Chapter 8: Protective...Jeff?
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In the morning I woke up, took a shower and put on (the outfit on the top plus the make up, and the bag: cgi/set?id=97524678 ), I just put on a little eye liner to go with my eye shadow. My jacket was a half jacket but my skirt was high waited which means it covered my stomach and it still went to like 2 or 3 inches above my knee, but my boobs were still sticking out of my shirt. I left my hair naturally straight, I went downstairs and ate breakfast. Matt walked into the kitchen, looked at me and said "You need to get dressed we leave in 15 minutes." "I am dressed." I said. "What about your shirt?" Matt asked. "This is the shirt I am wearing." I said. "Change your shirt." Matt said. "Mattt" I whined. "Please?" I asked. "No, either you change or I take your phone for a day." Matt says. "Your not dad, Matt." I say. "No but I am your legal guardian which means I am in charge of you and you have to listen to me." Matt said. "Your not my only guardian, Jeff is to." I said. "Okay then how about we ask Jeff?" Matt says. "Jeff!" Matt said. A minute later Jeff came down the stairs he looked at Matt, he had not seen me yet. "Me and Mandi need your help, I want Mandi to change but she doesn't so since your her other guardian tell me what you think of her shirt." Matt said.
"Okay." Jeff said. He turned his head and looked at me. "There is no way in hell your leaving looking like that. I agree with Matt change your shirt." Jeff said. "Jeffy" I said. Jeffy was my nickname for Jeff when I was little. "Please it is just a shirt." I said. "Mandi please change your shirt." Jeff said nicely. "I'd rather not but thanks for your consideration." I said and tried to walk away but Jeff stopped me. "This is not a choice go change your shirt." Jeff said. "No." I said. Jeff took a breathe "Mandi you have until the count of 5 or your grounded for 4 days." Jeff said. My mouth opened. "For 4 days?" I asked. "It's just a shirt." I said. "Then you can change it." Jeff said. "What is with you today? Your being stricter than Matt is." I said. "Before I wanted to be your friend and I didn't want you to get mad at me for telling you what to do or wear, Matt never had that problem. I am your guardian now, so I don't care if you get mad because it is my job to guide you and make sure you don't do anything stupid." Jeff said. "Jeff I wish this one time you could act more like my brother instead of my guardian." I said.
"Well, as not only your guardian but also as your brother there is no way you are wearing something like that ever, even if it is inside this house. If you want me to act like your brother I will and as your big brother you better get your ass up stairs and change. I've bit my tongue and let you wear almost anything you want and now that is going to change." Jeff said while looking me straight in the eyes. "Fine I'll change my outfit" I said. I walked past Jeff just a little bit into the living room. I took my jacket off and said "There I changed my shirt." Now you could see my chest more, at least my jacket covered my chest a little bit. "Amanda Claire get upstairs and put on a different shirt. Now!" An angry Jeff said. I decided to push him. "Make me." I said. Jeff said to Matt "Make sure she doesn't go anywhere I'll be right back." then Jeff went up stairs. Jeff came back down stairs a few minutes later with a jumper in his hand. "Your not going anywhere until you put this on and since you wanted to be difficult your closet is locked, Matt or I will have to unlock it and approve of your outfits before you leave from now on." Jeff said. "Locked?" I asked confused. Jeff nodded his head. I went to my room to see what he meant, Jeff had put 2 locks on the doors of my closet, I tried opened it but I couldn't because it was locked. I stomped down stairs practically yelling "You can't do that, it's my closet! What the heck Jeff!" I said. "Actually I can do that since you won't listen us to and just taking your phone or laptop away doesn't work, maybe this will." Jeff said. I gave Jeff a really dirty look since I was mad at him. "I got this out of your closet, so you better change into it or you will loose your closet and be grounded for longer than 4 days." Jeff said. "Wait you took my closet away and I'm grounded for 4 days?" I asked. "Yeah I told you that you would be grounded for 4 four days if you didn't change so your also grounded, no going anywhere with Jade or anyone else. Matt or I will drive you straight to school and back home, no phone, lap top, television, or music, we are also taking your Ipod away." Jeff said. "Jeff this is not fair." I said. "We both told you repeatedly to change and you didn't, you did this to your self Mandi." Jeff said. "Now change your shirt unless you want to be grounded for 7 days instead of 4." Jeff said while handing me a cream colored jumper with a heart on it (the bottom shirt: cgi/set?id=97524678 ).
He was being really strict today and I didn't want to be grounded for any longer so I decided to change my shirt, I went in my room and changed my shirt. Jeff and Matt took me to school, it was silent at first then Jeff and I made up but I am still grounded, and my closet is still locked. Matt said "But next time when we tell you something you better do it instead of arguing am I understood?" Matt said while staring at me through the rear view mirror which meant he was serious, quiet Matt was gone and big brother Matt was back. "Yes Matt." I said. We drove into the school parking lot and I got out and said "Bye." "Bye" Matt and Jeff said. I told Jade about how I was grounded because I didn't want to change my shirt, she agreed with me that being grounded for that long and having my closet locked sucks. I saw Nick in the cafeteria I didn't talk to him, he looked at me but I walked away when he did. I heard around school that over the weekend he was skating without a helmet, that was why his face looked a little bruised and messed up today.
Jeff picked me up from school he wouldn't even let me turn on the radio in the car. I reached for the radio and he said "Uh-uh your grounded, no music." It was annoying but I knew if I argued I would be grounded for longer so I kept my mouth shut. When I got home I went up stairs to change I was burning up in this jumper all day. I saw that now the little locks on my closet have been changed to electronic locks so I can't pick it. I went in my drawer, that were not locked, and got a WWE tee shirt that Matt had got me and shorts that went just above my knees, they were the longest shorts I had since I knew that short, shorts would make Matt and Jeff mad.
I did my homework then went downstairs. I saw Matt so I said "Matt I'm bored can we play a board game or something?" I asked. "Ask Jeff." Matt said. "Why ask Jeff?" I asked to me it was stupid to have to ask Jeff when I was asking Matt, especially when it was just about a little board game. "Because he is the one who grounded you and I don't know if your grounded from board games also." Matt said. "That is stupid, why would I be grounded from a board game?" I asked, well more like said with an attitude. "Because of your actions and attitude which if you don't watch you will be in more trouble" Matt said. "Ok, sorry Matt I didn't mean to get an attitude." I said. "It's okay now go ask Jeff and if he says yes then I will play monopoly with you okay?" Matt said. "Okay" I said. I got up to look for Jeff "He is in his room" Matt said. "Okay" I said.
I went up to Jeff's room and knocked on the door. "Ya?" Jeff said. "It's me" I said. Jeff came and opened the door. "Hey Mandi" Jeff said. "Hey so I wanted to play a board game with Matt but he said I had to ask you first because he didn't know if I was grounded from board games or not, and he wouldn't play one with me unless I asked you." I said. "Yeah it's fine with me I'll play with you guys." Jeff said. "Okay" I said and went to go get monopoly.
Jeff's point of view:
I went downstairs and saw Matt in the living room. "Hey Mandi is getting monopoly, I am playing with you guys." I said. "Okay" Matt said. "Why did you have Mandi ask me if she could monopoly?" I asked Matt. "Because you grounded her and I didn't know what all from." Matt said. "Thanks for having my back." I said. "It's cool of course I would have your back." Matt said, "She is grounded from everything except makeup, board or card games until Saturday, and I will give you the code to her closet to unlock it but stay with her and approve of her outfit before she puts it on. You only have to approve of her outfit if I am not up or if I have not already done it, and lock her closet back after she gets her outfit." I say. "Alright I can do that." Matt said. Mandi came downstairs with monopoly.
"I want to be the dog" she said. We played monopoly, Matt won, then Mandi asked "Jeff when are you going to take the lock off of my closet?" She asked sweetly while batting her eyes and trying to look sweet. "When you prove to me or Matt that you can pick out your own appropriate outfit without us and when you prove that you can listen to us better and respect us. I know that this is different for you, having to listen to me and me telling you what to do instead of Matt but we still love you, we just want what is best for you." I said. "Okay I love you to." Mandi said. We played board and card games the rest of the night and Matt made dinner, then Mandi went to bed.