Carlos 3

Indoor pool

Red door (up)
Purple Door (up)
We got up and walked back home. My stomach hurts, I guess its my time of the month again. I hate having it, it makes me eat a lot. I told Max we had to hurry cause I told him that there was a "problem" and we actually ran back home. I was relieved that we made it in the elevator.

It really hurts and I had to cover my stomach for this. I wanted to sit on the floor of the elevator and rub my stomach to make the pain go away. The doors slide open and I ran for it, unlocking the door and ran to my room and straight to the toilet. I changed quickly, I wasn't sure if Max caught all that but I think he got a little surprised on how fast I run when it comes to my time of the month. I came out and breathed with relief, not knowing what might come next.

'Annabelle Board, breathe..', I thought to myself. "Elle, are you okay?", I heard Max asking from the living room, "Yeah, I'm fine. I'll be right out in a minute!", I replied back.

I placed my phone and keys on my drawer and walked out of my room and shut the door. I saw Max wondering around the hall with a curious look on his face while rubbing his chin with his finger. "What are you doing?", I finally asked him, "Nothing, just thinking", he answered. "How many rooms do you have Ells?", he questioned me. "Well.. I haven't checked it all yet, do you mind wondering with me around the apartment?", I offered. He nodded with agreement and held my hand. We wondered around and about the apartment. I remembered The Green room, which was the movie room for us. The yellow room, which is my room. The Blue room, which was Dani's. But I think we missed two more. There was a Purple and Red room. Well basically doors, yet still I can't help but wonder what were in them. We walked towards The Purple room and slowly opened it. I peeked in for a sneak peek and saw the most wonderful thing. The Purple room was actually a swimming pool area. Amazing!. I didn't had a clue that this was going to happen. Did Dad already know this? That can't be true?. We shut the door close and opened the Red one. I saw nothing but an empty room. The walls were golden and looked like it was painted, not wallpaper. The brush looked big I guess. I could see the brush marks in circular motion, it was amazing. I felt the walls and it felt dry ad rough, I breathed the soft air that was in this room and turned around to see Max smiling at me. I smiled back and walked towards him. I held both his hands and felt so inspired.

"What shall I do with this room? Shall I do an Art studio? shall I make it as an extra room?", I asked him. I wanted him to help me, which thankfully he did. I asked him if he wanted to help me with my Art room and he looked at me by surprise. "I never told you that I took alot of art at school have I?", I smirked at him. He shook his head and smiled at me. "Help me fix this lovely room and turn it to something beautiful. Do you want to go to the store and get things to make this room fit in the apartment theme?", I asked and again he just grinned and nodded. "Why are you so quite?", I questioned him. "I've never really seen you this happy before and I don't want to ruin it by talking too much and you look adorable when you're happy, your cheeks get all red and you sound like a puppy", he replied to me. I awed him by thinking that I was cute.

I hugged him tight and just when I was about to cherish this amazing moment with him, the phone rang.

Carlos 2

I turned around and saw him smiling at me. I turned to Max, he was still inside the shop. I was shaking and I was hoping that Carlos doesn't it. I sat on my hands to keep them warm, but instead I had the feeling of blood moving away from them. "What do you want Carlos?", I questioned him, "Nothing, nothing.. Can't I just say hello to an old friend's girlfriend?", he joked. "No, you can't!", I heard behind me. I turned to Max and he looked angry at Carlos. "What in the world are you doing here?", he growled at Carlos. "I was just grabbing a bite to eat? what? can't a guy eat by himself on a nice afternoon?", he replied. "Just stay away!", Max ordered. I look on the table and saw the pizza, it felt warm near my hand and I was so hungry.

Carlos grinned at both of us and walked away. He dropped a twenty dollar bill on his table and called the cab. Max sat beside me and smiled a tiny bit. "What's his deal? why can't he leave me alone?", I asked him. "Nothing, it's really nothing", he replied. "Tell me", I ordered.

"Just don't get mad or whatever okay?", he warned me before telling the story.

" You see, Carlos and I were really close friends and we did everything together. At that time he was seeing this girl named Lisa, She was really pretty and I had a crush on her. Carlos didn't know. We were still kids, I thought, we were still in high school and I thought he wouldn't mind or anything. Later that night, I was hanging out with Carlos and Lisa at a cafe and he had to go to the bathroom. Lisa was looking at me and it felt intense, like she knew my feelings for her. She stood up and kissed me, I was surprised and scared. We turned to see that Carlos saw me kissing her and she blamed me for everything. I knew it was wrong and he WAS my best friend back then. He said I stole his dream. At school, they posted up on the board on who gets in the collage they wanted, some do get it but some don't. I always wanted to go to NYU with him, but he didn't get accepted. He told me that we couldn't be friends because he said I stole his dream and his girl. I told him that it was just dumb luck and everything might've been like this already and now he's a creep and a manic. I don't want him to steal you away from me", he explained to me. I was in awe and surprise.

"Yet I'm thankful that you got in, or not I wouldn't have met you and you wouldn't have taught me so well", I looked on the brighter side. I know the story was old and Carlos is new to me. But who cares.

I was still hungry after all the talking. We finished the pizza and I wanted to know more about Carlos. Max didn't want to talk about him, I guess, but the relationship between Lisa and Carlos was fine. And I hadn't a reason why Lisa was into Max. I wanted to know more about her also. "Can you tell me more about Lisa?", I asked. He looked at me and rubbed his hands together because of the cold air. He held my hand and found a bench we could sit on. He held my hand and rubbed it close together with his. "Well, Lisa and I were close friends, like I told you with Carlos. She told me that she liked me back and I never knew that. She said that we she sees me with other girls, she just wanted to slap me. So, there was one night where we were invited to Carlos's party at LA and I drove us there and when we arrived, Carlos had a girl waiting there for me and he handed her to me and she was really drunk. I ended up being drunk myself and one thing lead to another. I told Lisa about it and her eyes just went all teary and she wanted to hit me so bad. Instead she went over to Carlos and they ended up waking up next to each other in the morning. And they've been together ever since, which made me jealous and that was it for me", He explained. I realized that when he kept on saying her name, he sounds so heartbroken. I wanted to find this Lisa girl, but I know it'll make everything between me and mark complicated. I didn't say anything to him, so I just breathed deeply and calmed down. I looked at my watch and smiled at him.

"You know I love you Annabelle Board", as he lifted my chin with his finger, "I know, I love you too", I replied.

Carlos

It was really getting late and I think we slept through the movie. I woke Max up and told him to move to my room. I was guessing that Dani is in his room already and asleep. I creeped back to my room, whilst holding Max's hand and pulling him to get to the room. I lay on the bed with him and switched off the lights.

-3pm-

I woke up hearing the alarm and I forgot that I had a test today that Dani told me to study while he was away. I wrote down on a piece of paper that to move the test in two more days, because I forgot to read. I hope he doesn't get angry at me. Lucky Max has the holiday's already. Lucky it's a private school. I got up and took a shower. While showering, I heard Max yawning. Thinking that he was looking for me, I got out and brushed my teeth, I peaked through the sliding doors and saw him looking at some books I left on my table in the closet. I dried my hair and still wearing the towel and looked for my clothes. I wanted to look grunge today, so I asked my Boyfriend.

"Max baby, can you help me again?", I asked using my little girl's voice, I shook my head twice to hear that wasn't I just said and yet he smiled and picked out my clothes. He took out a long-seelved shirt, the colors were dark blue and red, and some denim jeans, more of an 80's look I guessed. "Do you mind?", he asked nicely while pointing to the bathroom, I smirked and stepped aside. I put on the clothes and looked at the mirror. "Not bad", I said to myself and turned to the shoe area. I wanted grunge, so I took out converse. I put them on and turned to the table behind me. The books that I left on the table were my childhood pictures. I didn't want to put it in the living-room, because it was too risky and people might make a big deal out of it. I opened one of them and looked at my younger self. I was so joyful back then and now look at me, I got better. My ruined life in Jakarta was ruined and now my life is what I've always dreamt it would be like. Max came out and to see that he was already in his clothes and clean as a whistle. "Is that you?", he asked, "Yeah, that WAS me", I told him in a sarcastic tone.

"What? what's wrong?", he asked. "Nothing, I just don't like to see bad memories, the pictures gives too much flash backs", I said to him. He took my hand and closed the book.

"Let's go out", he said and held my hand.

We finally got out of the apartment, I was getting kind of hungry so he ordered a pizza, while I wait outside, reading my english lit. book.

"So a pretty maiden like yourself is sitting all alone?", a voice said behind me. I panicked and turned around slowly and looked up. "Carlos", I breathed.

I know everything now 5

Carlos gave me a look and grinned. I got scared. Max held my hand and promised to me that he won't go close to me. I kissed his hand and nodded to him. Carlos popped his head from the side and smiled at me, like he was going to do something to me. I asked Max if we could go home and I was getting freaked out by him (Carlos). Max took my hand and walked out of Starbucks, I turned and saw Carlos walking out too. Instead of following, he went back to his car and waved at me. I just wanted to give him the finger and laugh my head off. I turned to Max and smiled at him, my feelings were strong. I know that he'll protect me from Carlos.

We arrived home already and Max clicked the button that points up. I was getting sleepy, i didn't want to sound whiny but I'm his girlfriend, I kind of had the right to be one. "Babe, can you sleep in my room tonight?", I asked, "Sure baby I will", as he kissed my forehead. BING!. I heard the doors slide open and walked to my apartment. Everything about today was special, excluding the Carlos part.

I unlocked the door and went in, saw Dani sitting by the coffee table and resting his feet on it. "Hey Dad, we're home", I yelled from afar. He smiled at me and Max, then kept reading his paper. Such a Dani thing to do.

I took Max by the hand and walked to the green room. "Do you wanna watch a movie?", I asked, "Yeah, why don't we watch 'It's a wonderful life'?", he offered and he searched through everything and eventually found it. I thought 'my first movie with my boyfriend!' and I wish it didn't come out of my mouth again, I looked at him and saw nothing but a smiled on his face. I breathed. He put in the tape and played the movie, while we cuddled under the blanket and sighed with relaxation. I felt happy that I could cherish these moments with him and everything I hoped it would be. Max held my hand and brushed my hair with the other.