It started out with me leaving my apartment building to go across the street where all these other teenagers are. They're all partying and hanging out and there's a few dozen of them. Some are drinking, some are riding skateboards, some are on bikes and the girls there are, are watching all the guys.
* I recall that it was evening, about time the sun was setting.
I sit with the girls and everyone who passes kind of waves like they know me and across the way I see Kevin and his brothers hanging out like they're having a great time, yet they're dressed up slightly. Like button downs, dress pants, that kind of thing.
Naturally I'm staring at Kevin because I'm in love with the boy and the party suddenly stops. All the teenagers turn around and look down the street at a house that belonged to a friend - I'm not sure who but I just knew it was a friend - and the house is smoking violently.
A couple of us freak out so me and another guy bolt down the sidewalk to see if our friend is okay and the guy in front of me steps on this line and there's an explosion and the guy that had been running in front of me is killed.
I freak out and run back to the other kids, all of whom have totally broken into chaos. I'm freaking out because I can't find Kevin and his brothers - who are close friends of mine - and after running back to my house, I stare across the street from my window at all the kids freaking out.
I try to call Kevin's cell phone at least two times and I'm freaking out because I'm thinking that he or his brothers got hurt so once the chaos died down and no one is screaming anymore, I go outside and run down the sidewalk to their house.
I'm knocking like a mad woman when their mom answers the door and sees that I'm terrified. She lets me in and tells me the guys are a little freaked out but they're all in the room Kevin shares with the second oldest of the brothers.
I go upstairs and wait outside the door for a second and I hear them talking about why they didn't answer my calls and Kevin is kind of snooty, even though I don't remember what he says. When I walk in, his younger brothers are leaving and don't seem to notice.
I'm mad and I grab Kevin by the back of his head and his hair and I make him look at me before saying
"I just care about you. Why do you have to be so mean?"
I'm outside again and Kevin's mom returns to me. She convinces me to come back and talk to Kevin and it turns out Kevin didn't say the snooty comment - whatever it was - but someone else did that the brothers don't like.
Me and Kevin smile at each other and he explains that he was just freaking out about the explosion and that's why he'd never answered his phone. He tells me that he doesn't take for granted that I love him and his brothers so much so I apologize for grabbing his hair.
Kevin hugs me and I remember the scene turning to a lovely old woman talking to a little girl and a little boy and that's all I can remember.
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