lorriette

"Where have you girls been?", sniff,"drinking and smoking at your ages, and those heels are too much for one your age. Get along to your rooms before father comes and catches you. Go on, hurry." Diana and Bobby went on in and upto Diana's room.Neither spoke, being just a little taken aback by thier mums response. Diana opened the window, then pulled out her cigarettes. "I don't think you should smoke in here sis". "Here have one, i can't see us being in more trouble than we are, can you?". " NO, come to that, mum is acting sort of odd, anyway, what's she doing home , and without dad?, luckily". "Yeah, i wondered too. Might be better if you sleep in here tonight, you know dad after he's had a few"." Ta sis, i am a bit nervous". "I'll fetch the remover cream, we'd best go to the bathroom quickly, and take our make-up off. I'll find you a nighty after". we can put our clothes in the wash bag while we're there". Bobby and Diana got ready for bed, and were satup chatting about thier evening out. Thier mother,Julie, came on up to bed without waiting for dad. A while latter a door slammed, followed soon after by fathers heavy steps on the stairs. Before closing the bedroom door, he said to Julie, "how come your in bed?,i wanted something to eat". The door closing cut off what was obviously not the answer he wanted. Raised voices continued for a while, the actual words too distorted to hear clearly. The worried youngsters waited for dad to come crashing in, shouting, and possibly hitting them. It went quiet, and after a while, the children drifted off to sleep.
The next morning, the children were first up, and so prepared breakfast. Thier fathers footsteps sounded on the stairs, causing bobby and Diana to look fearfully at one and other. Father had gone straight out. A red eyed mother arrived a few minutes latter, not dressed for work, but wrapped in her housecoat. "I'll not be going into work today, i've some errands to run. You two get yourselves ready, then latter we will have a talk". They were both unsure if this was about them, or,if mum and dad had had another big bustup. Julie had gone to the bathroom, and Diana needed to do something with bobby, as his hair had kept the style from last night, and traces of make-up made him look like a girl. After a tidy around in the kitchen, they decided to skip school. Mum was still in the bath, so shouting out thier goodbyes, slammed the front door, then tiptoed up into Diana's room to wait till mum went out. Julie finished in the bathroom, and another half hour latter, went out. Diana lent Bobbie a camisole top, skirt, panties and a cute pair of heeled sandals, then they went about doing the housework, much of which was an after school task, before going to read some fashion mags. on the decking. Sat with glasses of lemonade in the sunshine, they forgot to keep a lookout for mum. "Teachers strike?". "Oh mum, well, um, ah, you seemed upset, and bobbie still had nail varnish and thin g s..". "Mm, perhaps it was best, and you have done the housework. I'll fetch a drink out and we can have a chat. Well more than one actually".
"Mum's being awful cryptic, but i expect we'll soon find out. Do you think i should go change Di?". "No". "I haven't forgotten yesterday, nor missed how Bobby is dressed now, but we'll talk about that latter. You probably guessed your father and i had another row last night, the details of which i sha'n't bore you with, but let us say that last night was the straw etc. and your dad is moving out. We should be able to remain living here, but money could be a bit tight, but i have sorted out most of the forms, we should be ok.". The children looked at each other, both surprised that this was happening and that they hadn't seen it. "What about dad?", asked Diana. "He'll stay with a mate for now, and you will still get to see him if that's what you want. Now then bobby, or it Bobbie now, what should we do about you?".

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