Despite me actually being older than him and the fact that his judgment was unfair because he had no idea what I was going through, I felt surprisingl... guilty. I shook my head and fought off a smile. He wouldn’t understand. ‘I love you pop,’ I said suddenly. ‘You too mom.’ ‘We love you too,’ my mother said. My father nodded in agreement, but I could see the concern. I guess back when I was eighteen I didn’t express my feeling for them particularly well. ‘Sounds like an eighteen year old,’ I. Rachel :I woke up to the alarm. My arm is aching for some reason. And I forgot to take my blanket. That is strange. I went to my bathroom to pick up my toothbrush. When i noticed faint foot prints . And the realization rushed over me. I rushed to my room to find Ben’s note next to my phone. I almost cried. But , decided that this is over. Just keeping this alive would just make things worse. So i decided to carry on with my day. I had to go to the mall with my friends today. It was 9 already ,. "When Iwas... oh, God. I almost said the words 'when I was your age'." Herchildren didn't even know why that would be funny. She had never reallydone the thing of talking about her own childhood, not just because shedidn't want to inflict that on them but because she had grown up in ahouse with two loving parents and they had not. On the other hand, itmeant that when she did start talking about the past, they actuallylistened. "I was awful as a teenager," she said. "Both of you would havehated. Their first stop was the bathroom where Charly pressed the 'girls' heat' button and, preparing herself, stepped into the lukewarm flow of water. "Well Slave Wendy? Do you want to stay dirty?" She said as she started rubbing herself with the soap.Wendy looked at her friend and stepped into the shower, "Hey! You've not got it right! Turn it up!" She said and went to press a heat button on the controller.But Charly stopped her. "No, we haven't earned the right to hot water, and this isn't so bad,.