It’s a passing phase

It’s just another nostalgic, teenage craze, Mother. No need for you to worry. I even dabbled a little at her age.

If she was jumping off bridges because all her friends were, would you still be so patronizing?

She’s in no physical danger, you’re getting hysterical over nothing, Just let it run its course. Next month it’ll be some other fad, you’ll see.

Hysterical? No danger? Mark my word, all of this will lead to trouble. Trouble, I say!

Where is my girl tonight?

Where she always is these days… with them…. reading

The library? Again? That can’t be good.