"C'mon, just follow me." I said as I walked out the door with her trailing right behind me.
We walked in silence until we reached the front door of her house.
"Thanks for walking me home." She said as she looked at me with a genuine smile and with her head slightly tilted to her left.
"You're welcome." I said as I avoided trying to make eye contact with her.
After she rang the doorbell, she just smiled and stared at me then she said, "You know they're wrong." while she hugged my jacket closer, as another breeze flew by.
"Wrong about what?" I said as I leaned on my left leg.
"About you. They're wrong about you. You aren't what they keep telling me and-" Sam was cut off by the front door swinging open.
"Oh, hey mom!" She said just as the woman who was wearing a pair of yoga pants and a loose navy blue T-shirt.
"Hey, Sammy. So... who's this handsome young man on our front porch?" She said as she eyed me up and down with a smile on her face. While I just waited for her to know who I really was and when she does, she will probably tell her daughter to never see me again and kick me off their property. This happened every time I walk a girl home or anyone for that matter, even just as friends or come over for a project report.
"Mom, this is Cole Sanders. He's the boy I was talking to you about before I left." Sam said as she gestured to me, while I just smiled at her mom politely.
"Mom, Cole. Cole, my mom." Sam continued and her mom extended her hand while I took it and we shook hands.
"I'm finally glad to meet you. People say that your a boy with no manners at all but my daughter is right and they're wrong. You do have manners like a gentleman and Sammy here, is living proof." She said as she looked at Sam with a smirk.
Sam didn't understand at first then her mom pointed at the jacket she was wearing and then she blushed scarlet.
"By the way, my name is Lisa. So just call me Lisa." She said with a chuckle, laughing at her own joke while me and Sam just smiled politely at her. "So are you two kids friends? Or.... something more?" She asked as she wiggled her eyebrows at Sam.
"Mom, it's kinda late and we have school tomo-" Sam was cut off by a loud crash from the inside of the house.
"Okay, I have to go see what your dad is doing before he really hurts himself." She looked at me apologetically just as another crash sound was heard... "You two can talk for five more minutes then it's off to bed for the both of you." She said as she looked at the both of us sternly then she went in the house just in time for another sound of glass breaking. "Landon? What's with all the sounds of glass breaking?" We heard Lisa say from where I'm guessing is the living room.
"So... I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow?" Sam asked as she raised her eyebrows up at me hopefully.
"Yeah, I guess." I said with an unsure smile.
Then she smiled back at me brightly and then we heard Lisa saying: "Five minutes is up. Time for you kids to go to bed. Sam, time to say good night to Cole."
I just laughed right there, not the stomach holding kind of laugh, but a laugh nonetheless, while Sam just stared at me wide eyed.
"What?" I asked as I stopped laughing.
"Nothing, it's just that..." She stopped mid-sentence and stared at me blankly again.
"That what, Sam?" I asked as I stared back at her as well.
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Teen FictionHave you ever been judged by your past? Have you been avoided for being someone they thought you were? Have you been saved from isolation by someone? Sometimes we get pushed down. And we can't seem to get back up. I remember being that someone. Some...
