YOUNG VOLCANOES

one

It's almost time for my uncles to start arriving when I notice my dad searching through the kitchen cabinets.

"What are you looking for?" I ask

"I can't believe I forgot it"

"What?" I ask louder.

"I forgot to buy Vegemite" he curses still looking through the cabinets.

"I can go get some at the store" I suggest, secretley wanting to get out of band night.

"No, it's too far and it's 8pm" he says as he closes the cabinet and begins to search in a the next one. He got really stressed on band reunion's he always wanted everything to be perfect.

"It's only 15 minutes if I go in the car" I remind him, getting a tad annoyed by his over worrying.

"Nonsense. You don't even have your license" he says. Yeah, because he hadn't taken me to finally get the official one.

"It's not like anyone's going to ask me for it. I look old enough. I'm not going to have an accident or anything."

He looks at me and shakes his head. "No"

This got me mad. Every time I want to do something that normal people my age do like for example: get a job, drive or even fucking date. He just says that "I can't handle it"

"Dad, don't you see me as someone responsable?" I ask furrowing my eyebrows.

"It's not that and you know it" he says as he continues to look through the cabinets. But he always said this, never giving me a valid point.

"I've never broken any rules. I mean you don't even let me date, most people would do it behind their parents back but I haven't even done that. Because I care for your trust" I say trying to guilt him.

"Why are you making such a big fight over this?. Besides you don't even have guy friends and you've never shown interest in dating" he says

It bothered me how calmly he said that. I wanted a reaction. He was treating me like a little girl; so I looked for something to make him snap.

After my mother passed, he just started being over protective all of the sudden. He wants to keep me sane; I guess he just doesn't want to loose me. But it's so unfair. I'm a teenage girl and it's not up to him to define how I live.

He was in a band when he was young and he fully lived his life. Why couldn't he just let me go get some vegemite at a store?.

I wanted to give me a reaction not send me away as he always did. So I looked for something to say that would get him to see that I wasn't innocent or something.

"I think Michael's son is cute, I would date him. I'd even have sex with him" I say and then cover my mouth. Because the last part was completely unnecesary and now he was going to freak out on me. I see as dad slowly turns to face me. "You would... what?" He asks, his tone intimidating as shit.

"I said flex... flex with him. Because flexing before exercising is a really important thing to do. If not you could pull a muscle and no one likes to be pulled" I try to save myself.

I'm pretty sure my dad has never even heard me say the word "sex" before. His eyes are widened with anger. He is about to speak when the doorbell rings. I hurriedly went to the door, looking to avoid any punishment/lecture he was about to give me.

Luckily all my uncles had arrived and so had Kate. I welcomed everyone into our house and Dad seemed to have forgetten what I'd said as he greeted everyone with a big smile.

Kate came in and saw the panic in my eyes. "What did you do?" She asks. She was dressed in a beautiful white dress and I wondered who was she trying to impress.

"I just told my Dad I wanted to have sex with Alex" I whispered. She looked at me and spanked me in the shoulder "Dude! Your Dad almost had a heart attack the day you told him you saw an R movie. Why would you do that?. Besides, Alex is horrible!" She asked in a low voice but I could tell she wanted to shout.

"Because he always treats me like a little girl and I wanted a reaction from him. And I didn't even get it." I defend myself.

"Dude, If he sees you like an innocent girl you can do whatever you want and he will never have a clue. You can't just go around telling him you would have sex with people!. Apparently it's true: good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught" Kate says. "Why does that sound strangely familiar?" I ask her.

"I don't know, it does ring a bell though" she says. I start to walk to the table but she grabs my arm. "By the way, I'm having my revenge on Allison tonight" she says.

"Dude! What?! Why in my home?! And revenge for what?!" I ask her.

"Don't worry it's not like it'll destroy your house. I'm just going to give her diarrhea. And for being a spoiled bitch, also she threw gum in my hair the other day." she whispers showing me a small pill and then walking off. I follow her and start to commanding that it better not happen in my bathroom.

As we walk into the dining room I see Dad; he looks distracted but he's having fun. I'd only said that about Alex (Michael's son) to cause my dad a headache. As I thought about Alex it occured to me that I hadn't really seen him tonight. I scanned the table, instantly finding his dyed dark red (wine) hair color, his toned and light colored arms and his naturally basically chewable pink lips. He was focused completely on his phone, ignoring everyone around him.

I think he got the bad boy vibe out of his mother but his looks from his father. Alex had detention almost every week and he was once busted for stealing a motorcycle. Still I've never seen him fighting with his father nor being yelled at. And for some reason he's never gotten expelled. He was inmune to getting in trouble and so he did whatever he liked.

Truth is he scared me but I just tried not to give him much thought. After what I'd said to my dad, I had enought worrying. As we all sat in the dinner table I couldn't take my eyes of him because of paranoia.

Alex should have noticed I was constantly looking at him but he never made eye contact. In one of the times I looked he smirked, he was probably laughing about something on his phone but I felt as if he knew. I forced myself to get my eyes off him.
Every time he came here I would do anything to avoid him. And tonight I just had the urge to be able to look at him up close. I'd never even noticed his eyes. They where this amazing mix of grey and green.

He was sitting next to Allison; whom was flirting with him. Allison (Luke's daughter) made flirting with boys this big game and she just had to win.  I never understood how... I'm fucking 17 and my dad has never let me date, so I don't know anything about guys.

Everyone was talking but I remained silent in the table. I just wanted to quietly eat my food, go to sleep and work it all out with Dad tomorrow.

"Sam why are you so quiet?" Uncle Michael asks as he's still chuckling from a little joke Uncle Calum had made a few minutes ago. "I'm just really hungry. And you know, speaking with a mouth full of food is rude" I lied; and continued to shove a piece of mashed potatoes in my mouth.

"It isn't that" my Dad says. I slowly look at him. Then I look at Kate who has the same look of horror I do.

"Do you want me to tell?" He asks, making eye contact with me.

I plead him with my eyes not to.

"It's just that she's shy because she's experiencing her first crush. You know she's never had a boyfriend, nor has she ever been on a date. My daughter has it big for you, Alex." my Dad says; and there is no emotion on his voice.

And in that moment I just wanted to choke on my mashed potatoes. It couldn't get any worst. Everyone in the table was looking at me in silence.

"She even said she wanted to have sex with him" my Dad added with a sarcastic giggle.

Instead of me choking with the mashed potatoes, Uncle Michael was the one who did. I looked over at Alex who was slowly looking up from his phone and raising an eyebrow at me...

And then he started to laugh at me.

A/N: Yikes. So as you see I have a lot of character development left to do. Again if you're reading this. These chapters are awfully scripted. But I am slowly fixing it.