FADED

Two

Alice's POV

I was not looking forward to having this talk with my mom, I know she won't want me going. My mom and dad have always wanted me to be some doctor or lawyer like them but honestly I don't know what I want to do with my life. College doesn't interest me but as far as my parents are concerned "I can't wait". I really want to go on this road trip and I think it will be good for me to go out of my comfort zone. I would be a little nervous about camping for the first time and I've never been out of the city except when I went to England in 3rd grade and I can't even remember it.But I think it'll be fun to have all my friends there with me.

"Mother can I talk to you?" I started to sweat.

"What is it?" she glanced over at me, "you're sweating, do you feel alright?" She went to reach her hand onto my forehead but I pushed it away.

"Just focus on the road Mother!" I said it louder than I should have and she gasped at my sudden attitude. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to snap at you Mother but I need to talk to you about something." I was rubbing my hands on my dress to get the sweat off.

"If you're about to tell me you're pregnant you wait until we get home." She grunted a little but didn't look at me.

"Mother! I'm not pregnant! It's about my summer plans. Ronnie, Carmen, Sam, Jade, and Emerson are all going on a road trip this summer in a few days and they want me to go. I really wanted to go because I feel like -"

"Absolutely not young lady. Were you seriously considering going on a road trip for an entire summer? Not to mention with a boy, drug addict, and homosexual! Absolutely not." her face was red with frustration but so was mine. I wanted to defend my friends but I couldn't find the words to talk back to her. I didn't say anything for the rest of the ride home and my mother just turned the radio up when she was done talking. When we got home I went straight to my room and called Ronnie.

"Hey Alice whats up?" she had to talk loud because of the music in the background.

"Where are you Ronnie? It's so loud I can barely hear you."

"We're at a party sorry!" She sounded completely wasted. I hate talking to her like this.

"Oh can I come!" I wanted to get as far away from my mother as possible right now.

"Alice, it's not like a get together party. There's alcohol and stuff here. You wouldn't like it." I was a little offended but given past experience she had every right. Last time I was in a situation where there was alcohol I cried and got a taxi to bring me home.

"I need to talk to you guys about the trip. I have some info..." My voice trailed off. My mother never had any problem with any of my friends before, except for when Jade wore weed leaf socks to my house one time.

"Good or bad?"

I'm 18. I should be able to spend my summer how I want. I'm not spending anyone else's money to do it. I'm not hurting anyone. It's not like I'm going to be getting drunk every night and smoking weed 24/7, I'm not stupid. I'll be extra safe...even use a bathroom buddy system if I have to. I've made up my mind: I'm going on this trip.

"Good."

Sam's POV

Being me is actually pretty fucking hard. I was captain of the soccer and lacrosse team, quarter back of the football team, president of the senior class, had perfect attendance, and I have 4 different girlfriends. I didn't really have time for school in senior year because my whole year was so busy. The plus side was that colleges thought that if I could do all that (minus the girlfriends) I would make a good asset to their university or something, so I got offered like 6 different scholarships. And if we're being honest the only reason I had perfect attendance was because I paid one of the school geeks to get into the system and change it. But if graduating means that you get to go to a party like this, I'd graduate 100 more times. Every girl here looks like she stepped off a model runway and I can't wait to get to know each and every one of them.