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Carter always wanted a type of get-your-own-damn-food and stop stealing mine type of relationship. Not that lovey-dovey crap you read in novels. He wasn't the type of sharing-milkshakes, snuggling on cold nights type of lover. He loved you in his own way, and that certainly wasn't any of the above. When he went out with a girl, he certainly didn't want to pay fifty bucks for them both to get food, and then have the girl eat of his plate the whole time, giving him annoying eyelash fluttering gazes. This is where we left off. His most recent failure.

He sighed, and pitched a rock into the water, watching as it landed with an absent plunk. Backing away, unsure what could be further done. He wasn't in a slump, no. Carter didn't go in slumps. He only got dumped, and thought about his day, and about the next failure. It was a way of life, and little did he know, when he had backed up, he had entered the direct pathway that Maxine was using.

Carter was flung out of his small daydream as someone tripped over him. He jumped a bit at first, bur hurried to the side of the distressed girl. "Oh, I'm um...sorry, yeah. Really sorry." He smiled a bit, nervously. He pulled at the branches, managing to get a few away. Soon he was able to get a closer view of her. The girl had deep, blue eyes that almost put him him in a trance for a moment. He shook his head, and continued inspecting her. She had blonde hair. She looked muscular, but not the kind of muscular you'd find unattractive on a girl.

"Oh, uh...sorry," He said, and scratched the back of his head, his face growing hot. He cleared his throat a bit, embarrassed. "I just, um...so yeah, I'm Carter Knox, son of Nyx. Nice to meet you, I guess."

"So, you're a pretty blunt person, huh?" He asked, warming up to her way of talking a bit. "I mean, with the whole...um, yeah, nevermind..." Sighing, he brushed a few twigs from his hair, irritated. "Once again, sorry for tripping you or whatever."

[ Ugh, sorry it's so horrible Zan. It's 1:37 AM where I live D: ]

~What the hell are you doing up so late?
"You didn't trip me. You got in my way." She explained with a shrug of her shoulders. She clucked her tounge out of boredom.

He raised an eyebrow, and sighed, unsure of what to say. Small talk wasn't really his forte, and he didn't feel like asking about the weather. Subjects, subjects... "So, what are doing out here?" He asked, just to get the question out of mind. He pondered further, and a few random things lingered his mind. The first was attending to the matter of food. The day had gone by quicker then usual, and he longed for even the tiniest bit of food. Next was her name. Maxine Lower? He laughed inwardly at her last name, and reality flushed his brain, forcing him to remember that he was in the middle of a conversation with someone. Carter, panicking a bit, checked her face to see if she had answered yet, worried he had missed her answer in his mind.