;we are never ever ever getting back together

[gracefullygrown]

[Imagine if you will, a typical Friday night for a teenage girl. Exams are months away and homework is completed until Monday afternoon. She tells her parents that she's spending the evening out with a girl friend so her parents wouldn't worry. But in actuality, she has a date with a boy from school that she's been crushing on for a while. That too, has been kept a secret.

Now imagine this typically happy and good natured girl coming home hours earlier than expected and only makes her presence known by slamming the front door and her bedroom door once she gets upstairs. It might even be enough noise to disrupt whatever things are going on in the house. She might be very upset, but doesn't actually lock the door.

You are one of her parents. What do you do?]

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[cursebreaking]

Yeah. We're good.

[She smiles as she releases her hold on Grace, sitting up before pushing herself forward and to her feet.]

I'm sure you have better things to do than talk to me for the rest of the night. I'll let your dad know everything's okay. You going to be alright?

[gracefullygrown]

[She gives a curt nod. At this point she's just ready to shower and call it an early night. She's glad she's had this conversation, but it's been mentally and emotionally draining. She's honestly not sure if she could handle much more of it.]

Yeah, I'll be fine. Good night, Mama.