Jessica got into bed that night but she couldn't sleep. She was furious at her mother for grounding her but she also knew that she deserved worse for what she was doing. She didn't want her parents to find out what she was doing. But than again which teenager would want their parents to find out. She finally fell asleep after hours of staring at the ceiling.

The following morning: By the time Jessica got downstairs her parents where gone. She noticed her keys on the kitchen counter with a post it under neath it. In her mother's handwriting it read "Home by 10. I'm serious." she crumpled the note and threw it in the trash.

"Alexa, hurry up let's go!" she yelled and threw her backpack over her shoulder. Alexa came down the stairs in her uniform with her backpack on her shoulder. She took a pop tart off Jessica's plate and bit it while they walked out of the house. They went to school like they normally did. After school Jessica dropped Alexa off at home and she went somewhere. Alexa had no idea where she was going or what she was doing and she honestly didn't care. She went into her room and sat in front of her computer. She went on AIM. Hour later she heard a door slam closed and at first she thought it was Nick. Than she heard the sound of her mother's heals coming up the marble stair case. The sound got louder and louder until her bedroom door opened.

"Hey, Lex." Dana said as she walked into the room.

"What are you doing home so early?" she asked with a sound of panic in her voice.

"There was a board meeting but I pretended to have a headache because I was tired."

"Where's Dad?"

"He took an extra shift today for some stupid reason. Where's Jessica?"

"Um..."

"Umm what?"

"I don't know."

"It's 9:30. I told her she had to be home at 10."

"Well there is still 30 minutes until 10."

"You know something, Lexa. I know you know something."

"I know a lot of things. Like 2+2 is 4." she joked and laughed.

"You know something about Jessica that I don't."

"Oh, that's true. Did you know she's wearing pink underwear today?"

"I didn't actually and I honestly don't wanna know why you know that. But, you know what I'm talking about and we both know it's in her best interest if you tell me where she is and what she's doing."

"I don't know anything about where she goes or what she does. I honestly don't care." she answered honestly. Dana turned around and walked out of the room. Alexa raised her brows and waiting a few seconds to make sure Dana was not in a near vicinity. She grabbed her cell phone to send a text message to Jessica.

"Where the fuck r u? Momz home & shez pissed." she send the message. About 30 seconds later Jessica replied.

"Fuck Mom. What does Mom know! NOTHING." Alexa read and pressed reply.

"She knows more than ur giving her credit for. Watever ur going is gonna get u in shit." she presses send. And seconds later the reply came.

"Fuck off and let me worry bout it." she pressed END until the main screen was the only thing to see. She jumped onto her head and buried her face into the pillow. About an hour later Dana came back into her room to find her asleep with her face buried in her pillow and her arm hanging off the edge of the bed. Pulled the comforter from under Alexa to cover and left. Jessica had just gotten home. She was standing in the dark kitchen trying to figure out how to get to her room. That's when she heard the distinctive sound of heals walking toward her direction. She begun to panic. Dana's hand was over the light switch, she knew Jessica was standing somewhere in the dark. She flicked the switch on and saw Jessica simply standing there.

"Jessica...."she looked straight into her daughter's eye. Her make up was heavy and dark. "You look ridicules, Jessica. Have you seen yourself in a mirror?"

"What do you want from me? Why would you leave me alone?!"

"Jess, I trusted you this morning when I gave back your keys. I expected you home by 10 and I came home in time to make sure you would. And yet it's almost 11 and you just got home."

"Chill, it's not a big deal. I'm going to my room. Text me if you think of anything else about me that you can't stand." she answered rudely and went up the stairs. Dana sighed and walked back to the living room. She sat on the couch with stilettos pressing against the white marble of the floor, suddenly one of the heals snapped into two.

"Fuck!" she exclaimed in anger. She felt like exploding but didn't know what to take her anger out on so she put more pressure on the opposite shoes. Within seconds the thin heal snapped and broke off. That's when the front door opened and Nick walked in. He put his stuff down and came into the living room.

"What's wrong with you?"

"I broke my heals."

"Both of them?" he asked. She nodded. "Well I'm sorry for your loss. But I've seen your closet and I know for a fact you have another pair of those exact same shoes."

"I paid 300 dollars for these." she said in anger. "Wanna know why I broke them?" she asked

"No, but you're gonna tell me anyway so..."

"Jessica got home 5 minutes ago. I told her to be home by 10 and she got home 5 minutes ago!!!"

"Okay, it's not that big of a deal. You didn't need to ruin 300 dollar shoes over that."

"I'm mad Nick, I'm furious. She purposely disobeyed me AGAIN."

"Dana, we're not gonna go through this everyday. Let it go. Just let it go."

"I can't."

"Why not?!"

"Because I was 16, too. I know what she's doing because I did it, too. And I don't want her doing it."

"Wait a minute, what did you do?"

"You don't remember what we did when I was 16?" she asked. He shook his head. "The night I met you, I snuck out of the house with my friends and we went to that night club, I got drunk, I past out and woke up on your mother's couch."

"Oh.. Yeah. That was an interesting night. " he smiled and chuckled. "You threw up in my car."

"She's doing the same thing."

"She's not drinking. We would smell it if she was drinking. And she comes home at night sooner or late. As I recall you didn't. You went home 5 minutes before the sun rose. She's not you. She's making her own mistakes and we can't stop her." he went sat on the couch next to her and leaned in to kiss her. His arms fell to her waist and pulled off her shirt. She wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned back onto the couch. She fell onto the couch with his body on top of her. Their lips locks together. They fell asleep in each other's arms on the couch with the TV on. The next morning the sun gleamed into the room through the window. Nick opened his eyes and but he's mind was still asleep. He sat up and picked up Dana's phone from the table to check the time. He put his hand on her bare shoulder and begun shaking her.

"What?!" she whined as she turned over to face him.

"It's almost 9, Dana."

"It is?" she asked and yawned. "Are the kids gone?"

"They should be."

"Good." she answered

"Aren't you gonna go to work today?" he asked her.

"No. Niether are you." she replied. "We're gonna stay home and relax."

"You wanna go upstairs and have sex?"

"Again? Fine." she stood up and walked toward the stairs. He followed her. They got to their room. Dana begun taking off what little clothing she had on from the previous Night. Nick pulled the comforter and throw pillows off the bed and threw them aside. Dana went into her closet to put on a negligee.

"Ready?" he asked.

"No." she answered.

"Hurry up. I'm gonna take off whatever your putting on." he reminded her. A few seconds later she walked out wearing a short black negligee. "That looks amazing." he walked closer and kissed her. "Now take it off." he whispered into her ear as he was kissing her neck. That's when they heard footsteps in the house.

"Do you hear that?" she pushed him away.

"Yeah, it's nothing. Let's go." he urged.

"No, Nick. Go check who it is." she threw a shirt at him. He put it on and walked toward the foyer balcony. Dana followed him.

"No one's there." he reassured her. A bang was heard from Jessica's room. They looked at one another and walked into to the room. Jessica was picking up her monitor of her MAC computer which had somehow fallen on the floor.

"What are you doing home?" she said in shock.

"Why aren't you at school?" Nick responded

"Why aren't you at work?"

"We called in sick." he answered. Jessica looked past Nick at her mother.

"Well, who looks like the hooker now?" she raised her eye brows. Dana just turned around and left as though she had given up on Jessica. Nick on the other had was starting to understand his wife's method of parenting.

"I have been very lenient with you and you're starting to piss me off. I don't wanna know what you're up to Jessica. I want it to stop. You're gonna stay in here all day, all night. Period. We're gonna be home all day if you decide you wanna tell us what exactly has been going on." he slammed the door closed.

To Be Continued...
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