I had a wee spare 45 minutes, so you lucky people got a little update. I'll try and get another update at the end of next week.
Peter got into his car and drove to Becca's house, he could see Becca's green beetle in the driveway and knew that she and Zach would now be home. He walked up the path and knocked on the front door. Becca lived in a small 2 bed house with her friend Steph, Steph was rarely home and spent most of the time at her older boyfriends. She couldn't understand why Becca who could have any guy she wanted would date a high school boy.
"Mr Florrick" Becca said sweetly after answering the door.
"Becca, can I speak to my son please?" Peter said as he crooked his neck around the door.
"Zach, your Father is here" Becca shouted without inviting Peter into the house.
"Have you brought my stuff?" Zach asked as he came out of the kitchen to the hallway and out to the porch were his father was stood.
"No, I've come to take you home" Peter said
"Are you going to be reasonable?" Zach asked
"If reasonable means not punishing you for taking drugs, sneaking out and ditching school then no, I won't be reasonable"
"Then I'm not coming home" he replied
"Zach, your Mother is upset, you know she pretends to be strong, but really she is sensitive and hurting"
"Don't you dare lecture me on hurting Mum; no one has hurt her more so than you"
"Fine Zach, I don't deny that I hurt your Mother, but we are working through that, but that does not give you an excuse to hurt her. She wants you home, please come with me"
"What's in it for me if I do?" Zach asked
"What's in it for you, how about you don't hurt the people who care about you, or throw away your senior year" Peter said as Becca came out from the family room.
"Mr Florrick, Zach is 18, he is an adult, wouldn't it be much better if you just let him do what he wants, I mean then he won't resent you and Mrs Florrick"
"Yeah, I'm an adult and you treat me like a child" Zach responded
"OK, well come with me and we can talk about it at home, you're right, you are an adult now and maybe we did treat you unfairly. But the only way to sort this like adults is to talk" Peter said. He didn't quiet believe his own words, he wanted to lecture and punish for what Zach had put them through, but Alicia's demands were clear, she wanted Zach home and she didn't care how Peter did it.
"OK, how about I come for dinner, I'm not promising that I'll stay, and I want Becca to come with me"
"OK, Dinner at your Mother's, but I would like it if it is just us Zach, so we can really talk"
"Look Zach, go for dinner, Ill just stay here and study, and then you can come back. I'll be wearing that little number I bought in Victoria secrets today" she whispered, but loud enough for Peter to hear which was precisely her intention.
"I can't wait" he whispered in her ear as he nibbled at her neck. Zach grabbed his bag and left with his father who had already text Alicia to let her know.
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"Mum, can you sign this please?" Claudia asked as she came out of her room into the dining room where Alicia was clearing up the paperwork that had been sprawled across the dining room table.
"What is it?" Alicia said as she took it from her daughter's hand.
"Oh Claudia" Alicia said in disappointment
"I just left it to the last minute because I forgot" Claudia said
"Like the book report?" Alicia questioned
"So can you sign it?"
"You didn't answer my question, is this like the book report, you left that to the last minute too?"
"Yes, I just forgot, Mum can you please sign it?"
"No, I want your father to sign this one" Alicia said
"But he isn't here; we don't go to his till tomorrow"
"No, he will be here in 10 minutes, so I think you should go to your room and finish your geography assignment"
"Yes Mum" Claudia said leaving her Mum with the letter from her geography teacher. Alicia finished clearing up just in time for the door opening and Zach walking in behind Peter.
"Zach" Alicia said smiling as she put her arms around him, embracing her only son tightly. "I really miss you when your not here"
"Mum, look I'm just here for dinner, then I'm going back to Becca's" Zach said
"Oh" Alicia said, her face deflating from joy to sadness in a microsecond.
"Please Zach, I missed you
"Mum, can't we just have a nice dinner, I'm still your son, I'm just moving out to my own place"
"No, you're moving into Becca's place" Alicia corrected him
"Well yeah, but look I'm just going to pick up my stuff" Zach said
"No, your stuff, that I paid for stays here" Alicia said, "I will give you your school books, but that is it, anything else you need to sort on your own"
"Fine, if that's how you want to play it" Zach responded as Louisa came out of her room.
"Zach I missed you, can we play on your Xbox now your home"
"No, because I'm leaving" Zach responded as he walked out and into the lift annoyed at both his parents.