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Chapter 5 Love, Lust, and Eric
"Hey trailer boy, whatcha doin?" Eric Mathews tried to get a conversation going with his roommate, "Angela back in town or something? You look like you're goin out on a date!"
Shawn's cheeks immediately turned red in embarrassment. How was he going to tell Eric that a pretty girl was taking him to a bar to meet a rebound chick? "No Eric, Angela and I broke up."
"So. . . who are you goin out with? "
"I'm not going out with anyone, well I mean I'm just going with a friend to the movies."
"But Cory is going with me to the circus tonight! Oh if he's blowin me off again to be with you I'm gonna be pissed!"
"God Eric, Cory's still goin to the circus with you," where you belong, Shawn added silently to himself as an afterthought.
"So you're going with Pangy! Don't steal my brother's girl!"
"No," Shawn said slightly annoyed now, "I'm going with a girl I met the other day."
"So it is a date! I knew it!"
Then, to Shawn's relief, the buzzer rang, "Shawn, Eric let me in."
"Hurry up Cor, your brother is trying to out-think me."
Cory hurried up the stairs to room B14 and burst through the door, "Shawnie I have good news! We're going on a road trip! Just me, you, and Topanga! And probably Eric."
Shawn looked terribly confused, "Why do you wanna go on a road trip? And when can all of us get time off?"
Cory frowned, making it obvious he hadn't thought of that," Well, I thought. . ." he trailed off.
"Cor, why do you want to go on a road trip?"
Cory gulped," I thought we could go back home, and you could, ya know, go see your dad again."
Shawn, who had never told anyone that his father would actually talk back to him when he was in the cemetery with him, merely looked saddened by this comment," Listen Cor." he was interrupted by Eric.
"Hey Cory, I just need to feed my ducky some crackers, and then we can go alright?"
"Since when do you have a duck?" asked Cory.
Shawn answered this question, " Its just a duck poster. I wouldn't let him have a duck here because of Little Cory." (A/N Little Cory was Shawn's pig.)
"He's got to feed a duck poster? He's getting worse. I think he and Uncle Sammy Sosa are gonna share a cell together."
"Okay, he's full," claimed Eric as he walked out his bedroom," let's go. Later trailer."
"Bye Shawnie, oh yeah, have fun at the movies tonight."
"Bye guys," Shawn answered as they shut the door.
Shawn sat down and watched TV for a little while until he checked his watch, 6:15. I gotta go pick up Aria. I hope I look okay, Shawn thought, wait a minute. I hope I look okay? What the hell Hunter? Shawn knew that he had NEVER thought about if he looked all right. He had just always known it. That was Shawn Hunter. Outwardly self-confident rebel, and inwardly a bundle of emotions mixed together. He dismissed these thoughts as just a side affect of going out on the town and being single for the first time in so long.
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"That movie was awesome!" Aria said happily as her and Shawn walked out of the movie theater a few hours later.
"Yeah, nothing like some blood and gore before goin out partying," Shawn replied.
"Yeah, so where do you want to go? Which club I mean?"
"I don't know, how bout you? Any ideas?"
"Well there is a club by NYU that would be fun, complete college crowd, and with you being so cute, we could definitely get you another college girl."
Shawn smirked at her calling him cute, "Sounds great, we can walk there."
* * * *
Twenty minutes later, Shawn and Aria were dancing like the crazy college students they were.
"Hey Shawn," Aria half-shouted over the loud music, "You wanna go get some water? I'm kinda thirsty."
"Yeah, me too."
Shawn ordered the waters, hardly noticing the attractive dark haired woman he sat next to until Aria gave him a "Shawn wake up" look. He turned around and began talking half-heartedly to her. He just didn't feel anything with the woman, he soon ended the conversation and faced the bar staring into outer space, meanwhile a drunken guy and his buddies where playing it up to Aria.
"Hey sugar, what's your name?" said the stranger.
"Don't call me sugar, what do you think I am? An 1850's whore?" Aria replied testily turning back to the dance floor. She hated it when drunks hit on her, and this guy seemed to have drunk his weight in liquor.
"Oh come on now angel, you know you want me," walking in front of her to make eye contact.
"Oh you figured me out, I want an awful smelling prick!" she rolled her eyes.
"Now you listen to me angel," answered the stranger grabbing Aria hard by the shoulders," I hate being insulted, and I really hate loud- mouthed women!"
"You sexist pig! Let me go!"
"Sugar its not that simple."
"She said let go," Shawn finally came into the conversation.
"What are you gonna do about it?" he sneered at Shawn.
Shawn looked up at him, he was about five inches taller than him, and way more muscular, but Shawn could have cared less because this jerk was hurting one of his friends," Let her go."
The man dropped Aria's shoulders," Fine, I'll go find someone better anyway," he said and stalked away.
Shawn, who couldn't believe his luck in not getting a fierce beating, was utterly amazed. Aria on the other hand, jumped up and gave him a hug," Thanks Shawn! Your such a great friend."
Shawn looked down at her and smiled," You wanna go back to my place instead?"
"Yeah, let's go. Just on thing though," Aria took her water glass and poured the water all over the rude guy's head. When he turned around furiously, she smiled and waved at him, grabbed Shawn's hand, and ran out of the club.
* * *
Half an hour later Aria and Shawn were laughing and talking in his living room over popcorn. Shawn glanced at the clock: 10:00. Cory and Eric must still be at the circus, thought Shawn, it was a pretty long drive out there.
"I'm sorry if I ruined your night Shawn," Aria said suddenly.
"What?" a dumfounded Shawn replied.
"You know we were suppose to hook you up with someone, and then that drunk guy came over and we left. . ."
"Ari, listen I don't care. I don't need a rebound girl or anything like that. Let's just talk okay? Forget about the drunk."
She instantly brightened again," Okay, thanks again for handling that like you did." And then with an overly dramatic voice she said," my hero!" and fell on top of Shawn tickling him, spilling the bowl of popcorn all over the place.
"Ari, stop it! Quit!" Shawn shouted laughing hard.
She did, and he looked into her sparkling eyes again," Ari, I want to show you something."
With a curious look, Shawn grabbed a blanket, and they were out his door. Moments later they were sitting on the roof staring out at all the commotion below and the quietness of the few stars they could see above.
"Its beautiful," Aria whispered.
"Yeah, I love coming up here at night, when there isn't as much noise. I think and sometimes I write. But its so peaceful up here, getting lost in your own dreams." Shawn said looking at Aria.
She turned toward him and smiled," Seems nice."
"Ari, why won't you tell me about you childhood?" he asked unexpectedly.
She stared into his eyes, obviously yearning to tell him something unknown, but somehow couldn't," Shawn I have to go." She got up and walked toward the door when he abruptly grabbed her wrist.
"Ari, please."
She looked into his eyes again, seeming to search through the bottom of his soul, and replied," Let's go inside."
"Okay, here we are," Shawn said when they had gotten back into his apartment, sitting on the couch side by side," you can tell me now."
Aria sighed," Okay, I had a mother, a father, a sister, and a brother. Okay? Can we drop it now?"
"No, Ari, I am your friend. So tell me about your family. Tell me about. . . your father."
Suddenly the twinkle that was usually in Ari's eyes vanished, "My father?"
Shawn, taken back by the coldness of Ari's voice, stuttered," Ari, come on tell me."
She looked him up and down," You really want to know?" Shawn nodded. "Fine, um, my father and I didn't get along very well." Understatement of the century, she added silently to herself.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, I don't know, its." she trailed off turning her gaze away from Shawn.
"Ari, I told you about my dad, and I know you can tell me about yours," Shawn smiled kindly at her.
"Its just, I dunno, its like almost everyone in my life I have ever cared about abandoned me, and it started with my father," she started to get a prickly sensation in her throat," we were so close when I was little. I remember I used to wait for him by the door until he came home and then I would run up and give him a big hug and shout 'Daddy's home!' " The tears were steadily flowing down her face now, " Until one day when he didn't come home. He called a week later saying he had run away with someone else, leaving my mom heartbroken. "
"A week later my mom locked herself in the bathroom and took a whole bottle of sleeping pills. I was thirteen. My brother was five and my sister was eleven. My sister had always hated me, but my brother loved me. I couldn't tell him that Mom had taken a nap that she would never wake up from." Ari started sobbing but still continued her story," We moved in with my grandma in Kansas. When my father came back for us two years later, my sister was the only one that went with him. I hated him by then, and my brother couldn't go without me. I remember we got into a huge fight and I ran away, taking my brother Matt with me, for two days. We didn't really have any place to go so we went to my best friend's house. She moved a year later, and I never heard from her again. When Matt and I went home two days later, my father was gone."
" In those two years my dad was away, he called me once. Only one damn time!" she broke down sobbing and Shawn pulled her into his arms embracing her like a true friend, and stroking her hair gently whispering things like, "It's alright." And so on.
They sat like that for a good ten minutes until she got her sobbing under control again, " I'm sorry I didn't tell you Shawn," she looked up to him with big watery eyes," its just I have never been able to trust people since then, and your really the only one I've ever talked to about it." She kissed him on the cheek.
Then Shawn razed his right hand and brushed away some loose hair that had fallen onto her face. He suddenly realized how close they were to each other. He shut his eyes as she shut her and moved forward kissing her. Softly at first, and then with more passion, plunging his tongue into her mouth, pulling her into him with his hands while hers ran playfully through his hair. Laying there on top of her felt so right to him, he felt as if he needed this, that he was protecting this beautiful creature from pain, and he felt such pleasure as she started kissing his neck and unbuttoning his shirt exposing his pecs.
Just as they were beginning to go further, Eric walked in. For a moment Eric had the flashback of Jack and Rachel making out, but soon realized that was ridiculous as they were both now in the Peace Corp. Aria was the first to notice Eric, and was plenty embarrassed of a complete stranger walking in on her as she was kissing a guy. She immediately sat up. Shawn stared at her for a second, and then finally noticed Eric.
"Um, hey Eric," Shawn mumbled while buttoning his shirt.
"Trailer, where you been hidin this one?" Eric snickered.
"This one?" Aria inquired, "have there been others?"
"Well him and Angela used to make out all the time on our couch, but she's been gone for awhile now."
"Eric, Angela broke up with me the other day. She's staying in Europe with her father. I guess he had to stay there longer or something," Shawn told him," didn't you notice I was gone all night on Saturday?"
Eric shook his head," I just thought you'd stayed at Cory's really late, oh wait, all night? God Shawn."
"No, it's not like that. I um," Shawn hated having to tell this story over and over again," I got a little drunk, and passed out, so she let me sleep on her couch. Anyways, Eric this is Ari."
Aria stood up and, being Eric, he checked her out, "Damn you Hunter, always beatin me to the hot ones."
Aria smiled nervously but added," I better go, it was nice meeting you Eric," and she walked out the door.
Shawn walked after her," Ari," he called," wait! I, uh, need to talk to you."
She stopped and turned around," What Shawn? You got your rebound girl after all, didn't you?"
Shawn was taken back," Ari, no. I. . . your not a rebound girl. I really like you."
She seemed to dismiss this comment and answered," Shawn you just got out of a really deep relationship, what, yesterday? Your not ready for one yet," she reached up to touch his clean shaven face," and I don't wanna get hurt."
Shawn held her hand against his face," Ari, I'm okay. Come on," he smiled flirtatiously," will you at least go out with me to dinner sometime?"
He looked at her with eyes that made her heart melt but she still held strong," Shawn, you're the only one I've ever told about my dad, it's just, now I'd be too. . . emotionally attached," she finished, now feeling her eyes watering. When they kissed, it had felt right, like no one else had kissed her, but she couldn't get hurt again. Not after what had happened when she was a child.
Shawn sighed and somehow read her mind," Ari, I'm not your father or your mother; I won't abandon you. No matter what, we'll stay friends okay? But you can't tell me that kiss didn't mean anything to you."
She bit her lip thinking it over; Shawn saw confusion clouding over her sparkling eyes that he adored so much. She finally answered," You're sure this isn't too fast right? And I'm not just a rebound girl?"
Shawn nodded," Ari, I know we've only known each other two days, but you're incredible. I mean what other girl that I know wants to go to horror movies and help me pick up girls?"
She laughed, making Shawn's ego say 'Mission accomplished.'
"Yeah well, I'm just weird like that. Shawn. . . I want to go out with you." She smiled then added sarcastically raising her fist," but if you abandon me, I swear to God, I'll kick your cute little ass!"
Sometimes I just love my ass, Shawn thought while chuckling, " Ari, I'll call you tomorrow okay?"
"Bye Shawn," she said as she turned to go, then thought better of it, and turned back around giving Shawn a kiss on the cheek goodbye and went downstairs out into the cool summer night.
Shawn watched her as she went, without knowing that Eric had listened to the whole conversation.
"So Shawn," he said stepping out into the hallway," new girlfriend already? Does she have any friends?"
Shawn just smiled still staring out where she had left," Yeah she does, me."
Eric snickered," No offense, but you're not my type."
Shawn smiled," Thank God. You couldn't get with me anyway."
Eric showed mock offense," I could get with you without even trying Hunter. You just better be glad I'm into girls."
"Think what you want. Come on let's go in, I need to call Topanga," Shawn said already walking towards the phone.
Eric closed the door," Pangy? Why her and not Cory?"
"She called me on her cell phone right before the judge walked in and said she had important news about Angela." Shawn furrowed her eyebrows together wondering what could the "important news" be.
"Hello?" came Cory's voice on the other side of the phone.
"Hey Cor, can I talk to Topanga? She called me earlier and said she had news about Angela or something," Shawn said nonchalantly.
Cory, on the other hand, paled immediately and answered," Sure one second."
"Shawn?" Topanga said after Cory handed her the phone.
"No, it's Mr. Feeny," he replied sarcastically," anyway Topanga, you said you had news about Angela?"
"Oh yeah, um good news or the bad news?" Topanga asked.
"Good news."
"Well, I, um, get to be a bridesmaid in two months," trying, but failing, to sound happy.
"That's great! For who," then it dawned on him and he instantly felt a pang in his stomach," oh, for Angela," he ran a hand through his hair," she's getting married? How long has she been with this guy? Did she cheat on me this whole time?" he spat angrily.
"Well, apparently she was with him six months after she left, and I'm sorry Shawn."
"And everyone thought I was the cheater," he sighed," Well, I hope she's happy. Bye Topanga." He let her say goodbye and then hung up the phone.
Eric, who had been out of the loop this whole time, asked," What's wrong?"
Shawn smiled pathetically," Angela's getting married in two months."
A/N: Okay sorry if this sucks. I suck at writing "love" scenes (all they did was kiss but.) So anyway I only have a few more chapter to go and it will be finished! Please tell me if you like it or if it really sucks. Flamers okay if you're being honest.
Chapter 5 Love, Lust, and Eric
"Hey trailer boy, whatcha doin?" Eric Mathews tried to get a conversation going with his roommate, "Angela back in town or something? You look like you're goin out on a date!"
Shawn's cheeks immediately turned red in embarrassment. How was he going to tell Eric that a pretty girl was taking him to a bar to meet a rebound chick? "No Eric, Angela and I broke up."
"So. . . who are you goin out with? "
"I'm not going out with anyone, well I mean I'm just going with a friend to the movies."
"But Cory is going with me to the circus tonight! Oh if he's blowin me off again to be with you I'm gonna be pissed!"
"God Eric, Cory's still goin to the circus with you," where you belong, Shawn added silently to himself as an afterthought.
"So you're going with Pangy! Don't steal my brother's girl!"
"No," Shawn said slightly annoyed now, "I'm going with a girl I met the other day."
"So it is a date! I knew it!"
Then, to Shawn's relief, the buzzer rang, "Shawn, Eric let me in."
"Hurry up Cor, your brother is trying to out-think me."
Cory hurried up the stairs to room B14 and burst through the door, "Shawnie I have good news! We're going on a road trip! Just me, you, and Topanga! And probably Eric."
Shawn looked terribly confused, "Why do you wanna go on a road trip? And when can all of us get time off?"
Cory frowned, making it obvious he hadn't thought of that," Well, I thought. . ." he trailed off.
"Cor, why do you want to go on a road trip?"
Cory gulped," I thought we could go back home, and you could, ya know, go see your dad again."
Shawn, who had never told anyone that his father would actually talk back to him when he was in the cemetery with him, merely looked saddened by this comment," Listen Cor." he was interrupted by Eric.
"Hey Cory, I just need to feed my ducky some crackers, and then we can go alright?"
"Since when do you have a duck?" asked Cory.
Shawn answered this question, " Its just a duck poster. I wouldn't let him have a duck here because of Little Cory." (A/N Little Cory was Shawn's pig.)
"He's got to feed a duck poster? He's getting worse. I think he and Uncle Sammy Sosa are gonna share a cell together."
"Okay, he's full," claimed Eric as he walked out his bedroom," let's go. Later trailer."
"Bye Shawnie, oh yeah, have fun at the movies tonight."
"Bye guys," Shawn answered as they shut the door.
Shawn sat down and watched TV for a little while until he checked his watch, 6:15. I gotta go pick up Aria. I hope I look okay, Shawn thought, wait a minute. I hope I look okay? What the hell Hunter? Shawn knew that he had NEVER thought about if he looked all right. He had just always known it. That was Shawn Hunter. Outwardly self-confident rebel, and inwardly a bundle of emotions mixed together. He dismissed these thoughts as just a side affect of going out on the town and being single for the first time in so long.
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"That movie was awesome!" Aria said happily as her and Shawn walked out of the movie theater a few hours later.
"Yeah, nothing like some blood and gore before goin out partying," Shawn replied.
"Yeah, so where do you want to go? Which club I mean?"
"I don't know, how bout you? Any ideas?"
"Well there is a club by NYU that would be fun, complete college crowd, and with you being so cute, we could definitely get you another college girl."
Shawn smirked at her calling him cute, "Sounds great, we can walk there."
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Twenty minutes later, Shawn and Aria were dancing like the crazy college students they were.
"Hey Shawn," Aria half-shouted over the loud music, "You wanna go get some water? I'm kinda thirsty."
"Yeah, me too."
Shawn ordered the waters, hardly noticing the attractive dark haired woman he sat next to until Aria gave him a "Shawn wake up" look. He turned around and began talking half-heartedly to her. He just didn't feel anything with the woman, he soon ended the conversation and faced the bar staring into outer space, meanwhile a drunken guy and his buddies where playing it up to Aria.
"Hey sugar, what's your name?" said the stranger.
"Don't call me sugar, what do you think I am? An 1850's whore?" Aria replied testily turning back to the dance floor. She hated it when drunks hit on her, and this guy seemed to have drunk his weight in liquor.
"Oh come on now angel, you know you want me," walking in front of her to make eye contact.
"Oh you figured me out, I want an awful smelling prick!" she rolled her eyes.
"Now you listen to me angel," answered the stranger grabbing Aria hard by the shoulders," I hate being insulted, and I really hate loud- mouthed women!"
"You sexist pig! Let me go!"
"Sugar its not that simple."
"She said let go," Shawn finally came into the conversation.
"What are you gonna do about it?" he sneered at Shawn.
Shawn looked up at him, he was about five inches taller than him, and way more muscular, but Shawn could have cared less because this jerk was hurting one of his friends," Let her go."
The man dropped Aria's shoulders," Fine, I'll go find someone better anyway," he said and stalked away.
Shawn, who couldn't believe his luck in not getting a fierce beating, was utterly amazed. Aria on the other hand, jumped up and gave him a hug," Thanks Shawn! Your such a great friend."
Shawn looked down at her and smiled," You wanna go back to my place instead?"
"Yeah, let's go. Just on thing though," Aria took her water glass and poured the water all over the rude guy's head. When he turned around furiously, she smiled and waved at him, grabbed Shawn's hand, and ran out of the club.
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Half an hour later Aria and Shawn were laughing and talking in his living room over popcorn. Shawn glanced at the clock: 10:00. Cory and Eric must still be at the circus, thought Shawn, it was a pretty long drive out there.
"I'm sorry if I ruined your night Shawn," Aria said suddenly.
"What?" a dumfounded Shawn replied.
"You know we were suppose to hook you up with someone, and then that drunk guy came over and we left. . ."
"Ari, listen I don't care. I don't need a rebound girl or anything like that. Let's just talk okay? Forget about the drunk."
She instantly brightened again," Okay, thanks again for handling that like you did." And then with an overly dramatic voice she said," my hero!" and fell on top of Shawn tickling him, spilling the bowl of popcorn all over the place.
"Ari, stop it! Quit!" Shawn shouted laughing hard.
She did, and he looked into her sparkling eyes again," Ari, I want to show you something."
With a curious look, Shawn grabbed a blanket, and they were out his door. Moments later they were sitting on the roof staring out at all the commotion below and the quietness of the few stars they could see above.
"Its beautiful," Aria whispered.
"Yeah, I love coming up here at night, when there isn't as much noise. I think and sometimes I write. But its so peaceful up here, getting lost in your own dreams." Shawn said looking at Aria.
She turned toward him and smiled," Seems nice."
"Ari, why won't you tell me about you childhood?" he asked unexpectedly.
She stared into his eyes, obviously yearning to tell him something unknown, but somehow couldn't," Shawn I have to go." She got up and walked toward the door when he abruptly grabbed her wrist.
"Ari, please."
She looked into his eyes again, seeming to search through the bottom of his soul, and replied," Let's go inside."
"Okay, here we are," Shawn said when they had gotten back into his apartment, sitting on the couch side by side," you can tell me now."
Aria sighed," Okay, I had a mother, a father, a sister, and a brother. Okay? Can we drop it now?"
"No, Ari, I am your friend. So tell me about your family. Tell me about. . . your father."
Suddenly the twinkle that was usually in Ari's eyes vanished, "My father?"
Shawn, taken back by the coldness of Ari's voice, stuttered," Ari, come on tell me."
She looked him up and down," You really want to know?" Shawn nodded. "Fine, um, my father and I didn't get along very well." Understatement of the century, she added silently to herself.
"What happened?"
"Nothing, I don't know, its." she trailed off turning her gaze away from Shawn.
"Ari, I told you about my dad, and I know you can tell me about yours," Shawn smiled kindly at her.
"Its just, I dunno, its like almost everyone in my life I have ever cared about abandoned me, and it started with my father," she started to get a prickly sensation in her throat," we were so close when I was little. I remember I used to wait for him by the door until he came home and then I would run up and give him a big hug and shout 'Daddy's home!' " The tears were steadily flowing down her face now, " Until one day when he didn't come home. He called a week later saying he had run away with someone else, leaving my mom heartbroken. "
"A week later my mom locked herself in the bathroom and took a whole bottle of sleeping pills. I was thirteen. My brother was five and my sister was eleven. My sister had always hated me, but my brother loved me. I couldn't tell him that Mom had taken a nap that she would never wake up from." Ari started sobbing but still continued her story," We moved in with my grandma in Kansas. When my father came back for us two years later, my sister was the only one that went with him. I hated him by then, and my brother couldn't go without me. I remember we got into a huge fight and I ran away, taking my brother Matt with me, for two days. We didn't really have any place to go so we went to my best friend's house. She moved a year later, and I never heard from her again. When Matt and I went home two days later, my father was gone."
" In those two years my dad was away, he called me once. Only one damn time!" she broke down sobbing and Shawn pulled her into his arms embracing her like a true friend, and stroking her hair gently whispering things like, "It's alright." And so on.
They sat like that for a good ten minutes until she got her sobbing under control again, " I'm sorry I didn't tell you Shawn," she looked up to him with big watery eyes," its just I have never been able to trust people since then, and your really the only one I've ever talked to about it." She kissed him on the cheek.
Then Shawn razed his right hand and brushed away some loose hair that had fallen onto her face. He suddenly realized how close they were to each other. He shut his eyes as she shut her and moved forward kissing her. Softly at first, and then with more passion, plunging his tongue into her mouth, pulling her into him with his hands while hers ran playfully through his hair. Laying there on top of her felt so right to him, he felt as if he needed this, that he was protecting this beautiful creature from pain, and he felt such pleasure as she started kissing his neck and unbuttoning his shirt exposing his pecs.
Just as they were beginning to go further, Eric walked in. For a moment Eric had the flashback of Jack and Rachel making out, but soon realized that was ridiculous as they were both now in the Peace Corp. Aria was the first to notice Eric, and was plenty embarrassed of a complete stranger walking in on her as she was kissing a guy. She immediately sat up. Shawn stared at her for a second, and then finally noticed Eric.
"Um, hey Eric," Shawn mumbled while buttoning his shirt.
"Trailer, where you been hidin this one?" Eric snickered.
"This one?" Aria inquired, "have there been others?"
"Well him and Angela used to make out all the time on our couch, but she's been gone for awhile now."
"Eric, Angela broke up with me the other day. She's staying in Europe with her father. I guess he had to stay there longer or something," Shawn told him," didn't you notice I was gone all night on Saturday?"
Eric shook his head," I just thought you'd stayed at Cory's really late, oh wait, all night? God Shawn."
"No, it's not like that. I um," Shawn hated having to tell this story over and over again," I got a little drunk, and passed out, so she let me sleep on her couch. Anyways, Eric this is Ari."
Aria stood up and, being Eric, he checked her out, "Damn you Hunter, always beatin me to the hot ones."
Aria smiled nervously but added," I better go, it was nice meeting you Eric," and she walked out the door.
Shawn walked after her," Ari," he called," wait! I, uh, need to talk to you."
She stopped and turned around," What Shawn? You got your rebound girl after all, didn't you?"
Shawn was taken back," Ari, no. I. . . your not a rebound girl. I really like you."
She seemed to dismiss this comment and answered," Shawn you just got out of a really deep relationship, what, yesterday? Your not ready for one yet," she reached up to touch his clean shaven face," and I don't wanna get hurt."
Shawn held her hand against his face," Ari, I'm okay. Come on," he smiled flirtatiously," will you at least go out with me to dinner sometime?"
He looked at her with eyes that made her heart melt but she still held strong," Shawn, you're the only one I've ever told about my dad, it's just, now I'd be too. . . emotionally attached," she finished, now feeling her eyes watering. When they kissed, it had felt right, like no one else had kissed her, but she couldn't get hurt again. Not after what had happened when she was a child.
Shawn sighed and somehow read her mind," Ari, I'm not your father or your mother; I won't abandon you. No matter what, we'll stay friends okay? But you can't tell me that kiss didn't mean anything to you."
She bit her lip thinking it over; Shawn saw confusion clouding over her sparkling eyes that he adored so much. She finally answered," You're sure this isn't too fast right? And I'm not just a rebound girl?"
Shawn nodded," Ari, I know we've only known each other two days, but you're incredible. I mean what other girl that I know wants to go to horror movies and help me pick up girls?"
She laughed, making Shawn's ego say 'Mission accomplished.'
"Yeah well, I'm just weird like that. Shawn. . . I want to go out with you." She smiled then added sarcastically raising her fist," but if you abandon me, I swear to God, I'll kick your cute little ass!"
Sometimes I just love my ass, Shawn thought while chuckling, " Ari, I'll call you tomorrow okay?"
"Bye Shawn," she said as she turned to go, then thought better of it, and turned back around giving Shawn a kiss on the cheek goodbye and went downstairs out into the cool summer night.
Shawn watched her as she went, without knowing that Eric had listened to the whole conversation.
"So Shawn," he said stepping out into the hallway," new girlfriend already? Does she have any friends?"
Shawn just smiled still staring out where she had left," Yeah she does, me."
Eric snickered," No offense, but you're not my type."
Shawn smiled," Thank God. You couldn't get with me anyway."
Eric showed mock offense," I could get with you without even trying Hunter. You just better be glad I'm into girls."
"Think what you want. Come on let's go in, I need to call Topanga," Shawn said already walking towards the phone.
Eric closed the door," Pangy? Why her and not Cory?"
"She called me on her cell phone right before the judge walked in and said she had important news about Angela." Shawn furrowed her eyebrows together wondering what could the "important news" be.
"Hello?" came Cory's voice on the other side of the phone.
"Hey Cor, can I talk to Topanga? She called me earlier and said she had news about Angela or something," Shawn said nonchalantly.
Cory, on the other hand, paled immediately and answered," Sure one second."
"Shawn?" Topanga said after Cory handed her the phone.
"No, it's Mr. Feeny," he replied sarcastically," anyway Topanga, you said you had news about Angela?"
"Oh yeah, um good news or the bad news?" Topanga asked.
"Good news."
"Well, I, um, get to be a bridesmaid in two months," trying, but failing, to sound happy.
"That's great! For who," then it dawned on him and he instantly felt a pang in his stomach," oh, for Angela," he ran a hand through his hair," she's getting married? How long has she been with this guy? Did she cheat on me this whole time?" he spat angrily.
"Well, apparently she was with him six months after she left, and I'm sorry Shawn."
"And everyone thought I was the cheater," he sighed," Well, I hope she's happy. Bye Topanga." He let her say goodbye and then hung up the phone.
Eric, who had been out of the loop this whole time, asked," What's wrong?"
Shawn smiled pathetically," Angela's getting married in two months."
A/N: Okay sorry if this sucks. I suck at writing "love" scenes (all they did was kiss but.) So anyway I only have a few more chapter to go and it will be finished! Please tell me if you like it or if it really sucks. Flamers okay if you're being honest.