all too well/ nate jacobs

The night was getting colder and it started to rain heavily. Lily was now sitting in the passenger seat of Nate Jacobs car. She thought of many imaginary situations about how her night may end, but none of them involved Nate. But here she was. Lily looked out the window of his car to watch the rain begin to fall faster and more aggressively.

'It's really raining outside' Lily commented the obvious

Nate nodded and chuckled, 'Yeah it's pretty bad'

Lily immediately knew that Nate was laughing at her comment. She tended to do this when she didn't know what to say.

'Do you want some music on?' He asked her as he took another sip of his beer

'I don't mind' Lily said simply, 'Should you be drinking while driving?'

Nate looked over to her and chuckled, 'I do it all the time. Who's going to arrest me?'

'A lot of people' Lily added but she decided to drop the topic

Nate leaned over towards her. His movements of his hands looked like he was going to place his hand on Lily's thigh, but he quickly pulled back and turned on his radio. Dead of Night by Orville Peck began to play softly. Lily looked down at her phone and noticed that Tyler hadn't responded for a while. She felt like maybe he didn't want to speak to her anymore or he wasn't interested.

For the past day, Tyler had been speaking to her every second and asking her every question under the sun. She knew that this may not work out as she doesn't even know his real name, but there was something about someone (especially a boy) asking her about her life and interests. It was just something she didn't get often. Male attention was something she didn't get often.

She sighed as she watched Nate make his way to her house. He noticed her loud sigh and asked if something was wrong. Lily shook her head and said, 'I'm just tired'.

Nate decided to drive up her driveway but Lily swiftly grabbed his arm.

'Don't do that' she said simply, 'I don't want my mum to see'

Nate laughed this off, 'Why?'

'I just don't want her or my sisters asking questions' Lily responded as she saw that the kitchen light was still on.

'You don't want your family knowing I dropped you off?' he asked with a subtle tone of defensiveness, but Lily noticed.

'It's not that I don't want them to know' she lied, 'Like I said, I don't want people asking questions'

'Right...' Nate trailed off

'Thank you for the drive home' Lily said, 'I do appreciate it'

'No worries' Nate said as he firmly put his car in drive

Lily took this action as a goodbye. She got out of his car and made her way towards her house. She cuddled her cardigan towards her chest when she decided to turn around and see if Nate was gone. He wasn't. She didn't want to make this extremely awkward and stand there like a creep. She turned around quickly and made her way inside. However, she stood in the doorway out of his view before he drove off down the street. She breathed in heavily as she closed her front door.

'Hi stranger' Suze Howard teased

Lily looked over to her mum and put her hand immediately to her chest. She was scared fucking shitness by her mother's introduction.

'You scared me' Lily said as she stood in the doorway awkwardly

'Who was that?' Suze asked going straight to the point