⌜ chapter seventeen ⌟
"Your boyfriend just threatened to kill me with fishing wire." Danny says as he walks over to Letty in the Matthews' store.
"Then go to school, and don't come back into the store that his father owns." The brunette tells him as she continues restocking one of the shelves in the back of the store.
"Well, that would make talking to you hard. 'Cause Eric's here, and Shawn tried to kill me when I wanted to talk to you yesterday."
"So, stop trying to talk to me." She says as she kneels down to stock in a lower shelf.
"Makes it kinda hard to apologize." He says, and she looks up at him then. "Thirty seconds, that's all I'm asking for here."
Letty takes a deep breath as she stands up straight. "Twenty seconds, starting now."
"I was a dick, and I want to apologize. I'm gonna need more time to fully explain." He tells her. "I guess this is the question — lunch, I'm buying, wherever you want, and I'll leave you alone after."
"You want to apologize for what you did to me?" She asks, and he nods.
"I know that what I did was..." He sighs as he shakes his head. "Things are different now, I'm different. I wanna apologize, and explain why so that you know I'm being..."
"Genuine?"
"Yeah." He nods.
"Look, uh... Let me think about it...and go over my work schedule." She says, and he nods. "I'll talk to you at school later, and I'll control Shawn."
"Okay."
Oddly enough, she doesn't have to control Shawn when she talks to Danny later that day. Her younger brother's too distracted by whatever's got him in the red skirt. Part of her wants to know what he and Cory are up to, and part of her knows that she really doesn't.
That is, until her curiosity gets the best of her.
Shawn's waving at a boy in his grade, a smile on his face as the other boy walks away. He turns and his smile falls when he sees his older sister walking over to him.
"Um, excuse me, miss?" Letty glances between him and Cory.
"Uh-oh." Shawn mutters.
"Can you tell me what happened to my brother?"
"Shut up, Scarlett."
"It's for my column in the school paper." Cory says, and she looks at him.
"You mean the Is It Just Me column that makes almost no sense?" She quirks an eyebrow at them as Topanga walks up on Shawn's other side. "How is this related?"
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