Bette walked out her classroom toward the maths department.

”Sorry Mr Russell can I borrow Lisa for 5 minutes?”
”Course”
Lisa looked confused as she walked out the classroom following Bette to her classroom.
”Mama what’s wrong?”
”Get Jace on the phone!” Bette said
”Mama is everything okay?”
”Lisa just do as I ask please” Bette instructed again
Lisa took out her phone dialling Jace’s number.
After 6 rings Jace picked up.
”Babe I was just about to go to sleep” Jace said
”I’m putting you on speaker phone” Lisa said ”My mama is here”
”Hi Jace its Bette, What is going on?”
”Erm…Well”
”Now Jace just remember I have the power to fail you this year and ban Lisa from making any contact with you, let’s try this again shall we…What is going on?”
”Jess spoke to Carmen, I got woken up with a massive bang, I sleep in the room next door to her, She threw her guitar and phone off the wall both are now broken” Jace explained ”And she’s probably going to kill me for telling you this”
Lisa closed her eyes and rubbed her forehead.
”Ok Jace thanks for being honest, it’s about time someone was”
”Ok babe go back to sleep ring me at 4 your time tomorrow” Lisa said hanging up the phone
”What we going to do Mama?”
”You’re going to go back to class and I’m going to go speak to your Mum” Bette said ”I’ll speak to you at home, don’t worry”
”Easier said than done, half my world is in a different bloody planet! She’s hurting bad too, I can feel it”
”Lisa this was Jess’s choice! She needs to deal with the consequences!”
”She’s still my sister!” Lisa snapped leaving the classroom
Bette drove into the drive way after realising it was Tina’s half day at work. She walked into the house finding Tina in the study doing some editing.
”Your home early” Tina smiled
”I’m only home to speak to you then I need to go back” Bette said
”I don’t like the sound of that” Tina said putting down her headphones and taking of her glasses
”Jess has broken her phone and guitar”
”And she needs money?” Tina smirked
”No she didn’t even tell me, Jace did She threw them off a wall after speaking to Carmen who nearly got into a fight and then decided to walk out of school today”
”This is getting ridiculous” Tina stated
”We shouldn’t have let her go in the first place” Bette said
”Bette you know how talented she is, she deserves to be heard”
”I’m not debating how talented she is, I’m debating how mature she is because throwing phones and guitars off walls doesn’t seem very mature to me!” Bette snapped ”She’s really hurt Carmen Tina!”
”I understand that Bette but what can we do other than drag her home!”
”Right now that doesn’t sound like such a bad idea!” Bette said leaving the room and walking into the kitchen
Tina took a deep breath and then went to join Bette in the kitchen. ”I don’t like this situation any more than you do” Tina said
”Jess doesn’t handle stress well and neither does her health!” Bette said
”Okay well instead of going on a rant about how much your pissed she’s on the tour how about you just tell the truth and say you’re worried!”
”I am pissed she’s on the tour because I don’t think she’s mature enough for it, I’m also worried sick something happens to my daughter and I’m between a 9 to 15 hour plane journey away!” Bette said ”And I also feel so bad for Carmen because let’s face it her parents don’t particularly give a shit, they think if they just hand her money everything gets better!”
”I don’t know what you want me to do Bette”
”I can’t cope with another 4 weeks of this, my senior class is in an uproar because half are on Jess’s side half are on Carmen’s, my juniors think my daughter is the best thing ever and just want to talk about her all class, Lisa’s head is everywhere else apart from her studies and Carmen I’ve seen once in 2 weeks! Jess I don’t even know how she is doing because she lies and tells me she’s fine when she’s clearly fucking not!”
”Baby what do you want to do? Do you want me to go to Jess, do you want to go to Jess? Do you want to give it a few days and see how things go?”
”I don’t know Tina, I honestly don’t know what to do” Bette said ”And that’s annoying me more, the fact I have no control over this”