Jack opened the door to his apartement and turned on the lights.
There was no sign of the kids.
Ronnie also walked in and looked around in all rooms of the apartement.
- 'I think Jay was just winding you up Jack'Ronnie said'he was drunk'.
- 'If so, then where are they, at Ian's cause they're not next door either?'Jack asked raising his eyebrows to his fiancé.
- 'Jack!'Ian, who had followed Ronnie and Jack to the flat, said.
- 'They're not here Ian'Ronnie said getting irritated by Ian's nervous behaviour walking around the room.
- 'Then where are they?'Ian asked.
Then Jack walked up to the bedroom again.
Ronnie, who was convinced that the kids weren't there, and that Jay hád been winding up Jack, just walked behind him.
Then suddenly Jack got on to the bed and stroked his hand over the middle of the bedcovers.
- 'What are you doing?'Ronnie asked not understanding what Jack was doing.
- 'It's still a little warm'Jack said, then he got off the bed and immediately got on his knees 'will you both get from under the bed now!'he said.
- 'What?'Ronnie asked surprised.
Then she saw Robbie and Peter both crawl from under the bed.
Peter didn't really have time to get up by himself, cause Jack grabbed him and pulled him up.
- 'What were you thinking ey Pete, that you could get it on with her?'Jack said pushing Peter against the bathroomdoor.
- 'No ofcourse not Jack i, i , i..'Peter stuttered.
- 'Dad, let go of him, it was me, it was all my idea, i got the keys and took him here'Robbie screamed'mum make him let go of Pete!'
- 'Jack let go of him'Ian said walking up and trying to grab Jacks arms but Jack just pushed Ian away.
- 'Jack!'Ronnie said.
- 'Jack let go of him, please this is all mý fault, blame me!'Robbie said also trying to grab Jack's arm.
Jack let go of Peter, and looked at Ronnie 'Ron, take Robbie home!'he said.
- 'Robbie come on'Ronnie said walking over to Robbie.
- 'I'm not leaving until i know Peter's ok'Robbie said walking away from Ronnie.
Jack looked at Peter 'get out of my sight!'he said to to young boy, who was looking scared.
Ian took Peter out of the bedroom.
Peter looked at Robbie.
- 'I'm so sorry'Robbie said to Peter who still looked a bit shook up, as Ronnie grabbed Robbie by the arm and took her out of the apartement back to nr 27.
- 'Ron, what's going on?'Roxy had also walked up to the house, to see what was going on.
Ronnie opened the door and lead Robbie in 'upstairs, and you better be in bed when i get up there, we'll talk in the morning'.
- 'Mum i...' Robbie said turning halfway up the stairs to Ronnie.
- 'Seriously Robin upstairs now, i'm really, and i mean really trying my best not to smack that behind of yours, now get upstairs!'Ronnie said sharp.
Robbie started crying and got up the stairs quickly knowing her mum was dead serious.
- 'Did you find them at Jack's apartement then?'Roxy said with a cheeky grin.
- 'You think it's funny Roxy, this is your babysister, she's 15, i could smell the alcohol on her again, and god knows what she did in that bed with Peter Beale'Ronnie was yelling walking through the room nervously.
- 'Alright alright keep your hair on'Roxy said as she sat down on the armrest of the sofa.
Then Jack walked in 'where is she?'
- 'I told her to go straight to bed, we'll have a talk with her in the morning'Ronnie said.
- 'I can't believe she took the keys, must have been yours cause i still have mine'Jack said taking his coat off.
- 'You scared the hell out of Peter'Ronnie said.
- 'Yeah well, he has some nerve, talking her into going over to my place'Jack said.
- 'Do you really think this was Peters idea Jack, common how thick are you, Robbie's not really someone to follow orders, from anyone i might say, i mean from Ron, but that's about it, thought you knew that by now, Robbie took those keys and took hím to your apartement'Roxy said'i'm gonna give Christian a call see if Amy is alright'.
Roxy walked out of the livingroom to the kitchen to make her call.
Ronnie sat down on the sofa and was biting her lip.
Jack poured himself a drink and took a sip.
- 'Roxy's right you know, Robbie's not the one to take orders from other people, she wouldn't let anyone else tell her to get my keys to your apartement, that is her idea not Peters, he was probably scared to death, and she just likes the thrill of it'Ronnie said.
- 'I'm going up to talk to her, you coming?'Jack said'i don't want us lying awake from this the whole night, wondering what might or might not has happened overthere'.
- 'You're worried they did something, sex you mean?'Ronnie asked holding Jack as he wanted to walk out of the room.
- 'Yeah, you're not?'Jack asked'i hope she hasn't done something stupid, "for the thrill of it"'.
- 'You're taking the mick out of me Jack?'Ronnie asked a bit annoyed'what are you saying, you think i don't know my own child, i mean i think she might be curious about having sex, but she wouldn't just do thát "for the thrill of it" alright'.
Ronnie sighed as they both walked up the stairs and walked over to Robbie's room and went in.
Robbie was still in her clothes lying on her bed faced down in her pillow.
She had gone upstairs and had been crying, not for herself but for getting Peter in trouble with Jack.
- 'Robbie we wanna have a word with you!'Jack said.
Robbie looked up and Ronnie saw Robbie's eyeliner spread out all over her face from crying.
- 'Thought i had to go to bed and you were gonna talk to me in the morning, i'm not in the mood alright'Robbie said.
- 'Oh you're not in the mood, well excuse me but you've brought this all on yourself Robbie and remember that you don't make the rules in this house, you took your mums keys and took Peter to my apartement, what were you thinking?'Jack said being annoyed that Robbie still had that little attitude while she got herself into trouble.
- 'Jack calm down'Ronnie said putting her hands on her hips'you've got yourself into a lot of trouble Robin, now where would you get an idea of taking my keys to sneak off to Jacks'.
- 'I don't know, i just wanted some time together with Peter, the party was pretty boring as expected after all'Robbie said not looking at Jack or Ronnie.
- 'Oh and is that why you've been drinking again, i thought i made it very clear the last time you got yourself in trouble for drinking, you know that you're not allowed, now which part of that didn't you understand Robin?'Ronnie asked.
- 'They were all drinking'Robbie said it as though that was enough reason for her to also drink then, cause the other kids also did.
- 'So you think it's ok then cause "they"all have been drinking'Jack asked.
- 'Well you all were too wasted and busy to notice us anyways, making fools of yourselves singing that karaokestuff'Robbie said 'don't you people have no shame or something?'.
Ronnie grabbed hold of Robbie's chin 'drop it, drop that attitude of your and remember that we're adults, you're still a 15 year old kid Robbie, you are not allowed to drink alcohol, end off, do you understand!'Ronnie said serious 'do you?'
Robbie just looked straight into Ronnie's eyes but didn't say anything.
- 'Robbie just answer your mum'Jack said 'do you understand?'
- 'Yes alright'Robbie said to just be done with it, wanting to lay down again.
- 'Attitude Robbie, and we're not done yet'Jack said.
Robbie looked at Ronnie, the look on her mums face said enough.
- 'I just wanna sleep'Robbie said softly.
- 'We tell you when you can go to sleep, now what happened?'Jack asked cross.
- 'Nothing happened, we were just talking'Robbie said standing up.
- 'Where do you think you're going, we're not done yet'Jack said.
- 'Jack'Ronnie said 'Robbie sit down'.
- 'What are you gonna do then, go mad again like some raging bull, you're gonna do that everytime i am with Peter or maybe some other guy, what?'Robbie kinda lost her temper.
- 'Oi, don't you get lippy with me, you hear me Robbie!'Jack said grabbing Robbie by the arm and sitting her down on her bed again.
- 'That's enough coming out of that mouth of yours'Ronnie said warning Robbie again by grabbing her chin tightly'enough i said, you hear me, now go to bed!'
- 'Do you want me to go to bed or you're "not done with me yet, now which one is it?"Robbie then said trying to be smart.
Ronnie wanted to give Robbie a smack but Jack got in between.
Ronnie then walked out of the room taking Jack with her, she knew that the three of them were all hotheaded and extremely stuborn, and this conversation would only get worse and worse.
- 'Jack?'Robbie said.
Jack turned around and looked at Robbie who's face still looked a little angry but he could see her watery eyes.
- 'What?'he asked.
- 'I want you to lay off Pete, this was all my idea, we did nothing, i mean nothing you're worried about'Robbie said, then she just turned around and lay back on her bed again.
Jack looked at Robbie, sighed and then walked out of the room.
Jack and Ronnie went back downstairs again.
As they sat down on the sofa Ronnie lay her head on Jack's chest.
- 'We'll talk to her again tomorrow, after a good night of sleep yeah'Jack said stroking Ronnie's back.
- 'Just don't wanna have you flying of the handle again alright, if you do that she goes full on and then it ends up again in us all being angry with eachother'Ronnie said.
- 'The way Jay was talking tonight it just made me freak me out Ron, i had visions of finding them and having Pete crawling all over her' Jack said.
- 'Do you know i sometimes have nightmares of boys crawling over her and when they're done i find her and there's nothing left for me, that my baby's gone, it's probably explaining to me that's she's growing up, that she isn't a baby anymore, afraid that there won't be any cuddles left for me, that's she feels too old for that, you know what i mean'Ronnie said.
- 'There always will be cuddles left for you darling, she still loves her mums cuddles Ron you know that, as long as it's not in public or with her friends around, you're the best mum in the world to her, you know she loves you very much, it's just this age what makes it a little more difficult, it's just scary that it goes so fast'Jack said.
- 'Don't remind me, she's my baby Jack'Ronnie said.
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About a half hour later Robbie had fallen lightly asleep but was awakened when she heard her door open again.
Robbie turned on her nightlight.
- 'Rox, what are you doing here, if you wanna give it to me you can just leave alright'Robbie said as she saw her sister come in and sat on the bed with her.
- 'Oi, shuss i'm here for you babysis'Roxy said'just wanna know if you're alright?'
Then Robbie started to cry again.
Roxy put her arms around her little sister.
- 'I got him in so much trouble Rox, he was scared, you should have seen Jack, he went mental'Robbie said through her tears.
- 'Well he's very protective of his girls Robbie, and puberty, hormones and parents just don't mix, remember that babes, and allthough in your head it might have been a romantic idea to have the place to yourselves it was a very stupid idea, i mean Jack's place of all places you silly mare' Roxy said as Robbie put her head on her sisters chest.
- 'I thought it would be exciting you know, never thought we would get caught, until stupid opened his mouth, i'm gonna kill Jay for this'Robbie said.
- 'About Jay, what ticked him off to make him grass you both up?'Roxy said.
- 'That drunken idiot kissed me and wanted to go outside with me'Robbie said getting angry again for what he had done 'i told him no and i pinched him like i did with you before'.
- 'Oh my god, really'Roxy began to laugh.
- 'You think this is funny Rox, he grassed on me, that stupid idiot, he deserved it'Robbie sat up and gave her sister a slap.
- 'Oi, don't you slap me'Roxy said grabbing hold of Robbie's wrist who was gonna go for another slap at her older sister
- 'Then stop laughing at me'Robbie said putting her head into her pillow.
- 'And didn't Ronnie told you not to use that pinching anymore ey?'Roxy said pinching Robbie softly in her neck.
- 'Whatever, who cares'Robbie said.
- 'Come here you little brat'Roxy said pulling her babysister close to her'want me to stay here with you babes?'
Robbie's crying made clear she wanted her sister to stay around.
- 'Go to sleep yeah, i sleep here with you!'Roxy said stroking her little sisters back.