Life is Full of Firsts Continued

Leah's POV

After an hour of searching for through my closet we finally settled on a strapless, whit sun dress. It came down about mid thigh and Kim said I looked hot in it and it was comfortable so I was okay wearing it.

"Leah come on, we are about to leave." My dad shouted from down stairs.

"I better get going; I'll talk to you later."

"Yeah, call me tonight." Kim said running down stairs after doing my hair and makeup. It was simple but it looked good. I looked at myself one last time before going down stairs and running out to the door, I was barely in the car before my dad was pulling out of the driveway.

"What's the rush?"

"Your dad's hungry." My mom replied laughing. We were in front of the Uley house in no time, knocking on the door. I was really nervous, but it was completely stupid, I had eaten dinner over here before.

"Sue, Harry." Becca said opening the door, "Oh and Seth, you're getting so big." She said hugging everyone. "And Leah, you look beautiful as always. I smiled and hugged her, I had missed coming over here. We walked into the small one story house, all of us sitting in the living room. I looked around anxiously for Sam without looking suspicious but I couldn't see him anywhere.

"Sam, the Clearwater's are here." Becca yelled down the hallway. "I'm sorry; I don't know where that boy has wondered off to. He's constantly getting into trouble." My dad seemed to agree and was not too happy about how relaxed Becca was about this situation. I heard a door open and Sam walked down the hallway, wearing a button down shirt and jeans.

"You didn't need to yell." He said walking into the living room; he stopped when he saw me. "Hey." He said standing there awkwardly.

"Hi." I said back blushing slightly, which made him smile. My dad cleared his throat getting my attention.

"Well let's get started." He said, Becca smiled and led everyone to the dining room. Sam walked in front of his mother and pulled out her chair. I smiled at this; I loved his relationship with his mom. He looked like he was going to pull out my chair, but my dad beat him to it, which he never does. Sam didn't look offended; he just sat down next to me. The food was already on the table and we served ourselves. I was about to start eating when Sam grabbed my hand, I looked at him and he just smiled, him being left handed worked out really well. We could hold hands without being obvious about it. The dinner was awkward, our parents were talking about what to do with us about skipping, but my dad was the only one that actually wanted something done, the rest were relaxed. But every time one of them would say something about grounding and I would tense up, Sam would squeeze my hand, trying to comfort me. It actually really helped, just holding hands with him helped.

"Why don't the kids go outside and play." My mom said and all the adults agreed. Sam let go of my hand and immediately it felt cold without his warmth. I frowned a little but got up and headed outside with Seth right behind us. As soon as we got outside Sam grabbed my hand again and I instantly felt better.

"Hey, you guys wanna play football?" Seth asked not noticing our entwined hands.
"Yeah, sure, there's a football in the garage." Sam told my brother. I was about to go help him look but Sam gently tugged me back with our entwined hands. "Hey, I wanted to talk to you." He said leading me to the edge of the forest. "About earlier-"

"It's fine if you want to act like nothing happened." I said cutting him off not wanting him to reject me.

"I don't, do you?" it was the first time I've ever seen him uncertain of himself.

"I liked it." The words were out of my mouth before I had time to think what they would sound like.

"Me too." He said chuckling.

"So what does that make us?" I asked, not wanting to assume anything.

"I guess that makes you my girlfriend." He said with a smile playing on his lips.

He locked his eyes with mine, letting me know what he was about to do. He leaned in cupping my face with one hand, the other was on my waist; pulling me closer to him. He brought his lips to mine. It started as an innocent kiss but I wanted more, I tangled my hands in his hair, deepening the kiss. His tongue brushed against my lips begging for entrance, which I was more than happy to give. Everywhere he touched tingled, it felt amazing touching him. Someone cleared their throat and we jumped apart. My dad stood on the porch glaring at us. Sam quickly moved away from me and I stood there shocked, not quite sure what to do.

"Leah, we're leaving." My dad said stiffly. I nodded and walked to the car but before I got in I looked at Sam, he smiled slightly at me and I couldn't help but smile back. "Get in the car Leah." My dad snapped. I quickly got in, not taking my eyes off Sam. He seemed upset but didn't do anything. My dad sped off; I could tell he was angry, I had never seen him like this.

"Relax Harry." My mom tried but stopped when he glared at her. My dad was always the fun one and my mom was the strict one so it was weird to see my dad glaring. When we got home Seth rushed to his room and I tried to follow but my dad wouldn't have that.

"Leah, sit on the couch now!" he practically yelled. I sat on the couch quickly without a word and he sat on his chair, just staring, not saying anything.

"Harry, maybe we should talk about this first." My mom said.

"Talk about what? Nothing is going on."

"Harry, you saw them—" that was apparently the wrong thing to say.

"Yes and I never thought I'd see my daughter behave so poorly."

"Dad—"

"Don't even start Leah; you let some guy you barely know put his hands all over you." My dad was yelling at me.

"It's not some guy, it's Sam!" I said standing up and yelling back at him. "And his hands weren't all over me, we were kissing."

"Do not speak to me like that young lady. See this boy is a bad influence on you."

"Harry, stop. I've known Sam since he was born and not once have I ever heard him raise his voice to his mother, so you cannot blame all of this on him. He is a good boy and Becca and I strongly believe that Leah is a good influence on him."

"I don't care about him; I don't want my daughter acting how she has been." Okay so the arguing approach was not working.

"Daddy please, I really like Sam and he is good. I'm sorry about skipping school but it was not his fault."

"Baby, you're too young to date and he is older than you."

"I'm almost 15 and Sam is only a year older."

"But you're not 15 yet and until then I don't want you dating."

"So I have to wait a month until I can date Sam."

"Make it a year." He said suddenly realizing just how close my birthday was.

"I am not waiting until I'm 16!"

"Why not? If he really likes you he will wait."

"But I do not want to wait."

"Why are you pushing this?" he asked sounding exhausted, maybe I was wearing him down.

"Dad, I really like him and I want your approval. Sam is really sweet and considerate; he is nothing resembling how you think of him." I said gently.

"You deserve better." He whispered.

"Dad to you no guy will ever be good enough."

"That's because no guy ever will be." He was quiet for a while and I was getting even more anxious.

"But some will have to be good enough." I whispered, my dad sighed.

"I don't want you alone with that boy, only double dates or group things, guys only have one thing on their mind—"

"I know dad." I said rolling my eyes; I didn't want to get into this.
"Okay, well I have some work to get done." I could tell he was feeling uncomfortable.

"Okay, I love you."

"I love you to sweetheart; you know I'm just looking out for you."

"I know dad and I appreciate it." He kissed my forehead and left. I jumped up grabbing my cell phone. I called Kim's number and barely had to wait before she was drilling me with questions.

"Kim calm down. One question at a time." I couldn't get the grin off my face.

"So are you to like together?"

"Yes we are." I squealed, which was odd for me.

"So have ya'll like kissed, like a real kiss."

"Yes and then my dad walked in."

"OMG! Are you serious? That totally sucks, what happened?"

"My dad freaked out. I'm not sure if Sam still wants any part of me after what happened."

"Well I guess we will find out tomorrow."

"I guess so, listen I have to go but I'll call you tomorrow." I quickly got in bed; curious about how tomorrow would go.

I woke up early and started trying to pick out something nice and was even thinking about make up. "Stop it Leah, you are not trying to impress anybody." I had to tell myself repeatedly, you're just going to school. I pulled on a T-Shirt and a pair of jeans with a lot of rips in them. I brushed my hair and tried to style it a bit but there wasn't much I could do. My cell rang; I pulled it out and looked at the caller ID.

"Hey Em, what's up?"

"Hey I'm on my way into town."

"Really, that's great!"I was genuinely excited, she may be a pain sometimes but she's still family. I hung up with Em and headed down stairs, everyone was already there eating breakfast.

"Hey Leah, are you going to the bond fire tonight?" Seth asked me, practically jumping up and down with excitement. He had always been too young before to go to the bonfires, but this year our parents agreed he could go, only if I was there with him though.

"Yeah and Emily is driving in so she can go with us!" I said getting excited, I loved bonfires, they were so much fun. I made myself a bowl of cereal and brought it upstairs, now I had to find something to wear tonight. I put my music on and danced to it while I looked for something to wear and ate my breakfast. I looked for about ten minutes then I ran out of cereal. I turned around and saw Sam leaning in my doorway. I almost dropped the bowl I was holding, I hadn't heard him come in.

"Hey." He said smirking.

"Hi." I said putting my bowl down. "I didn't hear you come in."

"I figured."

"Shut up." I said turning around, looking through my closet again, I didn't want him to see me blush.

"Don't be embarrassed, you're cute when you dance." I smiled but didn't turn around.

"You should wear this." he suggested, I turned around and he was holding a skimpy little mid drift, he had a smirk on his face.

"I don't think so. That's my cousins, she must have left it."

"I like it."

"Well to bad, this is the last time you will see it because I'm giving it back to Emily today."

"Is she coming?"
"Yes, I was thinking I would take her to the bond fire."

"Oh, well I was going to ask if you wanted to go."

"I would love to, do you mind if Em tags along?"

"I guess not." He sounded very uncertain.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know, I just don't really wanna' spend a whole night with her."

"She's not that bad, really, I think you'll like her."

"I doubt that." I looked up at him, by this time Sam was standing right in front of me, and I was leaning against my closet door.

"Oh come on, you've never even met her. That can't be why you're upset." He groaned, resting his forehead on mine.

"Well I was kind of hoping this would be our first date and I could show off my girlfriend." He said smiling; I couldn't help but smile back.

"It still can be, Emily will probably find someone to dance with in the first five minutes."

"Let's hope." He whispered, leaning in and kissing me. I would have stayed like that all day if we hadn't of heard footsteps on the stairs. "I have really crappy timing." Sam said as he pulled away. I smiled and turned around so that whoever came in my room didn't see my flushed face. I went back to looking at clothes, still not sure what I should wear.

"Hello Sam." My dad said stiffly.

"Sir." It was odd to hear him say that and sound so nervous around my dad, they had always been close.

"I would appreciate it if you two weren't up in her room alone." My dad glared.

"Oh right, sorry sir."

"And knock off this whole sir business, its Harry." My dad smiled slightly, I let out a sigh of relief and so did Sam. My dad left the room.

"That went well." Sam said hugging me from the back.

"It did, now let's get downstairs before he changes his mind." I laughed, grabbing some clothes on the way. I changed in the hall bathroom while Sam waited in the living room watching football with Seth and my dad. I'm glad everything's normal. But my dad got over it way to fast, something had to be up. Turns out I grabbed my black tank top and my jean shorts.

"Dad, Sam and I were going to hang out for a little while. Then Ems coming into town and we were all going to go to the bond fire."

"Okay, have fun." He smiled. I paused, not really sure what to do. He never just lets me leave; it's always twenty questions and curfews. I decided I didn't want to stick around for him to regain his senses, I grabbed Sam's hand and we practically ran out of there.

"What's up with your dad?"

"I don't have the slightest idea." He grinned at me.

"So what are we doing today?" I asked.

"I don't really have anything planned. We could just walk or go to the beach."

"The beach would be fun." I didn't really care where we went I just like being with him and holding his hand. I could feel the stares we were getting from everyone, either Sam didn't or he was good at ignoring it. He just kept on with our conversation. I loved how we could talk for hours about nothing but it was enough to distract me from anything.

"Is this weird?" I asked, not really sure what I was asking.

"What, holding hands?"

"I don't know." I really couldn't explain it.

"Just ignore everyone." So he did notice the stares.

"I don't know how you do it."

"I have to for football. If I focused on everyone staring at me while I played I would never be able to concentrate. You're going to have to learn for cheerleading."

"I can cheer in front of people because they're supposed to be watching us. I do not like how we are just walking down the street and everyone is watching us. it's like there waiting for us to do something stupid." He just laughed.

"And what would be stupid?"

"I don't know, like getting married right after high school or getting knocked up."

"Well we still have awhile before both of us graduate and as for the knocked up thing I'll at least wait until you're a junior."

"That is so not funny."

"Really than why am I laughing?"
"You're laughing because you are-"

"An ass." He finished my sentence. We both laughed, finally making it to the beach. We found an empty patch and sat down, still holding hands. We just sat there for a while, talking, letting everyone get used to the idea of us together. It was six before we got home, Sam dropped me off saying he would meet me there. I sat on the couch; I only had to wait about five minutes before Emily pulled up.

"Hey!" she screamed when I ran out to her. We hugged for a second before Em pulled back. "Are you wearing that?" she asked.

"I was going to, is there something wrong with it?" I asked.

"Well it kind of makes you look fat. And I don't say this to hurt your feelings, I do it to protect you." She sounded genuine, I hadn't thought it made me look fat and Sam didn't say anything, but he was probably being nice. "Come on, I'll help you find something." We went to my room and changed. Emily ended up in the outfit I was originally wearing and I was in a T-shirt and another pair of jean shorts. Emily wanted us to wait until 7:30 to go because she wanted to be 'fashionably late'. I was a little upset because I wanted to see Sam but then again Emily was only in town for a day so I should be hanging out with her. By the time we got there the party was well on its way. The bond fire was huge and the music was loud.

"I'm going to find Sam." I told Emily, she nodded scouting out the dance floor. It took me ten minutes but I finally found him with Paul, Jared, and a very familiar girl who was practically throwing herself at him. Sam looked beyond uncomfortable. I quickly made my way over to them. I figures Emily would target my boyfriend. When Sam saw me he smiled and excused himself from the group.

"Hey, I was beginning to think you stood me up." He smiled.

"I wouldn't dream of it." I smiled back, he gently kissed me. "So I see you have met my cousin." I said gesturing towards Emily who had now moved on to Paul.

"I told you I would like her."

"You talked to her for like five minutes, there had to be something you liked about her."

"I liked her outfit, it looked familiar." He said smirking.

"I wonder where you saw it?" I played along.

"I think it was on this really hot brunet earlier." I blushed and looked down. He pulled me into a tight hug. "So why did you change?" he whispered in my ear causing a chill to run down my spine.

"I didn't like how it fit." I said, and that was a small part of it, a very small part that I didn't even realize until Emily pointed it out.

"Really, I think you looked hot."

"Really?" he was probably trying to be nice.
"But I guess it is a good thing you changed." See I knew it "If you hadn't I would have more trouble keeping guys from checking you out."

"Excuse me?"

"Look around Leah, half the guys here are drooling over you and the other half hasn't seen you yet." My cheeks must have been scarlet.

"You are making that up."

"How can you not see how hot you are?" he asked sounding genuinely stumped. I just shrugged and leaned into him. "You hungry?" I nodded. "What do you want, they have hotdogs, hamburgers, and chips."

"I'll just have chips."

"Leah you have to eat more than that."

"I refuse to eat anything else."

"Why?"

"I'm a vegetarian." I was shocked he didn't know, the whole town made a huge deal since my dad made the best fish fry and now I refuse to eat it.

"Really?"

"Yes, I have been for eight months now."

"You learn something new every day. Let's go see if we can find some meatless food." I smiled, he was perfect. We got to the food table and Emily was there just staring at the food.

"Hey Em, what are you doing?"

"Oh nothing, do they have salads at these events."

"Uh no." Sam answered for me. Emily smiled brightly at him.

"So Leah when do I get to meet this boyfriend of yours?" Sam snorted when she did finger quotes around 'boyfriend'.

"You can meet him right now. Emily this is my boyfriend Sam, Sam this is my cousin Emily." I gestured back and forth in between them.

"Leah you know you don't have to pretend to have a boyfriend. And you really don't have to pay a guy." I wasn't sure how to respond.

"She's not faking it and she definitely is not paying me." Sam said wrapping his arms around my waist, I instinctively leaned in. "Now if you excuse us I want to go dance with my girlfriend."

The face Emily had on was priceless, a mix of surprise, anger, jealousy and a few other things. Sam dragged me on to the dance floor, neither of us caring that people could be watching us, just dancing.

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