Disclaimer: See chapter one.
A/N: This story will eventually end up on the Enterprise...just letting you know.
Chapter Five: A Sort Of Spanish Inquisition
Lauren closed the front door of her grandmother's house and sighed with relief. She turned around and jumped about five feet in the air. Willa was sitting on the stairs, waiting for her.
"Geez Willa!" Lauren said, trying to catch her breath. "You scared me!"
"Then my work here is done," Willa said, walking over to her sister. The two of them hugged, then Willa grinned slyly. She knew exactly what her little sister had been doing out there, and she knew exactly who she had been with. It would be getting her to confess that would be hard...and fun.
"So," she said, trying to sound nonchalant as they walked upstairs to their rooms. "How was your evening?"
"It was interesting, to say the least," Lauren said, her mind still on the scene moments before in the driveway. "Very interesting."
"I heard you paid a visit to Starfleet Medical this afternoon," Willa continued. "Is anything wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong," Lauren said, answering a little too quickly. "Just visiting an old friend."
"So how did you end up in Grandmother's driveway with Wesley Crusher?"
Lauren almost ran into the wall. Willa laughed at her sister's shock and said, "Don't worry about it. You actually think I'd rat you out to Grandma?"
"It's not that," Lauren said. "It's just that I didn't expected the Inquisition to show up along with my older sister! You weren't even supposed to be here!"
"Lauren, did you really think that I didn't know where you were going?" Willa asked. "I called the house and asked for you, and Grandma said you were at Starfleet Medical. I figured it out right then and there. I'm not stupid, you know."
"Could've fooled me," Lauren muttered.
"What did you think was going to happen?" Willa asked her sister, now quite amused. "D'you think I was going to go out to the driveway and kick his ass?" She was answered with a raised eyebrow and a look of disbelief. "OK, OK, so maybe I would've yelled, but damn, it was 7 years ago! Not even I hold a grudge for that long."
"He was so sweet," Lauren said. "He even gave me my necklace back." She held the charm out so Willa could see it.
"I haven't seen that thing in ages," she said. "He kept it all this time?"
"Yeah, he did," Lauren said dreamily, a smile crossing her face.
Willa's eyebrow went up at the expression on her sister's face, and then it dawned on her. She had seen the same expression on Lauren's face at the dance that night, when the broken promise had initially been made. She realized what was up immediately.
"Lauren," she said, a hint of bemusement in her voice.
"No!" Lauren nearly shouted. "Willa, come on! You've got to be brainless! I can't believe you'd think that! I haven't seen him in seven years, there's NO way I could be in love with him!"
"If you say so," Willa said with a grin. "I'm going to bed. I'll see you in the morning."
"Sweet dreams of sugar," Lauren said, keeping up an old sisterly tradition.
Willa smiled and stepped inside the doorway of her room, her hand on the doorknob. "Sweet dreams of WESLEY!" she shouted as she slammed her door shut.
Lauren shrieked and tried to open the door, but she couldn't open it. She pounded on the door and said, "Willa, you're SO gonna pay for that!" When the only repsonse she received was maddened giggles, she gave up and walked to her room and got ready for bed.
Lauren lay in her bed, but she was wide awake. She was thinking about what Willa had said. "No way," she whispered into the darkness. "There's simply no way I could be in love with him. Teenage romance rarely-if ever-carries over into adulthood. This isn't one of those cases...is it?"