I crept down the stairs into the living room of the house. I peered around the wall that separates the living room and the den, and saw my mother and father side by side in their recliners, snoring away. I knew they were heavy sleepers, but I had never snuck out before, and figured that’s why they’d always slept so soundly. Because they figured Rapunzel was always locked away in her tower. I twisted the lock on the front door and slid through onto the porch. I felt the cold air sting my cheeks. I ran towards the car, and jumped into the passenger seat.
“Drive” I said, panting putting a hand to my chest, jeez, I’m out of shape.
We drove around the corner towards the bay, and by then my breathing had caught up with me. Matt shifted the truck into park and looked at me, I felt the panic in my chest rising as I remembered how mad he had been with me in class today.
“Are you angry at me?” I said in a squeaky, worried voice, he looked over at me with his piercing blue eyes,
“No, no,” he said looking down “Are you angry at me?”
“No, I’m just… confused I guess,” I said, as he put his hand over mine. “what is this?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean, you and me, what are we doing?” he looked down and sighed
“Listen Faith, I-“
“Matt, I’m not gonna do this if you’re doing it with every other girl.”
“Will you let me talk for a God damn second?” I snatched my hand away from his, and waited for him to continue “I’m obviously not who you think I am. I wouldn’t do that. I swear, I’m not with anyone else.”
“Well, neither am I?” he leaned in and kissed me, and as his hands snaked around my waist, his tongue teased my lips and I parted them just a bit to give him access. When we had finally stopped kissing, after what felt like hours, I looked at the clock on the dashboard of his car, it was nearly midnight.
“I’ve wanted to talk to you for so long. I’ve wanted to tell you how beautiful I thought you always were.”
“Then why did you tease me?” I said, remembering all the times he knocked me off my bike during a race around the neighborhood, or how he pushed me off the high dive at the public pool when I was 7, when I landed in the water and hit the bottom, through the blur of the water, all I saw was his smirk as he looked down on me laughing.
“I was kid, I was stupid ass hole of a kid,” I intertwined my fingers with his, and looked down, was that the excuse for all the years he messed with me?
“I remember when I saw you on the first day of tenth grade, you wore that blue dress, you remember right?” I nodded, it was the first thing I had bought at the new mall they had opened in the next town over. It was cut out a bit in the middle covered by lace. I remember my parents hating it, telling me it wasn’t suitable for a young girl to be dressed so unladylike. It made me that much more proud to wear it, I kept hoping Danny Klein, who was in all my classes that year, would notice me.
“Well, I came to Monica’ after school, and I saw you go out to get the mail that afternoon, and I just remember thinking ‘Man, she’s got to be the most beautiful girl in the world’ and I just knew you had hated me. and I just figured you would never, ever talk to me. And when I saw you at the concert that night, I thought, okay here’s my chance to stop being a jerk and go sweep you off your feet. I know you still think I’m that jerk of a kid, and I’m sorry, for everything.” I was blushing, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.
“Are you lying?” I said, not able to meet his gaze.
“No, no I wouldn’t lie like that to you.” He said, taking my chin in his hand and turning my face towards his.
“Aren’t you scared of what people are going to say?”
“Fuck them, fuck them they can think whatever they want. They don’t have you, I do.” I leaned in and kissed him, unable to believe how fast everything had changed.
“So, is this, a real thing?” I said breaking away from the sweet kiss
“You mean like a relationship?” he said, sounding panicked all of a sudden
“Well, not if you’re gonna get all a weird about it” I said leaning away from him towards the window, he placed a reassuring hand on my leg and I looked towards him
“I’ve just never done this before.” I laughed, he was joking right?
“You dated Courtney for years, Matt, I think you know a thing or two about relationships.”
“No, no it’s different. With her it was a joke, it was just…” he trailed off as if he was embarrassed to say it “sex. That’s really all it was. We had no connection. At least not like me and you,” he looked at me waiting for a response, but I had nothing to say.
“I wanna be with you, Faith. This is it, I’m not being a snake anymore, this is it this is what I want.”
“Well, than that’s what this is.” I said, placing my hand over his.
“My girl friend, Faith Powell.” He said laughing
“My boy friend, Matt Sullivan,” I echoed back to him “I never in my life thought I would say those words.” I said laughing harder, he suddenly got serious
“I always knew, I always knew I wanted to be with you.”
Matt dropped me off home at almost two AM, I twisted the knob on the front door slowly, only to find that it didn’t budge. I was locked out of my house. I panicked shaking the door knob quickly and still nothing, I thought this must be my worst nightmare.
Suddenly the door flew open and my mother and father standing side by side stood in the door frame, their faces stoic. My mother grabbed my by the arm pulling me into the house.
“Oh, you have some thorough explaining to do, Faith Anne.”
“I can- I mean I know this looks bad, I know it does but-“
“But nothing that’s it, you’re done. No going out, no friends, no nothing. What do you think this is, Faith? Did we not teach you anything?” my father bellowed at me, I was furious, I was finally happy, I was finally living, and yet again they were taking that away from me.
“No, I’m done, you’re not done, I am. I’m sorry, I’m not your perfect little daughter anymore. I’m done playing by these ridiculous rules, no boys, no friends, no wearing what I want to, or living the way I want to. This isn’t fair and you know it. Now I’m sorry for leaving in the middle of the night but you suffocate me you leave me no choice, I hate you, I hate this house, this family.” I screamed back, and as soon as the words left my mouth I knew I had made a huge mistake.
“If that’s how you really feel,” my mother said in a sinister tone, her eyes boring into me, “Then you can pack your things, and leave.”
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This Kiss
Teen Fiction“Okay, I could be wrong because I only saw him for a second, but I think, I think it was Matt Sullivan.” The music was loud and the floor of the club was crowded with people, at a concert that would soon become the talk of the year. Straight A stude...
