all for us, ethan landry

three.

lydia stared at the wall, then someone knocked on the door. lydia's heart started racing. she just hoped it wasn't who she thought it was. the door opened, she backed up on her bed. "tara!" she said, getting up to hug her. "i'm so glad you're okay." as she hadn't seen her since last night. "me too." tara sighed. "heard ethan stayed over here last night." tara smirked and looked at lydia. "yeah, he uh.. asked me to be his girlfriend actually." lydia smiled thinking about it. "he did? ethan landry asked you out?" tara doubted her. "he's been really unpredictable lately." lydia crossed her arms. tara nodded. "i see that. how are you holding up, though?" tara asked. "i'm holding up.." lydia sat down. "tara.. i can't deal with losing someone so important to me again." lydia sighed. tara sat down next to her and put her arm around her. "you won't, i promise. we'll kill that motherfucker before he gets the chance to hurt anyone else." tara shook her head. "i hope so." lydia said, she was in disbelief. "i'm scared too, dia." she looked down. "i don't want anyone to get hurt again. we've been through so much already." tara's voice was shaky. lydia hugged her. she didn't know what to say because she felt the same. tara and lydia ended up hanging out the whole day until she saw ethan on campus.

"ethan!" lydia waved and started walking over to him. "can you come over?.." ethan sighed. "dia, it's friday." lydia looked around. "yeah, and?" she crossed her arms. "i have econ on thursdays and fridays." lydia felt stupid for not remembering. "oh yeah! sorry." she smiled, she was kinda embarrassed but she got over it. "but i really wanna hang out with you." she looked at everyone on campus. "alone." she said. "and you will." her eyes lit up. "after econ." he started walking away and she grabbed his hand. "ethan.." she frowned. "i have a huge test, lydia." he said. "and as you said yesterday, that shits important." he added. "you're so boring." she rolled her eyes. "see you later, okay?" he looked at her and gave her a quick peck on the lips. "ethan wait-" he kept walking, ignoring his girlfriend. she was gonna get him for that later though. lydia started walking over to her friend group with a sad look on her face.

"what's up, lyd?" chad said, pulling her to sit down. lydia didn't answer. "i thought you were gonna hang out with ethan?" tara asked. "he has econ!" lydia put her hand on the side of her face and rolled her eyes. "good, you're stuck with us for the day." chad smiled. "unfortunately." lydia joked. "hey, this way we can keep an eye on you." he added. "yeah, whatever." anika put her arm around lydia. "so what exactly did you and ethan do last night?" lydia gave him a death stare. "oh, it was crazy you'll never believe it!" lydia said. "we slept. insane, i know." anika chuckled. "stay out of our business, chad." lydia demanded. he put his hands up and sat down. "any new updates on.. you know." anika asked mindy. "nope, nothing's happened since last night that we know of." tara looked down and then put her head on lydia's shoulder. mindy looked around suspiciously. "isn't it weird that ethan's the only one that isn't here?" mindy asked. "mindy don't." lydia shook her head. "lydia, you can't ever trust the love interest! you should know this." mindy tried to persuade lydia into believing ethan was apart of this. "you're suggesting ethan's the killer? have you even seen the guy." she crossed her arms. "yeah, i have. and he's at the top of my suspect list. he's too dorky for anyone to suspect him, and he probably puts on that dorky act so nobody does. and i'm the expert here, i would know." mindy just kept trying. "mindy?" she gave mindy a fake smile. "i swear to god if you don't shut the fuck up i'm gonna be at the top of your suspect list." that's what she wanted to say, but she didn't say that. "i know, it's weird that he's not here right now but i promise you ethan would never do something like that." lydia took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. "you believe what you want, dia. but if anyone get's hurt while he's gone, " anika nudged mindy, getting her to stop.

lydia shook her head and got up. "i'm leaving." tara looked and mindy and back at lydia. "lydia, she's just trying to help!" tara got up. "by saying my boyfriends the killer?" lydia tilted her head. "thanks mindy, that was so helpful!" lydia started walking away. "i wasn't saying, i was just suggesting!" mindy yelled to her and sighed. tara went after the redhead girl.

"dia.." tara tried to get her attention. "you know how mindy is, she's horror geek. she knows almost everything about these movies... and she's just trying to state the facts." lydia stopped. "tara, i know. but i care about ethan a lot, and her saying that in front of me just wasn't right." tara nodded. "i know, i should've stopped her.." they started walking again. "i love mindy, okay.. she's my best friend. but i just don't even wanna think about going through another amber situation." tara looked down. "me either.." tara sighed. "please just come back." tara said. "okay, fine." they turned around. "but if mindy says anything about ethan again, i'm not coming back next time." she said. they started walking back.

"knew it." mindy said. "oh, shut up." lydia sighed.