Everyone sees Carmen as a strong girl with a bold personality, but sometimes it's those that laugh the hardest who have the biggest secrets and choose to suffer in silence. Carmen unexpectedly finds herself a babysitting job for a little girl named...
"So as promised, I come bearing gifts" I place the wrapped up frame down onto the table and Grace looks at it curiously
I start to unwrap it. "I painted it in art this morning but then it was taking too long to dry so I had to use the blow dryer-.... Anyway, this is for you"
I present it to her and she widens her eyes with shock
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I lay it down on the table, "And I could do so many more if you wanted to-
Grace surprises me with a hug and I widen my eyes as I process what's actually happening. After a few seconds of shock my face eventually softens and I hug her back with a smile on my face, I don't think I've ever been so excited about a hug before.
She pulls away after a few seconds before picking up her painting and smiling, "I'll go start dinner" I get up with the smile still on my face, Grace hugged me and I couldn't be any happier.
Melissa mentioned that Julia didn't have time to make her dinner tonight, she had somewhere to be. That's fine, I'll just put a pizza in the oven for today
Grace continues to draw on her own piece of paper, I would catch her looking back at the painting every now and then. As I sit down at the island I reply to one of Zoe's messages from before
Me: You can sleepover Wednesday
I then scroll through Instagram since I'm pretty bored, I don't have a clue why Eliza's showing up on my feed. In one of her photos she posted something of Carter, I find it funny though because Zoe told me that he's never posted her before. Then there's a picture of her and June at the party with the caption
Forever ♾
I snort before proceeding to watch peoples stories for the next fifteen minutes or so, life gets like that sometimes. I took Grace's pizza out of the oven afterwards before cutting them into triangles and giving them to her on a plate, that was the same time that Carter got back. "Hey princess"
Grace looks back as he walks towards her, "What's this?" He looks at the painting rested on the table before picking it up
"Did Carmen make this for you?" He says surprised, she nods and he looks back at me
"Not bad Rodriguez" He says impressed
"Thanks" I reply before shutting the oven
At around 6:45 Grace went into the living room as that's her tv time, I decided to do my homework whilst she was doing that. It seems like Carter didn't get the memo, he sits opposite me. "Your doing it again" I say with my eyes on the page
"Shit, my bad"
Wait did he actually apologise
I sigh before putting my pencil down, "How's your eye"
"Better" Carter replies before taking a slice of pizza
