Chapter.. 50... something

Bianca tucked a stray wisp of hair behind her ear and and laughed at nothing at all. Her hair was pulled into two short braids, one on each side. She also wore a maroon, sparkly, headband to match her dark red jacket. Instead of the shades she wore when she first met Carter, she was wearing her normal, black glasses.

"What's so funny?" Carter asked, taking another sip of her coke. They were sitting across from eachother at a booth in the club, Todd was sitting next to Carter.

"Nothing. I was just remembering a time when Todd was little and he liked to be naked."

Todd shook his head. "That's not that funny though. Nothing has really changed."

Carter turned her glass over and looked behind her. "HEY! SOMEBODY!" She pounded her hand on the table until one of the waiters came over. "I need another one of these. Soon. Like if you don't have anything else to do." She smiled and handed him her glass.

Carter fanned her face and smiled at Todd. "I really like Coke. Some people drink Pepsi, but I like Coke. Pepsi's all watery and... wussified." She sighed and looked around. "It wasn't this hot in here last night. Are you hot, Binaca?"

Bianca laughed. "That's BIAnca. And no, it's usually really cold in here."

"Yeah but, it's HOT in here tonight."

The waitor put Carter's drink down on the table and looked at her funny. "Why thank you kind serving wench dude."

Todd gave Carter a strange look and took a sip of her Coke.

"Dude that's mine!"

"How many of these have you had?"

Carter held up 10 fingers. "12! Actually 7. I think. That's nothing though. It's just a sugar rush. I once drank 4 two-liters of Coke and all it made me do was pee a whole lot."

"This is rum and coke." Todd stood up and took the glass with him into the kitchen. When he came back, he had water. "Here drink this."

Todd shook his head. "Matt thought she said rum and coke when she first ordered, and since he thought she was 21, he didn't ask for i.d. And by the way, it was 9 you had. Which... is dangerous."

Bianca shook her head. "She's just a little drunk."

"She's tiny, Bianca." He turned to Carter who was staring at the water. "Did you have anything to eat today?"

Carter shook her head. "Now why did my Coke change colors on me? It's never done that before."

Todd grabbed Carter's shoulders. "What have you eaten today?"

"Lunch. I had macaroni and cheese. Melissa had a hotdog. I don't eat hotdogs. Do you?"

Todd pulled Carter up. "Yeah."

"Oh you shouldn't. I saw this webpage once that had all this cool sex stuff on it. And there was this picture. And there were hotdogs. Like... 6 of them... and they were all shoved up into this chicks..."

Todd put his hand over her mouth. "Alright, Bianca, tell my dad I'm driving Carter home. Ok? And tell him about the whole rum and coke thing."

Bianca shrugged as Todd dragged Carter out of the club. "I still don't see what the big deal is."

Todd leaned over Carter and tried fastening her seatbelt. Carter slapped his hand. "Don't touch me there! I tell Isaac not to touch me there all the time."

Todd shook his head. "Carter, stop fidgeting. I'm taking you home."

"I don't have to be home till midnight!" She whined as he finally got the seatbelt buckled. "You're driving my car. I don't let anybody drive my car." Carter looked over at Todd. "I have a car." She laughed.

"I know." When Todd finally got Carter back to her house, he almost had to drag her up the stairs to the front door. Thinking twice about what her dad would think, and knowing they still had 4 hours to sober her up, he took her to Zac's house instead.

Zac opened the door and his eyes widened. "Whoa. You got her totally drunk."

"I didn't do it. The bar guy at the club gave her a mixed drink. He thought she was 21."

"Dude she doesn't look 21." Zac put his arm around Carter's shoulder and led her to the couch.

Carter looked up at Zac. "When did you get here?" She smiled and patted his cheek. "So cute. So so cute."

Zac smiled. "Really."

Todd shoved Zac and sat next to Carter. "So how are we gonna get her sober?"

Zac shrugged. "Coffee?"

"That doesn't work."

Zac shrugged again. "It does on tv."

Carter jumped up and shoved them both out of her way. "You know. You guys aren't any fun. I'm gonna go upstairs and play with Taylor. He's really fun." She nodded eagerly and tripped over nothing, falling flat on her face.

Todd sat down next to her to help her up.

"Dude... you ok?" Carter asked, looking up at him.

Todd laughed.

"You're so pretty." She smiled, putting her arms around him and hugging him.

"Whoa. As long as... I really like you hugging me, you're totally drunk and you need to walk around."

Carter stood up. "Ok, but last time I tried that, I fell down really hard."

Carter took two steps and stumbled, right back into Todd's arms. "YEEE HAAA!" She laughed as the doorbell rang and Zac opened it to reveal Bianca.

"Figured you could use some help."

Carter walked over to Bianca and threw her arms around her. "YAY! It's BINACA! Bicana is my friend. I like you Bincanana." She laughed and kissed Bianca on the cheek.

"Whoa. She wasn't like this when you guys left." She gave them strange looks and pushed Carter back over to Zac.

Todd nodded. "She's gotten worse."

"That's not all that much to drink though. My friend did 21 shots on her 21st birthday. Then she had 5 more before she left the bar."

Zac laughed. "Considering Carter is about 5'1... 90 pounds... and she doesn't eat on a normal basis... and she's never had a drink in her life, I'm surprised she's not even worse."

Carter looked up at the ceiling suddenly and screamed.

"WHAT?!" Zac jumped back and dropped Carter onto the ground.

Carter started to laugh as she rolled onto her back. "I've so always wanted to do that to your ceiling." She jumped back up all of a sudden and grabbed Bianca by the wrist. "YOU KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD DO!?"

Bianca blinked hard, frightened. "I can't imagine."

"We should go upstairs and show your boobies to Taylor. He would like that."

Bianca turned to Todd. "I don't wanna show Taylor my boobs!"

Todd laughed and pushed Carter back towards the couch. She dropped onto it and placed her head back onto the arm. "You know what? On second thought? I think I'd rather just go lay down on the couch. I'm kinda dizzy."

Zac sat down on the floor in front of her. "Uhm, Sweetie, you are on the couch."

Carter's eyes widened and her mouth dropped open. "OH MY GOD I'M NOT STANDING?!"

Zac shook his head.

Carter grabbed Zac by the shoulders and pulled him up to her. She turned his head to the side so that his ear was to her lips. "You know, I never told you this, but I love you more than I've ever loved anything in the world. And... Just between you and me... You know Gabi? She has a penis. And Todd doesn't have one!" Then, she licked his ear and smiled at him.

Zac turned to Todd, wide eyed. "She is sooo drunk."

Todd nodded and gave Carter a confused look as she laughed.

"I... Am so going to throw up." She nodded and ran upstairs to the bathroom.

Todd sighed and plopped down on the couch. "Maybe she's safer in the bathroom.

Zac laughed. "Yeah right. I'll go upstairs and take care of her. She can sleep here. You guys can go ahead and go home. Don't worry about her." Zac went upstairs to take care of Carter for the night while Todd and Bianca went back home.

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