Chapter 9:
They get into Carter's Jeep. "I can't believe you still have this thing." Abby says as she closes the door.
"I've grown attached to it." Carter says jokingly, as he starts the engine and starts to drive to his house.
Abby sets the table as Carter cooks dinner. It's quiet in Carter's house with no one around but them. "How can you live in such a big house with no one else around?" Abby asks.
"I don't know. It gets quiet sometimes. Too quiet, you know."
"Aren't we supposed to be talking about us, or if there is an us?" Abby says, getting to the point.
"I don't know. You're the one who suggested we talk."
"So let's talk." Abby says as she sits down.
"Okay." Carter sits down across from Abby.
"So are we an us?" Abby asks.
"Do you want to be an us?" Carter asks back.
"Do you?"
"I asked you first." Carter says. He wants an answer, and soon. Because lately he has been thinking a lot about Abby, and a lot about what they could be.
"I don't know, it's complicated. We have a complicated past." Abby says. Carter wishes Abby would stop beating around the bush and just give him a straight answer. He is getting impatient, and it is getting harder to be so close to her and not be able to have what they had.
Carter decides to just come out and say what's on his mind, it would make this so much more faster he decides. "I think we should give it another chance. This whole Kem thing has made me realize that I was wrong to leave you. It made me realize that I want to be with you, more than anything right now. It made me realize that this time around, we should try harder to make this work, because I want it to work. I want to be with you Abby."
Abby stares at him. She is shocked, and didn't expect this kind of speech from Carter. Finally she speaks up. "I want to be with you too." She says it quietly, but Carter hears her. He smiles, and she smiles back.