MY LITTLE ARTIST

TWELVE

"You're home then" Sam probed as he heard Lauren shoving her key into the front door after seeing Camila walk out of the bathroom a few hours earlier "Wondered when you would be back"

Lauren rolled her eyes as she closed the door softly behind her "I'm drunk as shit Sam, can we do this tomorrow"

Sam leant back into the wall behind him, sighing at the sight of Lauren so intoxicated and unaware of her surroundings "I can't believe you lied to me" he mumbled

Lauren threw her head back with a soft but meant grunt "Seriously?"

"Yeah, seriously Lauren!" He retaliated "I saw her leave the bathroom with the biggest smirk I've ever seen! Her lipstick smudged and you thought I wouldn't notice?"

Lauren laughed "It was just a bit of fun Samuel, chill out for once in your life!"

The man rolled his eyes with a clamped jaw "No! It's not ok Lauren, what are you thinking?" Admittedly Sam knew Lauren was in no position to have a conversation, but the anger at his best friend couldn't stand leaving it any longer

"She's nineteen fucking years old Sam!" Lauren bit, slowly raising her voice "I'm twenty two! That's three years! She's legal I'm legal what's the issue!"

Sam hated seeing Lauren angry, it had been a while actually but given the situation at hand, he wasn't afraid to make it worse "My issue is that she is your student and you know nothing about her!"

"I've known her for a week!" She gasped "Two weeks at most so yeah! I don't know her yet!"

"You're supposed to!" Sam now yelled "You're supposed to be her teacher and read her fucking file mama?" Lauren rolled her eyes with every word that came from the man's mouth "She is not a normal student Lauren! I asked you to do one thing but instead you chose to ignore me!"

With all of the yelling beginning to get louder, the sound of the door opening behind Sam was ignored by both as they continued to argue. Zach, Sam's husband wondered into the hall half asleep and managed to position himself between the pair "What is going on!" He pressed

"Her!" Sam bleated "Having sex with Camila in a club she's too fucking young to even be in!"

Zach held Sam back into the door with his arm while Lauren began to get equally as heated in front "I'm not taking advantage of her Sam! It's full, consensual, adult sex!" She yelled "It's not my fault you're so obsessed with rules you can't even have a little harmless fun!"

"Guys stop!" Zach sounded "Both of you! I'm serious!" The pair finally scoffed into a suitable silence, separated by the tall man's body Lauren threw her head back into the wall "You're both right! For different reasons, neither of you are in the wrong"

"No! She is in the wrong!" Sam retaliated

"Yeah!" Zach continued "Sam you're right, Lauren shouldn't really be getting it on with a student but she is nineteen? It's consensual and Lauren isn't someone to take advantage!"

Lauren sniggered at Sam's scolding before silencing over the stare from Zach's bubbling brown eyes "Lauren, Sam is also right! Camila isn't just some college girl, you need to be careful otherwise you could be doing more harm than good!"

Neither could handle being told that they were in wrong, Lauren especially as she shot a growling look at Sam "So what Sam, you're going to snitch? Tell Rowan I'm fucking my student?"

"No!" Zach interjected "Nobody is telling on anyone here!" He continued "We love you Lauren and we wouldn't do that, would we Sam?" The man forced his head to shake "No"