Sorry this has taken so long, life has been manic the past couple of weeks. This is just a short filler, loosely based on my own 12 and 13 year old girls

It was the day after the barbecue, Rachel had slept in late for the first time in weeks, Eddie was snoring loudly besides her, he always snored when he had been drinking. Rachel stretched and slowly got out of bed to not wake Eddie, she walked to the door and grabbed her housecoat from the back of it and walked over to the balcony door, from the master suite at the front of the house they could see the Firth of Clyde and just make out the town of Dunoon on the other side, she never tired of this view, especially on a bright sunny summers day. She opened the door and let the warm air blow over her face as she took a seat the bench noticing the book she had left there the day before, thankfully the weather forecast had held out and not rained. Aft her what had seemed like only a few moments of peacefulness she was startled by the door bursting opened and Katie standing with her new white top and a frown.

"Mum, she has ruined my new top" Katie started to say as Zara burst in

"It was an accident" Zara shouted.

Rachel put her book down and placed a finger to her lip "Your Father is still sleeping, lets not wake him" she quietly said

"Too late for that" a voice said from inside as Eddie got up and rubbed his head, he hadn't had such a bad hangover in a while.

"Now what is going on, Katie you go first?" Rachel said as her youngest daughter sat on the bench next to her and put her top in her Mum's lap.

"I got this last week, and She wore it, and spilled something all over it" Katie pointed to the stain

"OK, Zara?"

"I didn't mean to, I wore it, and was just borrowing, and I spilled some sauce on it, I didn't want Katie to get annoyed so I put it back into the wardrobe hoping she wouldn't notice"

"Firstly, you both know to ask before you borrow clothes, and Zara, if you told me and gave it to me I could have washed it, It's been like that for days now, I don't know if I can fix it"

"Sorry Mum" Zara said

"I don't think its me you should be apologising to"

"Sorry Katie" she said looking to her younger sister.

"OK, Katie I will try and fix this, but not promising it will come out"

"Is that it, she ruined my top" Katie shouted angrily "I wanted to wear it today"

"That's enough you have plenty of other tops, and maybe you can wear one of Zara's"

"No way, she will stretch my tops she is too fat for them" Zara said as Katie lunged for her, but Rachel was quick and managed to get inbetween them.

"That is enough, really girls. Zara, I never want to hear you say that to anybody, and Katie, we do not have violence in this house, do I make myself clear" Rachel said as Eddie came outside. Rachel looked from one girl to the other as they both nodded.

"Katie, go and get dressed into something else, Zara stay where you are we want to talk to you"

Katie smirked as she left the room, sure her sister was going to get into even more trouble now. Zara sat on the bench across from where her Dad had joined her Mum.

"Am I in trouble?" Zara said

"Not as such, your Mum has convinced me that you should be allowed to go to Rugby tomorrow"

"Really, Thank you Mum, you're the best" Rachel smiled, she liked it when she made her kids smile and hated it when she had to give them into trouble.

"But, the rest of the week its school and home, I mean it, not a foot anywhere else" Eddie said, but Zara was happy she hated missing Rugby and she and Olivia would see each other there.

I have been so stuck with this and just writing in general recently, so sorry its so short.