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Firefly Chapter 7

Posted on | March 4, 2008 |

Moving day had finally come and Fred didn’t help the girls at all. He helped Beth but when Beth tried helping Carrie and Ray; he told her that she shouldn’t over do it. Ray called EJ. Fred noticed him pulling up. They exchanged icy greetings. EJ met the girls upstairs.

“Bryce is coming over. Damn, he’s an ass,” EJ said.

“Bryce is coming over?” Carrie asked with a smile.

“Yup.”

“Ray, we’ve got to get ready,” Carrie said panicked.

“Whoa there, princess. You don’t need to get all spiffied up for him. He’s coming to help you guys move. Anyway I know he likes you, Carrie.”

Ray felt their heart flutter. It angered Ray that EJ said Bryce liked Carrie not her and Carrie. Ray thought for a moment, she should’ve kept her hair blonde. Sometimes, Ray hated Carrie.

“He does?” Carrie said.

“He told me so. Why else you three be hanging out?” EJ replied.

“And Ray?”

“Thinks she’s cool.”

Ray looked at EJ and he met her glance. Hee wiggled his last two fingers, their sign for “write me later.”

Bryce soon came up the stairs and kissed Carrie. He kissed Ray as well but it was shorter and no tongue. The boys helped the girls pack their stuff in the U-Haul. Their childhood home stood empty.

“Carrie, you want to ride with me or are you going with EJ?” asked Bryce.

Carrie looked at Ray and she said, “we’ll go with you.”

On the way to Fred’s house, Carrie and Bryce held hands and touched each other. Ray knew Carrie fell hard for him. Maybe when Ray met the woman of her dreams, Carrie would go with the flow.

The girls’ new room was half as small as their old room. In fact, Fred gave them the smallest room in the house. They had to share one closet and the room didn’t have enough room for all their possessions. Fred’s rug rat boys had much larger rooms and the future nursery was huge. The guys lay on the bed and the girls lay in between them. Carrie and Bryce nuzzled closer and kissed every once and a while.

Aunt Beth came in, “oops sorry.”

“It’s okay,” Carrie said, “Bryce this is my Aunt Beth.”

“Hello Bryce, and how do you know my girls?”

“I’m seeing Carrie and Ray.”

“Oh okay,” she paused at the thought, “well girls Fred is taking his boys and me out to dinner, do you want to come along?”

“No thanks, I really don’t like Fred.”

Aunt Beth frowned, “well give him a chance. You might change your mind. One piece of advice, you boys shouldn’t be here long. Fred is already upset.”

“No problem we are all going out tonight,” Carrie said.

“Okay, have fun.”

“We’ll go to my place, just the four of us,” EJ added.

Lucky for them everyone else left before they did. Bryce drove the girls to EJ’s.

The four some spent the night partying. Music blared from thee sound system. Neither Carrie nor Ray remembered anything about the night when they woke. After rubbing their eyes, they discovered everyone was naked.

EJ woke next, “fuck you guys are going to be in deep shit.”

“I know,” Carrie mumbled.

“What happened last night?” Ray asked.

“Fuck if I know, partied too much,” he replied as tossed on a pair of shorts.

EJ drove them home leaving Bryce asleep. As the girls went to get out, EJ grabbed Carrie’s arm, “look if you need to get away you can come to my place. Even if I am not there just come in.” He presented them with a key.

“For us?” Carrie asked.

“Yup, in case you need a place to go,” he said and hugged them.

The girls went inside. They knew the smelt like alcohol and weed. They hoped to shower before anyone talked to them. They were wrong, Aunt Beth stood looking in the fridge, “girls you’re home late. Fred’s sleeping so be quiet when you go up.” The girls went past her. They knew they smelt them but she said nothing. They showered in slipped in bed.

“Ray are you asleep?”

“No.”

“I wonder what happened last night.”

“Yeah me too. Hey maybe Bryce will know.”

“Maybe. You know you were wrong about Bryce. He does like me.”

“Yeah I know.”

Carrie put on her headphones and tried to remember the details from the previous night.

Ray sent EJ a message, hey Bryce gone?A few minutes later he replied yeah. I love his nipples.So what’s up with him and Carrie?

What do you mean?

Does he really like her or is it some perverse fetish he has?

EJ wrote likes her a lot. He likes you but like a pal. He knows you aren’t into guys as much as girls.How?

Because some people can tell. He asked me to be sure. I said you like both but prefer women.

Oh Ray wrote

He doesn’t to freak you out.Ray didn’t respond, EJ wrote again when are you going to tell Carrie? Because unless you think differently, she believes you guys are on the same boat when it comes to guys.I don’t know. I am afraid. Ray wrote.

Why?Because it’s Carrie and we share certain parts like a heart and vagina.

Love is in the brain. You’ve got to tell her. She needs to know. Would she deny you a girl?

I don’t know, she never denied me anything before Ray replied.

This is too big to keep secret from Carrie much longer. Who cares if you tell your Aunt or not. Carrie needs to know.Okay I will sometime. Did you ask Bryce what happened last night?

Moments later one word popped up on the screen sex.Ray was horrified to tell Carrie because Carrie was the all American girl, used to be the all American girl. She didn’t know how Carrie would take the news. Now if Ray could find a girl like Michelle she could convince Carrie to come and play.

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