Chapter two

"Mom! I'm home!" Yelled Lavitz as usual when he came home to visit his mother. He looked around curiously sniffing the air smelling the homemade beef jerky she had always made. "Mom?"

"I'm in the kitchen hon'!" She replied with Shana giggling behind her. "what do ya need?"

"Just making sure you were home. That's all." Said Lavitz looking back at the rest of the group. "I brought Aeris with me!"

"Aeris? You mean your girlfriend?" Asked is mother.

"She's not my girlfriend mom!" Said Lavitz slapping his forehead in embarrassment. "I hate it when she does that to me." He mumbled almost indistinctly.

"Well you sure do like her a lot. She'd be perfect for you to settle down with. And to give me a grandbaby." Replied his mother walking out of the kitchen with Shana.

"Hi Dart!" She exclaimed seeing her childhood friend.

Lavitz's mother looked at Aeris oddly realizing she was Lavitz's childhood friend. She continued to observe how the two looked if they were a couple.

"You know Lavitz? She's perfect for you!" She exclaimed watching Lavitz slap his forehead as his face flushed red in embarrassment. "Aeris? Honey, tell me what you think of my boy?"

"Mo-om! Come on your really embarrassing me! Please…Cut it out!" He cried desperately hiding his own tint of red as well as his feelings for her.

Lavitz had always thought of her as Dart did to Shana. Something of a little sister. But when they had both entered adolescence, he developed feelings for her. Almost as if he was in love with her.

Aeris looked on in wonder unsure of what to say as she peered at Lavitz who was stuck in his own train of thought.

"Um….He's cool. Why?"

"I mean you don't like him like that? You're not at all interested in him? He's a handsome boy! I'm quite surprised he doesn't have girls flocking all around him." Added Lavitz's mother confidently.

"Well…(Won't she knock it off already? Maybe if I tell her he's cute she'll quit..) Um..Yeah..He's cute.." She nodded flushing an even deeper red.

"Well there you go Lavitz! She likes ya!" She said once more nodding. "Perhaps you should show our guests to their rooms now. It's already getting late."

Lavitz nodded. "Alright ma..I'll do that then.

Sorry so short! Darn writer's block! Anyways I love feedback so please revew!