“Good morning sunshine.” Kathy says.

“Good morning.” I mutter as I sit down on my place. “You couldn’t have woken me up so I got to eat breakfast with you?”

Tina gives me a weird look. “You don’t usually want us to wake you up, so we thought we’d let you sleep.”

“Well, Kathy is usually not home.” I answer.

Bette clears her throat. “We want to talk to you when you’ve finish your breakfast Clara.”

I know what’s to come, they’re gonna ground me for life. I have to think of something so I can sneak out to meet Josh tomorrow.

I eat my breakfast as slow as I can, trying to think about something so I can get out of the house tomorrow, but when I’ve finished I still haven’t got any ideas. I walk in to the living room where my moms are waiting for me. I sat down heavily in the couch, waiting to hear how long I was grounded.

“What you did yesterday was wrong.” Bette says. “but we’ve talked about it and decided that we’re not gonna punish you.”

*****. What’s going on now? Why aren’t they gonna punish me? Something’s wrong here.

“We want you to know that we’re here for you, and you don’t have to hide things for us. We’re your mothers and we want you to feel like you can come and talk to us about everything.” Tina speaks.

I’m still suspicious, I have to get some punishment, I mean I always get that.

“If you promise that you won’t hide important stuff for us again we will not punish you this time.” Bette says.

I’m speechless. I just look at the two of them, more confused than I’ve ever been before. They smile at me and I open my mouth to speak. “I promise.”

They move closer to me and hug me, I decide to take advantage of the situation. “So does that mean that I can go out tomorrow?”

“What do you mean with go out?” Bette asks.

“Well, me and Josh has got this thing we have to do” I say. “But I can’t say what it is, cause it’s gonna be a surprise.”

“Who are you gonna surprise?” Tina asks.

“Everyone.” I say. “Well, everyone except for Alice.”

“Alice?” Bette asks. “Alice knows what you’re up to?”

“Yes, she does, and don’t even try to get it out of her!”

“How have you gotten her to shut up about it so far?” Bette asks laughing.

“With a little help from Joan, dunno what she did though.”

“So when’s this surprise gonna be revealed?” Tina asks.

“On Friday next week.” I smile.

“But that’s when we’re going to the Planet to celebrate ***** pride.” Tina say.

“I know it is, but we’ll have time for this too.”

Bette sighs and hug me again. “Okay, you’re let off tomorrow.”

“Thank you!” I say and hug them both. I have to and call Josh!

I run upstairs to my room and pick up the phone. Josh answers on the second signal.

“Hello?”

“Hey Josh, it’s me.”

“Hey Clara, what’s going on?”

“I’m not grounded anymore, so there’s no problem tomorrow!”

“Right on! So I’ll call the others and let them know, what time should we say?”

“How about 1 pm?”

“Sounds good to me. See you tomorrow then.”

“Yeh, see you tomorrow.”

TBC.