I'm sorry mum, it wasn't my fault.
Mum, I'm sorry but … Mum, I know you're disappointed but … I didn't mean to, it just happened. Mum!
'Melissa got all A's every year and she was on the netball team, football team, in science club and she volunteered at the church every Monday and Thursday night' its all about Melissa .Mum and Dad always talking about how she had got the highest score out of the whole school in a test or how she had been the youngest to get on to some team or get into some club or win some award.
If their not talking about Melissa their saying how disappointed if I don't get into Oxford (in three years), that I have to join as many extra after school groups as possible, get the best test scores, to take the courses they want me to take in college, how I have to dump my boyfriend because, 'I can't be seen hanging out with that type of person'.
