"I came for you. I figured this is where you went. After coming home at 12:30 this morning, I wondered where you went. Then when I saw you with Tommy at school this morning, I had a feeling this is where you were last night and this is where you would be tonight. Needless to say, I am not wrong." Jack explained.
Tommy and Kim just looked at each other.
"Come lets' go." Jack said walking up to Kim and taking her arm.
Kim pulled her arm away from him. "I am not going anywhere with you." She said.
"Yes you are, now you can come with me calmly. Or I can pick you up kicking and screaming, and throw you in the car." Jack said.
Kim just looked at him and nodded and left with him.
In the car, they drove in silence. Then about a block from the house, Jack stopped the car, and locked her door. Jack then started to yell at Kimberly.
"You have been nothing but a brat lately." Jack yelled.
Kim has never seen him this angry before.
"Look if you don't stop this attitude problem you have towards mom, you are going to open that can of worms, which we all don't want to happen." Jack said.
"Look I get it." Kim said.
Jack just looked at her, but he doesn't think she really understands. After all he is only seventeen; he knows and understands how teenagers think.
"No, I don't think you do. I think you would say anything to make me stop talking. Hey, I've done it too with mom and dad." Jack said.
Jack gets along well with his step-dad and was adopted by Austin after his mother married him, so he calls him dad. To make thing easier to explain, they still calls Austin's kids his step-siblings.
"Can't you just drop this please and forget it ever happened." Kimberly begged.
"No, I am not going to just drop it. You are going to drop the attitude and I will tell you why. You are only 15 years old, and mom is the adult in charge. You will do whatever she tells you to do." Jack said.
Kim said nothing and turned away.
Jack started the car to drive the final block. "When we get home, I am going to punish you for everything." He said.
"What right do you have to punish me?" Kim asked.
"I have every right. One I am older then you and two when dad is away, I am in charge." Jack said.
"Whatever," Kim said quietly but Jack heard her.
They arrived at the house. Jack got out and went around and opened Kim's door. He grabbed her arm and led her into the house and up to his room. There he let her have it, when he was done he took Kim to apologize to Penny. They found Penny in her room crying.
"You will go in there and you will apologize for being a brat, and you will mean it." Jack said still holding Kim's arm so she can't get away.
"Penny, I am sorry that I was fighting with you." Kim said softly at the door way but sincere.
"Have a seat." Penny said to her.
"No thank you, I'd rather stand." Kim said.
"Okay then, your grounded until you go back to your mom's." Penny said.
"Don't worry mom, I will see that she sticks to it." Jack said giving Kimberly a look.
Kimberly saw the look on Jack's face and got his drift so she nodded.
"Where did you go, when you ran out?" Penny asked.
Kimberly didn't say anything.
"Answer the question?" Jack said angrily.
"Tommy's," she said.
"What about last night?" Penny asked.
"Tommy's," she said again.
"Is there something your not telling me?" Penny asked Kim.
Kimberly thought about it for a minute and then decided she had better tell.
"I did something, I can't take back." Kim said quietly looking at the floor.
"What did you do?" Jack asked still having a hold of Kimberly.
"We didn't mean to, we didn't plan on it happening, but it did." Kim said.
"What happened?" Penny asked getting concerned.
"I slept with Tommy tonight." Kim said in tears.
"Why don't you go to bed, your already being punished with out adding that to it as well." Penny said.
Kim left the room and went to her room.
In Penny's room, "What was all that about? It's been a long time since I have seen her that calm around me." Penny asked Jack
"We came to an understanding, that's all." Jack said.
"What kind of an understanding?" Penny asked.
"I punished her. She will behave from here on out." Jack said.
"What did you do to her?" Penny asked.
"I was sick and tired of they way she was acting." Jack said defensively.
"What did you to do?" Penny asked again.
"I spanked her." Jack said.
"You did what?" Penny said.
"All I did is what she had coming." Jack said defensively.
"Just go to bed." Penny said to her son.
After Jack left her room, Penny sat down on her bed.
"Austin where are you, when I needed you? Penny said.
