Months pass. Carter and Railyn have a system. Tracy has “book club” every Friday night and Aiden goes to his friends house for “game night” every Friday. Theyre DEFINITELY together every Friday night.

But so are the other two.

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Railyn sits at the counter, texting Carter. Aiden is grabbing his stuff for game night. He comes up to Railyn, his hands fighting with his lanyard.

“Uhm. Railyn?”

This kid is a nervous wreck.

“Yeah?” Rai sets her phone on the counter face down.

“I-“ he shakes his head. “Nevermind.”

Aiden opens the door to leave. “I’ll be home around 2.”

“Thats later then usual.” Railyn presses.

“We’re going to a casino an hour away.” He states shortly before shutting the door behind him.

_Uhm… okay then_

When Carter shows up he has a huge grin on his face. He grabs her waist, pulling her into a kiss.

“Missed you.” He laughs.

Railyn rolls her eyes. “We literally talk everyday.” She kisses him lightly.

He pulls away and hands her a blindfold.

She raises an eyebrow.

“Go grab a sweatshirt.” He rolls his eyes.

Rai grabs a dark green sweatshirt (that may or may not be Carters 🤭🤭)

He smirks. “Love the sweater. Where’d you get it?”

“Your bedroom.” She laughs, sliding the hoodie on over her T-shirt. He spins her around, tying the blindfold over her eyes.

“Carter?” She raises suspicion in her voice.

He flicks her in the head. “Don’t be a horny bastard for like 3 minutes Kay?”

Railyns jaw drops. “I would never.” She gasps dramatically.

Carter wraps his hands around her hips after he tied the blindfold, turning her to face him again. “Yes you would.” He kisses her on the neck and it sends a shiver throughout her entire body.

“Your right. I would.”

Carter leads her to the car. Purposely running her in to multiple objects. The drive isn’t too long but Rai is impatient and curious. She can hear the rain tapping the metallic roof of the car.

When she hears Carter get out of the car the rain is pouring.

He opens her door for her.

“M’lady”

“Carter it’s pouring rain.”

“And?” He yanks her out of the car, pulling her into the heavy downfall.

Railyn gasps as the cold water falls on her. “What the crap!”

He slips off her blindfold and theyre on the top of a parking garage. The parking lot their in is empty and the rain beats down on the two of them. He goes into the car and starts playing the song _Slow dance in a parking lot_ by _Jordan Davis_

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Carter pulls her into a slow dance position. His smile glowing. His dark brown hair droops, sticking to his forehead.

Her hair clings to the wet sweatshirt from the rain.

The song plays and they twirl each other around in puddles for the full 3 minutes and 13 seconds. After that song plays, _Thinking out loud _by_ Ed Sheeran _plays_. _

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Carter twirls them in circles before pulling her into a hug.

“I love you.” He whispers into her shoulder.

Hot tears leak from her eyes. “I love you too.”

He pulls away, looking at her tears. “I’m going to break up with Tracy.” He says because he’s and idiot.

“What!?” Railyn pushes away because shes also an idiot.

Carter grabs her hands pulling her back to him. “Rai I want to love you. I want to love you without having to sneak around. Without going off of Aiden and Tracys schedule.”

“I want to love as much as I can.” He cups her face in his hands.

“I want to love you too.” She smiles, tears and rain running down her face.

Their lips meet as the final notes of the song play.

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Aiden comes home at 2:26 AM.

26 minutes late but whos keeping track.

(Railyn. Railyn is keeping track.)

He comes through the door, dropping his crap on the floor by the door.

“Hi.”

His eyes dart to Railyn whos sitting in the couch looking like a nervous mess.

“Why are you still up?” Aiden shakes his head.

“I- I needed to talk to you.”

His eyes widen for a moment but he blinks and then acts calm again.

“What’s up?”

Railyns gonna need to for stand for this one.

“I… think we should break up.”

It startles him but he just sighs.

“I agree.”

He opens his mouth like he is going to add more but stops.

“Because you’ve been cheating on me with Tracy.”

Now that one really shocked him.

“Wait okay it- it’s not what it’s seems like!” Aiden panics searching for an excuse.

Railyn just places a silencing finger to his lips. “I know I’ll regret this if I don’t say it now but I- may or may not be seeing her boyfriend Carter.”

Aiden freezes before bursting into laughter.

Rai just stands there staring at him. Is he seriously laughing?? They were both cheating on each other. This is serious.

“Wait hold on.” He grabs his phone, calling Carter.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING????” She tries to snatch his phone but he dodges.

‘**Hello**?’

“Hey Carter.”

‘**Can I help you?**’

“This is gonna sound really funny. Do you wanna switch girlfriends?”

Theres a flurry of movement in the other side in the phone and they just hear Carter opening a door and yelling to Tracy, ‘YOUR MAN IS SINGLE AND SO ARE YOU HUN. YOU BEST BE PACKING YOU BAGS.’

Rai snorts and Aiden just looks at the phone very concerned.

‘**Yea that would be great. Come pick Tracy up in the morning and drop Railyn off with me**’

“Alright sounds good. Cya.”

Aiden hangs up the phone and laughs. He laughs for a long time. Rolling on the floor.

I glare at him. “It’s _funny_ how to two of you are swapping girlfriends like one might swap a jacket.”

Aiden just shrugs. “If you wait to break up for too long it just isn’t important after a while.”

He stands up. “You for real need to pack up ur stuff though. Your moving in the morning.”

Rai scoffs, walking down the hall.

“Please.”

“I’ve had my bags packed for a month.” She smirks.

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Notes:

That one was _special_. I’m fr not sure how to break up with someone because I’ve never even held someone’s hand romantically so that’s what you get from me. Yes I’m aware that thats not how breakups work. Thank you JATG for pointing that out 🙄😂

Let’s be real. Aiden’s a hoe.

If you want a part three I’m not sure where I would go with this. Maybe like a time skip for a few months or a year ish later. I’m only gonna write more with these characters upon request though.

Shout out to **43.1939° N, 71.5724° W**

Thanks for reading!! :D