Chapter 18 — Carter

My birthday has finally come, and Emmy has everything planned out. We spent the day together and now we are heading into town for my birthday party. I am surprised when I see Evan, Josh, Sam, Tori, Jess, and my parents. The whole team is there as well along with Jason, Kenzie, Vivian, Darren, Ivy, Stella, Travis, and Calder.

It’s weird having to introduce Emmy to my friends and my parents. They don’t know that they already know her. I can't fully adjust to it. It’s even weirder when Evan told me how hot Emmy is and that he would totally screw her. Last year he couldn’t even stand to be seen with her, now he wants to bang her? This was like being in the Twilight Zone.

We have a small room rented out in a hall. There is a dance floor and tons of food. I’m having a good time even though I didn’t want a party, but I can’t lie Emmy out did herself. My birthday cake is a drum set and it tastes amazing. Jason made all the food and the cake. It’s great to see my old friends and my parents. It is weird having my past life and new life mesh together in one room, but I can't lie. I like seeing both parts of my life come together in one room. For once they aren’t separate.

Emmy grabs me and walks me to another private room. It is just her and I.

“What are you up to Emmy Rose Caine?”

Emmy gives me a devilish smile. She locks the door and pins me against it.

“I haven’t given you your birthday gift yet.” She gives me a sexy smile.

Emmy strips and she is wearing a black lace bra and pantie set, but then my eyes are drawn to the front of her shoulder where she was attacked by the Enchantress. She had scars, but now they are covered by a tattoo. It is a drum set and in the base drum my name is written in it. I touch it.

“Did you get this for me?” I smile to myself.

She nods her head. “It’s only fair you have a tattoo for me, so I got one for you. Besides, it gave me the perfect excuse to cover up my scars,” Emmy kisses me. “You better unwrap your gift before someone comes looking for us.” Emmy whispers in my ear.

I love it when she is like this. I pick her up and carry her to one of the tables in the room. I quickly uno her bra and rip her panties off of her. I stick my fingers into her warmth, she is already wet. Damn, I love this girl. Emmy waves her finger at me as if I’m being bad. She jumps off the table and undoes my belt. She pulls my pants and boxers down to my ankles. She then takes me into her mouth, and I groan.

Emmy sucks me until I can’t take it anymore. I need to be inside of her. I stop her then pick her up and put her right back on the table. I move her legs apart and plunge into her. She feels so good. I move in and out of her faster and faster, before I know it, I’m growling my release. We take a moment to catch our breaths and then we both get dressed and head back to the party.

“I loved my birthday present.” I whisper in her ear. Emmy smiles at me. “I love you, Emmy.” I say with adoration.

“I love you too Carter. Now go mingle with your guests.”

Emmy smacks my ass as we walk back into the room where the party is being held. I shake my head at her. I walk over to hang out with Evan and Josh. Emmy walks over to her brother and starts talking with him. I know she is still adjusting to having a brother. It’s odd for her, but I know she loves him. Emmy is still adjusting to having Travis in her life and now she has to adjust to Calder as well. I know she hates that things keep getting thrown at her, but in the end, they are things that she doesn’t mind.

The party goes well past midnight. After I say goodbye to my old friends and my parents, I head back to the manor to jam out with Ryan and Bex. The girls have gone off to do their own thing. Right now, it was just me and the guys jamming out.

Finally, after three in the morning we crash. I’m so tired from the festivities that I don’t even realize Emmy is curling up in bed with me. When I wake up, she is gone, she probably didn’t want Bex or Ryan to see her even though we were just sleeping.

None of us cab train the next day because we are so beat from partying. So, we take the day to relax and hang out without each other and do normal things kids our age do. It is nice not having to hunt down crazy witches or warlocks, training for an epic battle, or being on a mission. It’s nice to just hang out at the mall and go out to the movies. It is something I hadn't done in forever and it felt nice.

Ryan and Brie break off to do their own thing towards the evening. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Ryan nervous, but he is nervous about his date with Brie. I wish Ryan luck as he and Brie head off in the opposite direction than the rest of us. Bexton and Avery go do their own thing and that leaves Emmy, Alice, and me.

Alice clears her throat. “So, I love you guys, but I don’t want to be a third wheel, so I’m gonna go do my own thing.”

“Are you sure?” Emmy asks. I can tell she felt unsure and doesn’t want Alice to be alone.

“Yeah, I’m meeting up with someone anyway. Behave you two.” Alice wins at us as she walks off.

It’s just Emmy and me. We walk around the mall, and Emmy and I do some shopping. We are trying to get our Christmas gift shopping out of the way since we don’t know when we will get the chance to do it again. The team does a secret Santa thing, so we don’t have to do gifts for everyone. The team is chipping in to get gifts for Darren, Ivy, Stella, and Vivian. I have to find something for my parents and Emmy has her dad and brother to shop for.

Emmy has Bex as her secret Santa, so she gets him a book he wants. I have Avery. So, I have Emmy help me pick some out. Once we are done shopping, we start walking to my car when we spot Ivy and Alice making out in Alice’s car.

“Ah, did you know about that?” I ask Emmy as I point to the couple making out in the car.

“Nope, not at all. I kinda thought I noticed something different with Alice, but I thought it might be the holidays because Alice is surprisingly a huge Christmas person.”

“Yeah, I didn’t see that one. She’s totally goth and I still don’t see her as the girl who wears Christmas PJs and makes gingerbread houses.”

“I know. She went crazy decorating the manor. She really loves Christmas. It brings out a totally different side of her. Um, how about I just teleport us back to the manor, we can get your car later. I don’t want to embarrass Alice. She clearly hasn’t said something for a reason.”

“Okay.” I agree and Emmy teleports us back to the manor.

We get to wrapping our gifts so we can put them under the big tree in the main living room. Emmy got her dad a fishing pole because he likes to fish, he apparently finds it relaxing. She also got him a tackle box and bait. Emmy didn’t know what to get Calder, so she got him an iPod so he could get by with being a normal guy. I know when I talked to Calder he had mentioned he wanted to do normal things since he had been a prisoner his whole life. Emmy took the liberty of putting some rock music on it for him.

“What if he doesn’t like rock music?” I ask as Emmy put a bow on her brother’s gift.

“Nonsense he is a Caine and Caines like rock music, it’s in our blood like dark magic.”

I laughed at her comment. “This is true, your parents are both huge rock fans. I bet they had you two listening to it in the womb.”

“Probably.” Emmy’s demeanor changes.

It’s hard for her to talk about her family since they were torn apart. I put my arm around Emmy and pull her into me. I kiss her forehead to comfort her.

“Hey, you guys will be a family again. I know you hate this time of year but try to think of the positive. You have me, your dad, your brother, the rest of your family and friends. One year the four of you will finally have a Christmas together like you deserve.”

“I hope you’re right. I think it’s safe to get your car now.”

We teleport back to get my car and drove back to the manor. Slowly but surely, everyone gets back to the manor. Brie and Ryan look cozy. I assume things went well.

We all head to bed early tonight since Darren told us we have to train tomorrow whether we like it or not. Darren is not a fan of us missing two days’ worth of training. So, it’s off to bed with all of us, so we can actually wake up tomorrow morning, because if we are late to training Darren will make us run laps or something and none of us want that.