"I know you can," Carolina agreed when Charlotte insisted that she could hold her own against Sydney and Jane. "But being prepared never hurts," she added with a wink as she slipped onto one of the high top chairs to the island and flipped open her laptop. Carolina knew that Charlotte was more involved in Constance Billard's social scene than she was. She probably wasn't as involved as the other Buchanan twin, but her presence was known nonetheless, and Carolina knew that she had even been friends with Sydney at one point. Maybe that was why Charlotte was calmer than Carolina thought she would be. Unlike her, Charlotte did have some experience dealing with these mean girls on a personal level, so even though this new rumor was really bad, it probably wasn't as much of a shock to Charlotte as it would be if something like that happened to her.
"I don't know, she should be on her way here," Carolina offered with a shrug when Charlotte asked about Victoria. She was ready to text Tori to ask her herself, when she saw that Sienna and Piper had texted her since Charlotte arrived. Both of them had similar messages: don't trust Tori. It was definitely random, especially with both coming only moments apart from each other, but Carolina didn't think too much of it, because she didn't know what she could think of it. She had only barely been briefed on drama and she was already sure that she didn't want to know any more of it, especially with Tori on her way to the house now. Before she could respond to either girl or text Tori herself, Tori finally texted her and said that she was here. "Speaking of the devil," Carolina laughed, "she's here now. Let me get her." With that, she was out of the kitchen and down the hall into the foyer where the elevator let out.
"Hey love!" Tori squealed, apparently in a very good mood as she burst out of the elevator and gave Carolina a tight squeeze.
It was strange and Carolina didn't hide it as she furrowed her eyebrows and flashed Tori a smile, but with a look of suspicion. "Happy to see me?" she returned jokingly, shrugging Tori's arms away as soon as possible.
"When am I not?" Tori beamed. "Let's get to work on these tours, though. And you never answered my text!"
"Charlotte's here," Carolina said, still a little taken aback by the enthusiastic greeting she had just gotten. Did it have anything to do with what Sienna and Piper were warning her about? Victoria seemed happy and energetic but that didn't seem like something that constituted any mistrust or worry. A second later, they were in the kitchen where Tori would be able to see for herself that it was just she and Charlotte. "So, now that we're all here, shall we begin?" Carolina questioned, sitting back down. She glanced at Charlotte over her laptop but couldn't give her any sort of look with Victoria so close by.
"I'm surprised to see you here," she chirped as a greeting to Charlotte, before smiling. "Pleasantly surprised, though." Victoria set up her laptop next to the girls and though she had ideas for the tours herself, waited for Charlotte to start the conversation about them. It didn't get very far before the trio were interrupted by Sydney and Jane. Victoria couldn't have cared any less about the latter, despite her being the reason for her currently elevated good mood, but it didn't take more than a millisecond for Victoria to flip her laptop shut and hop off of her chair when Sydney invited her to hang out. Her desperation was probably apparent by the way she nearly ran to the door at the offer, but Victoria didn't care. Sydney was cooler than Carolina and Charlotte combined, and if they wanted to say something to her about it, so be it. Charlotte had gotten a taste of her wrath, but there was more to come if she wanted to be a bitch.
"You girls don't mind, do you?" she said, though she didn't even wait for them to respond before disappearing into the hall with the duo.
Just as soon as Victoria had arrived, she was gone. She hadn't left with some excuse that she had work to do, or a family emergency, or even that she was tired and didn't feel like doing SGA planning. She left to hang out with Sydney and Jane... What the fuck?! Now, Carolina didn't need to hide her expressive look to Charlotte and when she was sure the girls were far enough down the hall, she vocalized it to. "She was the one who wanted to get together to plan these tours and now she bails? What the hell? Should I text her and tell her to come back?" Carolina didn't want to go down there and confront Victoria about it in front of Sydney and Jane. She didn't care about their opinions, but she also wasn't looking to throw herself into any drama. She did, however, shoot Sienna and Piper responses now.
To: Sienna
Is it bc she's replacing u in that terrible trio u were apart of with Barbie and airhead??? lol she just bailed on me and lottie to hang with ur bffs
To: Piper
lmao something about her has always been off. u no i don't do drama tho so u don't need to warn me ;)