"You're a freaking ass hole!" Carter stomped her foot on the kitchen floor and crossed her arms over her chest. She was still wearing her pajamas, only she hadn't been asleep.
"Since when did you care about what Melissa wants?" Isaac was in his boxers and a sweatshirt. Carter had been following him around the house for 7 hours. It was now noon.
"I do care. Kind of." Carter shrugged. "That's not the point. Couldn't you just, take her out on a date or something?"
"First of all, I'm 19. She's 15. That's illegal."
"You won't be having sex, Ike. Dating isn't illegal." Carter grinned. "Besides you guys have already covered the sex thing. There shouldn't be any tention."
Isaac glared at her. "If you weren't a girl I'd punch you right now."
"My girldom never stopped you before."
Zac walked into the kitchen, groggily. "Girldom, good choice of non-existent words."
Carter smiled. "Thank you."
Isaac rolled his eyes and grabbed a pain from the shelf above the stove. "Great, now there's two of you to nag me. You guys want macaroni?"
"Yeah. With ketchup." Zac sat down at the table. "What are we nagging him about?"
"I want him to go out with Meli."
"She having problems finding dates for herself?"
Carter laughed. "Melissa doesn't date. My dad doesn't let her date because she isn't 16 yet."
Isaac turned around after filling the pan with water. "Does Mark still have that rule that you guys can't date till your 16?"
Carter sighed. "Yeah."
"I guess he figures if you're gonna get raped or something, it'd be better if you could drive yourself home."
Carter shrugged. "Who knows. So will you ask her out?"
"I thought she can't date?"
"You guys don't count. I was allowed to date Taylor when I was 15."
Zac laughed. "Oooh yeah. I remember that. Night you'll never forget."
"Shut up, Zac. I wouldn't even call it a date. He needed somebody to take to your dad's christmas party. I'm the only chick he knows."
Zac grinned. "Not anymore. There's Jaaaddeee."
"She's cool..." Carter stopped. "Wait, you think he likes Jade?"
"He likes somebody. He writes about some girl with dark hair over and over in his journal."
Isaac dumped the macaroni into the pan. "Oooh. Maybe it's Carter."
Carter rolled her eyes. "You read his journal?"
Zac nodded.
"Wait, you don't think it is me do you?"
"It doesn't sound like you. Apparently this person visits his room in the middle of the night and lays with him."
Carter blushed.
"Dammit, Carter." Zac laughed. "You're still stuck on him aren't you?"
"No... maybe it's Nique!"
"No way." Isaac shook his head. "I don't think he's ever even talked to her. Besides, it's gotta be Jade..."
"Who's gotta be Jade?" Taylor walked into the kitchen wearing a pair of black corduroy pants and no shirt.
"Nothing. Don't you ever wear a shirt, Tay?" Carter tried not to look at him.
"I'm looking for my blue sweater."
"It's at my house. I borrowed it yesterday."
Taylor let out a moan. "Why do you always have to borrow my shirts. You always put boobie lumps in them."
Carter laughed. "Boobie lumps. Cute. Anyway, I think Melissa is wearing it today."
Taylor moaned again. "Awww man. Bigger boobie lumps!"
Isaac threatened Taylor without turning away from his macaroni. "Tay, if you say boobie one more time... I'll give you a wedgie."
Taylor sighed. "What are you making?"
"Macaroni and cheese."
"Do we have any ketchup?"
Later that night, Taylor had his arm around Nique, sitting against the wall in his bedroom like he had done many times before. He wasn't sure what the huge secret was, but he knew he liked Nique a whole lot. Nique unfortunately knew that if her brothers caught on that she was seeing Taylor... or any of the Hanson brothers, they'd kill them. They didn't let their little sister date. That's why she had never let Zac in her house before.
Nique jumped in surprise and ducked under the covers when she heard the door to his bedroom click open. Taylor blushed wildly when he saw Carter. Her cheeks were pink, and her eyes were slightly glazed over.
"Nique, it's alright, Carter's sleepwalking."
"So why the hell is she in here?"
Taylor shrugged. "Beats me. She must have something on her mind."
Carter walked slowly towards his bed. She picked up his pillow and fluffed it. Then she spun around and whacked Taylor in the face with it.
"OUCH! DAMMIT!"
Carter turned around and went back down the hall towards Zac was.
"Should we wake her up?" Nique asked, laughing at Taylor.
"Zac will take care of it."
Carter opened the door to Zac's bedroom and laughed. "It's Nique alright."
"You didn't get caught?" Isaac asked. He was sitting in the chair next to Zac's desk.
Zac laughed. "Carter never gets caught. Good thing she's an avid sleepwalker or he never would have bought it."
"So why do you think they aren't telling anybody?"
Carter shrugged. "I dunno, but they looked pretty cozy. Maybe Nique's shy."
Zac shook his head. "That's just an act. She's actually pretty damn outgoing."
Carter shrugged. "It's a mystery."
"So how are we gonna find out?"
Carter jumped up. "I'll go back in!"
"NO! TOO OBVIOUS!" Isaac laughed as Carter ran out of the room.
Carter walked into Taylor's bedroom slowly and went to his bookshelf.
"What's she doing now?" Nique watched, carefully, quite amused.
"I dunno, I hope she doesn't hit me with a book."
Carter pulled Taylor's journal off of the shelf and opened it.
"SHIT!" Taylor jumped up and grabbed the journal from Carter.
"What?!"
"She can't read that. She'll find out about us."
"She can read in her sleep?"
"She can walk around and scream and talk in her sleep. Why not read?"
Nique smiled. "You wrote about me in your journal?"
Taylor nodded and put his arms around her. "Of course I did." He gave her a kiss on her forehead.
Carter walked over to them, took the journal from Taylor's hands, and whacked him on the head with it.
"OW!"
Carter smiled and left the room.
"I've never seen her smile in her sleep before."
Nique shrugged. "She walks, talks, screams, and reads in her sleep. Why not smile?"
Carter walked back to Zac's room and plopped down on their bad. "Utterly disgusting."
"What'd you find out?"
"Nothing. Taylor grabbed his journal from me and kissed Nique and got all lovey dovey. Then I grabbed the journal whacked him with it."
"Incognito... very nice." Zac laughed.
"So what exactly did you read from his journal, Zac?"
"Something about keeping it a secret because Nique begged him too... I dunno, his handwriting sucks."
Carter jumped back up. "I wanna whack him again!"