And you?”“You can call me Carter.”“Really? That’s your name?”“It’s what you can call me.”As much as I want pretend I was immune to h...m, Carter’s voice just did something to me that I can't explain. As I sat at the table with him, my mind was filled with thoughts of sliding under the table and unzipping his… well, that was just a thought.“You know, I have a hotel room not far from here,” he said, smug and confident.“Do you really think I’m going to go home with a stranger?”“Have you done it. Emily could see what Nancy saw in her brother. He was twenty, smart, handsome and yet very unassuming. Being a quarterback on his college football team probably didn't hurt, but he wasn't a huge jock the way most might have expected. family oriented, driven, respectful... Brad was the works. Why couldn't more boys like him approach her rather than the guys she was used to.That's also why she held such high standards for him. Not only was he handsome as heck, with short brown hair and masculine. There was supposed to be a game the next day, but not only did the basketball team have to forfeit the game, they had to close school for a week to clean out all the smoke damage, and all the rest of the games the team played that season had to be away games.Stern Vern the principal of course blamed me, mostly because I got blamed for everything bad that happened at the school (remember what happened between my dad and Stern Vern?). I don't know why, but this time I didn't fight it but I also. She finished the brownie and lickedthe crumbs from her fingertips. "If you want me to trust you, then you'llneed to convince me that you're really on my side." That was just anexcuse, but Rose desperately wanted some control back in her life and ifbullying Justin a little pacified her, then he would just have to endureit.To Rose's continued amazement, Justin's Azalea face blushed furiously,but he hesitantly complied, moving over to the couch and began pullingthe pinafore dress over his head. In.