Family Matters

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Robert- What's wrong with you? Why are you crying and what are you sorry for? You better not be pregnant.

Nicki- I'm not

Robert- Then why are you crying?

Nicki- I don't know...

Robert- What do you mean you don't know?

Nicki- I guess I'm just sorry for disappointing you. I didn't mean to but I had to do what made me happy.

Robert- Your happy with being this invested into some boy at 17 years old?

Nicki- Yes, as long as the feeling is mutual and it is.

Robert- If you think so then there is nothing I can say right?

Nicki- You can say that you support my relationship. That would make me happy.

Robert- I support you.

Nicki- A few weeks ago you said that you respected Meek and that our relationship was ok as long as he continued to protect me.

Robert- That's back when he was just your little boyfriend, but this so called engagement is out of the question. All your doing is repeating the cycle. Me and your mother did these same things and look how it ended.

Nicki- That's not fare for you to compare y'alls relationship with ours.

Robert- Whether you wanna believe it or not they are similar. Your mom got pregnant at 16 and then two years later we got married because that's what we felt we had to do. I'm trying to protect you from making the same mistakes.

Nicki- But I wanna make mistakes! I wanna learn that way instead of you guys trying to tell me everything. And that's why I wanna move down to Philly with Meek....

Robert- Helllll no! I'm not letting you do that. That's basically encouraging you to get pregnant. I'm not going to be apart of that. You can live like an adult when you are one.

Nicki- If I wanted to get pregnant then I would be ! Why can't y'all understand that? It's not about that, it's about me being happy.

Robert- You think it's going to be all sunshine and rainbows and it's not, I'm trying to tell you that.

Nicki- I just want a chance to find out.

Robert- And you'll get that chance when your an adult. Until then your going follow my rules.

I got up and stormed out of the room. When I got to my room I slammed the door as hard as I could and I flopped down on my bed. It was pissing me off that I couldn't do what I wanted to do. I felt like I was being controlled and that made me want to rebel.

I laid in bed for hours until I fell asleep. It was really late when I woke up and I couldn't go back to sleep. I laid on my back looking up at the ceiling thinking of a master plan. I was tired of being in this house but I didn't wanna live with my mother either. I needed to figure out a way to get down to Philly for good without having to worry about the cops hunting me down because my parents told them I ran away.

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Robert- You need to come over here and talk to your daughter.

Carol- For what? She doesn't listen to me, that's why she's at your house right now.

Robert- She needs some guidance. She thinks that I'm going to agree to her going miles away to live with a boy and it's not happening.

Carol- Just let her go Robert, she'll be back anyways.

Robert- And what if she come back heart broken or pregnant or hurt? Then I'm gonna feel guilty for letting her go.

Carol- That'll we the consequences of her actions.

Robert- No that'll be the consequences of our actions. You think it's ok because that's what your mother let you do.

Carol- Ok, and we struggled but we got through it. Look at us now, we're both doctors. It might actually do her more good than bad.

Robert- I just don't think that's a good idea.

Carol- Well your the one that has to deal with that attitude. Your either damned if you do or damned if you don't.

Robert- Why couldn't we have a son? My life would be so much easier.

Carol- You wanted a daughter back then and that's what you got.

Robert- I didn't know she would grow up to be just like you.

Carol- There is nothing wrong with me!

Robert- There's a lot wrong with you.

Carol- There's nothing wrong with me.

Robert- You just need to talk some sense into your daughter before I beat her. She's to much for me.

Carol- Your the one that spoiled her and your the one that let that boy live with you after they called theirselves dating so you can deal with her all by yourself.

Robert- And your the one that invited him down for the summer. It's your fault that this got started in the first place.

Carol- I'll talk to her but I'm telling you, she doesn't care what I have to say.

I was standing at the top of the stairs listening to their conversation. They were making me seem like a problem child and I didn't feel like I was. I went downstairs and grabbed my keys off of the kitchen table.

Robert- Where are you going?

Nicki- Out

Robert- Excuse me? I said where.

Nicki- I don't know.

Robert- You know what, your not going anywhere for a while. Give me your keys.

Nicki- No!

Robert- I wasn't asking, give me your keys!

I threw my keys and ran back upstairs to my room. If they thought that I was a problem child now, there were gonna think I was the devil by the time I'm done.

Nicki- Chino

Chino- What's up?

Nicki- I need help with something.

Chino- What?

Nicki- I need help transferring schools.

THE AWARDS TONIGHT. I FEEL KIKE THEY GONE BE ON SOME BS SO IM GLAD I HAVE TO WORK.