Episode Forty-Nine: Sacrifice

"This is stupid, you’re the ones acting like babies and I get yelled at," Adria replied, racing upstairs to her bedroom, though not nearly as distressed as she pretended to be.

Katherine allowed herself to collapse onto the couch. Justine will have been married for a year this August and she had no idea what this new life of her daughter’s was all about. She looked as beautiful as ever, though her hair was cut short whereas they used to have the same style. She put her hand on the receiver, but it rang before she had the chance to make any use of it.

"Hey Kat, I thought I’d call and make sure that Adria made it to her tutoring session," Phillip said and listened impatiently as his wife answered. "How could you not know? She’s either home or she’s not,"

"I told you I don’t know, maybe she came downstairs, maybe she didn’t," Katherine replied, quite prepared to hang up on him.

"Glad to know my wife is on top of things, I’ll have more chance of hearing about Adria on the evening news," he snarled.

"Would you like to know what your daughter did? She arranged for Justine and I to meet up at lunch and then she watched the fireworks with glee,"

The line was dead for several seconds. "I’ll call the tutor and rearrange the session if I have to; she can’t afford to slack off with those grades."

The phone slammed in Katherine’s ear and she lay down on the sofa, tightly shutting her eyes.

Episode Fifty: Someone Else's Dream