Falling for Him

Sleepless

Falling for Him

Chapter Fifteen

Cara was already getting ready for bed. However, she doesn't go to sleep immediately. She'd usually read a book or surf the net. Sometimes, she's call Emilie and talk over the phone for hours. This time, she was just on ther bed, staring at the ceiling and going through the happenings that happened that day in her head. She was in her tank top and pajamas. Which reminded her- Emilie never returned her bunny slippers. She laughed to herself after thinking her best friend and brother might be dating. She smiled after thinking Emilie and Blake would make a good couple.

She looked at the clock- an hour has passed. She tried counting sheeps to sleep. She tried reading a book and moving around to make herself feel tired but none of them worked. She still can't sleep.

After another hour, she gave up and decided to get out of the bed. She dragged her feet to the door and made her way to the living room.

She had a mini heart-attack when she saw her older brother- Blake, watching t.v. He acknowledged her presence with a nod and a smile.

"I can't sleep," Cara groaned as she hopped on the spot beside her brother. Blake just nodded but didn't talk his eyes of the television. Blake isn't the type who talks alot but when he's a great listener. He'll give some advice if possible but usually it's just him listening. Cara sighed and rests her head on the side of her brother's arm. 

"Alot of things have been happening lately," Cara told him as she heaved another sigh. "Oh, and Daniel Reinhart is back."

Cara could feel her brother looking at her with shock in his face. Blake and Daniel's brother used to be buddies that's why, well, until they moved into another state.

"Cool," Blake muttered. Cara agreed with a smile and stayed quiet after that, enjoying the show as well.

The two Andersens stayed up a little more later until they finally felt sleepy. Cara was the first one to go up to her room as her brother turned off the T.V and the other electronics used.

She was already in a comfortable reason when her phone rang. "Jake Ericsson! Don't answer the phone!" the phone rang continuously. Cara grunted and switched her phone off. She placed her phone under her pillow and was about to sleep already but Ethan came in her room with a frown.

"Gee, don't you know how to knock?"

"Not if my sleep gets disturbed," Ethan passed her his phone. Cara took it with a glare and Ethan went out without closing the door. Cara dragged herself to the door to close it and then answered the phone.

"What?" she answered in an annoyed tone.

"I can't sleep," Jake said in a baby-ish tone. Wow, so much for a guy with a hot body and handsome face, Cara thought.

"That's it? You called because you can't sleep? Dude, you mad?" Cara hopped on her bed and pulled the covers up to her waist.

"Yeah, tell me a bed time story," he asked. He's probably drunk, Cara mentally told herself. She rolled her eyes and sighed.

"One day, there was this mummy who just woke up from the dead. He was too lazy to unwrap the toilet paper so he decided to just go back to his tomb and die again." Cara bit her lips as she tried not to chuckle. The first time she heard it from a friend, she laughed for five minutes straight.

Jake chuckled, "tell me another one." Cara made an over-exagerated sigh before telling him another story. If only she could, she'd go to him and throw a chair at his face for that might help him since he couldn't sleep.

"Once upon a time, there's this idiot called Jake who couldn't sleep. He got stressed and decided to jump off the window and thus he slept forever," she said over the phone. Her eyes were already half-way closed. Any time she may just drop the phone and fall asleep.

"Aww.. did a girl named Cara in the story cry?"

"No,"

"Felt sad?"

"No," she sighed. "Jake, I seriously need to go. I want to sleep."

"Alright, goodnight. Sweet dreams to," Jake said. Cara smiled. She could feel him smiling over the phone. "More like morning," she said before hanging up.

Cara couldn't get that much sleep that time. So the next day, she came to school looking like a zombie. Emilie bit her lip as she looked at her best friend.

"You look horrible," she said. Cara ignored her and rolled her eyes as she took the books she need for the first lesson of the day. Emilie dragged her best friend to the nearest rest room to hide the dark circles using make up.

"Wow, what happened?" another feminine voice asked. The two looked on the door's direction to see Nicole standing there with puffy eyes. Cara looked at Emilie- who looked fine. It's just that her jaws were clenched. She sighed and smiled at Nicole. "I just couldn't sleep, that's all."

---------------------------------------------------------Author's Notes--------------------------------------------------------

Wow, it's been a long time since I updated this story. Well, I'll upload as much chapters as I can now 'till I have the time again :)

I'm so sorry for the late update >.<

Off-topic question of the day: Which is your favorite band? :D

Well, till the next chapter! :D