YOUNG VOLCANOES

eight

I couldn't sleep.

The back of my mind kept thinking about the events of today. For 17 years of my life I had decided that boys where a waste of time.

And now... all I could think of was kissing boys.

I've wasn't sure if I liked Ryan but I kept thinking about the kiss.
I was sure that I was completely annoyed by Alex but I kept thinkibg about the moment when he grabbed me...

The next morning I woke up and Alex was already gone.

I thought that he would still be sleeping and I felt a slight disapointment as I faced the empty sofa.

To think that I'd just woken up and the first thing I'd done was to check if he was there... suprised me.

I made my way to the kitchen; in which I found my dad all suited up.

"Wait. What?. Why are you wearing a suit so early in the morning?" I ask as I rub one of my eyes with the back of my hand. My dad wore an all black suit.

"It's 3pm" he says with half a muffin in his mouth.

"Oh" I realize and sit down in the kitchen table. It only made sense that I'd woken up this late with the long events of yesterday. No wonder Alex wasn't here.

Dad looks at me an offers a slight smile. Then he takes a gulp.

"I don't know what you did yesterday... but if you did anything bad..." he stops and takes a deep breath "you need to tell me."

He's worried and I understand.

"Dad, I swear I didn't do anything bad. Listen... it was wrong for me to walk off like that-" I begin to explain what happened.

I don't tell him the 100% truth, though. I tell him some college kids pulled a prank on me. But I don't tell him that it was in a party.

I tell him they left me on the lake and that they threw me with my clothes on and that's why I'd changed to different clothes.

And I tell him that Alex was the one who saved me sense Uncle Michael had sent him out looking for me. And that it took him some time to find me.

"And after that he bought me some Mcdonalds and we came home. But nothing else happened. I was only gone that long because it took time for Alex to find me and I prefered to stay put than go out looking for people in a place I wasn't familiar with" I say.

He bought it but he still looks a little angry. "Do you remember who the college kids where?" He asks with his eyebrows furrowed.

"No. And I just want to move on" I say.

My dad looked like a business man; if you ignored the fact that his hair reminded everyone of a lion.

I stand up and begin to prepare my breakfast as he stares into nothingness. He was probably analizing the story, seeing if he could find a lie in it.

"How did Alex even know you where in the lake?. That lake is really far away." He asks

I think and then shrug. "That question is for him. I'm not even close to understanding what's happening in the mind of Alex Clifford."

And to that he nodds and quietly drinks his coffee.

× × ×

Apparently my Dad had to go to a meeting at "Hi or Hey records" , after the band ended they kept the record company; they had quite sucesfull
artists there.

I invited my best friend (Kate) over. Sense I'd left her alone last night after I'd walked out. I owed an explanation.

I explained to her absolutely everything that happened.