Steven walked Amy home and they stood in her doorway for a few minutes, sharing a romantic goodnight kiss before Steven had to walk home. It was half past one in the morning and Amy’s parents were in bed, or so she thought but seconds into their kiss Mr. Marvin came bounding down the stairs and stopped at the bottom of them, he was quickly followed by Mrs. Marvin who was wrapping her dressing gown around herself, both looked flustered and slightly angry,
“Amy Dannika Marvin what on earth do you think you’re doing coming in the house at 1:30 in the morning, and kissing a boy?!” Mr Marvin barked as he noticed Steven appear behind Amy holding her hand “We made a rule that you couldn’t go out clubbing until you were eighteen!” He added as he assumed they’d been into the town and met at a nightclub.
“Dad we haven’t been clubbing, I’m hardly dressed for it, am I? Anyway I’d never go clubbing! I was at Steven’s set in the Vic down the road as a matter of fact!” Amy answered defensively as she pulled Steven into the now brightly lit hallway,
“But I thought you were friends with Sebastian and Samuel?” Mrs. Marvin asked timidly as she tried to hide herself with her dressing gown, she felt uncomfortable being in her pyjamas in the same room as Steven who kept his eyes locked on Amy,
“NO MUM! You don’t listen to me! Sebastian and Samuel don’t exist, I told you his name was Steven and you just didn’t listen to me, I only have one friend at school, not two, and his name is Steven, this is Steven Battelle, mum and dad” Amy raised her voice in annoyance while introducing Steven to her parents,
“Good morning, Steven” Mr Marvin answered politely “Do your parents know you’re here?”
“Yes they do, I was just dropping Amy home safely” Steven replied quietly
“Looked more than that to me...” Mrs. Marvin said in a hostile tone to Steven,
“Mum, just stop that! Steven’s my boyfriend, he can kiss me goodbye whenever he wants.” Amy answered abruptly as she pulled Steven closer to her side; Steven hesitated in putting his arm around Amy as this may have come across to Mrs. Marvin as a case of rebellious love or something.
“You are joking, you having a boyfriend?! I don’t believe you, I refuse to believe it” Mrs. Marvin replied, frowning at her daughter
“Mrs. Marvin... I’m sorry if me being in love with your daughter offends you or anything but-” Steven began politely but Mrs. Marvin shook her head,
“No, you don’t love my daughter, no way, she’s nothing special.” Mrs. Marvin whispered, up until then Mr. Marvin was brushing his wife’s comments off and forgetting about them, but at this he had to put his foot down, he turned to face his wife behind him,
“No, Jane, I’ll not have you talking about Amy like that to her boyfriend, or to anyone for that matter. Just go back to bed and I’ll sort this out.” Mr Marvin said sternly but calmly, Mrs. Marvin frowned but thought better of it to retaliate so she stomped upstairs and shut the bedroom door with force. “I’m sorry Steven... Shall we go into the living room and out of the cold hallway?” He began and gestured Amy and Steven to turn left into the small living room. Mr. Marvin shut the front door and followed them into the room; the lights were energy saving so at first it was still dim and orange,
“Dad, why is mum being like that?” Amy asked as she and Steven sat together on the two seat sofa and her father took the old armchair that was facing the sofa.
“I haven’t told you and neither has your mother, but... she’s on new medication and it makes her very irritable, so you just have to bare with her for a few months while her body gets used to it” Mr Marvin said calmly as he adjusted his glasses on the end of his nose and put his hands together like a consultant in a doctor’s surgery. Amy loved her father, he was always a good role model as he was a businessman who was soon to be entering retirement after many successful years of work, he also was the man people looked to in a bad situation and was understanding and rational, unlike Amy’s occasionally irrational mother. The medication she’d been on was for her anxiety that had developed into some form of insanity over the years that Amy had never understood but she was never admitted to a hospital, the old medication hadn’t worked so Mrs. Marvin had been put on new medication recently which made sense to Amy as she hadn’t been the same the past few days, what with not listening to Amy when she spoke about Steven.
