Silenced Rumors

chapter three: Spending time.

"Little wing. Little wing… Get the hell up!"

Liara shot up in her bed, "Yes!" She wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, "Who is it?"

"Well I'll give you a hint. It's the best dad in the world that you keep secrets from."

The asari rolled her eyes, "Father, I told you. Shepard and I did none of those obscure obscenities that you say." Liara yawned. "What time is it?" She threw the covers off of her, goosebumps engulfed her body when the cold air hit her skin, She hastily walked over to the door.

"Oh about six thirty." Said a strange voice.

Liara furrowed her brows, "father?" She opened the door.

Shepard smiled, "How ya doin'?" The blonde looked down with a cocked brow. "Really? Hanar panties?"

Liara slammed the door, causing the entire house to shake or that's what it felt like to her, then again the room was spinning. She felt drained from all the blood leaving the rest of her body and retreating to her cheeks.

"What! W-what?! What are you doing here?!" A muffled voice said from the other side of the door.

Shepard rubbed the back of her neck, "I uh…was in the neighborhood. And I thought I would take you out to breakfast before school."

"Goddess…th-this is insane!" Liara scattered throughout her room sorting though her neatly folded clothes. "I can't believe she saw me in my underwear!" She yelled quietly to herself.

"Uh you know what? This…this is weird isn't it? I just saw you in your underwear, this is unexpected. I should go probably." Shepard yelled.

Liara hoisted up her skirt and tugged on her sweater vest. "No! No! It's alright, I am almost finished." The asari sprinted to the bathroom, she turned on water splashing water on her face and and began brushing her teeth.

"I'll wait downstairs alright?"

"Okay!" Liara yelled spitting toothpaste everywhere. "Ew…"

Shepard trotted down the stairs, she passed by a mirror only to back up and Check herself out. She smoothed out her uniform khakis and sweater vest, her hair was perfectly parted to the side and brushed. She hated it. It was too perfect. The blonde groaned as she tried to make her hair look terrible but failed miserably. Sighing in defeat she took off her sunglasses and examined the ugly bruise that were now on both of her eyes. Of course not to long before liara left, her and Daniel had got into another fight.

I'm a deadbeat?! You were a fucking dirty street gang member before I came along! I should send your ass straight to jail! You worthless piece of shit!

"So you're the girl giving my girl the business?"

Shepard quickly put back on her glasses before turning around. "…the business?"

Aethyta stretched out a hand for Shepard to take. "Matriarch aethyta, liaras father."

"Addison Shepard." Shepard shook the hand firmly before letting go. "Nice to meet you. You have a lovely home and daughter."

Aethyta crossed her arms."Yeah yeah you too kid, Now tell me. Because my own daughter is too…embarrassed to, was she on top?"

Shepard smiled with one brow up, "Excuse me?"

"Aethyta, dear? Are you ready for another roun- oh!" A another asari came from upstairs, she quickly closed her robe when she saw the blonde human with a very amused look on her face. "Um hello. And who are you?" She said walking toward Shepard.

"I'm Addison Shepard, I'm from liaras school I was gonna take her out for breakfast before school,which…" Shepard looked at her watch, "we might be late for."

"I'm matriarch benezia, please to meet you."

"I'm ready to go Shepard." Liara said walking down the stairs. "Although mentally I am still not."

"You look great." Shepard said, "It's only about five til seven we still I say have…thirty minutes to eat breakfast."

"Ohhh so this is Shepard? The charming human from school?" Benezia said.

"Uhh…come on Shepard we are already off schedule!" Liara said dragging The blonde to the door.

"Nice to meet you mrs. T'soni and mrs. T'soni!"

"Okay, come on."

Liara swallowed her bacon. She had never had it before but man did she love it. Some of it was sweet, some were salt, savory, crunchy, chewy, the consistency and flavors never ended. She wanted more, but since Shepard was paying she didn't want oblige, or seem fat. She highly doubted Shepard would mind. She just wasn't judgmental. "Excuse me?"

"The Hanar panties, we can't just not talk about how cute it was." Shepard smiled.

Liara laughed softly, "That was far from cute it was utterly embarrassing." She shook her head, "I do not know what's worst that or the even more incredulous conversation you probably had with my father."

Shepard chuckled, "Yeah. About that, what is the business and when did I give it to you? And why did she ask were you on top?"

"I have no ide-"

"That's just crazy talk! Of course you'd be on top!" Shepard casually peered up from her plate of food at the quiet asari. "Kidding. Don't get your blasto panties in wad."

"Goddess I am never going to live this one down am I?" Liara said.

"Well, not as long as I'm around, and it's gonna be pretty hard to get rid of me now that I've seen you." Shepard laid her hand on top of liaras, "The real you."

What is this? This has to be a dream. Liara felt weak, she couldn't move anything on her body if she tried. "The real me?"

"I remember how we use to be like that, don't you elan?" A woman from nearby table whispered. She turned to Shepard with a smile, "excuse me What are you two? College freshman?"

"Actually were high school seniors." Shepard smiled.

"Oh high school sweet hearts? This is elan, my wife, We use to be just like you two, young and in love. I'm Debby by the way." The woman said.

Shepard looked toward liara shaking her head and back to Debby, "Oh…um we're…not high school sweet hearts? We're just friends." Shepard pulled her hand away. "Just friends… two peas in a pod. Amigos."

Liara nodded, "Correct. Two peas in a pod…?"

"Don't worry." Debby begun, "I even said that at once."

Elan groaned, "Not this again."

"Yes this again! You know what? don't we every have cute little breakfast dates huh?!" Debby screamed.

Elan slammed her fist on the table,"What do you call this!?"

Shepard looked at liara, "Let's go." She mouthed.

Liara nodded, "Please."

Shepard quickly laid a few credit chits on the table and the two hurried out of the building rushing to get in the car.

"I hope we are never like that." Liara started, "That would put too much stress on our children." Liara looked over to the confused blonde. "Kidding."

Shepard laughed, "Okay. okay. You actually had me going for a second…besides there's no way I could date a girl who wears blasto panties."

Liara smiled, "Thank you for the breakfast, it was delicious…and I can not date a girl who doesn't appreciate the finer things such as intergalactic specter hanar based panties."

Shepard fell into bits of laughter all the way down the road, "That was cute. You're cute."

Liara blushed but kept up with the conversation, "What? What did I say?" She smiled.

"…Panties. It's the way you said it, your voice has this soft echoey feel to it, and it was just…" Shepard shrugged. "Cute."

Liara stayed quiet for a while, before talking. "Shepard? What is your definition of cute? If I might ask."

Shepard pressed her lips together, "Hm. That's hard. I mean there's different types of cute. I think my little sister is cute, I think my dog is cute, I think old people are cute, I think your cute but not in the way of any of those other ways. More of a…I could see myself…you know…possibly maybe having a little crush on you. Even with the as you said utterly embarrassing blasto panties."

"Cru-"

The Skycar came to an lurching hault, students in the parking lot turned their attention toward the two cars that nearly crashed into each other. Shepard cursed under her breath, her heart slowing down once she was able to breathe again. She turned toward liara, the asari panted heavily like a dog in heat. She had a death grip on the seatbelt and shepard's hand that had been laying precariously in her lap.

"Shit. That was fucking close." Shepard said running a hand through her neat hair. "Are you okay?"

"Yes. I'm fine." Liara said becoming less tense, she let go of shepard's hand. "Sorry." Her cheeks becoming a little darker than the rest of her.

"It's alright." Shepard looked ahead at the idiot who almost caused the crash. "I'll be right back." Shepard got out of the car and closed the door. She approached the car, trying to calm down before she dented who's ever car it was.

"Hey. You kinda almost killed us back there Jacob." Shepard said.

Jacob Taylor, use to love everyone, everything and anything. Good guy, straight A's social butterfly. But not anymore, he hates Shepard to the core. After Shepard moved here and got into relationship with his "ex" if that's what you want to call it, miranda was drunk and it got the best of her and they "hooked up" he only got to third base but he tells everyone he went all the way, but shepard's seen Miranda's vagina on multiple occasions and there has never been a penis in it…suprisingly. Now he drowns his misery that once brought him happiness, liquor.

Jacob got out the car and slammed the car door. "So? You think just because your big cheese that you can talk to me anyway you want?"

Shepard's nose curled up at the smell of alcohol on his breath, "Big cheese? Are you drunk?"

"Yeah. I am." Jacob said, then he laughed. "You know, it's actually quite funny. If you had of died when we got into a car wreck you and your dad would hav-"

Shepard shoved Jacob against his car. "I would keep my fucking mouth if I were you."

A crowd gathered around the two, everyone of course with their omni tools out. Vega stepped forward, "Aye Lola chill he's drunk. He doesn't know what he's saying."

"Move! move! outta my fucking way!" Jack pushed pass the spectators and walked toward Shepard. "Nah vega fuck that shit. This just got personal. 'Cause I didn't find that shit funny at all."

Jacob laughed harder, "You think people are suppose to feel sorry for you just because your dad died? You too jack, just because you're a fucking orphan and you supposedly grew up on the streets you think you scare everybody, now you deserve sympathy jack, because of how pathetic you are."

Shepard grabbed Jacob by the collar, "You fucking prick! I outta beat the living crap out of you."

Liara finally got out of the car and hurried to the scene. "Shepard do not do anything you might regret!"

"Come on Shepard do it. Show everyone here that you're not the perfect little bitch that everyone makes you out to be." Jacob smiled.

Shepard could feel her blood boiling, her heart pumping like a steam engine.

"Shepard please." Liara begged.

Shepard activated her biotics and pushed Jacob into his car, "I won't give you the satisfaction of me kicking your twisted ass. But I have no control over what jack does to you. You better hope you see another day."

Jack cracked her knuckles, "Oh and trust me I don't have anything holding me back."

Shepard hopped back in her car with liara in tow, everyone either watched Shepard drive to find a parking spot or jack mercilessly beat Jacob to a pulp. Shepard actually use to like Jacob even though he countlessly tried to steal Miranda away from her.

Liara hesitated, "Do you want to talk about what happened? What was he talking about? I thought Daniel was your father."

Shepard sighed, "Daniel is my step dad…my dad died in a car crash a long time ago…some idiot driving drunk and under the influence of helix."

Liara laid her hand on shepard's. "Shepard i am so sorry."

Shepard interlocked their fingers, "Thanks. You're really a good friend."

Shepard parked her car. "I don't even want to for to school." Shepard laid her head back on the seat, she looked down at their hands. "You can let go anytime."

"Sorry…again." Liara tried to pull away, but Shepard had a grip on her.

"I didn't say you had to." Shepard smirked wearily. "Panties."

"Ladies! Ladies! I understand you all want the role of grace! But only one of can be!" Udina yelled, "All of you were dreadful anyways."

Kelly chambers pushed forward through the crowd of girls, "If anyone's being grace it's me! No is allowed to kiss Shepard…well except Miranda because she would totally punch me if she was here."

Udina rolled her eyes, "Oh please. You all are her because you want a love scene with Addison Shepard?!"

"Yes!" All of them yelled.

The drama teacher sighed, "I swear this school treat Shepard as if she's some sort of royalty."

Shepard bounced down the stairs of the auditorium as the bell rung for lunch. She was beyond excited to get to lunch and sit with liara. Maybe. There was that feeling in her chest that said: "you're spending too much time with her. You're gonna bring her into your fucked up world and lose a great friend. Shepard walked through the hallway as if the "dispute" with Jacob never happen. Although Shepard wasn't really thinking too much about it, she wondered what had happened to jack. Did she get caught eventually? Shepard prayed she didn't. Jacob deserves everything he got handed to him and no it wasn't because he was talking about her father it's because he disrespected jack. He has no idea what she's been through, what her and Shepard had been through together.

Running with the reds every night. Doing things she was proud of and didn't think she would do everyday. See grouse things that could haunt your dreams if you weren't insane enough to Handel them. Because to do crazy things you had to be a little insane yourself.

"Attention seniors, excuse the interruption, if you have not returned your field trip form to omega, please do so by the end on sixth period today. Thank you."

Shepard smiled, she hoped liara was going. They could share a room and stay up talking about nothing and watching scary movies, so scary they end up sleeping in the same bed and then cuddling throughout the night with a little kiss on the cheek or forehead or lips or- wait what?

Shepard stopped in her tracks, "wait what?"

"Shepard! Yo! Lola! Wait up." Vega said jogging to catch up with Shepard. "Hey Lola. You alright? What happen this morning was uh…a little tense."

"Yeah I'm fine." Shepard said shaking her head as they began to walk to the mess.

"You sure? You seem a little uneasy?" Vega said.

"Nah, it's not about that." Shepard bit her lip. "What happen to jack by the way?"

Vega shrugged, "Oh she got away, she should be somewhere around here. Probably at lunch, Of course nobody squealed on her. They didn't want what ever she was serving up."

The loud chatter of the mess got quieter as Shepard entered.

"Jesus. You get into one fight." Shepard mumbled.

Vega laughed, "You didn't even fight."

"I know that!"

Shepard grabbed a salad and water, she surveyed the lunchroom for the girl she had been wanting to see all day. In a friend way. Really.

"Aye Lola come one. Joker, jack and garrus are waiting." Vega said.

Shepard found liara, she was looking back at her. The blonde waved with a smile, getting a wave with an even bigger shy smile back.

"Uh I'll catch up with you guys later. Okay?" Shepard said.

James followed shepard's eyes and smiled once he saw who she was looking at. "Okay Lola…" he began to walk away. "Once you go blue nothing else will ever doooooo." He called in a sing songy voice.

Shepard smirked, "Blow me vega." She walked over to where liara sat with feron and tali.

"Can I sit with you guys?" Shepard asked.

Liara smiled, "Of course!" The asari looked her Drell friend. "Feron could you please move down a seat? To make some room for Shepard."

Feron rolled his eyes, "Of course." The Drell moved down, Shepard taking his seat in a Matter of seconds.

"So, liara I've been meaning to ask you are you going on that overnight trip to omega?" Shepard said taking a big bite of her salad.

"Oh. That. I am not sure if my mother will let me go." Liara said.

"Oh come on liara, everyone's going." Tali exclaimed.

"Yeah, I was hoping we could room together." Shepard flashed her teeth. "If that's okay with you of course."

Liara looked dazed, what did she mean by that? She felt a pinch from behind her. She realized she had been staring at Shepard. "Ow-yes! I would love to. That is if I am even able to go."

"Great." Shepard smiled, "After school my house, Yeah?" Shepard said devouring the rest of her salad. The blonde stood up.

"…yeah." Liara said softly.

Shepard smiled, "Awesome, see you later. I'll be In the auditorium."

"Epp! This is perfect. Soon you guys will be dating and me and garrus will be too then we can double date!" Tali smiled.

Liara shook her head, "No no. Shepard and I are just friends."

"Good." Feron huffed. "Shepard is nothing but bad news. She has problems."

"Everyone has problems feron," liara frowned, "You do not know anything about her."

Feron stood. "Yeah? Well neither do you! And I feel like I don't know you either."