Austin Mahone's California Love Story

Chapter 9: The Warning

Austin

It hurt to see Camila get taken away from me but I can't take her away from her family. It hurt even more now that I know she wants to be with me like I do. I hope she won't get into too much trouble because of me.

By the time I get back home the party is over and of course Sarah is not happy with me leaving it.

"Where have you been?"

"Sarah, can we not do this right now?" I just want to get away from her and the yelling.

Dad tries to butt in, "It is late, and maybe we could continue this tomorrow, honey?"

"No, we will do this right now." She has her fist on her hips, "I ask you to do one simple thing and that was to be here and meet people. Instead, you arrive late and you bring that girl here."

"That girl has a name."

"I don't care, her kinds of people are not allowed in this house unless-."

I interrupt her before she continues to lecture me, "First of all, you don't know her and second of all, she's a human being not a "kind" of person to you." I erupted on her.

I walk into the kitchen, leaving Sarah flabbergasted in the hallway from my shouting and firing back. Brenda is the only one in the kitchen, as usual, doing the dishes. I stand beside her by the sink, roll up my sleeves and help her.

She's smirking at me, "What?" I ask.

"I heard what you said. That was sweet of you to stand up for that girl."

I take a breath, "She shouldn't treat her any different just because she comes from a different background."

"I think I like this girl. I would love to meet her someday."

I nod my head, "I would love for you to meet her too."

After Brenda and I finish cleaning up the dishes I head upstairs to my room. I sit outside on the small balcony looking up at the stars and thinking about that kiss I shared with Camila. I hope she okay, by now she has to be home possibly suffering from a lecture like Sarah tried to give to me.

Camila

I enter the house of noise once Jorge and Alex drop me off. Alex, of course, tells Carlos everything that he saw. He sits me down in the living room, but doesn't say anything. All he does is paces back and forth in front of me.

"¿Qué está pasando?" He finally says. I shrug my shoulder without answering. "Are you trying to rebel against me?" I shake my head. "¿Entonces? Are we having problems again?"

"Carlos nothing happened." Nothing other than kissing Austin, but I'm not going to tell him. "We were just hanging out."

"Then why didn't you tell me?"

"I did."

"You said you were going out, you didn't say who you were going out with." His voice keeps rising after every sentence.

"Yeah, because I knew you would react like this and you'd send Alex or Jorge to watch me." I am a grown woman and I don't need babysitter watching my every move whenever I go out.

Just in time ma comes walking through the door with a tired look on her face. I have a feeling she not going to have enough energy to deal with Carlos and me which makes me feel like a burden to her.

She can immediately tell there's something going on, "¿Qué está pasando?"

"Ma, do you know what Camila was doing today?" He asks pointing at me.

She shakes her head, "No. ¿Por qué? What was she doing?"

"She was with a white boy after I told her to stay away from him."

I stand up from the couch, "Nothing happened. Why are you making such a big deal about it?"

"I told you to stay away from him and you completely ignored that."

"I'm old enough to make my own decisions. I don't need you to always keep me close by." It took awhile to realize that my voice was echoing throughout the house.

Ma steps in between the argument,"Okay, that's enough."

Carlos roars over her, "I'm the man of the house. Mostrarme un poco de respeto."

"You may be the man of the house but that doesn't make you my father so stop acting like it." Suddenly Carlos's hand is in mid air, but doesn't move any further. I scoff, "You may not be a father but you sure know how to discipline like one."

The house is once again silent. To avoid the awkwardness for much longer I go straight to my room. There was only one other time Carlos raised his hand to me and actually went through with it, but back then I deserved it. Right now, I'm not really sure if it was close to justifiable.