Unleashed

Icing

Walking around the kitchen blindly, I could practically feel Carter staring at me as I gathered all the items that I needed.

"You know," he starts as he leans against the counter that was across from me, "You're going to have to forgive me sooner or later."

"For what?" I asked as I open up the flour grabbing the measuring cup as I begin to separate the wet ingredients from the dry, "The leaving me on the side of the Rodeo Drive at night? The drunk mess you started at the Senior party or the mess you pulled the dinner at my house?"

"All of that." he says, "Anna we use to be close, you were like my sister. You should be able to forgive me."

Looking up at him I say, "I should, but you still tend to piss me off sporadically, and constantly, for some reason lately." Pouring the flour and necessary ingredients for the cookies into a huge mixing bowl he grabs a handful of chocolate chips.

Popping a few into his mouth he says, "So you're just going to hate me forever."

I ignored him as mixed up the mixture, making sure it was a perfect, and that the chocolate chips looked thoroughly mixed.

"Anna." He says.

Sighing I looked up at him, "Carter, I don't hate you." shaking my head I say, "To be honest I don't think I could ever hate you completely, but," looking up as I put my words carefully together I say, "I think that the stuff that you have been doing lately has been uncalled for and it has confused me."

"Nothing has changed with me recently, whereas for you," he stops.

Looking up at him I say, "Don't even start that. This has nothing to do with Harry."

"Doesn't it?" he asks as he crosses his arms, "It wasn't until that you met him that you've changed."

"Changed?" I shook my head, "You mean that ever since I met him, I haven't been following and putting up with your bullcrap as much as I did."

He said nothing.

Watching him for a second I turned on his aura that flashed a bright green that indicated that he was jealous. It was hard for me not to laugh as I say, "Wait, seriously Carter? You're jealous of Harry?"

His face turned as he raised his brow, obviously baffled, "Fuck no I'm not."

Not hiding my smile I say, "You are! That's what all this is about."

Carter obvious annoyed wouldn't even look at me.

"You don't have no right to be jealous or even upset with him." As warm sense ran over me as I say, "If this has anything to do with me, you could've had the chance to spend time with me and yet you didn't."

"I couldn't." he says.

"And who said that."

"Your brother." He says simply.

Grabbing an ice cream scooper as I prep the baking sheet I say, "Then why are you trying now?"

"Because I don't give a damn about what he says."

I looked up at him both confused and surprised. Here's Carter, who I've had a crush on since I first met him, and his professing that he wants to date me, and I want nothing of it. Not answering him I look down at the cookie dough as I begin to scoop out the dough and place them an inch apart from each other.

"Look," he says with an sigh, "I understand that maybe, I'm too late, and that's nobody's fault but mine, but Anna," he walks over to me and stops me from grabbing another scoop of dough, "You have to forgive me."