Hi! So here's the next chapter! Yay! Hopefully this'll be OK.
Disclaimer: Do I really need to go through all this again?
"No. I absolutely refuse! I am an adult now. I am perfectly capable of staying home alone."
"Beck, we've been over this twice already." Dad was getting evermore exasperated. "We can't leave a fourteen the are old girl on her own for a week."
"Sure you can! The Bennets can check in on me every couple days, and I won't do anything crazy whilst you're gone!"
"The Bennets hate us." Hawkeye replied somewhat skeptically.
"Xanthe doesn't."
"So we're supposed to trust another spectacularly insane fourteen-year-old to make sure you don't burn the house down?"
Sensing I was not only outnumbered but failing miserably in my argument, I changed tack. "It's just, it'll be really awkward. Cathy hates me, and last time I saw her Mom wasn't in too great a mood either. And I have to live with them for a week? Bad plan." That was actually pretty hypocritical of me. I, Beck Pierce-McIntyre am the Empress of Bad Plans. But I wasn't going to say that.
"Maybe she has a point there, Trap. We can't make her stay in Boston whilst we're gone, and Louise and I aren't really on the best of terms."
"So what do you suggest?" By this point, I was getting a really bad feeling. When adults suddenly switch from arguing against you to being in total agreement, it's usually a sign you're actually losing.
"I'll see if BJ'll put her up for the week. I'm sure Erin will appreciate the company."
Oh God, no. Fact is, I don't like the Hunnicut clan all that much. Don't get me wrong, they're lovely people and all, but that's just it. They're lovely people. It's suffocating. Besides, Peg twitters (like, actually twitters) rather than speaking like a normal person, and Erin's so clingy. Whenever I see her (which, thankfully, is only once a year) she follows me (and Cathy if she's around, which, up until recently, she usually was) like a lost puppy. And BJ insists on calling me Becca. No-one can be bothered to correct him.
No way was I spending the week with them.
"So...I hear Boston's lovely this time of year."
Just to clarify, I have nothing against BJ ('cept for the fact he replaced Trapper), Peg or Erin. I just don't think they'd all get along. My headcanon is that Trap & Beej get on sort of OK-ish (but not perfectly), Louise is convinced Peg has gone through the same issues she has (but she's wrong), and Cathy and Beck really don't like Erin but she thinks they do. So yeah.