*THUMP*Carter rolled over and pulled her blanket over her head. *thud* Carter rolled over again. "Mel, shut up, I'm trying to sleep." *THUMP* Carter sat up in bed, her blanket still over her head, and attempted to look around the room. When she finally opened her eyes and pulled the covers down, she saw Melissa, crawling across the floor. "What are you doing?"
Meli mumbled and slapped her hand down on the floor with a thud. "I'm trying to find my blanket so I can go to bed."
"What?" Carter swung her legs over the side of her bed. "Are you just now getting home?" Melissa was wearing a short purple skirt with a white tanktop that showed off her stomach. The tips of her hair were dyed bright pink. "That's not what you wore when you left." Carter knew that Abby, Todd, and Bianca were throwing Melissa a birthday party, but she had no idea she'd be back this late... or crawling across the floor like a sea monkey.
"What?" Melissa looked up at Carter, her hair covering her face completely.
"What is wrong with you? Are you drunk?"
Melissa laughed and slapped her hand on the floor again. "Pfft... No!" She looked down again, and then back up at Carter. "Why is my bed so hard?"
"Because you're on the floor, you twit." Carter pulled Melissa over to her bed and watched as she fell over like a rock. "You are so drunk. What the hell did they do to you?"
"Nothing."
"Then why are you dressed like a hooker?"
Melissa looked down and snorted. "My skirt shrunk... Shrinked... Shaknika... You know, I never did do very well in English."
"Shaknika is not a word." Carter pulled Melissa up by her shoulders so that she was sitting upright. "I thought you were just going back to their house for cake... soda..."
"I did. But there was no soda." Melissa laughed.
"Mel, dad's going to kill you."
"DAD'S SLEEPING!"
Carter clapped her hand over her sister's mouth. "Very good Einstein. Now shut up before he comes in here. It's bad enough that you're completely drunk, but tomorrow you'll have a hangover and dad isn't exactly clueless."
"I handle my liquor very well actually." Melissa looked up at the ceiling. "Did I tell you they dyed my hair pink?"
"Nice to know you're... experienced in the drunken loser field. How often do you do this."
"Not very... but they had... this green apple stuff and you light it on fire and it goes poof and it was... really good."
"Great. You know what? I don't even wanna know what else happened over there. But who drove you home?"
"Todd."
"Great."
Melissa looked at Carter with a serious expression. "And speaking of Todd and stuff that happened over there..." She looked around. "Can you keep a secret?"
"Uhm. No."
"I may... or may not have fooled around with somebody at that party."
Carter jumped to her feet and pointed her finger in Melissa's face. "YOU! YOU HAD SEX WITH TODD!"
"Dude shut up! Dad's asleep remember?"
Carter whispered, her eyes wider than they'd ever been before. "You had sex with Todd!"
"No I didn't!" Melissa shook her head. "I didn't have sex with anybody."
"You just said you..."
Melissa blinked hard. "Ok could you just let me talk? Cause there's officially... 3 of you and I really wanna go to bed." She took a deep breath. "I didn't fool around with Todd."
"Then who?"
Meli paused. "You know Todd's sister?"
Carter's jaw practically hit the floor. "NO!"
"Well... I think I have confirming evidence of her bisexuality."
"NO! YOU DON'T! She's NOT bi. She likes men! And no no no!" Carter paused. "Wait a minute, what's with this... 'may or may not have' crap?"
Melissa grabbed a piece of her hair and stared intently at the hot pink end. "There's a very big possibility that we may have been dared to make out in the closet... but then there's another big possibility that that was two other chicks entirely."
"How can you NOT remember something like that?!"
"Ok in case you haven't noticed... I'm very very drunk." Melissa laughed at herself and then grew very serious again. "And on the way home, Todd mentioned something about two chicks being dared to make out in a closet... or cheese..." She shrugged and shook her head. "I dunno, but anyhoo, I noticed that I was chewing watermelon gum... and I HATE watermelon gum..."
"So?"
"And then I remembered Bianca offering me watermelon gum and I said no cause it's nasty... and then she was chewing it..."
"Wait. You can remember what kind of gum Bianca was chewing but you can't remember if you had a lesbian experiece in a closet or not?!"
"Nope." Melissa shrugged. "Think I should call Bianca and ask?"
Carter stared at Melissa.
"Or do you think I should just go to bed and forget about it..." Melissa waved her hand in front of her sister. "Hellooooo?"
"I'm sorry... I'm just trying to get the mental image out of my head of my sister sucking face with tall, thin, blonde chick. And might I add... wasn't it just one year ago when you used to bitch at me for going outside in my bathing suit top. Yet when you bend over half an inch, I CAN SEE YOUR ASS!"
"Whoa... somebody is grumpy."
"I AM NOT GRUMPY! I was just awakened at 4 in the morning by my 16 year old DRUNKEN LITTLE SISTER... who MAY or MAY NOT HAVE fooled around with some chick in a closet. I AM NOT GRUMPY!"
"Ok soo... I'm gonna go to bed now before you blow a fuse and spill your angry big sister vibes all over the floor."
Carter looked at the ceiling suddenly and squinted her eyes.
"What?" Meli asked, looking where she was looking.
"Shh..." Carter's eyes widened as she looked over at her moniter.
"WHAT?!"
"Shhh!" Carter leaned over to Melissa and whispered into her ear. "Taylor... and Zac... have been listening to us the whole time."
"WHAT?! NO!"
Carter shook her hand in her face, motioning for her to be quiet.
Melissa panicked. "They can't know! What if they tell somebody?!" She whispered.
"Allow me." Carter grinned. She left the room for a few minutes. Melissa heard the balcony door close. Then she heard some whispering over the moniter, a thump... followed by some more whispering, and another thump. Then, Carter came back into the bedroom and smiled. "Ok. Problem solved."
Melissa nodded. "Ok but... promise me you won't tell anybody. Please? Cause you know what? Tomorrow morning I probably won't even remember this conversation and I don't want this to get out."
Carter nodded.
"And you know how you can be a super great sister?"
"How?"
"You could call Bianca for me tomorrow and explain to her my situation... and figure out what happened."
"I DON'T WANNA KNOW THE DETAILS!"
Melissa laughed and waved for her to be quiet. "Not like that... just find out if we..."
"Yeah yeah. Ok." Carter sighed and gave Melissa one of her most pathetic look. "But if this didn't happen, could we... never talk about this again? I mean, it's not like I'm against... that... but I really don't wanna hear about my little sister's sex life. Heterosexual or not."
"Ok. Deal."
"Ok. Now... go to bed... and make sure when you go downstairs tomorrow morning, you aren't wearing that."