So here I am trying to get breakfast and have a nice morning and it is being completely ruined by my dad who is standing in front of the sink in his underwear. Ew. I'm leaning against the counter avoiding the sight of him when mom asks, "Hey Lindsay how'd you like to go buy some new clothes at the mall? Those old jeans are looking pretty ragged." I inform her, "No thanks mom, I like my jeans." She turns back to cooking and Sam says, "Dad's the one who could use some pants." He is not wrong. Like dad put on some pants please. Mom laughs and dad says, "Who am I trying to impress? When it's your house you can wear a tuxedo to breakfast."

Mom says, "Honey, I called Mrs. Amendella. She is going to stay with you kids while daddy and I are in Chicago." A babysitter? Really? Do they not realize we are both in high school? Who the hell needs a babysitter in high school? I say, "Mom no! we don't need a babysitter I can take care of Sam." Sam gives us all a weird look and says, "I can take care of myself." Dad, sarcastically, says, "Oh yeah that's a great idea. I can just see you guys eating candy for breakfast and drawing pictures on the walls." How old does he think we are? Five? I say, "How old do you think we are dad? I've been babysitting for the Kellers for two years already." Dad replies, "Yeah, but that's for their kids." I roll my eyes at this. Really dad? Mom says, "Well I don't know. Maybe they are a little old for a babysitter. Maybe their ready honey." Finally, one of them is making some sense. Dad shrugs and says, "Well, fine. Mrs. Amendella makes the house smell like an old lady anyway." Yes! Yes! Yes!

We all laugh at dads joke and mom says, "I hear Peter Lemengello is playing the closing night Gala." Dad responds, "Paul Anka." Sam says, "Ooh, Paul Anka. Can I come?" No really can he go? The whole house to myself would be awesome! Dad says, "Yeah, I guess you'd prefer if we'd listen to that punk rock music I've been reading about. You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience." I roll my eyes yet again; my father is such a drama queen. Mom says, "Ah, that's terrible." He continues to complain, "Yep, that's what I want to do. Spend my hard earned money to be spit on. Now that's entertainment." I tell him, "Oh, come on, Dad. Every generation is afraid of the music that comes from the next. Well, I'm sure your parents hated Elvis." He says, "Elvis didn't expectorate on his fans." Sam says, "No, but he died on the toilet." Dad had to of course make another comment, but by now I had blocked the whole thing out. My family is ridiculous.


I walk through school and as I do I look for my friends. Millie says, "Hey Lindsay," as I walk by. Throw back a quick, "Hey," and continue on my way. I see Nick so I call out, "Hey Nick." He looks pretty down as he says, "Oh, Hey. What's up?" I ask, "What's the matter." He informs me, "Um, John Bonham died you know." I give him a weird look and say, "Yeah I know. Last week." Why is this just now hitting him? He was fine last week and I know he knew too we all talked about it. He is so freaking weird, I swear. He tells me, "He's dead. You know, it's like, he's dead. And as a result there's no more Led Zeppelin. So." I look at him confused and ask, "Well, why don't they just get a new drummer?" He looks at me genuinely upset and says, "What are you? Let's just forget it." Well ok than. See what I mean? Weird. with that said we walk off to meet the others.

When we walk up I hear Kim say, "And then you switch price tags with something that is really cheap. Then you gotta put the original back on it and return it for store credit. That's how I got this jacket." She pauses to put emphasis on the jacket. As she saying this Nick and Daniel slap hands. Daniel holds out his hand for me to do the same and when I do he grabs my hand then pulls me down so I'm sitting next to him. Kind of close might I add. Kim continues on about her jacket, "Ten bucks this thing cost me." Ken ever the sweetheart says, "Oh, it's beautiful. Clearly worth all the effort." Daniel says, "Hey, if I owned a store and I caught some little kid shoplifting, I'd just take him out back and I'd deal with it." I laughed and said, "Oh would you tough guy?" He looks at me and says, "Yeah I would." I just continue to laugh and he starts to laugh with me. Kim I guess was getting pissy about him showing me attention so she asks, "Oh like that time John Ergner kicked your ass? Like that?" Daniel rolled his eyes and said, "Would you mind flapping your lips somewhere else? You smell." Nick asks, "Kim what's your problem today? Daniel reject you again?" She glares and says, "He didn't reject me I decided to be done with his loser ass. I can do way better anyway." Daniel looks at her and says, "Oh, is that what happened? Okay, if it makes you feel better." He leans a little closer to me and she glares, but I just keep my mouth shut.

Nick decides to defuse the tension by asking, "Do you guys wanna hey, does anybody want to come see the wall with me on Saturday night? Thought I might try an experiment, see it straight once. I don't know." Ken immediately tells him, "Don't do it. You'll regret it, man. Trust me." I tell him, "Well I would, but my parents are going out of town and I'm supposed to watch my little brother." The three guys immediately share a look, which I know means trouble for me. Daniel says, "Uh, maybe we could all hang out at your house?" Next thing I know the word Kegger is being said by all boys in this group. Great. Kim being the bitch she is says, "Yeah right. Lindsay is to lame to let anyone into her precious little house." Ok bitch now I have to just to prove you wrong. Thanks for that. Daniel is giving this like puppy dog look and I just can't say no. I shrug and say, "Sure. Why not?" Daniel looks at Kim and ask, "Who's the too lame one?" she glares and very classily says, "Up yours." Then she storms away. Nick waves at her and says, "Bye." Daniel tells us, "Alright guys ten bucks each for the Keg." I start digging for the money, but Daniel stops me and says, "No, Lindsay, Lindsay please. The house drinks free." I smile at him as he pulls out an extra ten to cover me. He really is super sweet.


Later on I'm walking down the hall when I see Sam I say, "Sam. Hey, Sam, I'm having a keg party tomorrow night." He looks shocked as he says, "You are?" I tell him, "Yes, so you can't tell mom and dad." He asks, "But what if your friends trash the house?" I smile and tell him, "My friends aren't going to trash the house. I'll have plenty of time to clean up before mom and dad get back." He asks, "Well, what if dad finds out?" I roll my eyes and say, "Well that's my problem. Don't worry about it." He says, "No, no it's not, because dad will yell at me for not telling on you." I give him a look as I ask, "Are you gonna tell on me?" He says, "I guess not." I don't give him a chance to finish as I say, "Thanks Sam see you later." With that I take off before he can say another word and change his mind.


We are sitting here at this stupid school assembly we are getting lectured about being drunk, drunk driving and other stuff Daniel and I came from the same class so we were sitting next to each other. Daniel kept making jokes and I tried not to laugh to loudly. He looks over and sees Ken sleeping and says, "Now Ken has the right idea." With that said he lays his head on my shoulder and gets comfortable to sleep. I just try to control my burning blush on my cheeks. He is so freaking cute. This assembly is going on and on it is so boring. Daniel shots up when they start talking about coke he leans over and asks, "Wanna get out of here?" I look at him and say, "Sure." He says, "I'm gonna go, count to ten and then come." I nod and he goes. I wait counting to ten then I sneak out too. As we are walking down the hall Daniel says, "I love being told not to drink by a pothead hippie guidance counselor." I laugh and say, "there's probably a bar in the teacher's lounge." He nods and says, "Probably." As we are walking by this guy with long hair Daniel says, "Hey stroker ten buck for the keg. Don't weasel out on me. I'll cut that hair and I'll sell it." The guy says, "I know." And we keep walking. He says, "I hope you don't mind I invited my cousin and a couple of his friends to the party." I smile and say, "Oh, that's cool. What grade are they in?" He gives me a look and hesitantly says, "No grade. They're older." Oh great. This is not going to end well. I say, "Oh. Cool." This makes him smile and he says, "Right on." Then we can continue to walk through the halls talking about the party.


Later I'm following dad out helping him carry their luggage and by helping I mean I'm carrying most of it. He's lecturing about what to do while their gone. I'm not really listening I do tune in when he says, "There's $50 on the table that should be enough. Lindsay you are in charge of it." I say, "Okay." He starts talking to Sam so I tune out again until I hear mom say, "Hey Lindsay, come here, sweetie." I say, "Yeah?" She says, "Okay, now this is dinner for Friday night. This is lunch and dinner for Saturday. If you need anything else, daddy left $50 on the dining room table, okay?" I tell her, "Okay." Dad calls out, "Okay, let's go. I want to get there before the welcome mixer. All right, and turn out the lights when you go out. I'm not made of money." Sam says, "Wait." Mom and dad turn to him and I give him a deadly look, that clearly says keep your mouth shut. He clearly considers what he should say before he says, "Have a good trip." Dad says, "Thanks. We'll be back Sunday night. Don't do anything stupid." To late I developed a crush on a freak, started hanging out with him and his friends and let them convince me to have a kegger even though that is literally the last thing I want to do. I'd say we passed stupid a long ass time ago. Mom kisses us on the cheek and says, "Love you. Bye, bye. Have fun, guys." We both tell them bye and that we love them. Finally, I close the door, we listen to the car drive away and they are officially gone for the weekend! I say, "All Right!" then Sam starts following me talking about the assembly we had today and it was beyond annoying. Finally, I say, "Sam you sound like dad." He says, "Well I just don't know why you have to have beer at your party. I mean, you've never had beer at any of your other parties and they were fun." I tell him, "Well those were birthday parties Sam. We went bowling." He just won't give up he says, "Yeah, well, remember the party where you had a magician? That was fun. Why don't you have a magician?" I look at him like he is insane as I say, "We are not having a magi… why am I talking to you? I'm in charge. Leave me alone." He says, "Leave me alone." Then walks away. Oh well not my problem.


I'm in class trying to take notes and these two weirdos keep looking at me one of them says, "Party." I just look at them weird and then look away. There is a knock at the door it causes the whole class to look up. The girl says, "Yeah, uh, there is an emergency phone call for, uh, Lindsay Weir. It's her mom." I look up superfast. Oh no I hope mom and dad are okay. I grab the note and rush from the room. I'm walking with the girl and I ask, "Did they say what's wrong." She responds, "They didn't tell me anything." Ok I'm panicked and she thinks this is funny something isn't right here. As we get to the bottom of the stairs Nick is there and he says, "Hey Lindsay." I say, "Not now there is an emergency with my parents." He says, "I know. I mean no. They uh want you to come with them to buy a keg." Ok I'm a little annoyed like you guys couldn't you let me in on this ahead of time? I say, "What?" he looks at the girl and says, "Hey thanks, Sara." She says, "No problem. See you at the party tonight." Nick says, "All right. That's a cute necklace." I roll my eyes. I'm so over all of this. Nick explains that they Daniel is paying his brother $20 to buy us a keg and that we are cutting to go get it. Apparently the guys are waiting in the car for us. I'm still a little dazed from the emergency scare and Nick asks, "Are you ok?" I shake it off and say, "Yeah it's just the whole emergency phone call thing." I hit him in the stomach and we make of way out if the school. Off to get beer I guess. The car was pretty full with Daniel's brother and friends so I had to sit on Daniel's lap. I did not complain. We got the keg and got it into the house and put in the living room before the guys left to get ready.

After the guys left I'm in the kitchen putting chips and bowls and figuring out where to hang posters when one of Sam's weird little friend comes in and starts talking to me. He is so geeky I talk to him, but it's kind of weird and I can't figure why he won't go away. I hear a loud noise and since Sam's little friend is here it means he is to so I say, "Hey, Sam, what was that?" He yells back, "Uh, nothing. Bill fell." Ok whatever, I don't care. That one is not my responsibility. I look up and see the Sam's other friend still there. I ask, "Hey don't you want to go play with those guys?" He gives me a look and says, "No. I like talking to you." Weird. And I thought Nick was weird. I hear another noise as I take the cookies to be put out and weird kid tries to stop me, but I push past him and go into the living room. I say, "What are you guys…" but is top when I see that Sam's tall friend has peed his pants. Ummm. He starts stuttering and I say, "No Bill it's ok. Neal told me about your um. Well help him Sam give him something to wear." They all take off to help him.

The guys arrive and I show them around. Daniel says, "I like the posters." Nick says, "Yeah they are so trippy." The party kicks off and the party got way bigger than I thought it would. Daniel's cousin and his friends turned out to be pretty freaking old. Kim seemed to know and like them. Milly showed up. Why I have no clue. Sam and his friends are patrolling the party making sure nothing gets broken I wish I could be mad at him for them, but I'm a little grateful. I'm annoyed and pissed off because I know the guys knew the party would end up like this and they gave me no real warning. I'm trying to play cool with all this, but it's truly awful. I start drinking like crazy and I'm definitely feeling the effects of the alcohol because I don't feel angry or annoyed anymore. Ken and I have a drink off and we tie. He says, "Damn Lindsay I thought you were kind of lame, but your pretty cool." I laugh and say, "Thanks Ken."

I wander off and I as I walk by my room I see Daniel in there. I walk in and ask, "What are you doing in here?" He tells me, "Oh, I'm just, uh, looking at all this stuff." He picks up a picture and asks, "How old were you here?" Ugh that's a horrible photo of me. I say, "I was, uh, younger. I was really geeky then." He smiles over at me and says, "No you were cute." I blush bright red at that. He looks around my room and asks, "You win a lot don't you?" I say, "I guess." He goes over to my mathlete stuff and I say, "I've been meaning to put that in the basement." He reads one and says, "Oh that's right your one of those uh." I say, "Mathletes. Yeah I know it's stupid. I don't do that anymore." He looks at me weird and asks, "Why is it so stupid? You look pretty happy there. Hey, if I ever won a blue ribbon, I'd be so pumped. I mean I wouldn't wear it around or nothing, but it's cool." I say, "Thanks." He leans really close to me and then the best thing ever happened to me he kissed me. It is my first kiss and it is amazing. We continue to kiss for what feels like hours, but I'm sure was only minutes. We pull apart when we here yelling. We walk out to find one of the old guys trying to pick a fight with Ken. Daniel pulls them apart and gives me a look over their shoulder and gets them to walk away it was pretty cool.

I walk back into my room to see Nick and Kim making out on my bed. Well that was weird. I walk outside and see Daniel hanging out on the porch. I tell him, "Nick and Kim are making out on my bed." He laughs and says, "Better him than me." I laugh too and ask, "What are you doing out here?" he says, "Just getting some air. You don't look like you are having very much fun. What's wrong?" I sigh and say, "I'm just not looking forward to clean up." He laughs and says, "Don't worry I'll help you with that." I smile and say, "Really?" He says, "Yeah of course." Around 3am the party started to die down and Daniel started kicking people out. As Kim and Nick were leaving she said, "You were a great hostess. Have us over again. Oh yeah and Daniel is all yours." With a laugh she let Nick pull her out the door. Umm what just happened? Daniel stayed for another hour to help me clean up the mess that was made. When we were down I walked him out and he said, "Bye Lindsay, I knew you had it in you." He then shocked me by kissing me again. After that he left and I stood there completely confused. After a couple minutes of just staring at the spot he had been I turned and made my way to my room to get some sleep. What a night!