Eric walked into the house to see Lauren standing in front of the mirror in the hallway, fixing her hair.
“Is anyone else home?” Eric asked her, looking around.
“No,” Lauren responded, “dad’s out of town for business and everyone else is at the office.”
Damn it. Eric shook his head disappointedly. Melody’s words really hit home with him and he’d been hoping to tell his family that he wasn’t going to do what they asked him. He’d even been practising how to say it to them in the car on his way home.
“So...” Lauren suddenly said, “where did you just come from, hmm?”
Eric made his way towards the kitchen. “Kelley’s party...”
Lauren whacked him on the head with her hairbrush stopping him dead in his tracks.
"Ow!" Eric winced and rubbed the spot. “What was that for?”
“For being a total bore!”
Eric arched a quizzical brow. “‘Scuse me?”
Lauren narrowed in on him. “You took Melody to another party, and of all people, Kelley’s party! Seriously, Eric that was the best you could come up with?” She looked un-impressed.
Eric rolled his eyes. “Look, I’ve got a lot on my mind at the moment. I haven’t got time to plan fancy dates...” and even if he did have the time, Eric didn’t think he’d be able to do it. Fancy dates were never really his specialty. Come to think of it, dating in general wasn’t his specialty either. The girl’s he’d been with in the past...well, he couldn't exactly call what he did with them ‘dating’...
Lauren continued yapping on. “You need to make an effort, Eric, otherwise Melody will think that you’re not serious about her.”
Eric’s guard suddenly went up. “Why, did she say somethin'?” he sounded a little worried.
“She's too nice to say anything,” Lauren quipped, obviously annoyed by all of this, “Just trust me when I tell you that if you want to keep her you’re really gonna have to step up your game...”
Eric furrowed his brows in concentration. “But how?”
It was Lauren’s turn to roll her eyes. “God, Eric, I can’t tell you everything, this has to come from you. Just tap into your romantic side...I’m sure you’ll figure something out...”
Romantic side? Eric watched Lauren put one of those hippie headbands on her head and realised that she was getting ready to go somewhere.
“Where are you goin’ at this time of the night, alien?” he asked her curiously.
“Out, duh...”
“Out where?”
“To the peer with Casey,” she replied, checking herself out for the last time in the mirror.
Eric didn’t like the sound of that. What would his brothers do if they were here? He started going through the ‘big brother’ manual inside his head. Rule number one would probably be to stop her, yeah, like that’ll happen... so he went for rule number two instead. “I want you home by 10, young lady,” he frowned sternly.
Lauren just rolled her eyes. “Blegh...” she pulled a face, “you sound like dad...” And with that she was gone.
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