She also admitted that she smoked pot, which I was really mad at her about. Alice thought it was great, though, and I warned her privately that if I ever came back into town after a long absence and found her toking up with our daughter I would be kicking two asses. Alice just laughed at me, and I’m almost positive they smoked together a few times. Eventually I told Kallie that I didn’t approve of it, but that if she was so intent on smoking, she needed to get her stash from Shane since we could trust her. That made Alice lose her shit. I don’t think she ever laughed that hard. Shane was horrified when I told her, although Jenny thought it was a great idea and proceeded to show Kallie how to make a bong out of a Coke bottle. I shook my head and left the room.

Still, she wasn’t a bad kid. She was active in school activities, although she was still pretty introverted and would spend most of her time with her books. That probably sounds strange since she went to parties, but they weren’t usually full of people, just a few friends she felt comfortable with. When she had friends over it was usually one or two people tops.

Alice usually took her out to practice driving since I was too terrified to even get into the car with her. I loved her to death but the girl drove…exactly like Alice did. It wasn’t good for my nerves to be in the passenger seat as she almost went off the road multiple times in a journey of less than a mile. She passed her test on the first try, though, and we ended up giving her one of our cars since we were due for a new one by then anyway. She took a part time job at the Planet to pay for gas and insurance and started to spend less and less time at home.

She played softball all through high school and basketball the first two years, but eventually got tired of that. She got excellent grades and during her senior year she got a scholarship to UCLA, which she took and decided to live on campus. We missed her terribly, but she did come home every other weekend and her room in the basement stayed decorated with her stuff for a long time after she’d officially moved out.