SIX

Cara makes her way out of her room feeling bested by the asshole, if she had her way she wouldn't leave her bedroom as a sign of protest but this is above her, it's for her mum.

Cara groggily walks to the direction she found the stairs the first time, humming to "Paradise" by Baazi as she strolls to her destination. She stops when something catches her sight,  from the corner of her eyes is a room. She turns around to see if Jon is coming.

Nope, no one  

Cara should definitely not enter the room but when has she done what she supposed to do. Cara whistles as she walks into the plain colored room.

It looks boring, it has to be Xander's room.

Cara slowly shuts the door as an idea popped in her head and like always, it's not a good one.

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In less than 20 minutes, Cara is back at the garden.

Xander lifts his head up from his phone only to see his Nike Hoodie on the girl approaching him. He balls his fist trying to calm himself down but he is just hurting his hand in the process.

It's crazy how she can piss him off so bad.

Cara enters the shade, noticing his eyes on her but ignores. She picks up the glass of juice. All that getting back at the asshole got her thirsty.

"Is that my Hoodie?" Xander can always take the high road but she is just a bomb that is timed to bring out the worst in him. "Did you enter my room?"

The guts she has walking around his house like she owns the place. Where was Jon when this happened?

Cara looks up at him for the first time since she walked in. He looks mad, really mad.  Cara is beginning to regret her decision, why does she do these things?

Rule number 1: Don't enter his boring room.

Rule number 2: Don't wear his clothes.

She notices he is closing his eyes his trying to calm himself. She just wanted to have to last laugh, she doesn't want to die.

Cara puts the glass in her lips, at least if she is going to die, she isn't going to die of thirst.

She stares at the angry monster with his eyes closed as she drinks on her orange juice. Xander's eyes flutter open, which makes Cara spill the juice on the black hoodie in surprise.

Bad Cara, bad bad Cara.

Xander takes in a sharp breath even before she spilt the juice on one of his favourite hoodies, he knew he isn't going to wear it again.

"I am so sorry." She drops the glass on the table as she dusts the hoodie violently. "Shit." She cusses out, still dusting but only making it spread.

"Keep it." Wilder takes the newspaper which he kept on his laps and throws it on the table before standing up.

"It's going to come off, I'll just..." He interrupts her before she can finish her ridiculous sentence.

"I said, keep it." He repeats as he buttons his suit.

"It looks expensive, are you sure?" Cara will gladly keep but she wants to make sure. Xander gives her the "I will not repeat myself again" look.

"Well then, let's go." Cara will rather enjoy the company of this amazing breakfast. But she has already wasted his time and annoyed him. She picks up the apple at the center on the table, biting on it.

"Aren't you going to change out of those?" Alex looks at her in irritation.

"Nah, it's black. Who will notice?" Cara walks past him knowing he is uncomfortable that she won't change into fresh clothes.

What a neat freak.

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"Come on in." The voice welcomes Cara and Alex into her office, as they open the door and walk-in. The young female doctor greets them with a bright smile.

Scratch that, she greets Alex with a bright smile.

"Please take a seat." She gestures at the seats across to her. Her eyes fixated on Alex and Cara is quick to notice.

Can this day get any weird?

Alex unbuttons his suit before taking a seat on the leather chair, not noticing the doctor's crush.

"So Artificial insemination?" She drags the words as her eyes move from Alex to Cara, "And you want her to be your carrier?" Her smile fades as her eyes stop at Cara.

This bitch,

The doctor, Gwen cancelled all her appointments when she got a call from Alex yesterday, she got really excited. She even went to get her hair done, she had blonde highlights fixed into her long brown her and got her to make up done.

She is one of the happiest when she heard Liza is out of the picture but now,  she is not as happy, Cara is here. All she can think of is how the classless botch doesn't deserve him.

Given the fact she has pissed Alex off while coming, she is being careful not to go all gangster on this doctor.

"She is...." The doctor trying to find a word to describe the girl with a nose piercing and several piercings on her ears,  "Cute." She finishes.

Cara smiles at her words for a  second she thought, she was...

Wait, did she just call her cute?

"Are you sure you want her to be your carrier?" She smiles seductively at Alex who is not aware of the hostility between the two girls.

Cara, on the other hand, is about to rip all the hairs on her head and give her to eat.

"Yeah, I am sure." Alex drops his phone, now looking at the doctor. "And I want it as fast as possible."

Cara smirks knowing she won the battle, the fading smile on the face is proof.

"Well, let's have an ultrasound." She stands up.

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"So..." Xander voice trails as the so-called doctor Gwen hands Cara some wipes to clean off the gel from her stomach.

"She can carry a child, her uterus looks good." She replies, giving a tight smile.

"That's great news." Cara smiles widely, as she drops her hoodie down. "Can we go now?" Cara turns to Xander, raising her eyebrows.

Xander takes a quick glance at Cara, with no reply to her question turns to Gwen. "Will that be all?" He inquires.

With a flirty smile on her face, "No, still have to take her blood." She replies.

Those words didn't seem to register in Cara's head until she spots the Gwen pull out a syringe. "W-why?" She stutters in fear of the sharp-edged thing that is the doctor is bringing close to her.

"To see if you have any diseases or infection that will affect the pregnancy," Gwen says with so much enthusiasm, it's illuminating to see the sharp-tongued cower in fear of a needle.

"I-I am pretty sure I don't." Cara turns to Xander for a little help but the asshat is seated with a bored expression on his face, Cara will call it "his asshole face".

"One cannot be too sure," Gwen says coming close to her as Cara stretches her left hand, not to give the bitch the satisfaction of seeing her in fear. Just when Cara believes she's in control of her fears, with one look at the needle near her skin, she immediately feels light-headed and blacks out.

~~~

Cara slowly opens her eyes, adjusting it to the sunlight coming from the window, which isn't her only problem but the stinging pain from the needle's assault.

"See, all done." Gwen shows Cara the vial with her blood in it, as she walks over the end of the room to place it in an aluminium plate.

Cara looks over to the asshole and behold, his head is buried on his phone, less concerned about her pain. Cara rolls her eyes, "Can we go now?" throwing her leg down from the bed as she seats up.

"Not so fast, we have to do a saline sonogram."

"A saline what?" Cara panics. Cara can swear this bitch of a doctor is messing with her stupid tests, trying to get her to back out.

"Just relax, it will soon be over."

~~

"These tests better be over, because I am leaving." Cara jumps down from the bed, which is supposed to be an indication that she is serious, but then again Xander pays her no mind.

"When can she be inseminated?" Xander asks, taking out an envelope from his jacket pocket, as he stands up from the leather chair he had been seating on, watching the show.

"Next tomorrow, I will set a meeting." She smiles widely, "That will give you time to think this through." She throws Cara a dirty look.

Cara is quick to catch the shade but she's going to remain calm. Although this bitch doctor is tempting, she would rather not end up in jail for murder.

Xander drops the envelope on the desk and then pushes it over to the doctor who stylishly takes it and puts it in her drawer. "I trust you can keep a secret," Xander whispers, adjusting his suit.

"Sure." She bits her lips seductively.

Cara rolls her eyes at the scene, did they forgot she's standing there? She walks out to spare herself from their shameless flirting.

~~

"That was fast," Cara says sarcastically as Xander finally walks out of Gwen's office. "We have a problem." Cara gestures to the paparazzi waiting outside the glassed door, ready to devour them.

"The back door?" She asks, standing up from the not so comfortable white couch in the reception room.

"No, it's good publicity." Xander adjusts his collar. "It will look like I am taking responsibility."

"Oh," Cara simply says, she almost forgot the scandal he is in.

Xander right-hand finds its way around Cara's waist, making her freeze up in shock. She takes in a sharp breath, his touch creates a feeling of self-consciousness in her and his firm hands on her clothed back get her heart race. "W-what are you doing?" She stutters, mentally puking at how fragile she sounds.

"Since you have a flair for the dramatics," Xander starts off as he leads her towards the door like a gentleman. "The drama has begun." He opens the door to the beasts with cameras.

"Are you accepting the child?" "Is she telling the truth?" "Was it a one night stand?"  "Who is she?" "Are you guys together?" Those are some of making questions Cara could pick up as Xander guides her through the crowd with the help of his bodyguards, pushing people out of the way. Cara has her head down and her hands shading her face.

She feels like a celebrity. Wait a minute, she is a celebrity.

They finally make it into the car, and the noise dies down a little. Everyone in the car falls silent as the Marco drives off.

"Is that what you deal with every day?" Cara asks, breaking the silence. Her question didn't seem to require a reply from Xander, since he didn't give any.

The car falls silent once more, except form the rustling as a result of Xander trying to open up his briefcase.

"Take," He hands Cara a spiral blinded document with a pen, she looks at him weirdly but takes it off his hands. He pushes his briefcase shut, then put it beside him. "Read it and sign"

"What's this about?" Cara asks as she scans the pages in less than a second.

"That's why I said read it." Xander spits out, "It is obviously a legal document that ensures we both keep to the end of our agreement."

Cara rolls her eyes at the man with a stick up his butt. "Baby will be given after birth, blah blah blah." Cara picks up the pen, signing in places that require her signature.

Xander stares at her in irritation, "With your recklessness, I am surprised you are alive."

Cara sends him a fake smile, handing him the document and the pen. "You are welcome." 

"You should..." Xander's phone starts ringing cutting off his words.

It is his manager.

He picks up his phone, swiping to answer. "Yeah?"

"Have you watched the interview?" André asks in panic, which in turn alarms Xander. He takes out his laptop from his bag. "What interview?" He asks as he turns on his device.

"Liza got ahead of the story," Andre says, muttering some cuss words in between.

Xander clicks on his browser and behold, as said, Liza's face is all over the blogs.  Cara watches Xander bite lips in fearful anticipation as he clicks on the video. Cara is surprised that the asshole can be this worked up.

"...It's obvious he cheated on me, that is why we broke up. It's just so disheartening that he doesn't want to accept his unborn child, own up to his mistakes. I don't even know him anymore." Liza cleans a non-existent tear from the corner of her cheeks. "He used to be..." Xander shuts the laptop in anger.

Cara feels bad, he might have a horrible character but he didn't deserve her slander on him. Apart from feeling bad, she is also curious about who the very attractive girl was and why he is so affected by her poor acting.

"What do we do?" Xander speaks into the phone, calmly. Behind his calm exterior, he wants to cuss out loud, throw something, destroy everything but most of all destroy Liza Woods.

"Damage control, bring the actress along," Andre says.

"I'll be there in ten." He ends the call, he catches Cara staring from the corner of his eye.

"Is that your ex?" Cara asks but she knows what will follow her question, silence.

What a snub.

"Change of plans, we will be going to the office." He informs Marco, as he returns his laptop into his bag.

"You still have to drop me off at the hospital," Cara announces.

"No, we will need you." Xander simply says, with no additional information to ease Cara's curiosity. All that is in her brain at this current moment is "What the hell is going on?"

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