Time Warp: Teenage Follies

[Louis Scott]

Set on July 4, 2013

Louis looked straight ahead as he came upon the house that Philip had told him about a few days ago, seeing the shapes of people moving through the windows. The family who owned the place was well off with a two story house that had a large pool in the backyard, and apparently they had left an eighteen year old alone in the house on Independence Day weekend. This had led to an inevitable conclusion, that young person had decided to throw a party and had secretly invited as many people from Hammel as they possibly could. Louis had originally been against going to event, but then Lip had convinced the sixteen year old to come anyway.

The Louis of 2013 was a very different person from whom he would turn into, he hadn't reached many growth spurts yet, leaving him as only being 5’8. He also had not started going to the gym yet, so he just looked like a normal blonde haired teenager who dressed in jeans and t-shirts.

When Louis entered the house he was greeted to the sounds of someone’s party playlist being played on speakers, insuring everyone within the house could hear it while being just low enough that none of the neighbors could complain. He was also met with the flood of horny, dramatic, teenage emotions that caused him to stumble backwards for a moment. The Seattle native waded through the throng that was hanging around the front door and living room area, eventually squeezing out near the kitchen. As this was happening, Louis looked around, trying to find his older friend. He hoped that Lip could guide him through night without too much trouble.

[Philip Romano]

College pretty fucking great. Only one year in and Lip was having way more fun than all his years at boarding school. There were no rules in college. ….Well at least a lot less rules than at Hammel. Basically if Lip didn’t get caught, he could pretty much do whatever he wanted. Which was a lot of things.

His freshmen year was over now, and he was really supposed to be back in Napa with his father and Alex. But he’d flown back out to stay with his roommate (who lived in Pilot Ridge conveniently) after hearing about the rager he was throwing for July 4th. He was staying for two weeks, and then heading back to Napa for the remainder of the summer. The whole plan had taken a bit of persuading on Lip’s part, but in the end he got what he wanted. He usually did.

It was worth it though because this party was fucking lit. Almost all of his college friends had come up, on top of several other unknown guests. Noah told him he could invite whoever he wanted too, so he’d even texted a couple of his friends who were still at Hammel to see if they were around for it. He wasn’t sure if any of them were actually going to show up, but alcohol and old friends were always a good combination!

Lip pushed his way to the kitchen, a bottle of Yuengling in his hand. Damn there were a lot of fucking people here. In the back of his mind, Lip was dreading the cleanup tomorrow. It definitely wasn’t going to be pretty. And he had no fucking clue where Noah was; last he remembered he was wound around some leggy blonde who’s shorts left very little to the imagination. Lip doubted he’d see him until tomorrow morning.

The kitchen was slightly less crowded, which was a nice reprieve as he made his way over to the fridge to replace his empty bottle. On his way there he spotted a familiar face. It was one he wasn’t really expecting, even though he’d been the one to invite him in the first place. “Hey! Scott!” Lip clapped the younger boy on the back greeting, raising up his empty bottle. “Dude, I didn’t think you were gonna show!”