YOUNG VOLCANOES

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"17 year old girl suicides by choking herself with mashed potatoes"

That's it; That's the headline they'll  use when the story of my tragic death reaches the news. Well I mean, If I was lucky enough to die right now. But I wasn't.

Alex was laughing and once he noticed how everyone was staring at him he tried to cover it with a cough. My mouth was wide open and everyone in the table was looking between me, my Dad and Alex.

"Dad, what the hell?!" I ask embarasshed while looking at him.

"Well...you told me earlier that he was cute and that you wanted to mate with him..." my Dad says crossing his drummer arms and daring me with his eyes. This was the first time he'd gone after me like this infront of Luke,Michael and Calum. I scratched my nose nervously (something I do when I get anxious).

I hear Felix whisper "Wonder if she's also said that about me..." to Allison; whom shakes him off as she continues to glare at me.

There's a rumor that Alex is the only guy she hasn't been able to get to. I'd defineatley seen her try but I'd never seen her charm him enough. I guess that she now saw me as compettition. But I had no problem with letting her win. I look at my Dad who's still waiting for my answer.

"It was to PROVE A POINT!" I bark loudly and the "point" comes out a little more high pitched than what I'd intended it to.

"Well isn't she a cutie" Alex says as he pokes his mashed potatoes with the fork.

"What point exactly?" Dad asks as if it was no big deal. "THAT I'M NOT A LITTLE GIRL ANYMORE" I yell.

It was stupid, this is all stupid. I say an unlikely comment to get my Dad to maybe not to see me as such a näive daughter and now he was making a scene.

"Definetley not a little girl but obviously a daddy's girl..." Alex muttered. And n one heard him except me. Due that I'm sitting right in front of him on the table. I lookat him and he quickly winks before going back to eating his steak.

"Well you're acting like one" Dad says angrily. Uncle Calum tries to help muttering something about how he had the "Sex talk" with Felix since he was young to avoid this. And everyone in the table groaned simultaneously, cutting off his lecture.

I'm fucking mad. Dad was fucking embarrassed me in this way and he was enjoying it. I stand up from the table and stormed off outside the house. As I stand on my front lawn at 8pm, I look frantically around for something to do (I'd never stormed of before and I didn't dare to just drive away). I didn't know what to do. So I did the only thing I thought of doing at the moment. I was going to get the Godamn Vegemite.

And so I started walking; the night was beautiful here in California. We'd moved here after my Mum passed away in Australia. We live in a big fancy neighborhood. Outside the open neighborhood there where some streets and then you instantly entered the city. There was a cute little australian store in the city that sold vegemite.

I felt guilty for what I'd done. And God! I'd just left my best friend alone in my house during a really awkward situation. But I'd already been walking for 10 minutes and I didn't care to turn back. I was having a mix of emotions. As all this realizations got to me  So I just finally decided to sit on the sidewalk; in front of a random house at 9:23pm.

I just need to think for a second.

A car then pulls over infront of me. I look at the driver. Surprise, it's Alex. He drives a Black 61 Chevy Impala.

"What are you doing?" He asks and I hear the Motley Crue music coming from his Car radio.

I look around and review my situation again. I'm still sitting on the sidewalk.