ITS A CEASEFIRE, WILL IT HOLD?

Emma must have seen the palpable tension on her friend's face. In a split second she found an excuse to leave the both of us to 'solve this' as she would have put it. The trip to the ladies room was long and it gave us ample time to diffuse the ticking time bomb.
"Ras, what the hell are you doing?"
"What? Isn't this what you like doing?"
"Are you crazy? You want Emma to go ham on me? What will you get from it anyway?"
"You won't be around to bother me."
She moved closer to me. This time, I saw the fruits of Doris' ferociousness. That girl could scratch real bad.

"I am always on your side. Believe me."
"Why should I? It was you that you dropped hints about me to Emma a while back."
"That was a joke. I could never do that."
"Why did her father come home then? Was it after your fight?"

She could do worse things.

She squirmed. If there were no laws, I bet she would've strangled the daylights out of me.
"I lied to save your ass. If He really knew about the real reason behind your fight." I took some time to reflect on that. It sounded true but I wanted her to answer me why she did have a fight with Doris.
"It was because of you. I wanted her to focus on her exams first."
"Really? Why the vicious marks?"
"I wanted to make her angry. So I told her that I like you." To lie that I wasn't flattered by that would be hypocritical. But Susan was the delilah type of girls. She was beautiful but beneath her scratch marks, she was capable of unspeakable treachery. If she could sleep with her best friend's man then she could do worse things.

It's a deal

"Ras, let's stop all these. If you tell her. Then I will be forced to spill everything out."
"You have already done that."
"Nope. Not yet. Not until I get over my silent crush over you." She took out a crisp white handkerchief and dabbed her eyes. I finally saw the severity of Doris attack on her. Her left eye lid had a faint scratch mark that her eye liner barely hid. In short, she could have been blinded had she not reacted swiftly or maybe Doris was not that accurate.
"Okay. But I'm watching you." She sighed a huge sigh of relief. Emma came back after a while. 
Question is, will it hold?