YOUNG VOLCANOES

seventeen

I awkwardly got myself in the backseat of the car. I began to say thank you but Allison soon cut me off.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS" she begins to speak and I freeze. The blood drains out of my face and I feel shivers as I'm positive thay she is about to yell at me. Insult me for plotting against her and then trying to use her family's house as a safe heaven from my angry Dad. I prepare myself for the hit.

"THAT GEORGE WOULD DO THIS, DAD" she says. "Wait, which one was George?" Luke asks in confussion and complete näiveness. "THE SOCCER SENIOR PLAYER" she explains. "Oh, that one". "YES THAT ONE, HE INVITED ME TO PROM BUT DECIDED NOT TO TAKE ME BECAUSE HE BELIEVES THAT I'M ONLY WITH HIM TO GET TO HIS BEST FRIEND BRADLEY!" she yells. "Are you?" Luke asks. "No, dad. Of course that I'm not" she twirls her hair with her finger in an innocent gesture. From Luke's body language it seemed like this wasn't the first time he'd had to heard his daughter's boy drama.

The next 20 minutes of the car ride to their house is her rambling about how hard it is to date senior boys. I'm leaning my head on the car's window literally about to pass out from exhaustion. "Who are you going to the prom with?" Allison turns her head and looks at me. I straighten up and clean the little amount of drool that had begun to fall from my lip. "Uh. I'm not going to the senior prom. I think I would have to belong in that class or be dating someone from the class to go..." I explain. "I know, aren't you going with Alex?" She asks me and smirks. "YOU AND ALEX ARE DATING?!" Luke asks and hits the breaks being caught off guard by a red light.

"NO WE AREN'T!" I fastly say. "It's okay Sam, I've seen the way you and Alex talk. My dad could even talk about it with Uncle Ashton about it if you're too shy about announcing your relationship."
"But isn't the reason why your Dad was mad the fact that you're seeing Alex's brother?. Then how are you dating him and the brother?" Luke asks clearly lost with all this drama.

"YOU'RE ALSO DATING NATE?!" Allison asks in disbelief but she smiles at me as it amused her how bad It was making me look right now. But there was clearly jealousy in her eyes.

But then I thought: Did everyone fucking know about Nate except me.

Allison had known about Alex's brother but I hadn't. I get back to answering uncle Luke's question about if I am dating Nate. Which was weird for me sense I'd never dated anyone.

"YES. But I am NOT seeing Alex" I repeat. "It's okay, Sam. Just remember that if you want to be with a person but are in a current realtionship with someone else you need to end the first relationship first." he says caringly. And I think of how many times he must've told this to Allison. Because it clearly did not sound as the first time he'd given this advice.

I want to protest again but Uncle Luke was being quite generous with me and I didn't want to come off as a troublemaker. He obviously believed Allison over me. And he will probably tell my father that I was involved with two brothers. Great.

A couple of minutes go by in the car and the only sound is of Allison singing an All Time Low song.

"Thanks for taking me in tonight. It's just that my Dad had never even thought about the idea of me holding hands with a boy; so I guess what he walked in on tonight affected him in a way." I say. "It's okay Sam, I went through something similar with Alli here but her mother was the one who reasoned with me and helped calm me down" he flashes me a sad smile. "Yeah, I'd give a lot for my mom to be here and smack some sense on Dad" I say.

Soon we arrive to the Hemmings mansion. Yes, my house was pretty big but my Dad was a bit more down to earth. We had a buddha statue in our pool, grew some tomatoe plants and even sometimes recycled things ourselves. Sure we where able to buy a lot of stuff but compared to Luke's house mine was a joke. They had spotlights on the front yard to illuminate the front of the beautiful mansion whom Luke hired an Arquitect to do just for him.