"Claire you have about 3 seconds to start explaining" mom yelled.

I was already crying my eyes out. I knew mom was mad because she never raises her voice. "Mom i'm s-so s-sorry" I wailed. "I-I went to a party last m-month and got d-drunk and I-I didn't mean to"

"I can't believe you would do such an irresponsible thing!" she yelled storming out of the room.

I felt terrible. My mom has never raised her voice at me. I understand though I did do something stupid.

My mom wouldn't even look at me for the rest of the night. After i had dinner I went upstairs and went to bed.

The next morning I woke up and got ready and went downstairs. My mom was in the kitchen making breakfast. She didn't even glance at me. She got her plate of food and went to the living room. I eat alone. When I'm done I go outside and get into Josh car. On the way to school I tell him about how mom found out and how she's not talking to me.

School sucks I continue to get picked on because I made a mistake.

The only good thing about school anymore is lunch time.

After school I walk home because Josh had to be somewhere and it's to far out of the way for Becky so I just walk.

When I get home I notice moms not here when I get up onto the porch there's stacks of boxes and suitcases and a note that says:

Since you are so grown up and can do grown up things like drinking and having a baby then you can be a grown up and get out of my house.

- Mom

I tear up as I read the note. My own mother is actually kicking me out because I made a mistake. I get my car keys out of my bag and start taking boxes to my car. I never drive my car because Josh always insists on driving me to and from school and I don't really go anywhere else.

When I get done putting all the boxes and bags into my car I drive around for a little while trying to decide what i'm going to do. I sit in a parking lot and cry my eyes out. I walk around the park for a while. I finally decide to go over to Becky's and see if I can spend the night.

When I get to Becky's I knock. Becky answers. "Hey Claire. What's wrong?" she says when she notices my red and puffy eyes.

"My mom kicked me out and i didn't know where to go." I cry "Can I stay here tonight?"

"Of course you can Claire." she says.

"I can't believe your mom kicked you out. Why don't we watch a movie and eat some ice cream?" she asks and I nod in agreement.

We fall asleep during the 3rd movie of the night. The next morning I wake up to my phone going crazy. When I see that it's Josh I answer. "Hello"

"Claire where the hell are you at!?" he asks sounding frantic.

"I'm at Beckys. Why?" I ask.

"I went to pick you up for school and your mom said you weren't there and I asked where you were and she said she didn't know and I started panicking." he rambles.

"Josh i'm fine." I say

"Okay good because i was freaking out" he said before I hung up.

After that I go downstairs and out to my car to try to find an outfit for school after ten minutes of digging around i finally had a shirt,pants and undies. I go back into Becky's and take a quick shower before I say bye to Becky.

I'm driving my car to school today.

When I get to school I get out and Josh runs over to me and starts bombarding me with questions.

"Why did you drive your car to school?"

"Why did you stay with Becky?"

"Why didn't you tell me you weren't going to be home?"

"Josh. I don't want to talk about it right now." I say as we walk into school.

We go into school and it is the usual I get picked on ,I go to class and get picked on some more.

The day seems to drag on and on.

I just want to go home and go to bed, I think to myself before I remember I don't have a home anymore.

During lunch me and Josh are sitting at our normal table eating lunch when Bella walks by and "accidentally" spills her water all over me. Josh lets me borrow and extra t-shirt he had in his locker. The rest of the day goes by terribly slow.

After school Josh and I decided to go get ice cream. I decided I would tell him why I was at Beckys.

"Josh?" I ask to get his attention.

"Yes?'' he asks

"The reason I was at Beckys and I drove my car and the reason my mom didn't know where I was is because after my mom found out I was pregnant she ignored me for two days and then yesterday when I got home from school all of my stuff was in boxes on the porch with a note from my mom that said since I am so grown up and can do things like drink and get pregnant then i'm grown up enough to take care of myself so I put all my stuff into my car and went over to Becky's for the night." I explain with a few stray tears rolling down my cheeks.

"Claire I am so sorry. This is all my fault."Josh says looking sad.

"No it's not. It takes two to tango." I say with a small laugh.

"You can stay with me. We can explain to my parents what happened. They'll understand and will let you stay with us." Josh says.

"That sounds good to me." I say.

Josh and I are currently sitting on his couch discussing how we're going to explain all of this to his parents. While we wait on them to get home. We've still got about an hour before they get home.

"So how are we supposed to explain all of this?" I ask

"I'm not sure yet." he replies. "We'll figure it out when they gets here"

"Okay" I reply

After watching tv for about 20 minutes I start feeling hungry and my stomach growls really loud.

"The baby is hungry" Josh chuckles. "Come on i'll make you something to eat."

"Okay" I say standing up off of the couch.

We go into the kitchen and Josh make us some dinner.

After we eat we go back to the living room and watch tv,about 20 minutes later Josh parents got home. Luckily they were running late so we had an extra hour before they got home to think about how we are going to tell them.

"Oh hey Claire I didn't know you were coming over" his mom says with a smile. I smile back as she disappears into the kitchen. His dad follows after her with some grocery bags.

I look at Josh with worry.

"Claire it is okay. Everything is going to be okay." he tells me

"I know but i'm nervous"

A few minutes later Josh mom and dad walk in and sits down. We all chat for a little while and watch some tv.

"Josh why don't you go make us all some hot chocolate?" Mrs.Hunter asks.

"Uh yeah sure, come help me Claire." he says standing up.

I get up and follow him to the kitchen. I sit on one of the bar stools while he is getting stuff out for hot chocolate.

When he is done getting everything out I help him make the hot chocolate and then I help clean up the mess we made.

We go back into the living room and sit down after a few minutes Josh speaks up when I was least expecting it.

"Mom. Dad. We have something to tell you."

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I hope you like it.

Let me know how you like it and how I can improve. -K