Quinn walks into the kitchen to the sound of Santana yelling at Holly. It has been nearly a week since Christmas day and Holly has been moody and sullen because Phoebe is still away at her grandparents so she hasn't been in the best of moods and Santana has had enough. "I don't care, your attitude is disgusting so yes consider yourself grounded till I say otherwise." Quinn cringes that's all they need is their teenage daughter confined to the house.

"What I'm grounded because I won't do everything you want" she snaps.

Santana counts to ten in her head, "no you're grounded because of this attitude and answering back and not doing as you have been asked. Now get up to your room before I lose my patience with you."

"What! This is unbelievable how long am I grounded to my room for? A day, a week, a month" she sasses.

Santana turns round, pulls her daughter in close and smacks her backside hard three times, "don't test me, Holly Mai get upstairs right now!" she shouts.

"Whatever, this sucks" she says turning to leave the kitchen and nearly walking into her Mom.

Quinn shakes her head, "one of these days you are going to learn, don't even think of putting your computer on. I will be up in a minute we are going to have a little chat." Holly huffs and storms to her room, both Quinn and Santana cringe when she slams the door.

"I'm telling you now Quinn she is this far" she says using her thumb and finger to show her "to be losing more than her computer I will take her ability to sit if she carries on."

Quinn walks over and pulls her wife into a hug, "babe calm down I'm going to go talk to her, what was it about this time?" she asks as it has been something different everyday.

"I asked her if she would mind going grocery shopping for me, I asked her this morning and she has done nothing all day. Every time I asked she just snapped at me, shouted or gives me attitude about it and I'm sick of it. I get she is missing Phoebe but I will not be spoken to this way."

Quinn sighs, "I know babe I'm going to go and talk to her, how long are you grounding her for?"

"If she loses the attitude just today I'm going to go and get the shopping then pick the girls up" she says kissing Quinn and leaving.

Quinn walks upstairs into Holly's room who is lying on her bed, "right sit up and face me, talk to me" Quinn says firmly.

Holly does as she is told but with a huff, "fine what?"

"Don't you think you are in enough trouble without giving me attitude. You have thirty seconds to lose it or we can have this conversation with you sitting on a sore backside" she waits for Holly to look at her. "Right want to fill me in?"

Holly shrugs, "with what Mom?"

"With your attitude and speaking to your Ma the way you have been and behaving the way you have. You keep saying to us you are sixteen and want more responsibility for yourself. You want to have later curfews, more independence, yet you are behaving like you are twelve lately, now explain please."

"I'm sorry I'm just missing Pheebs."

Quinn raises an eyebrow, "babe I know you that is not just it, now come on talk to me."

Holly starts crying "Mom I cheated on Phoebe."

Quinn looks shocked not really sure what to say, "babe who with?"

"With a girl from the party I went to the other night" she says quietly knowing full well she is going to be in trouble.

Quinn thinks for a minute, "hang on, what party the other night?"

"Tuesday night, some of the guys from school had a party."

"Tuesday, when you asked to go to the cinema and you came home around one because of the late showing" she asks with an eyebrow raise. Holly nods. "Holly really, lying to us, we will get back to me what happened with this girl?"

Holly sighs, "well everyone was drinking and having a good time" she can see Quinn about to say something "Mom I promise I never drank not even one because I had the car." Quinn nods thankful she doesn't have to deal with that. "So anyway she kept talking to me I hadn't seen her before so guessing she wasn't from our school. I was telling her about Phoebe and she said she could help me forget her and kissed me."

"Did you kiss her back?"

Holly takes a breath because she knows her next comment could get her in more trouble, "no Mom I pushed her off then I punched her."

Quinn rubs her head in her hands, "what have we told you about fighting?"

"I know but Mom, she kissed me and now Phoebe is going to break up with me."

"I don't think she will baby, you didn't cheat, you pushed her off you just need to explain everything to her."

Holly nods, "ok I'm sorry I'll talk to Ma and apologise its just been getting to me and the longer she is away, the harder it was getting, it started bothering me and I started doubting myself."

"Well Brittany rung today they are coming home tonight, Phoebe hasn't text because she had her phone taken away."

Holly smiles, "guess she isn't the only one in trouble huh?"

"Nope now we need to discuss you lying to us and fighting again don't we?"

Holly nods, "yea Mom I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't have lied."

"Then why did you? You know how we feel about it. You know that is the one thing that gets you and your sister sore behinds so why risk it, why not ask us to go?"

Holly shrugs, "I don't know I figured because of the way I was behaving, you would say no so I didn't wanna risk it. Please Mom I'm sorry I really don't want a spanking."

Quinn tries not to laugh, "babe no one wants a spanking and I never said you were getting one, I just said that is normally what happens. I will have to talk to Ma and see what she says but be warned because of your behaviour today and most of the week she is already close to tanning your behind."

Holly blushes she hates that her parents still believe in spanking, she feels she is too old and truth be told, Santana and Quinn talked about it after her last one and feel that she could be probably be disciplined in other ways. But she doesn't know how Santana will react to finding out she lied and fought again. "Mom I'll talk to Ma and apologise I promise, I will never lie again."

Quinn smiles at her daughter and lightly taps her thigh, "It would definitely be in your best interest not to sweetheart, now fighting we have been over this so many times, you need to think before you act, Holly you can't just keep going around punching people."

"I know I guess when I screw up I go all out huh?"

"That you do, again I will discuss it all with Ma I do however appreciate you telling me everything you could have missed that bit out and lied to me again about the party but you didn't, for that I'm proud of you, ok?" Holly nods, "for now I want your phone, computer and iPad, you can keep your iPod but that is it."

Holly sighs and gets off the bed to get it all, "how long did Ma say I was grounded for?"

"She did say just today but with everything else I should imagine it is going to be longer."

"Yea I figured, do you honestly think Ma will say that I will get a… um ya know?" she says flushing red and looking down.

Quinn shrugs, "honestly I don't know sweetie, but you need to accept it if she does say so because you and Maya are both aware of the rules and I know you think you are too old but unfortunately it is not your decision."

"I know Mom and I'm sorry."

"I know you are, right pass them over" she says holding out her hands "I will be downstairs, Ma should be back in a bit" Quinn says taking the electronics and heads downstairs.

About an hour later Santana arrives home carrying Lilly who has started walking more, she holds on to everything she has only taking a few steps on her own. Quinn bends down and Santana puts her down, "go baby walk to Mommy" Santana says.

Lilly takes a few steps and falls into Quinn's arms smiling, "that's cheating" Quinn laughs, "but good girl" Quinn picks her up and stands up "and where is my other angel?"

Santana laughs, "yea she wanted to stop with Abuela tonight, Mami promised her tacos and said they could have movie night with popcorn and candy."

"Well she can deal with the sugar rush" she laughs, she turns to Lilly "and were you a good girl?" Lilly chuckles "Mom, Mom" she answers.

Santana smiles, "yea she had a tantrum when Mami told her no again, she kept going for the fire place, Mami tapped her hand and said no and she screamed apparently it was the end of the world."

"Oh poor baby" Quinn says as Lilly snuggles into her, "so I talked to Holly, babe we need to have a chat."

Santana sighs, "has her attitude gone?"

Quinn nods, "lets go in the playroom with madam and we can talk." They head in and Quinn tells Santana everything.

"Oh poor girl so she was worried that she cheated bless her, Phoebe will be ok won't she?"

"Yea I think so, what do you want to do about the other things?"

Santana shrugs "I don't know babe yet generally apart from the attitude, she is a good kid, they all are. Yeah they have their moments but they are not half as much trouble as we were" she laughs "I would never had admitted to my Mami that not only did I lie but I fought, I mean even Maya when I got to Mami's came straight to me and said that she had been naughty in the morning and Mami had to put her in timeout. I love that they can come to us, I don't want to come down too hard that they stop coming to us but I don't want her to think she can get away with it just because they do you know what I mean?"

"Yea I do babe and you are right I mean it has been a long time since either of the girls have needed a massive punishment, grounding them and taking things away works well for them both and especially Maya a swat or two normally stops her."

They continue to talk and decide on a punishment, Santana calls Holly down as she walks in she smiles sweetly at her parents. "Um before you tell me how much trouble I'm in, can I just say I'm sorry Ma for the way I have been behaving and promise to try better especially with my attitude."

"Thank you Hols I appreciate that, come sit down" she waits for Holly to join them. "So Mom filled me in on everything and babe honestly I think Phoebe will be fine ok,try not to worry too much."

"Thank you I really hope so."

Quinn smiles, "ok so I told Ma about everything else and we have decided you are grounded for a week and two weeks without your car, mainly because you told me everything when we know you didn't have to and like I said we appreciate that but Holly we don't like being lied to and I can't promise that next time we will be so lenient, you understand?"

"Yes but um well Phoebe is home tonight, I was hoping to see her tomorrow" she says knowing she is pushing her luck.

Santana smiles, "we thought about that, and normally we would say tough but because we know you want to talk to her, Phoebe can come here tomorrow for a few hours but that is it. Now Mom told me she already took your things and that will stand for the week and again no more lies please you want us to trust you then you have to prove that we can. If you want to go somewhere or do something and you think we will say no, ask us anyway because if you can explain why you want to do it and we are happy we will have no reason to say no will we?"

"I guess not and thank you for letting Phoebe come round, so does that mean you will be driving me to school, the first week back or can I get Phoebe to pick me up?"

Santana looks over to Quinn, "not fussed about that baby, if you want me to take you that is fine as I will be taking Maya anyway or Pheebs can come get you ok?"

"Ok so where is the midget?"

Quinn rolls her eyes, "don't call her that and she is with Abuela' missy you can help me tonight bathe Lilly and then, you, Ma and I can have an evening together."

"Ok what we having for dinner because I'm starving."

Santana laughs, "you're always starving and I will see what we have in, anything you fancy?"

"Um pizza or Chinese" she asks hopeful.

Quinn shakes her head, "you know for someone who has just got punished, you are brave asking for a takeaway right?"

"Yea well if you don't ask you don't get so which is it?"

Santana chuckles, "actually I fancy a burger, why don't we head out for something."

"Yea I like that idea babe" Quinn says, "I'll go change madam and then we can go" Quinn picks up Lilly who start screaming as she was happy playing with her blocks. "Hey that's enough" Quinn says sternly, not that Lilly is paying any attention, she tries smacking Quinn but she catches her hand. "No Lilly we don't smack" she says firmly making the little girl cry harder, she puts her head down on her Mommy's shoulder, Quinn rubs her back to soothe her and turns to her wife, "think someone is tired."

"Seems that way, do you want me to just go pick something up then you can feed her and she can go to bed?"

Quinn nods, "yea good idea, we can go out all five of us tomorrow, you can take Holly with you" she says smirking at her daughter.

"Geez thanks, na Ma its cool."

After going and getting tea and then putting Lilly to bed, Santana, Quinn and Holly spend the evening together, chilled out watching TV and talking about Holly going back to school which then turned into talking about colleges. Holly is loving the fact they are happy to let her go wherever she wants and study what she wants, at the moment she is thinking about doing architecture and both parents are happy if that's what she wants to do.