all for us, ethan landry

one.

LYDIA RILEY was at a party with her friends, the music blasted in her ears. it was almost halloween, everyone was in costumes. tara was looking around for drinks while lydia was dancing with a random boy. ethan stared at them, expressing a sad look. chad looked to where ethan was looking. "dude, if you don't call her over here she isn't gonna see us. she's lydia. when she's at a party she can barely pay attention to anything." chad put his hand on ethan's shoulder. the boy dancing with lydia put his hand on her waist. ethan squeezed his cup and dropped it. "alright, that's enough." lydia said, trying to get the boy off of her. chad pushed ethan, trying to get him to go up to her. ethan started walking over.

the brunette boy stood in front of lydia and the random boy she was dancing with. "oh, hey ethan!" she smiled sweetly at him. he gave the man a death stare. "what are you looking at?" the boy, still placing his hand on lydia's waist said. there was no way ethan was gonna- lydia thought wrong. ethan punched the boy in the face. lydia let out a laugh and covered her mouth. the boy felt his face and punched ethan even harder than he did, causing him to fall on the ground. lydia's eyes widened. "shit, chad!" she yelled. the boy kept punching ethan. "don't ever touch me again, dork." he said. chad ran over and pulled the boy off of ethan. the boy walked away as he didn't wanna deal with chad. lydia stood over ethan, his nose was bleeding. "ethan.." she said. "i'm fine." she thought it was cute how much he would go through to protect her. she helped him up.

"come on, let me help you out." she said, taking his hand and bringing him to the bathroom. "i'm sorry, i don't know what happened i just didn't wanna see him touching you like that i-" lydia put her hand over his mouth. "shut up." she rolled her eyes. he went quiet. lydia then put paper towels under his nose. "thank you though, i was uncomfortable." she smiled. "yeah, i saw." he stated. "but if you ever do that again i swear we won't be talking ever again." he put his hands out. "but you just said!-" lydia slapped him on his arm, lightly. "don't move, idiot!" she sighed. "i just don't want you getting hurt again." she added. "when did you start caring about me?" ethan joked. lydia rolled her eyes. "dude, i think your nose is broken." she took away the paper towels to check if it was still bleeding. they heard a loud noise, it almost sounded like a gun shot but of course it wasn't. lydia jumped. "wow, you're jumpy." ethan said. lydia went silent and looked down. he was so dumb sometimes. she thought. "shit, sorry.." he put his hand on the side of her face. it looked like she was about to cry. he didn't know what to do. he hugged her. "i'm sorry, i know why you're jumpy i shouldn't have said that." she put her arms around him. "ethan, i miss him so much.." she muttered. ethan was the first person she's cried to about her father. "i know." he whispered. lydia soon realized what she was doing, she wiped her tears quickly. "lydia... you can tell me anything, you know that." he reassured her. she nodded.

lydia got off the sink and opened the bathroom door, mindy looked straight at them. she motioned for lydia to go talk to her and her girlfriend, ethan and her went her separate ways then. "hi guysss!" she said, smiling. anika waved. "you guys weren't just fucking, right?" lydia looked at anika and mindy. she can't be serious. "dude, you're gross. his nose was bleeding and i was helping him." anika and mindy looked at each other. "you sure? you guys were in there a long time.." anika chimed in. lydia rolled her eyes and turned around to see tara. "you good, t?" mindy asked. tara gave her a thumbs up. lydia walked over to tara. "lydiaaa!" she hugged lydia. "i haven't seen you all night, where were you?" tara asked, lydia explained the ethan situation. "there's no way ethan punched him." tara said, looking around for something. "i couldn't believe it either!" lydia said. tara looked at chad and then lydia. "i hope you know chad's trying to get your boyfriend or whatever.. to ask some random girl on a date." tara laughed a little. lydia looked at chad and rolled her eyes. "dude, what the fuck?" chad put his hands up. "you just can't stay away from me, can you?" ethan asked. lydia turned to him. "i'm not here for you." she rolled her eyes. "oh yeah? pretty sure you're here because chad's trying to-" lydia smiled and whispered in his ear. "finish your sentence i'll hurt you more than that boy did." ethan's eyes widened and he looked away. as soon as the girl saw lydia she turned around and started laughing with her friends. "what does that mean?" ethan asked, obviously clueless. "it's good." chad said. lydia knew it wasn't good, but the girl even putting her eyes on ethan..

it made lydia want to slit her throat.

why am i thinking about that? lydia shook her head and moved on. "ethan, you wanna dance?" she asked. "i'm not good at dancing, you know that dia." ethan was unsure. "please?" she frowned. "fine-" before ethan and lydia could even dance together, anika interrupted them. "hey big guy, you're needed." she said to chad. they all looked at each other and followed anika to frankie and tara on the stairs. "hey partner, tara's good down here." chad gave frankie a fake smile. "sorry bro, didn't catch that." lydia knew tara was a crazy drunk, but not this crazy. "tara, come on, let's go.." lydia pitched in. "no, lydia it's fine i want to." lydia gave tara a weird look. "see, she wants to." frankie smirked. chad gave him a death stare. ethan held lydia by his side. she looked at him up and down. chad then yanked frankie off the stairs, causing tara to fall a little. lydia held her up. "you good?" lydia said. tara nodded, their focus quickly went back to chad and frankie, who looked like they were about to fight. to everyones surprise, samantha, tara's sister separated them. "hey, yeah. sorry to interrupt." lydia looked at the taser in sam's hand. "but i'm just gonna tase you in the balls real quick."

lydia let out a laugh, covering her mouth so nobody would see she did. "sam. are you fucking kidding me?" sam and tara started fighting again, as usual. they fought a lot. tara was usually being dramatic.

on the walk back to tara's, sam and tara were still fighting. mindy rolled her eyes, she was so tired of them, along with the rest of the group. ethan had his arm around lydia's waist. "why are you being so touchy today?" lydia asked. "i can stop.." he said, looking at lydia. "oh, no. it's cute. i'm just curious." he blushed and looked down. he blushed so easily. lydia laughed. "what?" he asked. "it's just funny how red your face gets when i barely flirt with you." she teased. ethan was speechless. she laughed. he just admired her.

the whole group gasped as some random girl and her friends poured water, i guess.. on sam. "murderer!" the girl said. lydia almost beat the shit out of the girl but ethan held her back. "what the fuck is wrong with you, bitch?!" sam yelled at the girl, pushing her by her shoulders. "you guys should stay away from her, she knows what she did!" lydia scoffed. "she didn't do anything, skank!" punching the girl in the face, almost knocking her out. her group gasped this time. ethan's eyes widened and he pulled her away. everyone stared at lydia and started walking again. ethan, lydia and sam were behind everyone. lydia stopped, waiting for ethan. "i have tissues." he pulled them out of his pocket. "i have like.. 3 tissues." sam took the tissues from the brunette. lydia smiled. ethan caught up to her and they started walking again. "that was sweet." she grinned at him. he shrugged. "it's really the least i could do." he said. "are you okay?" ethan asked, looking at her curiously. "i'm fine ethan, i'm not the one you should be asking though."

lydia put her head on ethan's shoulder, resting it there.