I bite my lip to keep from laughing at her sassiness today.
Carter catches my eye. “Definitely Uncle Carter,” he says, giving me a wink.
I roll my eyes at him. She can call him whatever she wants, but we are nowhere near ready to make him a real uncle to Sailor.
“So, I have a proposition for you, Sailor,” Carter says as he turns around in his seat so that he is looking straight at Sailor.
I raise my eyebrow at him, but I’m not sure that he sees me.
“I’m listening,” Sailor says in her sweet voice.
“Your aunt Victoria here has a job in North Carolina. Do you know where that is?”
“Yep! That’s where Uncle Logan lives.”
“That’s right. She has a job that she needs to go back to North Carolina to finish for a couple of weeks.”
I furrow my brows, confused as to what Carter is talking about. I quit my job.
“How would you like to go to North Carolina and live with your uncle Logan, Victoria, and me for a couple of weeks?”
“Carter,” I say sternly, trying to end this conversation without saying too much in front of Sailor.
“What do you think?” Carter asks, ignoring me.
“I think that would be awesome!”
I look in my rearview mirror at Sailor. “Sailor, you don’t need to say yes. It’s not fair to you. You would miss school here and go to a different school there for a couple of weeks until I finished working.”
“I want to go to a different school.”
I frown. “Why do you want to go to a different school?”
“Because there’s this boy—his name is Jack—who picks on me all the time. I hate him.”
I glare over at Carter.
“What? It wasn’t me,” he says.
I give him another evil glare, letting him know that, till the end of time, I will blame him for other boys who treat Sailor badly.
“We can talk to your teacher and make sure that doesn’t happen anymore.”
“No, I need a vacation. I want to go to North Carolina.”
I sigh. “Sailor, you need to understand, this wouldn’t be a vacation. You would still need to go to school.”
“Whatever. It beats being here.”
I exhale deeply, trying to remain calm because my world just got thrown on its head. Apparently, I have a job still. I’m pretty sure I have a boyfriend, whom I can’t really date in public, and I’m moving back to North Carolina. I don’t understand how any of this came to be or why it’s happening. But now isn’t the time for questions.
Carter holds out his hand to me, and I take it. I might not be able to fix everything in my life, but I have Carter. Maybe that’s enough.
“Now, about that date you promised me,” Carter says.
I sigh. “You can take me out when we get back.”
I said yes to the date just like I said yes to bringing Sailor back to North Carolina with me a few days ago. Now I just have to figure out how to help Amber and I might finally have a chance at fixing my life.