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So Cold	By : willjames52 Category: Singers/Bands/Musicians > Kelly Clarkson Views: 7114 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: This story is a work of fiction. I do not profit monetarily from this work. I don't know Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood.

Chapter List
- 1-So Cold
- 2-Ch 2
- 3-Ch 3
- 4-Ch 4
- 5-Ch 5
- 6-Ch 6
- 7-Ch 7
- 8-Ch 8
- 9-Ch 9
- 10-Ch 10
- 11-Ch 11
- 12-Ch 12
- 13-Ch 13
- 14-Ch 14
- 15-Ch 15
- 16-Ch 16
- 17-Ch 17
- 18-Ch 18 pt 1
- 19-Ch 18 pt 2
- 20-Ch 19
- 21-Ch 19 pt 2
- 22-Ch 20
- 23-Ch 21
- 24-Ch 22
- 25-Ch 23
- 3
- 4
- 5
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Ch 4

Carrie tucked some strands of her hair back behind her ear after she smiled and nodded at a guy who had done the same to her while he walked past. She frowned and wondered if the man thought she was gay and that was the only reason that he had acknowledged her. She had been alone for five minutes, and she could still see Tommy and his, hopefully, new guy; but she didn’t know who to talk to now. Carrie sighed and leaned even further back against the wall.

She had thought she would have a nice night off, and now she had no idea how to act. She felt like some kind of intruder. Carrie didn’t think everyone at the party was gay, but she didn’t know who was or wasn’t, so she didn’t want to assume and offend people when she spoke. Carrie wished Kelly had told her that most of the guests would be gay, or, had introduced her to some people so that she could know for sure. There were a couple people in attendance that Carrie had always thought could be gay. She smiled when she realized that she could talk to them.

Carrie straightened up and looked over to make sure that Tommy was still happy with his new man. Well, she hoped the guy was into Tommy, anyway. She walked around a few couples that had stationed themselves near the wall, and started to head towards the girl couple that she sort of knew. She knew the more famous actress of the pair; they had met at few parties, and Carrie was thankful for those encounters now. A hand on her arm stopped her before she reached her destination, so Carrie turned around and then smiled when she saw that it was Kelly. “Hey!”

Kelly grinned at the enthusiastic response. “Someone likes their alcohol.” Kelly laughed and handed over the beer Carrie had asked for, and then she glanced around for Tommy. “Did I take too long or something?”

"No, he found a guy.” Carrie smiled and pointed towards the pair in question. “He did good I think. The guy seems interested.” She turned to Kelly when she realized that the brunette could introduce her to a few more people, and that way she wouldn’t accidentally assume and make an ass out of herself. “He’s gay right?”

Kelly laughed at the question because her friend Hector was so gay. It had taken her a few minutes and an overheard phone conversation to figure out that Tommy was gay, Hector looked gay even from across a room. “Yeah, he’s gay.” Kelly opened the water that she had brought for Tommy since the drink Ashley had given her had made her thirsty. “Having fun?”

Carrie took a sip of her beer and nodded a few times. She really didn’t think Kelly wanted to hear that she felt out of place. “It’s great. There’s some people here that I didn’t know were gay.” She watched Kelly’s face as she named a few of the more famous guests. At least Kelly would tell her if Tommy had played a joke on her.

Kelly screwed the cap back on the water bottle as she looked around for her friends that Carrie had mentioned. “Yup. Though, I didn’t know Hilary had made it yet. I should go say hi. I totally missed some people when I helped Ash in the kitchen.” Kelly didn’t move when she noticed the shocked look on Carrie’s face. “What?”

"Ashley’s gay? Really?” Carrie could not picture the other girl as a lesbian. She was sure she had seen Ashley kiss a guy at an awards show once. “But, she,”

Kelly laughed at Carrie’s confusion, mostly because the idea of Ashley as a lesbian was also hilarious. “Ashley’s not gay. God, no, and don’t let her hear you say that. She helps with the parties.” Kelly wanted to go say hi to Hilary, though she thought that she should stay with Carrie.

"Thanks for the tip. She already dislikes me enough as it is.” Carrie shook her head as she thought about the kind of looks Ashley would give her. Then she realized why Ashley thought she was such a bitch. “She thinks I like bashed you or something, doesn’t she? She thinks I hate-”

Kelly interrupted before Carrie started the apology talk again. She did not want to think about how she had thought the same thing as Ashley. “Not any longer. I told her you apologized for what you said at the afterparty, and I told her that you were coming here. She’s… she’s still a little worried, but I told her you wouldn’t have come if you hadn’t meant it when you apologized.”

Carrie was glad to hear that Ashley didn’t hold her stupid reaction against her. “Good, because I’m totally cool with this.” She gestured towards the other guests and smiled at Kelly. She still wanted to be Kelly’s friend. It didn’t matter to her that the other Idol was gay. Thanks to Kelly, she now knew for a fact that most of the partygoers were gay, which meant that she was less likely to embarrass herself.

Kelly hid her smile with another sip of her water. “If you say so.” Carrie appeared to be a little nervous, but she thought the girl would be okay. “I’m going to go say hi to Hilary, all right? I’ll come back in a while and check on you if you want? If you aren’t talking to a girl, I mean.” Kelly smiled reassuringly at Carrie. She did want to come back and talk to the blonde.

"I’m fine. Go talk to your friends. We can talk when you find me again.” Carrie tipped her beer in the direction of Kelly’s friend Hilary as she spoke, so that Kelly would believe she was good. She smiled until Kelly walked off, and then she made her way back to the wall she had waited around earlier. She couldn’t believe that Kelly had still talked to her after she had basically gone off on the girl for an invite to a gay party. Although, now she had to think about their conversation at the awards show afterparty a few weeks ago.

Carrie leaned against the wall and sipped her beer as she remembered the conversation. She was pretty sure she knew which part of their conversation had led Kelly to believe that she was gay. “I had to say that we had to stick together because no one else got us.” Carrie ruefully shook her head at her less than detailed words. She couldn’t just tell Kelly that she wasn’t gay, because then Kelly would think she had only accepted the invitation to get past their fight.

She looked around at the other guests and sipped her beer as she wondered how she got herself into situations sometimes. Carrie didn’t care if the other people thought she was gay. They were obviously at the party for anonymity and the chance to be around people who didn’t care about who they slept with; they wouldn’t say anything about her. She did want to tell Kelly that she was straight though, she didn’t want to start their friendship based on a lie.
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Ashley laughed as Allison and Hilary told the end to a funny story. She was unprepared for when Kelly grabbed her arm and said that she had to tell everyone about what had happened the last time they had all vacationed. She didn’t really want to share the story since it involved that she tell people that she consumed much more alcohol than she should have and hit on a gay guy. “No you tell it. I’m going to go get another drink.”

"She’s just mad that I was right.” Kelly took a deep breath to get the last of her giggles out of her system. “Okay, so we were vacationing in some European country, I forget which one, but the important thing is that we were. The whole band had come out, and we all get-” Kelly laughed as she thought about how crazy they could be together. “But so, Ashley didn’t pace herself and she,”

Ashley tuned Kelly and the rest of their friends out. She didn’t want to hear the story. She looked around to see how the rest of the guests were, but she stared when she noticed a certain blonde hiding in a corner. “What is she doing?” Ashley didn’t even turn when Kelly hit her arm. “Seriously, why is she standing there by herself? Didn’t she bring a guy?”

Kelly turned to see what had Ashley fascinated enough to interrupt the funny story, but she frowned when she saw that Ashley meant Carrie. She felt bad that Carrie was alone. “Don’t even start on her, Ash.” Kelly didn’t want to hear another tirade about how bitchy and evil Carrie was. “I’m going to go talk to her.” Kelly waved her friends off when they asked whom Ashley meant. She knew the other girls would understand why Carrie was alone; she just didn’t want for the group to look over at Carrie and have the other girl feel nervous.

Carrie was on her third beer when she saw Kelly walk towards her. She had talked to the actress couple that she knew for sure were lesbians, and to a few others that Kelly had pointed out to her. The problem had been that they were couples, and they didn’t really want to talk to a single girl, which she understood and couldn’t fault them. Although, it did mean that she was left on her own. She wasn’t going to bother Tommy. Carrie grinned when Kelly reached her. “Hey, again.”

Kelly leaned against the wall, so that she was next to Carrie, and then she turned her head the other girl’s way. “Hey. You doing okay?” She took a sip of the water that Ashley had brought her when her friend had joined her, Hilary, Allison, and two other couples.

"Peachy.” Carrie chuckled because she was sure that she looked stupid by herself. There had been a few nice people that had come over and talked to her, and she had talked to them; though the conversations hadn’t lasted long after the people had said it was cool to know that ‘Carrie Underwood’ was gay. She wondered If Kelly had ever gotten that response; to be told it was cool to be gay, and then to basically be left alone. “This is all… very new to me.” It was all extremely new to her since she wasn’t a lesbian.

Kelly was quiet for a moment after Carrie had confirmed her thoughts. It had taken her more than one party to get used to the idea, quite a few parties actually. Most of her parties were in Texas, and they had grown in size as she made new friends and her guests told their gay friends. With each party, it had gotten easier to talk to a room full of people she didn’t know very well, so she could imagine how hard it was for Carrie. “Yeah. I get it though, and if you want to talk, I’m here.” She laughed when Carrie just smiled and finished off the bottle of beer. “Let’s get you another.”

Carrie gratefully followed Kelly. She hoped that the brunette wouldn’t leave her for a while. She had come to the party mainly to become better friends with Kelly. Carrie didn’t want to be mean though, she didn’t know how often Kelly got to be around people who were just like the shorter girl. “How often to do you have these things?”

Kelly waited to speak until they were past a loud group of people. “Like, uh,” She thought about it as she maneuvered through the crowd. “Once every month or so.” Kelly turned back to make sure that she hadn’t lost Carrie. “I can have them more often now here. It’s easier to get to Nashville than it is to get out to my place in Texas.”

Carrie thought that it did make more sense, and it would be easier to throw the parties in Nashville. “So, umm,” She forgot her next question as she noticed they had walked past the bar. She grabbed Kelly’s hand and called out the other girl’s name. “The bar is that way.”

Kelly held onto Carrie’s hand and continued to the kitchen. “Just hold on.” She chuckled to herself, though she stopped once they reached the relative quietness of the kitchen. “Anyway, like I was saying, I throw the parties about once a month if I’m in town.” Kelly opened the refrigerator and got Carrie another beer. “Before that, I probably had them two or three times a year.” She shut the door and held out the beer for Carrie with a smile.

Carrie took the beer as she looked at Kelly wonderingly. She didn’t get why they had to come to the kitchen for beer. There had been plenty at the bar. “Thanks, but I would have been fine with one of the ones that were in the ice at the bar.”

Kelly laughed for a few moments. “That’s not the same as the kind at the bar. You don’t drink beer often do you? Not that I blame you.”

Carrie rolled her eyes and opened up the beer. “I know it wasn’t the same kind. I just thought that you had run out of the one that you first gave me. I didn’t feel like making a drink since I don’t really like them, so I drank the beer that was at the bar.”

Kelly smiled as she watched Carrie drink. “You should have come and found me. I thought you were just drinking beer to fit in, so I had brought you the kind Jason likes, he swears it’s the best.”

“Well it’s definitely better than the stuff at the bar.” Carrie grinned and tossed the cap to her beer away. “Where is Jason? I haven’t seen him all night.” She wanted to give the guy a hug for having decent taste in beer.

“He doesn’t usually come to the parties. I think the idea of maybe seeing me flirt with a cute girl disturbs him.” Kelly sipped her water when Carrie laughed at her joke. “I feel the same way about him though, so I don’t blame him. You couldn’t get him to leave the room I was in when I threw my first party.”

Carrie laughed at the idea; it was funny to picture Kelly making a play for a girl with Jason around to watch so his little sister didn’t get hurt. “You’ll have to thank him for me then. The next time we hang out I’m gonna bring him some of my favorite kind.” Carrie nodded a few times and thought about what they should talk about next.

Kelly hopped up onto the counter and tried not to smile. Carrie had relaxed once they had walked into the kitchen. “So you haven’t been to a party like this before have you?” Off Carrie’s nod, Kelly continued. “It’s strange, but fun, you know? It’s nice to be able to…”

Carrie leaned against the counter as she watched Kelly search for the right words. “I think it’s nice. You don’t have to pretend or be ‘Kelly Clarkson’, you can just be Kelly.” She didn’t know what it was like to hide her gender preference, but she knew she had a some of an idea of what Kelly went through. “It’s not a party with people and photographers watching who you talk to.”

“Exactly.” Kelly grinned and jumped down from the counter. She had known that Carrie would get it, she was glad that she had invited the blonde. “There’s no reason to be scared because you don’t know the people. I was nervous too when I first came out. I didn’t know who to tell or who it was okay to hit on. You’ll be fine.”

Carrie had forgotten that Kelly thought she was gay. “Right.” She took a gulp of beer and let Kelly take her back out to the party. She couldn’t tell Kelly that she wasn’t gay, not after Kelly had spoken so openly. She didn’t want to ruin their sweet friend moment, or the party, by saying that Kelly didn’t need to worry about her. “I’m gonna hurt Tommy for leaving me alone for so long.” She wouldn’t really hurt him, she just felt bad; like she had somehow tricked Kelly into confessing something personal because the girl had thought she was scared.

Kelly didn’t hear what Carrie had said thanks to the music, so she stopped and faced Carrie. “What? Were you not ready to come back out yet?” She would understand if Carrie wanted to talk privately some more. She could imagine how twisted everything had to be for Carrie. The girl had yelled at her for the gay implication at the other awards function after all.

Carrie thought quickly for something to say, but she had nothing. “I just said that you throw a great party.” She mentally congratulated herself when Kelly laughed and they resumed their path through the crowd. She didn’t speak up when they walked by the wall where she had spent most of the party, although she did stop when they reached the living room.

Kelly almost dropped her water when Carrie stopped so quickly. She turned around and raised an eyebrow in a silent question; they were too close to the speakers between the rooms for Carrie to hear her if she spoke.

Carrie shook her head and pulled Kelly back to ‘her’ wall. “I want to finish our conversation. I know that we can’t talk like we were in the kitchen, but I want to talk to you.”

Kelly laughed for a second as she debated whether she should make Carrie come with her, or if she should humor the girl and stay where they were. “All right, but if you come to another party, you have to talk to some of my friends. I really think you’ll like Hilary and Allison.”

Carrie agreed, although she wondered if Kelly would even want her at another party once she told the other girl she wasn’t a lesbian. She didn’t move when Kelly leaned back against the wall. “So, Hilary and Allison? Are they together, or are you seeing the both of them. Because I got to say, Kel, that’s way worse than my Tommy and photo boy.” Carrie grinned when Kelly laughed at her joke.

Kelly cautiously sipped her drink as Carrie stood in front of her and teasingly accused her of dating a slew of girls. She liked that Carrie hadn’t gone back to the mostly silent behavior because they had joined the rest of the party. Kelly rapidly became caught up in their conversation and jokes. She pretended not to see Ashley pass them twice. She knew she should check on the food, or the guests, but she didn’t want Carrie to be alone.

Carrie had laughed while they talked about when it came to their fake romances and the media; and their real relationships, of course. She had quietly listened to Kelly’s stories about bad first dates with girls, and then she had shared her own experiences with bad first dates after she had become famous. However, their recent conversational turn to music, and the stress that comes along with it, had kind of ruined the fun mood. “Let’s talk about happy music experiences. Man, let me tell you, Kel, I was like- it was great with the writers and the second round of song writing.”

Kelly grinned as Carrie told her about a song that had come out of the session. She loved that Carrie was so into the process. “I have got to hand it to you. I would not have wanted to go to an interview if I had been writing, but Jason’s good about stuff like that; plus, I usually write most of my songs on my own.” Kelly wanted another drink since they had both finished their drinks a half hour into their conversation. She looked to see if Ashley was around, she was sure her friend was near. She didn’t see Ashley, but she did notice a girl stare in her and Carrie’s direction.

"Yeah? Where do you write here? I like to write in my room. I don’t really get a chance to spend much time in the rest of my house, and I don’t really… write much on my own,” Carrie looked down at her feet. She was new at writing music compared to Kelly, so she was a little embarrassed. “But when I do write, it’s usually away from Matt and everyone. I just can’t do that in front of them, you know?” Carrie looked up at Kelly, though she looked at the carpet again when she saw that Kelly wasn’t paying attention to her. Carrie mentally congratulated herself for sounding like a conceited bitch and for boring Kelly.

Kelly didn’t get why Carrie had stopped, so she looked at the blonde. “Why’d you stop? I liked hearing about your process.” She smiled when Carrie shyly looked up at her. “I have to write by myself too.” Kelly automatically grinned when Carrie timidly smiled. “I don’t write in my room though, when I bought this place I made sure that it had enough rooms so that I could have one just to write in.” She glanced at the girl that stared at them as Carrie talked. Kelly had wondered which of them the girl couldn’t look away from, and she laughed when she figured out that she had guessed correctly. The girl had eyes for Carrie. The girl didn’t even notice her.

Carrie laughed along with Kelly and tightened her grip on her empty beer bottle so she didn’t drop it because of her laughter. “I know it’s dumb to care about whether Matt or the rest of my friends would tease me if I made one of my extra rooms into a writing room.” She didn’t know what to think when Kelly straightened up and leaned in close to her. “Kelly?”

Kelly leaned in closer when she saw the tall girl watching them glare because of her proximity to Carrie. She turned her head towards Carrie’s ear and tried not to laugh. “There’s a pretty girl glaring at me right now because she’s jealous of how close I am to you.” Kelly leaned back against the wall and watched Carrie for a reaction. She bit her lip when Carrie frowned.

“Okay?” Carrie wasn’t sure how she should respond, although she was a little curious. “She’s to my left?” Kelly had looked in that direction when she had thought she had bored the brunette. Carrie turned her head to the side until she saw a girl look away quickly. She was kind of surprised; the girl was a tall, girly type. Carrie turned around, ready to laugh about the occurrence, but she frowned as Kelly slid away from her. “What are you doing?”

Kelly thought that it had been clear that she was about to leave so Carrie could talk to the girl. “I was leaving so that you could talk to her or so she would walk over. She’s cute. I don’t know her though, or I would introduce you.” She would have forgotten about the situation if Carrie hadn’t looked, because she wouldn’t tease the blonde for not being ready to talk to a girl, but Carrie had looked, so she thought that Carrie was interested in meeting a girl.

Carrie did not want to talk to whoever the girl was; she liked her conversation with Kelly. She hadn’t really had anyone come up to her and flirt before Kelly had arrived, but she liked that she didn’t have to worry about hurting some girl’s feelings since Kelly was with her. “Don’t go. How are we gonna get to know each other better if you leave? Besides, I need someone to tell me how to get one of my spare rooms cool so I can write in it.”

Kelly smiled at Carrie’s last sentence. “Whatever. She wasn’t hot enough for you, right? I know how you are. First all those guys, and now you’re gonna be stringing along all the hot girls.” She giggled when Carrie laughed at her joke. Her laughter died out when she saw Ashley walk by again and specifically glare at her. “Damn. I have to go. Ashley’s been handling the party all this time. It’s not fair to her. She loves me and all, but I fear the girl when she’s angry.”

"You and me both.” Carrie sighed and moved aside so that Kelly didn’t have to slide against the wall to get around her. “I’ll go with you. I need another beer.” Carrie didn’t wait for an answer, she just took Kelly by the hand and walked towards the kitchen.

Kelly laughed at Carrie’s sudden confidence despite the fact that the blonde had just admitted to fearing Ashley. “You can help me. Maybe she won’t be too angry if we take over and she can stop for the night?”
****

Carrie chuckled to herself as she put a new tray of food in the oven. She and Kelly had been in and out of the kitchen for a while as they made sure that there was enough food for the other guests. Ashley had not been thrilled to see her, and then the girl had been reluctant to give up the task of keeping the food and bar stocked, but Kelly had convinced Ashley that they had everything under control. “Don’t think I haven’t noticed that you don’t help with the food.”

Kelly swung her legs from her spot on the counter. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” She had left the cooking and heating up part of the food to Carrie because the other girl was better at it than her. “I’ve been taking out all the food. I helped.” Kelly smiled brightly and picked up the drink she had made on one of her trips to restock the food. She had asked if Carrie wanted to go back out to the party a couple times, but each time Carrie told her no. “Change your mind?”

Carrie set the timer and pretended to think about her answer as Kelly sipped some kind of drink that she had never heard of, though that was more because Kelly and the girl’s friends had invented the drink accidentally. “What? You tired of this hosting thing?” Carrie looked at Kelly and then to the refrigerator. “Is it okay if I get another water?”

Kelly laughed at the polite question, but she gestured toward the refrigerator so Carrie wouldn’t stand around thirsty. “You’re helping me take care of my party, it’s all right not to ask to go into the fridge.” She lightly drummed the heels of her shoes against the counter as Carrie got a water and joined her on the counter. “Is it too much to ask that you relax a little more?”

Carrie didn’t get how her polite nature translated to nerves in Kelly’s eyes, so she didn’t try to figure out how to convince the brunette that she was fine. “If you want me to dance as I cook the food, I’m going to have to say no. I don’t know how you and Ashley do this all, but I’m going to have to put my foot down. I don’t care if there’s music or not.”

Kelly almost fell off the counter because of her laughter. She let her free hand fall to the counter, and then she held onto it so that she didn’t fall as her laughter subsided slowly. “Ashley totally dances. If you do the cooking portion of the entertaining, you must entertain me with dancing as I wait around.” Kelly sipped her drink and then set it down incase Carrie continued the joke.

“I don’t think so. Maybe Ashley wants to dance in the kitchen, ever think of it that way?” Carrie solemnly nodded her head, but they both knew she wasn’t serious. “Hypothetically say I do this dancing thing, what about me?” She turned her towards Kelly and grinned. “What do I get for entertainment? It’s only fair, right?”

Kelly snickered at the comment because she hadn’t been sure that Carrie would continue to tease. “Ashley is just happy being in my presence. I don’t have to do anything to entertain her.” She struggled to keep a straight face as Carrie called her a liar and knocked her on the shoulder. “Hey, I can’t help it that Ashley’s easy. Good thing you were speaking hypothetically.”

Carrie laughed for a moment because the whole scenario was dumb, but she liked that Kelly shared her sense of humor. “Such a liar.” Carrie giggled as Kelly broke down into laughter again. “You guys talk about the people that are here don’t you? You and Ashley.” Carrie had a drink of her water as Kelly settled enough to answer her question.

“We do.” Kelly took a deep breath and picked her drink up off the counter. “But that’s not really different from the rest of the time that we spend together. She’s a good friend.” Kelly lightly smiled as she thought about how Ashley had always stuck with her, even when she had been a confused mess because of her sexuality. “And she so loves dancing for me.”

Carrie nearly choked on her water because she had laughed at Kelly’s last sentence before her brain had a chance to stop herself or swallow her water. “Nice.” Carrie tried to catch her breath, but she was still coughing and laughing.

Kelly patted Carrie’s back and bit her lip so that she didn’t laugh. She was sure that the random one word responses the blonde choked out weren’t helping matters. “Stop trying to threaten revenge on me, and maybe you’ll be able to catch your breath.” Kelly was concerned for Carrie, but it was funny that the girl wouldn’t stop laughing or attempting to speak.

“Heartless.” Carrie was sure her words would have had more of an effect if she hadn’t gasped them. She tried to clear her throat as she managed to stop her laughter, and after a few times, she cleared her throat of the water that had lingered in her windpipe. “You would have sat there and laughed if I had been in trouble, wouldn’t you?” Carrie glared at Kelly as she playfully tossed her water into the sink to get the drink far away from her.

Kelly sympathetically rubbed Carrie’s back for a moment before she got down off the counter. “Yup. I would have left you to choke.” She laughed when Carrie kicked at her, though the kick hadn’t come close to her body. “Fine, I promise to take care of the rest of the food. You can take it out and talk to the people that are still here.”

Carrie smiled lazily and nodded from her seat on the counter. “Cool, so next time I just have to pretend to choke and I get out of the cooking.” She blocked the towel Kelly threw at her. “I’m telling Ashley so that she can get out of it too.” Carrie had a few more jokes in mind, but the oven timer rang, so she sat quietly and waited for Kelly to get to work.

Kelly didn’t speak as she carefully pulled the tray of food from the oven. She wasn’t about to burn herself in front of Carrie. She liked it that the blonde thought that she didn’t like to do the cooking, not that she had accidents in the kitchen more often than not. Kelly smiled when Carrie helped her transfer over the food, though she wondered if Carrie did want to go back out to the party since the girl hadn’t objected to the switch.

Carrie was surprised when she walked into the dining room; about half of the guests were gone. She laid out the food, and then she made her way over to the living room to find Tommy. She had seen her friend a couple times from the kitchen, but Tommy had been with the same guy, so she hadn’t gone over. Now, Carrie went over to her friend when she saw that he was in the living room. “Hey. How’s everything going?” She wanted to know if Tommy wanted to leave.

Tommy grinned as he hugged Carrie and pulled her so that she stood next to him. “Care, this is Hector. Hector,” Tommy turned his head to the man that he had spent most of the party with and smiled. “This is my best friend Carrie.” He happily watched as the two exchanged hellos. “So,” Tommy laughed cutely at Hector before he turned to face Carrie completely. “I’m ready to leave whenever you are. Just come and get me, okay?”

Carrie was glad to see that Hector and Tommy were still together. She didn’t want to make her friend say goodbye before he was ready though, so she shrugged her shoulders. “I’m good. I’ve been hanging out with Kelly. We’ve been keeping all you guys with food, so you can find me there when you two are ready to say goodnight.” Carrie knew that she should have left an hour ago so that she could get some sleep, but she thought it was better that they had a nice night.

“Isn’t she great?” Tommy laughed when Hector agreed with him. He had done his best to keep an eye out for Carrie without making Hector think that he was bored. Tommy had to smile because Carrie had gotten what she wanted with the party; he had seen her and Kelly talking almost every time he had spotted his friend. Tommy hugged Carrie once more. He also whispered his thanks in her ear and told her that he had gotten Hector’s number as he pulled back from the embrace.

Carrie chuckled and left the boys behind after she said goodbye to Hector. As she walked back to the kitchen, she saw Ashley and half-waved at the other girl. Carrie smiled a little when Ashley smiled at her. She had not expected that kind of response, though she guessed that maybe she had earned some points with Ashley when she had helped out with the party. Carrie went on to the kitchen; she didn’t want to push her luck and have Ashley get angry if she talked to the girl.

Kelly quickly finished the rest of her drink when Carrie returned to the kitchen. Ashley had come in while Carrie was gone. Ashley had wanted to know how she and Carrie were getting along, and she had answered the question truthfully. She thought that they had gotten along really well, and that Carrie hadn’t said anything wrong all night. “Did they keep you out there until you promised to bring more food?”

Carrie sarcastically laughed at Kelly’s joke, though she smiled so that it wouldn’t be taken the wrong way. “No, I saw Tommy. I asked him how he was doing and if he was ready to leave.” She leaned against the counter since she didn’t want to get another drink and there was nothing else for them to prepare at the moment. “Like half the party left, but he and Hector are still out there.”

Kelly smiled at the mention. She liked Tommy well enough, so she was happy to hear that her friend and Carrie’s friend had hit it off together. “Cool.” She walked over and nervously licked her lips as she came to a halt next to Carrie. “I guess I should ask you before you leave then. Do you want to do something with me some time?” Kelly smiled at Carrie, even though she was anxious.

“Yeah, that’d be great.” Carrie grinned at the invitation. She had thought that they had moved past the stupid stuff that she had done, but it was good to know that Kelly thought so too. She was happy to hear that Kelly still wanted to hang out with her. When Kelly grinned and blushed because of her answer, Carrie realized that Kelly had meant a date. Carrie mentally cursed at herself. Of course, Kelly had meant the invitation to be a date; Kelly was gay.

Kelly wanted to do something, hug Carrie, or maybe hold the taller girl’s hand. She held back and smiled though, since she wasn’t sure how comfortable Carrie would be with either of her thoughts. “Awesome. I’m going to be in town for the next two weeks, but I’m pretty busy this week. Can I call you when I have a better idea of a time?”

It took Carrie a few seconds to respond before she gave a little laugh and said it was fine for Kelly to call. Carrie had thought that she could wait until the next day and call Kelly herself so that she could explain, but that idea wouldn’t work. She didn’t want to say no now, because then she would feel like a jerk, and Kelly would think that she had only said yes as a joke. Carrie didn’t want to wait and build up Kelly’s hopes, but she didn’t see a way to get out of the date without ruining Kelly’s party or the upcoming week.
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