Chapter 8 – Treaty Over Eric

Aonghus woke up to the sun shining in his eye. He rolled over his bed and saw Lara lying next to him. God, she's beautiful, though Aonghus. He got up and put one a pair of flannel pants and walked out to the kitchen. He made some pancakes for him and Lara.

He flipped over the last pancake and then heard the doorknob turned. Aonghus panicked. He knew the door was locked, so that gave him about 20 seconds to get into his room before his parents walked in.

With no regard to that last pancake he ran into his room.

"Lara," Aonghus whispered as he tried to shake her awake.

"Hello," Lara said, smiling, but still half asleep.

"Lara, I think my parents are home," Aonghus whispered to her. Lara's eyes widened.

"What?"

"Hurry!" Aonghus whispered. He turned and checked the door way. He turned back to Lara and watched her put on the sweatpants that he gave her last night. Aonghus then turned back around as he heard foot steps down the hall. He now had about 5 seconds. He turned around to see Lara pulling the sweater over her head. He then noticed her panties on the floor, and he dived after them and threw them under the bed.

"Close," said a voice from the doorway. Aonghus' throat felt clogged. "Next time make sure the girl has the panties on and some clothes on before the two of you fall asleep." Aonghus turned around and sighed in relief.

"Oh, I thought you were mom and dad," Aonghus said. Lara was still blushing, though.

"Aonghus, who is this?" Lara asked, her face beat red.

"Oh, this is my brother, Bryant, and Bryant, this is Lara." Bryant nodded at Lara, and then stuck out his hand.

"Your first time too, I assume?" Bryant asked. Lara turned beat red again and Aonghus whacked him in the stomach. Then, Lara's nose began to twitch and she squinted her eyes.

"Do you smell something burning?" Lara asked.

"I'm burning hot? I'm flattered. I am aware that I am hot but bur-" Bryant started joking, but Aonghus interrupted with a yelp.

"THE PANCAKES!" Aonghus ran out of the room and into the kitchen.

After they ate the pancakes Lara went to the bathroom to take a shower. Aonghus cleaned up the stuff in the kitchen and went into the living room to join Bryant.

"So what are you doing home?" Aonghus asked, sitting in the chair opposite Bryant. "I thought you still had one more semester to do."

"Nope," Bryant said. "I finished. I took night and weekend classes so I can enjoy pretty much my last summer off. Mom and dad are making me pay for my last year of college so I will need a job next summer. Then, the summer after that I will have my diploma and I will need a job and a house or apartment or something, so here I am"

"Oh, ok, I thought maybe you dropped out of something." Aonghus said.

"Nah. Hey, where are mom and dad?" Bryant asked. Aonghus explained the church cruise and that it broke down. "Oh, I was gunna say, not a good idea to have sex if mom and dad are in the house. Especially since your room is right across from there's."

Bryant looked out the window and across the street. He watched Amanda walk out of the house and sit down on the porch.

"Humph. That's weird," Bryant said. "Why isn't Amanda over here? Normally she will walk over here or you walk over there."

"We are kinda in a fight. It's been about three weeks," Aonghus said.

"You have been best friends with here since you were 4 and never once have I seen you two get into a fight," Bryant said. "What could you two possibly be fighting about?"

"Don't worry about it," Aonghus said.

"You should go and talk to her, I mean, you two are best friends." Bryant said. "I need something to drink," he added, getting up and going into the kitchen.

Aonghus looked out the window and stared at Amanda. He saw her just sitting there and staring at his house. He got up and walked across the street

Lara turned off the shower and walked into Aonghus' room. She grabbed a t-shirt and shorts that were defiantly too short of Aonghus. She went back into the bathroom with her purse and put her makeup on. After that was done she put her hair in a pony tail. She then heard the front door open and close.

When she walked out into the living room and she saw Bryant opening up the window and then pressed his ear against the screen.

"What are you doing?" Lara asked.

"Shh! Aonghus and Amanda are in a fight and-"

"They were fighting?" Lara asked, surprised.

"Yes. I thought you knew. The two of them were fighting for the past three weeks and Aonghus is now over there talking to her. If you are quite enough you can hear what they are saying." Bryant explained, all in one breath. Lara then ran over there and pressed her ear against the screen, too.

"-Eric, and I don't want to know why you lied about it," they heard Aonghus say, "I just want this stupid fight to be over."

"Ok," Amanda said, "So we are good?"

"Let's just never mention this again," Aonghus said. "This whole Eric thing was a stupid thing to fight over."

Bryant pulled away from the window. "Man! We missed the details of the conversation."

Lara didn't need the details to tell why they were in that fight. She figured it out. The two of them heard the door knob turn and they ran and threw themselves on the couch, to make it look like they weren't doing anything.

"And that's why the Smurfs are blue," Lara said as Aonghus walked in.

"Ohhh. I never got that. Little Jeopardy fact you got there," Bryant said. Lara forced a fake laugh.

"Hey, Lara, Amanda wants to talk to you," Aonghus said. Lara felt her throat clog. All she could do was nod. She went across the street to the porch and saw Amanda sitting there. She walked up to her.

"Hey," Lara said.

"Hey. I just wanted to talk to you about the Eric thing," Amanda said.

"Oh, that? I completely forgot about that," Lara said, as her left lower eyelid twitched. "So what's up?"

"I just wanted to apologize for lying to you, and that I hope that we can still be friends," Amanda said.

"Oh, of course, don't worry about it. Of course we can still be friends. You are a really nice person, and I hope we can be friends, too," Lara said. Amanda and Lara then hugged each other. She then heard a two cars pull into Aonghus' house. Lara recognized the first as her parent's and she guessed the other one was Aonghus' parents.

"Well that's my mom and dad. I'll see you later," Lara said. She got up and walked across the street, and yet even thought she won't admit it, the whole Eric thing still did bother her.