⌜ chapter thirteen ⌟
Letty opens the backdoor to the Matthews' house and walks inside, finding Eric sitting at the table trying to type on a laptop. "Hey, what are you doing?" The brunette asks as she shuts the door and walks over to him.
"Trying to write a play about my life." He tells her as she sits in the seat next to him.
"Eric Matthews in Look At Me, Look At Me: A One-Man Show." She reads off the paper next to him, and then starts skimming through it. "Hey, babe?"
"Yeah?" He turns his attention to her.
"Your birthday is February 11, 1978." She tells him.
"I know." He says, and she points at the paper where it says that his birthday's June twenty-fourth. "Morgan." He mutters, and she chuckles as he scratches it out with his pen to fix it.
Letty starts reading through it again, and she starts laughing as Cory walks down the stairs. "Uh, you're cute, and I hate to rain on your parade, but so much of this is wrong." She says, and he scoots his chair closer to look at everything she's pointing at. "And your middle name isn't Kyle, it's—" She's cut off when he puts his hand over her mouth.
"That wasn't Morgan, I did that one on purpose." He tells her, his face an inch from hers as he stares into her dark eyes. "I am Eric Kyle Matthews now."
"Okay." Her voice is muffled by his hand, and then the phone starts ringing.
"You two are weird." Cory says as his brother gets up from his seat to answer the phone.
"Hello?"
"You're weird." Letty retorts.
"Nope. No Dory here." Eric says as he shoves his hand in his front pocket.
"Eric, that's for me." His brother rushes over to him and takes the phone. "Shawn?" He asks, and the older two in the kitchen exchange a confused look.
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"Why, is Jennifer there?"
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"You know, this is ridiculous." Cory says. "How can you let some girl tell you you can't see your best friend? It's just wrong. Do you hear me? Wrong." And then there's a pause. "Shawn, are you there?"
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"I gotta see you." He says, and Letty stands up to move beside Eric as they both watch his younger brother.
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"Because of...her?" He questions. "You're gonna let her stand in the way of what we had? Shawn, if you won't see me, then I'll come right over there and see you."
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