Lara woke up, cold and naked not forgetting alone. Agent Haines had slithered off to god knows where and left her by herself.
She got out of bed and slipped on some pyjamas and a black silk night robe before walking upstairs to her apartment. It was an absoulte mess. Whiskey bottles stacked on top of each other leaning against her sofa for support. How much had she drank?
She picked up the bottles and put them on her table in the kitchen before making herself a coffee. This was something she rarely ever did and would only do this if she was working on something at the same time. She was waiting for her coffee to be prepared and decided to check her phone, which now had several crack marks from her anger the previous night. Not a single message.
Bang bang bang.
Three knocks on her door echoed around the apartment and she possibly wondered who this could be. She took little baby steps walking to the door before answering. It was Franklin.
"Hi Lara." He said coming into her apartment. Franklin was like a brother to Lara as much as Lara was like a sister to him so she knew she could tell him anything.
"Hi Frank. Guess you wanna know what happened?" She said looking at the ground before indicating him to sit down.
"Well it would be nice to know the drama." He said sitting in the lone armchair. Lara made him a cup of coffee and she sat down on the large blue sofa near him to tell him.
"Are you sure you wanna know what happened?" Lara said looking into the black liquid in her cup. Franklin nodded and held the warm cup in hish hands waiting for her to begin.
"I had some shit with Steve and I trashed my apartment. Next day heres Michael and i told him everything. That was the day when we did the work for Devin."
"The day we boosted those cars from those trust fund kids?" He said and Lara nodded whilst drinking from the white cup.
"I went with Devin to LSIA. He showed me this airplane and he got cocky then claimed to Steve we slept together and i decided you know, i need to change."
"In what way?"
"Ive always been known as the gobby red head who had an eating disorder and used drugs to block out the problems. Im 23 and ive been known that since 14. 9 years of doing the same shit." She finished feeling relieved that she finally admitted it.
"What has got to do with yesterday?" He said getting a bit snappy.
"Fine, Fine. Me and Michael had done some shit and Trevor took my phone and it had a message from Steve about what Devin said. Michael believed it and i guess with me being so tired and clean of drugs i acted immature. Cried about it and that. I never cry i normally drink whatever alcohol i can find. He`s married and im a young girl and i know that now. Its just me getting way too over confident." She said taking another large gulp of the coffee.
"Same thing happened with me and my ex Tanisha. She loved me and i was immature. Im not bothered though, ive got over it. I have an idea. You go get dressed and ill take you up to Sandy shores and you can tell Michael just what you`ve told me." Franklin said standing up. Lara got up and hugged him before walking downstairs to get dressed. She threw on a black hoodie and some matching black leggings and black trainers before getting her hair into the same bun from the previous day and walked back up the stairs within 5 minutes and Franklin and her walked out the apartment.
It was a long drive to sandy shores. On the way there, Lara looked out the window and thought about the previous day. Lara got so drunk that when Steve tried to get her downstairs so he could leave, she dragged him back and what happened next was self explanatory. It was surprising how good he was especially to Lara.
Her phone vibrated in her pocket and she was shocked when it was a message from Michael telling her that the two needed to talk. She quickly typed back and told him that her and Frank were coming up to Sandy Shores. Franklin and Lara had brief conversations before arriving at Trevor`s corrugated death shack and when they did arrive, Michael sat on the stairs leading to the trailer.
"I`ll leave you to it then." He said walking inside as Lara sat next to Michael. It was silent for a minute while the two smoked a redwood and then Lara started the discussion.
"I was immature yesterday. I was tired and being clean from drugs just adds to it." Michael stared at her before answering.
"I get it. I wasnt expecting no emotion." He said causing Lara to chuckle.
"Michael, instead of adding more stuff to deal with in your marriage, go sort things with Amanda. You cant afford to argue like that with people you love." Lara said amazed at the sentence that came out her mouth.
"Yeah. What about you?"
"What about me? Im a friend Michael. Associate as you described it. Nothing else. Im fine as it is."
"Your a good kid you know that? Go make things work with Steve." He said getting up off the stairs.
"Dont know about that one Michael." She said whilst she got up herself.
The two walked into Trevor`s trailer and Lara, Franklin, Michael and Trevor had a well deserved drink.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this one. Lara matured in this chapter and learnt that she is making the same mistakes over and over. Now that the four are reunited as friends again this calls for another mission to be completed! Until then my lovelies xxxx