. She leant the phone against her ear and her shoulder as she got out a plate from one of the cabinets and started putting her food onto her plate to eat.
"There's actually been something I'm dying to ask you." Brooke stated as Carly grabbed a knife and fork out of the draw before wondering over to take a seat down on the couch.
"What's that?" Carly asked intrigued as to where this conversation was going.
"Well when your Dad told me that we weren't allowed to talk anymore, he mentioned something about detective Holbrook asking you out on a date?"
Of course he did Carly thought as she took a bite out of her food and shook her head slightly amused at this. "Yeah that's true."
"So did you take the handsome detective up on his offer?"
"I don't like where this conversation is headed…" Carly muttered as she thought back to how awkward the end of their date was.
"Just answer the question Carly." Brooke begged with a desperate tone.
Of course Brooke would end up literally having to plead the answer out of Carly since she didn't like talking about her dating/relationships due to her past. But this was exciting to Brooke because she wasn't there in Rosewood to see it happen and could only communicate through the phone or email.
"Seriously…"
"Seriously!" Brooke exclaimed.
There was no way she was going to be able to get out of this one and in no doubt letting Brooke know about how her date went would probably let her drop the topic for a while if she heard how Carly wasn't still that interested.
"Fine!" Carly breathed defeated by this. "Yes I went on a date with him."
"Oh my god," Brooke beamed from down the phone. "Tell me everything!"
"There isn't really much to say, apart from that it was nice and we had a good time." Carly answered her friend as she tucked into more of her food.
"That's really great to hear, Carl's." Brooke squealed happily. "So is there another date on the cards or?"
"Probably not for a while no," Carly explained to her "It was nice yeah but I don't see it heading anywhere. He's my boss after all and I already told him I don't want to mix work and relationships."
"So there was no kissing, no touching, no you know what, nothing at all?"
"No Brooke." She chuckled shaking her head as she finished the last mouth of food and laid her plate down on the coffee table.
"When I come to visit and if I end up seeing this Holbrook fella and he is beyond attractive, I will be seriously mad at you Carly for not getting on that."
"I'm not like that Brooke." Carly laughed more. Brooke was always way over dramatic over these situations and it was clearly amusing from Carly's point of view.
"We'll see about that Monroe." Brooke teased before joining in the laughter and it wasn't long before it suddenly stopped when the line went dead.
Confused, Carly pulled her phone away from her ear and saw that the call had randomly disconnected. Quickly she tried to call back but the line just went dead and wouldn't let her even though she had fall bars of signal, so figured out it must have been Brooke's phone messing up.
Frowning at what just happened, she laid the phone down on the coffee table beside her plate, before picking up the plate and going over to the sink to wash up.
Just as she had laid the plate and the cutlery on the sink to dry, the sound of her phone beeping telling her she had a message went off in the quiet apartment. Skipping back over to retrieve her phone, she assumed it would be Brooke apologising and telling her that she lost service.
However what she saw on the phone was not what she was expecting. Instead it only left her feeling uncomfortable and worried as to whom the hell had sent that message and who knew about her past enough to provoke her with it.
Blocked number:
It was times like this when good girl Carly, use to sneak out and play bad girl –A
Frowning at the text message she received, she read it over once again and found herself becoming increasingly confused as to why she had even received this text. It made sense with the whole good girl act, sneaking out and playing the bad girl, but she didn't understand why someone was bringing that up now.
"A… as in Alison?"
Spinning her head around, she jogged over to the window and pulled the curtain away so that she could look out across the street. Her heart was beating rapidly at this point at the thought of someone being out there trying to scare her away from this town.
However as the sun was setting in the neighbourhood, there was no one in sight and it only made her feel more uneasy about this like someone was hiding. She felt like someone was watching and waiting, like they were watching her to gain some sort of reaction out of her and see her crumble all over again just like when she used to live in Rosewood.
She had no idea why someone would want to do that to her since she had never had bad blood with anyone in this town. She tried so hard to figure out who the hell could have sent that message to her. It had to be someone who knew about her past enough to use it against her.
But the only people she could think of that knew about that past were out of town or those that she thought she could trust with that part of her life. However one name crossed through her mind more than once and the –A at the end of the text message only confirmed her suspicions.
It was pretty clear to Carly that from the night at the police station, that person had not been happy in the slightest to have seen Carly for the first time since that summer and especially in a place of authority where Carly could share their secrets if it meant it would have helped with the case.
She knew that they had never really liked her because of how involved she had got with Jason and how wherever Jason seemed to be then Carly would be. She was one of the few people that knew about her and Jason that year. She hated how rapt up Jason was with Carly and how he would pick her any day over his current girlfriend, Cece Drake.
All Carly could presume that –A meant Alison DiLaurentis, Jason's half-sister and the girl the case Carly was working on was all about.
This had to be some sort of threat to make Carly not get involved with Jason again and to pull herself out of the case she had been assigned to. It wouldn't be the first time that Alison had tried to get in the way of Carly and Jason.
~ Flash Back ~
Carly climbed the stairs of the DiLaurentis house that Friday evening what happened to be the weekend before Spring break officially began. The sound of loud music playing from one of the room's at the top of the hall way caused Carly to roll her eyes and a small smirk to twitch up the corners of her lips.
Once she had reached the top of the stairs, she made her way over to the room that the loud music was coming from and pushed down on the handle, not even bothering to knock because it wasn't like they would be able to hear her anyway.
She was met by the sight of a topless Jason sat at the end of his bed flicking through a pile of his old CD's and computer games. His back was facing away from her, so he had not even realised that she had entered his room and was making her way over to see him.
Carly felt herself exhaling softly when she saw the muscles arch on Jason's back as he leant over to pick something up off the ground and it was then that he noticed the tops of her converse on his wooden floor.
His eyes trailed up from the converse on her feet to her slightly tanned legs which were on display due to the shortness of the jean shorts she was wearing that only reached the top of her thigh, they went up to grey ribbed wrap front crop top she was wearing that showed off a small amount of stomach and up to her face.
Leaning back up, he turned his head in her direction and flashed a side smirk at her, which he knew would make her stomach flutter and it sure did.
"Hey I didn't hear you come in." Jason told her bending down to put the CD's he had in his into the pile he had made before getting up off the bed.
"I'm not surprised with how loud you have the music up." Carly commented back with a small smile trying to avert his eyes away from his chest area.
Jason shook his head copying the smirk that matched hers, before going over to turn down the stereo and grab a shirt to throw on the top half of his naked body.
She watched him as he pulled out a long sleeve grey fitted shirt from his draws and turned back round to face her, her cheek's flushing slightly when he noticed her staring at him and she had no choice but to look away.
Spinning around on her feet, she made her way over to his bed and took a seat down on one of the sides on the middle, pretending like she had not been looking at him. But Jason knew that of course, he couldn't help but feel pretty good about the way she was acting around him.
"I'm actually surprised to see you here after what happened with your Dad last week." Jason stated as he slipped the shirt over his head and turned to look at her.
"Yeah well I dealt with that and what he doesn't know won't hurt him." Carly replied.
"Sneaking out again, are we?" Jason asked even though he already knew the answer.
Carly would always end up finding a way to leave the house when her Dad was home, she would always make up some excuse like she was going round a friends to sleep and it always seemed to work.
Apart from last week when her Dad caught her leaving the house around 11:30pm on a school night to go hang out with Jason and his friends in the back of the woods near where Jason lived. It did not end well between the two and even meant her Dad was going to be keeping a closer eye on his daughter, as well as making the neighbours aware of the strict curfew her Dad had put in place.
Of course Carly was not going to be following this and had planned to be extra careful when going out during the day and sneaking out at night to make sure her neighbours did not suspect a thing.
Today and tonight was the first time she was going to be testing out this new theory, since she had not been to see Jason or any of his friends all week due to having school and tests all week that she had to revise for. But tonight was one of the latest parties that Jason and his friends were hosting so Carly had to there, there was no doubt about it and she wouldn't let some curfew her Dad set keep her away from spending the night with Jason.
Carly glanced up at him from her spot on the bed and smirked "Aren't I always?"
"Yeah you're a little minx." Jason teased as he rolled up the sleeves on his shirt and made his way over to join her on the bed. "Not following Daddy's rules."
"Shut up." Carly hushed him playfully as she lay back against the pillows on his bed with her arms crossed now and a pout forming on her lips.
"I think you need to relax Carl's." He suggested bending down over the edge of the bed and pulling out a crate of beer bottles from under it.
He snapped two from the crate, before pulling off the lid and handing one over to her. Sitting up slightly, she took the beer from him as he came to sit beside her and they both took a sip out of the beverage.
"Are you not with Cece today?" Carly asked trying to make conversation with him as she played with the bottle in her fingers.
"Nah she's gone to get a manicure or whatever they are called, but I'll probably see her tonight at the party" Jason answered her taking a glance at her from the side to see her smile altered slightly. "You ok Carl's?"
"I'm fine." Carly mumbled before bringing the beer up to her lips and taking a much larger swig out of it this time.
Truth be told, she wasn't fine at all. She hated knowing that Jason was still with Cece after everything the couple had been through the past few months. They were up and down like a rollercoaster, it was so hard to keep up with whether they were still on with each other one day or had broken up another.
It angered Carly that Jason always went back to her, despite whatever argument they had gotten into that resulted in Cece shouting abuse at Jason and running off to another guy. She wished that Jason wouldn't take her back after every time when they never even acted like a real couple. They were only together when it suited one or the other, most of the time they did not even hang around together.
Carly could have probably been the blame for most of the arguments lately since Jason had been spending so much time with the teenager. To anyone around who did not know Jason was seeing someone else, they would have probably assumed he was with Carly by the amount of touching and the close bond the two shared.
Every time Cece and Jason broke up, Carly felt one step closer to falling head over heels for Jason. Letting herself fall for a guy was something that she had never done in her whole life and it had to be for the guy that already had a girlfriend, as well as who did drugs and got drunk most nights.
But with Jason it was like it was impossible not to. He did something to her that she couldn't even explain. She liked the rush, the excitement and the way he made her feel. Carly felt jealous that whenever Cece was around, she knew that she would not be spending as much time with Jason as she would like to have and would probably end up so drunk to block out how she was really feeling.
"You don't seem fine." Jason pointed out taking another sip of his own beer.
"Well I am fine." Carly spat at him harshly, before sitting back up and taking another gulp of beer.
She didn't mean to be so bitter but she was already dreading tonight now already.
"C'mon Carl's," He sat up to join her and nudged his elbow with her own. "You were fine when you got here and now you're sulking like a baby."
"Oh jeez thanks Jason." Carly grumbled laying her bottle down onto one of his bed side tables and standing up from the bed, facing away from him as she did so.
"Well you are Carly," Jason exclaimed laying his beer down beside hers before swinging his legs off the bed. "I don't understand what's got you so grouchy."
"Oh please Jason, are you really that stupid?"
"Yeah well I must be." He scoffed back as he stood behind her.
Carly shook her head and laid her head in her hands, letting out a loud sigh as she did so. She couldn't quite believe that he didn't understand the position she was stuck in right now. But of course he wasn't to know when she had not been honest with him about her feelings.
Jason gently laid his hands down on Carly's waist, which caused her body to freeze instantly when she felt his touch. It wasn't long before she felt him move her round to face him properly and she dropped her head low in embarrassment from getting so angry but also because she knew if she looked at him, she would forget why she was so annoyed in the first place.
Carefully Jason leant down and grabbed her chin softly, before titling her head up to look at him. Their eyes met straightaway, Carly could already feel her heart beat speed up inside her chest as Jason removed his hand from her chin. She hated what he did to her.
"I'm sorry." He apologised with pleading eyes as a small sigh escaped her lips. "I'm yours for the night don't you worry about it."
"You mean that?" Carly asked him titling her head slightly to the side.
"I mean that." Jason replied sincerely as he took hold of Carly's hand and linked their fingers together.
Carly gazed down at their hands together before looking back at up him through her eyelashes to be met with Jason smiling at her. She couldn't help but break out into a similar smile when she saw him looking at her like that and how good it felt to have that reassurance from him.
He always knew how to win her back.
Going back over to the bed, the two of them laid on top of it and stared up at the ceiling "You know when you're angry you do remind me of a baby."
"Wow you're so charming today with all of these compliments." Carly said sarcastically as she grabbed one of his cushions from his floor and whacked him over the head with it.
Putting his arm in the air for defence, he used the other one to snatch the cushion out of her hand and he went to return the gesture when she saw started squealing.
"Don't you dare Jason!" Carly warned him as she folded her arms over her face to shield them from the cushion. She was never good at these types of games since she never had a sibling to play fight with.
"C'mon Carl's stop living up to the baby name I've given you." Jason mocked as he hit the pillow against her arm and she couldn't help but break out into laughter when she felt Jason's other hand come into contact with her waist where he began to tickle her.
"Jason seriously." Carly screamed loudly as more laughter erupted out of her mouth and Jason tried his hardest to stop himself from laughing at her behaviour, but it was no luck when he joined her.
Carly quickly shuffled her way away from him on the bed and picked up another cushion off the floor as Jason continued to hit her with it playfully. She edged closer to him with the cushion in her face to stop her from getting hit with it as Jason was not looking like he was giving up anytime soon.
Suddenly she felt her body come into contact with his and it wasn't long before she felt her body fall onto his. Pulling the cushion away from his face, she realised that she had actually landed on his chest area, with her legs tangling in with his and her face now inches away from his own.
The laughter from before was replaced with heavy breathing coming from both of them as they gazed into each other's eyes. Just like before, Carly felt her heart beat pick up and her stomach fluttered rapidly. She felt so nervous to be stuck in this situation and she had no idea how Jason felt.
Before she had the chance to speak or even move off of him, the sound of someone storming into Jason's room broke the two apart. Their heads turned to the figure that had now entered the room with a look of disapproval and disgust upon their face.
"Ali! What the hell are you doing in my room?" Jason questioned her slightly annoyed that she had just barged in without even knocking or asking for his permission.
"You left the door wide open Jason; I could hear you and her all the way from downstairs." Alison, Jason's young sister bit back at him.
Carly who felt so uneasy and awkward in this situation, slowly detached herself off of Jason and took a seat down on the edge of the bed trying her hardest to avoid all eye contact with Alison at all times.
"So? It does not give you the right to just walk into my room uninvited." Jason hissed back at her.
"It does when I can hear you messing around with Carly doing god knows what." Alison snapped back at him causing Carly to lower her head.
"We weren't doing anything Alison," He shot back at her before standing up from the bed and crossing his arms. "Now stay out of my room and my business."
"Of course you weren't," Alison replied sarcastically and pointed her finger between the two of them "If I had not of walked in here just then god knows what could have happened between you two. Do I have to remind you Jason that you have a girlfriend?"
"No Ali you don't." He sighed.
"Good because don't forget that she also happens to be my best friend and if she ever found out that something was going on between you two, we would make Carly's life hell."
"I wouldn't let you do that Alison." Jason stepped in to defend Carly which caught Carly's attention instantly.
Without giving Alison a chance to add another threat or accusation at the pair, Jason grabbed hold of her elbow and walked her out of his room ignoring the protests what came from her.
Carly leapt up from the bed to check out what was going on but before she could, Jason came back through and slammed the door shut behind him. He had a look of anger on his face but once he saw how uneasy Carly look, he flashed a reassuring smile at her hoping that it would make her feel better.
~End of flash back~
That wasn't the only time Carly had to deal with Alison's accusations, threats and abuse throughout her involvement with Jason. It seemed like every moment that they were in each other's presents; Alison would say some comment about Carly to try aggravate her or to make her stay away from Jason.
The first few times it had made her feel apprehensive about going out to certain parties where she knew Alison would also be there with Cece or go round the DiLaurentis house knowing Alison would be keeping an eye out for suspicious behaviour.
But after them feeling's had passed, she started to think why the hell was she walking around on egg shells and making herself miserable because of some girl who was three years younger than her and thought she ruled the bloody town.
No way in hell was Carly letting Alison get to her again so instead of listening to her comments, Carly either ignored them or said something back that provoked the same way Alison had done to her before.
Although it didn't stop Alison from doing what she had been doing, it made Carly feel so good that she could stand up for herself and not let Alison ruin her happiness. If she wanted to be close with Jason she would and she wouldn't have let Alison get in the way of that.
And she most certainly now would not let Alison get in the way of her working on the case and training to be the detective she always wanted to be.
She hoped and prayed that whatever that the text was would be a one off. She would definitely make sure that of that because she wasn't letting this 'A' or Alison try to change things for her this time round.
Author note: Thank you for reading. I hope you enjoyed this part. A flashback to what Carly and Jason's relationship used to be like in the past. I hope this is enough to keep you guys reading until Jason comes back into this properly. Please do as I have so much planned.
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