11-Thomas' Love Life Needs Help

"What is it, Rosie?" Carmen asked, gasping for air as she collapsed against the wall. "I was in the middle of something very important!"

Arianna rolled her eyes. She was using the doorframe for support as she attempted to take her three inched heels from her aching feet.

"Sticking your tongue down a guy's throat is not important."

"YOU STUCK YOUR TONGUE DOWN HIS THROAT?" Rosalinda yelled.

"NO!" Carmen defended, then blushing slightly as she remembered the kiss in her head. "I kissed him...Sensibly."

All of the girls cracked out in smiles. They knew she was going to like him. Arianna wasn't that stupid. She knew what sort of person her daughter would have liked to spend the rest of her life with. If it had been some stuck up snob, Arianna knew she was never going to get her daughter's forgiveness. And then along came Drake.

"Someone's L-O-V-E...LOVE!" Jenifer sang, making the word's up as she went along.

"I don't love him..." Carmen mumbled. "I like him..."

"Aw...You like me."

The blonde haired Princess did a quick turn of her head to see Prince Drake sat on one of the chairs. All of the girls turned to face in the same direction and all of their jaws fell straight to the floor.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Carmen asked a little rudely.

"You said I should come visit you next time...It's next time." His look was smug, yet ever so sexy at the same time. Carmen just rolled her eyes at his excuse. "And I'm hiding from Karia and Cami..."

Typical. Carmen knew there was going to be another catch to his plans. Maybe he had missed her, but then he had gone and said he wasn't up for facing his sister's. Maybe he was lying, but Carmen found that highly unlikely.

"Great...Drake, this is Rachel, Abigail, Annalise, Jenifer and Rosie." Carmen introduced. "Guys, this is Drake...My fiancée."

"You know, Car." Rose said, unable to take her eyes from the Prince. "If you still wanna be single, I am up for the swap!"

Carmen cracked a smile. At least it was showing that her friends were still getting along with her future husband. It was one thing for Carmen to like him and another for her friends. Maybe Drake really was Mr. Perfect.

"Tough." The Princess replied. "He's mine!" Rosalinda couldn't help but look slightly disappointed about that. "So, why did you call me back?"

All of the girls lit up even more as they turned to face Carmen again. It was as if they were bursting with good news, desperate to get it off their chests. And they were.

"We found the perfect girl for Thomas!" Abigail told Carmen. The Princess was in shock. It hadn't taken as long as they had thought to find the perfect girl.

Carmen, of course, was relieved to find that her cousin was in perfect health. Thomas hadn't exactly been his usual self recently, and that was very understandable. Carmen couldn't wait to put the girls plan into action and get a smile back on his face.

"Who is it?" Carmen asked.

"Her name's Dallas." Jenifer explained, thinking about said girl in her mind. "She just moved in next door to us."

"Dallas Cecario..." Carmen mumbled. Her dark eyes were focused on the carpet on the floor beside Jenifer. Carmen knew who Dallas was. Of course she knew who Dallas was. "I guess we can give her a shot."

"You know her?" Rachel asked, twirling a piece of thick, black hair around her fingertips. It was just a habit she hadn't broken since being a child.

Carmen shot out of her daydream, turning to see all of the girls eager to know how she knew about Dallas. Carmen had to think for a moment, thinking of the perfect answer.

"I know everything about everyone who lives in Scarlatina." Carmen finally decided upon. "I read their files."

That wasn't a lie. There was a big book in the library that had every piece of information about every single person who had ever lived in Scarlatina. Whenever someone knew was about to move in, the book updated itself in alphabetical order.

No person was ever taken out of the book, meaning over the years it had grown to be quite big and quite heavy. Carmen liked to read it to find out more about people. Not a lot of people knew about the book, the ones who did found it to be amazing. Pure magic from a sorcerer who had existed centuries ago.

"Nosey much?" Drake asked a smug grin on his face.

"Do you not have anywhere else to go?" Carmen asked.

"Yeah..." Drake replied, thinking about all of the other places he could go. "But I want to stay here with you."

The girls found it sweet, Carmen found it disgusting.

The blonde teenager rolled her eyes, "Lucky me."

Thomas' eyes followed her every move she made in setting up the swing set in her garden. It would have been gentleman like to offer his hand to help, but it was a lot easier for him just to sit back and watch. At least that way they didn't have to actually talk to each other.

"Can I help you with something?" Dallas called out. She still had her back turned and was assembling the last few pieces together. So much for not talking.

"I-Uh...Umm...I'm just...Uh...You know...Doing my...Homework?" It came out more of question than a statement. Mental slap number one.

"Uh-huh..." Dallas smiled, though Thomas couldn't see as she refused to turn to face him.

"Yeah." Thomas sounded more confident this time, trying to convince her that he wasn't lying about it. "Yeah, I have to watch my neighbours and analyze...How they behave in a general situation."

It did sound rather convincing, but Dallas had heard the first part of this conversation too. It was a clear lie, but she was finding it rather sweet that he was watching her.

"You do know it is Summer, right?" Dallas asked. She got up from the floor and sat herself down on the swing. "NO SCHOOL!"

Thomas smiled. He could now see what his younger sister meant by their hot next door neighbour. Dallas looked amazing through Thomas' eyes. Of course, he now knew better than to just jump into something. After Olivia he knew he would have to trust his knowledge more than his heart's feeling.

"Yeah...I know that..." Thomas replied. He was running out of clever comebacks now. What had this girl reduced him to? "I do extra credit over the Summer." Mental slap number two.

"Oh, I guess that does make sense." Dallas tried to look as if she was convinced, though she really wasn't. "I am sorry for doubting you." Her smile made Thomas' heart flutter, but he already knew what this feeling was. It had to stop now.

"It's okay." He replied smugly. "You're forgiven."

Dallas rolled her eyes, coming to a halt on the swing. She stood up and gave Thomas a good look up and down. He took it as a sign that she was checking him out. She wasn't.

"Well, I'd say it was nice meeting you...But I'm not sure if it was." Dallas turned her back, her caramel-ginger-brown hair flying quickly behind. "Goodbye." She called, almost skipping inside her house.

"That went well..." Thomas mumbled to himself. "Extra credit?" Third, and final, mental slap of the evening that involved a very pretty girl. "Now she thinks I am a total geek!"

Before Thomas could kill his brain even more for not supporting him in his decision to try and hit on the next door neighbour, his worst nightmare happened.

"Hey, Tom." Scott said. "Can we talk?"

"Unless you want to start another fight, BEAT IT!" Thomas roared, not in the mood for more from his so called best friend.

Scott's lip was still in a pretty bad shape. Thomas really had gotten to it hard. He knew that he was in the wrong when it came to the fight, but he believed he was in the right about everything else.

Sure, Olivia had been the one who had started it all, but Scott had known that Olivia and Thomas had been a thing at the time. Scott still kissed back. He had been sucking on her neck just as much as she had done to his. Thomas blamed Scott still.

"Tom, man...Come on, don't be like this."

"BEAT IT!" Thomas turned his back on Scott, marching straight back into his own house before another fight could break out.

"So much for forgiveness..."

Scott ran a shaky hand through his mop of black hair. At least another fight hadn't broken out between them, that was what Scott had been expecting to happen. Maybe Thomas was starting to forgive him ever so slowly. Maybe...

A/N: Oh...Well...haha! THOMAS!

Okay...I have had Pepsi Max and a few drops of Powerade...Combined together they make...HYPERNESS! YAY! LOL!

=O! =O! =O! =O! =O!

At least Thomas likes Dallas back...Right? I mean...We don't know if she likes him, because it doesn't really seem like she does...Maybe...I DON'T KNOW!

OMG! GUESS WHAT I DID TODAY? GO ON, GUESS! OKAY! I'LL TELL YOU!

TODAY I BEAT AARON AT SNAKE! YES! AFTER WEEKS OF TRYING, I DID IT! YAY! LOL! OKAY! YOU PROBABLY DON'T CARE...BUT I DO!

YAY! SNAKE!

Sooooooo...YAY! LOL!

Hmmm...I don't think drinking fizzy stuff or energy drinks should be allowed in people like me...CURSE YOU PEPSI! That Powerade was DISGUSTING! So no more of that again! LOL!

Today I learnt that a G6 is a plane...And I dislike that song...A LOT! LIKE A LOTTA LOT!

OH! MY BROTHER'S GONE! He left at 6:30 this morning on a coach to go to France for three days :) He shall be back at 6:47 on Thursday morning...Until then, I AM BROTHERLESS! YES! LUCKY ME! haha!

SO! ONT HIS HAPPY NOTE!-

DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE A PLASTIC BAG?

No...Not really...

ALL THANK YOU'S SHALL START WITH YAY!

Thank you to;

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WHO SAYS? WHO SAYS YOU'RE NOT PERFECT?

I like that song...YAY!

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