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A CONTINUOUS KNOCKING IS what scared Amara shitless at three in the afternoon. She threw her pen down out of fright, and rolled her eyes, immediately knowing who it was. Lip was the only person who would knock annoyingly like that—he'd always done it ever since they were kids.
"Jesus, I'm coming!" She shouted, jogging down the stairs. Lip didn't stop knocking, "dude, stop! You're gonna wake up the devil!"
She unlocked the door, and pulled it open, gasping once she saw Lip's appearance. His face was covered in blood, his lip was busted, and it looked like he had a black eye forming.
"Oh my God," she muttered, grabbing his arm and tugging him inside. "What the hell happened?"
Lip shook his head, and Amara's expression grew even more concerned. She decided not to question it any further, at least at the moment. She led him to the bathroom, putting the toilet cover down so he could sit on it as she grabbed a bunch of materials.
First, she grabbed a rag, and ran it under warm water before ringing it out, and crouching in front of Lip. His eyes met hers, and she frowned in worry as she put the cloth to his face. He winced at the pain, flinching back, and Amara rolled her eyes.
"Come on, you big baby. It's just water."
"Well, it fucking hurts!" He snapped, and she raised a brow at his tone. Lip sighed, his shoulders relaxing. "I'm sorry. I've just had a really, really shitty day, okay?"
"Yeah, I couldn't tell," she commented sarcastically, gently pressing the cloth to his face again. Amara managed to get most of the blood off of his face, and she put some sort of pain reliever on it, ignoring his complaints as she did so.
Lip laid on her twin sized bed, about a half hour later, staring up at the ceiling as Amara continued to do her English homework. Neither of them had said anything, the only sound in the room was the music she had playing softly on the radio her father bought her when she was six.
"It was the Milkoviches," he said randomly, and she turned to face him. "They uh, claimed that Ian messed with their sister Mandy."
"But Ian is gay."
"I know," Lip pushed himself up, his face still swollen, but it seemed to be going down a tad. "I basically said that their sister was a slut and she confused Ian with the other 500 guys she slept with."
Amara groaned. "Jesus, Lip. You're a genius, you should've known it would turn out this way. Why did you say that?"
"I didn't want them to hurt Ian," he replied, and she went to sit next to him on her bed.
"Well I'm glad they only gave you a black eye, and nothing worse. Seriously, they could've done a lot more damage than what they did. I don't think I could handle anything happening to you."
Lip's eyes widened, "hold on, are you being sentimental?"
Amara rolled her eyes, and gently shoved his shoulder, aware of his injuries. "Shut up, asshole. You know what I mean. You're like," she raised her voice to sound similar to a valley girl. "My best friend!"
Lip let out a soft laugh, nudging her shoulder back. "You're a pretty good nurse."
"Really? Cause you complained the whole time."
He shrugged. "I was testing you."
Amara snorted. "Yeah, right. Sure."
"I was!" Lip defended. "You're gonna have some tough patients in the future. I just took your tough-patient-virginity." The two of them laughed, falling into a comfortable silence afterwards. "Too bad you want to be a writer, huh?"
"Don't sound so sad. I'll dedicate my first book to you."
"Yeah, yeah," he waved her off. "I know. I was just hoping you'd become a doctor or something and I'd get a discount every time I got jumped on the street."
"I'm not smart enough to be a doctor. Besides, this better have been a one time thing," she warned. "It's sweet that you took the beating for your brother, but Ian is a big boy. He can handle himself. I never want to see you covered in that much blood again, got it?"
Lip rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I got it. So did you really refer to your mom as Satan?"
"My mom is Satan," Amara said with a laugh.
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author's note:
this is literally only 700 words but 1x03 gave me like no opportunities to put in amara lmao i'm sorry this chap is so short. but on the bright side the next chapter is 2k words + so i hope that makes up for this somehow
