Shining Hearts (A Garmau AU)

Chapter 8

Garroth's POV
My phone starts ringing.

Megalovania.

It's Laurance.

"One sec, Aphmau, Laurance wants something." I say pulling my phone out of my pocket. She laughs and I answer it.

"Hey, Garroth. Laurance is at it again." Dante's voice chimes through the phone.

"Dante? Why'd you call me over Laurance's phone?"

"Laurance took it. He is petting it like a cat." Dante says with a chuckle. "He 'aint givin' it up."

Another voice picks up from the background. "I AINT' NO FLUFF BALL MR. WHISKERS! SHUT UP!" A loud smack and a shatter can be heard immediatly after.

"LAURANCE MY PHONE!" Dante shrieks.

"Do you want me to come over there?" I ask, Aphmau is snickering beside me, the phone was on speaker.

"NOW WHY DO YOU THINK I CALLED!? TO HAVE A NICE CHIT-CHAT FOR OLD TIME'S SAKE?!" The line goes dead.

"Wow, touchy. Should I come help? My friend Donna gets enough hangovers so I know how to deal with them." Aphmau asks.

I shake my head, "No, it's alright. I know how to deal with them, the same thing happens to Laurance all of the time."

"Well, I'm coming anyways, I want to see if I can help!" She states, getting up and running to the edge of the park.

I catch up to her, she was standing there with her lips pressed into a flat line.

"Yeah, I don't know where they are." Aphmau says foolishly.

I nod, "Uh-huh. Figured so. Come on, follow me."

After a moment, Aphmau speaks up, "OH YEAH! That's what I was gonna say! YOU LIKE UNDERTALE?!"

I nod, turning to her.

"OH MY YESS! I haven't gotten past Undyne yet, SO NO SPOILERS!!" She fangirls at me.

"Not making any promises! I already finished the pacifist route and I'm trying for genocide now." I say.

"So you're completly skipping neutral?" She asks with a quirked eyebrow.

"Eh. You'll probably spoil it for me anyways once you finish it." I say with a shrug.

"TO HECK I WILL IF YOU SPOIL ANYTHING!" She shrieks.

I readjust the strap on my shoulder, "Anyways, I want to stop by my house first so I can drop this off." I say, nudging the guitar on my back."Do you mind that?"

"Sure, why not?" She says, walking in step with me to keep pace.

~*~
Aphmau's POV
"They're probably at Laurance and Dante's house." Garroth says as he locks his house door again.

"Where is that?" I ask, following him off of the porch.

"About a block down, it has foam-blue paneling, isn't hard to miss." He says, waving to a house a ways away.

Once we get there, Garroth knocks on the door. It opens and a man with dark blue hair and eyes to match stands before us. If I remember correctly from the beach, this man was Dante.

Kind of hard to forget seeing as his hair was freaking blue.

"Hey Garroth, hi Aphmau. Come on in." He says. Odd, he doesn't even question me coming along.

I couldn't help but giggle at the scene in front of me. Laurance looked like a little kid who had found a jar of freshly baked cookies.

He was a grinning goober who had found alcohol in the fridge and couldn't help himself. Five or six bottles surrounded him and he looked pretty darn proud of himself.

"Hello blonde turtle." Laurance says with the straightest face possible.

"Pfft~! Hah! He told you!" I giggle.

Garroth rolls his eyes and turns to Laurance again.

"You seriously have a problem. Honestly, I can't even begin to imaging the amount of complaining I'll have to hear from this time's hangover." Garroth says, bored.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" I ask, turning to Dante.

"Mnn... No, I don't think so. Usually he would have gotten into a situation by now, but he seems fine. Thanks for coming by though." He says and I nod.

"Alright then, seeya guys!" I say stepping outside.

~*~
I start toward my house when I get pulled aside by a girl and pinned to a brick wall in an alleyway.

Her face holds an angry snarl and her turquois eyes flash with menace.

"I see what you're trying." She growls.

"What could I possibly be trying?" I ask, genuinely curious.

"You're trying to get with Garrath!" She growls again.

"Pfft~! Pretty sure it's pronounced Garroth, and why would I do that?"

"Yeah shut up, and as if it weren't already obvious! I see you hanging around him! You like him, don't you?"

"Oh, so a girl can't hang around a guy without it being assumed that they like eachother and or are dating?! You got some stereotypical mind there woman!" I retort.

"I know what I see!"

"So you've been stalking me!?"

"Y-No! I just- know alright! Just stay away from him!" She remarks.

"Wait a moment... Now I know why you seem familiar!" I say with a smirk, an idea playing in my mind.

"What are you on about?" She says, jerking her head back to me after scanning the surroundings, her striking pink hair twirling with the motion.

"Yeah, I saw you in a dream!" I recall mockingly.

She furrows her eyebrows, "What do you mean?" She asks, letting her guard down.

"Oh, no, you were dead!" I say with a snicker, kicking her ankle roughly. She staggers back and I jump away from the position I was in.

"You bi-" She gets cut off by another girl calling out.

"IVY YOU'RE DONE NOW! COME ON ALREADY! SHUT UP ABOUT YOUR BOY-FETISH FOR LIKE, TWO SECONDS WOULD YOU!?"

"FINE, ALEX!" The girl named Ivy yells. "Stay away from Garrath!" She growls to me.

I nod my head sarcastically, "Make me." I say, turning away from the alley toward my home.

~A/N Don't do do drugs or alcohol my friends it is very dangerous. Laurance is one of those characters (in my book) who has a thing for drinking from time to time, so that might come up again.

Keep on smiling my poptarts!
Caio!~
-Gabby