Chapter 3: What's Up With Carmen and Hailey?
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"You guys ready to go?" Hailey asked, pulling up next to her group of friends in her car. Hailey was in the backseat.
"I thought you weren't gonna let her come." Bev stated, hopping in the backseat with Hailey and Jack.
"She was gonna tell my dad about the Josh thing at school today…" Carmen mumbled. Justin climbed in the passenger seat, laughing.
"Why? Would he hurt you?" Jack asked, softly, but worried.
"Hell no! If he even touched me I'd beat his ass! He'd just send me back to the psychologist. He thinks I'm crazy! Do you believe that?"
"Josh does…" Justin laughed, sliding over quickly towards the window to avoid a smack from Carmen.
"Yeah, he does! I talked to him after school and he said he seriously thought you were crazy!" Hailey exclaimed.
"Hailey, shut up, or I'll stuff you in the trunk!" Carmen said, with a laugh.
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"What are we gonna see?" Hailey asked.
"Friday Night Lights." Carmen stated. "And you're sitting far away from me."
"I'll sit next to you, Hail…" A voice said, from behind the group of kids.
They all turned around to see Dave Christopher, Hailey's crush since forever, standing in front of Hailey.
"You're going to see FNL, t-too?" Hailey stuttered, nervously.
"Yeah, Krista and Mike are gonna make-out anyway so I'll need someone to talk to!"
Hailey spun around to face Justin and Carmen. "Please…?"
"Fine. But meet us out here when it's over." Carmen sighed.
"YAY! Thanks!" She walked off with Dave and the other 2 kids.
"Where are we going after the movie?" Jack asked, quietly.
"Dave's older brother is having a party… You wanna go?"
"I don't know if I'm allowed too…"
"I'll call Evey and ask her for you."
"Well actually Bobby's supposed to be watching me. When I asked if I could go to the movies with you guys, he wanted to know who "you guys" was."
"Bobby's back!"
Jack nodded and started looking around at the framed posters of movies on the walls.
"Cool! We'll stop by the house and ask him if you can go after the movie, 'kay?"
Jack nodded again.
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Carmen pulled up in front of the Mercer house and Jack tensed up.
"What's wrong?" She asked.
"Nothing…" He got out and followed her up to the house. She knocked on the front door and waited until it flung open and Bobby lifted her off the ground in a hug.
"I'm so glad you're back!" She breathed in his ear.
Bev, Justin, and Hailey were watching from the car and Bev looked a little confused.
"I take it they we're more than just 'hockey buddies', Justin?" She assumed.
"Try best friends. When he left a year ago, she had a REALLY hard time getting over it. Spent a few nights at Evelyn's house in his room just to calm herself down."
"Wow. They were really that close?"
"Oh yeah!" Justin laughed. "Evelyn kept a real close eye on her when she was over because she liked to roam up to Bobby's room and cry herself to sleep in his bed."
"Bobby, I'm so glad you're back!" Carmen repeated.
"I missed you too…" He smiled at her.
"Bev, Justin, Hailey!" She waved the 3 kids into the house.
"So, did you stop by to see me?"
"Kinda. But Jack wanted to know if we could take him to John's party tonight…"
"Carmen…" Bobby gave her a stern 'I don't think so' look.
"Please, Bobby! I'll watch out for him!"
"Don't push it."
"What if you come with?"
Bobby stopped for a second and thought about it. "No. You guys can stay the night here for all I care but you're not taking him to a party on his 3rd night here. Especially not a senior party! Ma would kill me!"
"I wanna go, Bobby…" Jack said, quietly.
"What?" Bobby asked. He sounded kinda mad, but he was just wondering what he was saying.
Jack didn't answer.
Carmen looked over at Jack and noticed he was looking at the floor, nervously playing with his jacket sleeves.
"Jack, what'd you say?" She asked, calmly.
"I wanna go, Bobby." He said, a little louder.
"I know, but Ma would kill me if I let you go to a senior's party your 3rd night here." Bobby stated.
"We'll stay here with you, Jack." Carmen said.
Bev and Hailey looked at her, angrily. They wanted to go to the party. Justin didn't care either way; he wanted to look after the new kid, get to know him a little bit.
"When you say, "we," who are you talking about?" Bev asked.
"Justin and me, atleast. You can go to the party, but you're not taking my car. And Hailey, curfew is still in place. 1:00AM. You come back here, unless I call and tell you otherwise. Got it?"
Hailey nodded and Bev grabbed her arm and dragged her down the street to John's house.
"What do you guys wanna do?" Jack asked.
"Did you do anything to your room, yet?" Carmen asked.
"No…"
"Then come on! I'll do something to it!" She exclaimed, grabbing his hand and dragging him up the stairs.
"I should probably follow them…" Justin sighed, walking upstairs after them.
"If I hear one noise I don't like I'm coming up!" Bobby yelled.
Carmen opened the door to Jack's room and looked around. "Wow. It's so…naked…"
"Well, I haven't really had time to do anything to it…" Jack said, softly.
"No, it's alright. I can work with this…" She smirked.
"CJ…" Justin started.
"What's she gonna do?" Jack asked, nervously.
"Watch."
"I need paint! PAINT!" She shouted, running down the hallway to the extra bedroom. "PAINT!"
She picked up 3 buckets of paint off the floor, put them in Jack's room, then got a huge plastic tarp. Before she put the tarp down she handed Jack his guitar and said, "If I get paint on this I will never forgive myself." And then laughed.
"What color paint is that?" Jack asked.
"Red, black, and neon pink."
"But I don't like pink!"
"When she's finished with it, you will. Don't worry." Justin laughed. "Come on. We'll go watch TV while she does that."
"But-"
"You'll like it don't worry, dude. Come on."
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"What do ya think?" Carmen asked, calmly, opening Jack's bedroom door.
"Holy crap." Jack said. He looked around the room at the splatter paint on the walls. 2 walls were red, 2 were black. The black wall was splatter painted with the neon pink. The red walls had the posters he had hidden in the closet on it. The room was still covered in tarp.
"So…?"
"This is so cool! How'd you get it done in 4 hours?"
"You get good at it after a while. Did you see Bobby's room? Took me 6 hours to do that, no breaks."
"You did that!"
"Yeah. You don't think Bobby painted it himself, did you?"
"No, but…"
"Carmen! Come down here!" Bobby shouted.
Carmen jogged out of the room and down the stairs. Hailey and Bev were standing at the front door. Hailey was drunk, you could tell, she could hardly stand up on her own 2 feet.
"Bev…I'm gonna kill you!" Carmen screamed, chasing after the blonde girl in the doorway.
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