The Only One For Me

11 | Sunday

Kaye was fast asleep beside me. I looked at the time, it was 6:00 AM, I got up and started to get ready for the day, I let Kaye sleep because she slept later than me and she’ll probably yell at me if I woke her up. I’m a morning person, so I do wake up earlier than most of my peers, but Kaye is not, so I let her sleep. I wanted to go for a jog, but the possibility of running into Drew alone was dreadful, so I just asked someone to get me some coffee and I decided to lounge in my room until breakfast time. I decided to shower and get dressed. When I came out of the shower, Kaye was already awake, she got up and went to her room so she can bathe and change as well. I put on my underwear, skipping the bra today, because it’s Sunday. I don’t wear a bra to sleep and I don’t wear it on Sundays, because they’re already strapped in all day from Mondays to Saturdays, Sundays are free days! I put on black jeans, a navy blue button up polo shirt and the thigh high black boots I wore the night of my party. I’m not aiming to be sexy or anything, I just wanted to be comfortable.

I still had some time before breakfast so I packed my clothes and made sure I didn’t leave anything in the closet and in the bathroom, I turned the TV on for some background noise and Carly’s dad was on TV. It definitely caught my attention. Carly’s Dad was an attractive fellow, she looks a lot like her Dad, like I do, that’s one of the many things we have in common. I turned up the volume and the news anchor was talking about Carly’s Dad being in a little bit of a scuffle outside the court house after a hearing about a lawsuit; Apparently, Carly’s Dad allegedly siphoned off money from various charities they run and he’s now being sued for fraud and embezzlement. Did I mention that Carly’s family owned a hotel and a couple of fancy restaurants in town? Her maternal grand, grand parents owned an inn way back, like in the 40s, and eventually, it grew into what it is now. Carly’s family is the definition of old money. Today, even though her mom inherited everything, it’s Carly’s dad who runs everything on the business side of things, her mom is a chef, considered a celebrity chef in our town and runs the fancy restaurants.

*Knock knock knock*

The knock on the door interrupted my thoughts, I turned the tv off, looked at my watch to see the time, it was 7:30AM. I opened the door to see Carly and Nora, I opened the door wide so they can come in. Carly swiftly turned to face us and dropped on the bed, she grabbed a pillow, put it on her face and she started screaming. Nora, wearing a beige and navy blue striped maxi dress with matching thong sandals, looks at me and hands me this morning’s newspaper. The headline read, “Business Tycoon accused of Fraud and Embezzlement”. It reads: “Carl Wadsworth, business tycoon, known for W Hotel and the Amanda Group of Restaurants has been accused of fraud and embezzlement. Multiple sources state that Wadsworth allegedly takes money from various charities they sponsor and transfers it into offshore accounts in the Bahamas to fund his family’s lavish lifestyles…”. I finish the paragraph, look at Nora and at Carly, who is still screaming into the pillow. I go over to Carly, let her finish her scream, then I grabbed the pillow off of her face. Tears were streaming down her face as she sat up and sobs quietly, looking down. “Why is this happening to us? Did he do it? Is he guilty? Where did the money go? Does my Mom know?”, she looks at me, and then at Nora. I look at her and say, “Of course he didn’t do it, it says “allegedly”, so they aren’t even sure if he did it in the first place or not, innocent until proven guilty, relax, breathe.”. Nora quickly nods her head and says, “Besides why would he do that? You’re family is old money, there’s no way he needs the money, your Mom probably knows, and they’re probably both sitting down with lawyers as we speak.”. Carly, still looking down, smiles a little, looks at us, and in between sniffles says, “Thanks you guys.”. Carly’s phone started ringing in her pocket, she was wearing denim jeans, mid-leg flat boots and a white shirt, no bra, another thing we have in common, we don’t do bras on Sundays. She takes her phone out of her pocket and says to us, “It’s my mom, I’ll be a while, I’ll meet you guys at breakfast.”, she stands up, answers her phone and walks to exit the room, just as she was about to open the door, it burst open and Kaye was there, with her hair still dripping wet from her shower, she was wearing a black tee under a yellow and pink floral jumpsuit and had on a pair of black platform sneakers. “CARLY! I just heard.”, she says to Carly as Carly answers her phone, “Hello, Mom?”, she signals for Kaye to shush and she walks past her into the hallway going to her room across from mine, she enters the room and closes the door behind her so we couldn’t hear her anymore.

Nora, Kaye and I just sort of stood there for a few moments, looking at each other, speechless. We would’ve stayed there longer if it wasn’t for Jake, he texted Nora and that was it, we decided to go down to breakfast. I took a quick last look around before I walked out of the room, making sure I had everything packed, I did. Kaye asked to borrow a comb so I gave her the pillow one that came in my hygiene kit, I wouldn’t need it back because it was disposable.

We finally caught up to everyone at breakfast and the room was filled with chatter. Carly joined us after a few minutes, her eyes still red from crying. She smiled when she saw Drew. She walked over to him and gave him a kiss, complete with tongue, eww. I quickly looked away and rejoined the conversation with everyone. Carly and Drew were full on making out, Drew even had his left hand on Carly’s left boob, right in front of all of us. Everyone noticed so everyone threw little bits of fruit at them with while we teased them with “ewww” and “get a room”. Not gonna lie, seeing Drew kiss Carly that passionately kind of makes me a little jealous. I know I shouldn’t be. I love Carly, I would never do anything to hurt her. EVER. I don’t know why I feel this way.

Further going down the rabbit hole, amidst the chatter and the teasing, I was lost in my thoughts. I couldn’t look away from Carly and Drew making out and petting each other. I saw Carly put her hand on his crotch, pretty sure his d**k got hard because I could’ve sworn I saw his crotch twitch at the sensation. I’m very careful not to get noticed. Am I a pervert?! Why does it kind of turn me on watching them? That’s it, I’m freaking sick. I do my hardest not to look at them anymore, everyone else at the table ignored them and the conversation just kept going. After a few minutes, Carly and Drew finally decided to continue whatever they were doing in private because they excused themselves and went off somewhere. When everyone else had enough to eat and drink, we all decided to lounge in the game room. We played a couple rounds of pool but at around 11AM, Jake and Nora, decided they wanted to enjoy the rest of the day alone, before they went home, so they left in one of Carly’s cars, she had 4 parked here just in case, one of their drivers will pick it up at Jake’s later. I didn’t have a license so I’m the only one in the group who doesn’t drive. Casey, Rose, Kris and Kaye decided to leave a few minutes later, a car sent by Rose’s Dad picked them up. So, I was left alone. Odin still hasn’t arrived and wouldn’t be here until after lunch. I was alone so I decided to explore.

I discovered the gym. I discovered the library. I found Carly’s Mom’s office and her Dad’s office. I found the master bedroom, it was freaking huge and definitely only for Carly’s parents. When I’ve explored everything I could explore inside, I thought of exploring outside, but it was hot outside so I decided to just go back to the game room and play a few games on the playstation. I love being in Carly’s, there was always help nearby for when you need anything, so I asked for soda and some chips and passed the time playing. I was in the middle of God of War™️, and I didn’t notice the time until someone grabbed me on the shoulders from behind. I let out a yelp, stood up straight and saw Odin. I looked at my watch, it was only 12:30PM, not even after lunch, really. “You startled me so bad my heart is still beating fast!”, I told him, he was chuckling when he said, “That was the point.”. I sat back down, trying to calm my heart, partly beating so fast because of Odin and partly because I was excited to see him. He sat down beside me, and asked what I was playing, I told him and explained what the point was and all that. In the middle of talking about the adventures of Atreus™️ and Kratos™️ in Midgard, we heard giggling, it was Carly’s little sister and her friends. Not going to lie, I hated Carly’s little sister. She was a proper b***h and a literal slut at only 15. If rumors say that Carly lost her virginity at 15, it’s definitely confirmed that Cara lost her virginity to some random guy at a music festival and she was proud of that! Carly has another sister, Carmi, I like her and for the life of me can’t understand how Cara is related to her family. Everyone in Carly’s family is decent and nice, except for Cara. She was the mean girl in school and even though I’m friends with Carly, she tries to bully me, but I wouldn’t allow her to pick on me, she tries, but she fails every time and she hates that I had a glow up. I think she’s secretly jealous of Carly, of me, and of our friendship because she doesn’t have real friends. Her friends only hang out with her because she’s rich but they talk behind her back all the time and Cara knows, but she doesn’t do anything because she has no choice. Cara saw us and immediately went straight for us. She looks at Odin and then at me, crosses her arms and says, “You’re still here? Didn’t you hear that it’s our turn to hang out here? What are you still doing here?”. I looked at her, smiled and said, “We were just about to leave, we’re just waiting for Carly so that I can say good bye and thank her for an amazing weekend.”. She smirks and says, “Probably an upgrade from the shack you live in!”, and she laughs menacingly. One of her friends, Kyle, says, “OH MY GOD, I live across from her, are you saying I live in a shack too?! Because WHAT THE HELL!!!”, completely outraged, I know Kyle and I like her, we’ve lived across each other since we were little kids, so we’re pretty close too, and she tells me all about the nasty things Cara does. Cara, obviously shocked, tries to back pedal and say she was just kidding, but it was too late, Kyle and her friends were glaring at Cara now, it was so hilarious and funny. So I had to say something, “It’s okay, Ky, we live in a nice neighborhood of shacks.”, I say, trying to lighten the mood, Odin then chimes in and says, “It’s shackamazing!”, which I thought was so funny, so I laughed too hard at that. It seemed to work because Kyle laughed at that too, Carly finally appeared with Drew behind her. “Finally!!! Your friends can leave, it’s my turn to party with my friends!”, Cara says to Carly and Carly says, “Knock yourself out. We’re heading home to the city in 4 hours, so by 4.”. To which Cara replied, “Let’s leave at 6.”, and Carly said, “NO.”, and because Carly is older, what she says goes. I feel bad for Cara’s friends because they won’t truly enjoy spending time at the cabin, but it sucks to be them, they’re friends with the wrong sister.

I got my stuff and Odin carried it to the car as Carly and I walked with arms around each others shoulders, kind of like a half hug as she walked me to the car. I gave her a really tight hug, told her to call me if she needs anything and I thanked her for an absolutely amazing birthday weekend to which she said no problem and that we’ll do it again next year. I got in the car and we drove off, to home.