Chapter 14: Bad Choice & Lecture

3:00 p.m. June 12th, 2020

School was out. It was most of the miserable day of Jake's life. He couldn't take all the whispering going around school, he couldn't play basketball anymore, and he wasn't that popular. He heard someone call him behind his back 'Murder.' He got into his car angrily and sighed. He knew he had to wait for Savannah.

"Where is she?" Jake asked annoyingly.

Jake finally was ready to leave when he saw Savannah with a group of people.

"Savannah!" Jake yelled at his window. Savannah rolled her eyes and started talking with the group of people she was with.

"Oh, he's just a loser." Savannah laughed with her friends. Jake realized they were new group of friends.

Jake beeped his car. Savannah sighed and walked to her brother's car.

"What are you doing?" Savannah asked annoyingly.

"Waiting for you to get you're butt in the car!"

"Gee...calm down, bro."

"Are you drunk?"

"Drunk! NO. Why would you think that?"

"You smell like cigarrettes." Jake paused. "Get in the car, and, say goodbye to you're new friends."

"I'm going to walk home with them."

'No, you're not!"

"You can't tell me what to do."

"You'll be the one explaining to Mom and Dad."

"Whatever!" Savannah tossed her hair as she walked back to her friends. Jake looked carefully and they were smoking.

Jake shooked his head and droved off.

When Lucy went to Zach, Mike, Annabell, and Maddie's school she saw all the angry faces in them.

"Hi kids. How was school?" All four of them stepped in the car and put on their seatbelts. Annabell sat in the front.

"I didn't go back to my classroom. I stayed in the princpals office." Annabell smiled.

"Annabell..." Lucy warned.

"Am I suppose too?"

"Yes, honey." Annabell shrugged.

"Nobody likes me. Someone called me teacher's pet." Maddie announced.

"Zach and I got detention for two days." Lucy didn't notice Mike's eye.

"Mike? What happen to you're eye?" LUcy was concerned.

"I got in a fight with Justin Carter. He was talking bad about Katie." Mike responded.

"Zach? What did you do to get detention?"

"Nothing. Our teacher still can't tell us apart." Lucy sighed.

"Mommy? I'm not going back to school tomorrow." Maddie said.

"Remember what the therapist told us?" Lucy asked.

"We did. And, this is what happens." Mike pointed to his black and blue eye.

"God, help us." Lucy looked up and said quietly to God. "We'll all have a talk when we get home"

When Lucy got home she was surprised to see Jake without Savannah. And Kevin cooking dinner.
"How was school kids?" Kevin asked paying attention to his children's faces and the way they sat on their living couch.

"Where's Savannah?" Lucy sighed. "She didn't walk home with her friends did she?"

"Something like that. She'll be the one to explain." Kevin looked at everyone when none of his children replied to his question.

"How was school kids?" He asked once again.

"Can we get ice cream? I won't be sad anymore." Maddie sighed.

"Why are you sad, munchkin?" Kevin picked up Maddie and let her sit on his lap.

"No one likes to be my friend anymore. Someone called me teacher's pet."

"Awww, honey. I'm so sorry."

"Ice cream, Daddy?"

"Sure, why not?" Kevin shrugged his shoulders happily. Maddie jumped up and cheered. She skipped upstairs to her room.

"Mike? What happened to you're eye?"

"I got in a fight with Justin Carter. He's such a jerk!"

"We got detention too, Dad." Zach on tattled himself and his twin.

"How long?"

"Two days." They both replied.

"I'm afraid people will just tease me once I get in." Annabell sighs.

"I guess this is a day for some ice cream." Kevin suggested.

"You didn't suggest that. Maddie did." Zach pointed out.

"What are we going to do about you're eye Mike?" Mike shrugged at his mother's question.

It was silent for a moment and both parents sighed.

After the ice cream the kids did homework. Some of them were thinking about not going to school tomorrow.

Savannah hasn't arrived home yet.

"Jake? Where's you're sister?" Lucy asked worriedly after cleaning up the table.

"I don't know mom.." Jake responded annoyingly. He was on the computer for homework.

"I'm worried."

"She hangs out with different gorup of friends now"
"Ughh..Savannah." Lucy looked up while she said her eldest daughter's name.

All the sudden they turned around when Savannah finally came home laughing like she was drunk.

"Savannah Marie Kinkirk?!" Savannah tripped over something and realized she was home.

"Am I in trouble?" Savannah asked trying to act sober.

"Yes, you are." Jake shook his head and turned off the computer. He went upstairs to give his mother and sister privacy.

"Where were you all day? You missed dinner, you made me worried sick, and Jake said you were hanging out with new friends!"

"Stop yelling at me. You're making my head hurt, gosh." Savannah ran to the bathroom to throw up.

Kevin stepped out from his office to see if everything was okay.

"I guess Savannah's home?"

"Drunk."

Kevin and Lucy sighed once again. They didn't know what to do with their children who were going on their rebellion side.