Thirty seven
A/N: more fighting. I think I might be getting better at writing these scenes.
It was six o'clock in the morning when it happened. Tyler woke up after wetting the bed... again. He wandered down the corridor to get some spare bed sheets when he realised that everyone was asleep. He crept down the corridor towards Carmen's room. She was fast asleep and looked peaceful.
'Aw how cute,' he thought to himself. He snuck in grabbed most of her clothes which were lying in her suitcase. He left the ones on the floor. He crept back to his room and stowed them under the bed. He then picked up her towel and clothes that he had stolen that morning on the beach and carried them to Carmen's room. He returned them before heading towards the attic to see if it was unlocked. Luckily for him it was, so he went back to his room, picked up Carmen's clothes and carried them up to the attic. He hid them in a far corner. He left the attic but locked it as he left before going back to sleep.
***Next morning***
Summer woke up to a loud scream. "Ahhhhh!" she rolled out of bed and ran down the stairs to Carmen's room.
"What's up Carmen?" she asked slightly out of breath. Carmen pointed at the room and Summer looked around. She couldn't see anything out of the ordinary.
"my clothes. They've all been stolen. Or most of them have," Carmen explained. Summer rolled her eyes.
"Tyler," Summer said shaking her head. "look Carmen, you can borrow some of mine. You won't get them back. I wouldn't even try." Carmen gritted her teeth.
"I will get them back. Just you watch Summer," Carmen said storming out the room and down towards Tyler's room.
Tyler was asleep so she pushed him out of the bed while Summer hovered in the doorway, unsure whether to help or not. "I wouldn't if I was you Carmen."
Tyler who had landed on the floor with a loud bump, woke up and sat up. Carmen turned to him. "Give me back my clothes Tyler Lewis," she spat.
"And if I don't, what you gonna do about it?" he teased back.
"this," Carmen shouted launching herself at Tyler. She bit his wrist and punched him in the kidney but Tyler was bigger and stronger than she was. He soon had her overpowered after a few quick blows to her eyes, arms and chest. She rolled over and Tyler went with her. He was about to bring his hand down on Carmen even harder when she kneed him and he doubled over. He clenched his fist and swung it. Carmen braced herself for the impact that never came. She opened her eyes and saw Rick holding Tyler's fist in his hand and Summer kneeling in between herself and Tyler.
"leave her alone Tyler. You stole her clothes. So now the pair of you are equal. So just leave it," Rick told him angrily. Summer helped Carmen up and saw she was bleeding from two small scratches under her eyes.
"Let's get those sorted Carmen," Summer said gently.
"No. You don't care about me. You didn't stop him from beating me up. Just leave me alone Summer and don't ever touch me again," Carmen argued shrugging Summer off and storming out. Rick looked at Summer and bit his lip. The sooner elm tree house opened again the less chance Lia, Alice and Jack would have of hurting the Elm Tree kids and the less chance of Tyler stealing anything else.