Haley's Bump

Chapter 1: It's my Life and I'll ruin it if I want to!

"Why are you always on to me?"

"I am not on to you I am protecting you!"

"Protecting me? Protecting me like a prisoner!"

"Well prison is where you're going to be if you don't calm down!"

"I don't care! Prison is probably full of other girls whose mum's wouldn't let the live a little!"

"No, it's full of girl's whose mother's didn't stop them from going over the edge!"

Every Friday evening was the same at the Dunphy residence, Claire (the mother) would have stayed home all day running errands, buying groceries, cleaning, preparing an amazing family dinner and have no time for herself at all, Phil (the father) would be at the office until about eight o'clock or even later if he managed to make a sale, Luke (the son) would come home from school and keep himself occupied with everything he is not allowed to do, for example, using the washing line and coat hanger to make a zip wire, jump half naked on the trampoline with a cardboard box on his head or even using his tech-mad father's iPad as an imaginary surfboard, then there's Alex (the youngest daughter) who is very intelligent. She will come home from school to finish off her assignments, do extra-credit or practice for orchestra.

And Last but not least, there's Haley (the oldest daughter) who would have heard about some party that was happening after school which she said she would definitely go to (being the popular socialite of a fashionista that she is) only to find out she had to baby-sit Manny (her "Uncle" which is quite a long story) because his mother Gloria (her Columbian "grandmother" who is even younger than her mother, yet another long story) and his step-dad Jay (Haley's grandfather who got divorced and married a young Columbian woman who already had a son called Manny. Now do you understand this complicated relationship?) were going out somewhere but Haley would always state that Mitch (her Uncle) and Cameron (her Uncle Mitch's partner) could baby-sit but Claire would always say that that would be too much as they have to look after Lily (her uncles' adopted daughter).

So on this very Friday night at about 7.56pm, before her father could have any say in this, Haley had heard of a party and was not going to ask for permission, she was simply going to tell her mum she is going, and that's final!

"You're not going and that's final!"

"But mum, come on! You never let me go to any parties!"

"I have every right! You are far too young to be drinking, having sex or anything else that goes on in one of these things, how do I know you'll be safe? These boys will trick you into doing things you don't want them to do Haley!"

"They won't if Dylan is around! He's going too!"

"That's all the more reason to stop you from going!"

Dylan is Haley's boyfriend who is a musician but a bit of a slacker.

"Mum, I don't care, tonight I cam going to leave, I am going to that party and I will get drunk and you know what, I will quite happily have sex!"

Claire couldn't believe her ears and Haley couldn't believe her mouth. Claire had to think how to respond in the long silence.

"You know what Haley, okay you go, go have fun, don't mind us! You can even stay there all night! So you go, you go ruin your precious life!"

An even colder silence was broken by Haley's footsteps to the door but before she left she had one more thing to say: "I will mum, you know why? Because it's my Life and I'll ruin it if I want to!"

The door slamming echoed the house, but when door closes another opens, but that door may not lead to a good place.

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