Seemed like a good idea at the time

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It seemed like a good idea at the time

Monday morning in school, everyone running around and gossiping about going out and how they wanted the whole class to go, Excitement filled the air with the smiles on peoples faces, the jumping up and down once they were deciding what to wear and what way they would do their hair.

So that night I went home and started telling my mum about the whole thing and asked her could I go, she replied “No Sarah, I don’t think so because you haven’t cleaned your room when I have asked you to, you didn’t empty the dishwasher for me yesterday and you have already got two detentions since you started back at school!”.

I begged her and promised her I would do what I was told and stay out of trouble in school but I wasn’t going to convince her, and the fact that I kept going on didn’t help matters.

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I was so annoyed with her, my whole class was going out and she wasn’t letting me, I didn’t know what to do but just keep begging her.

When I went into school the next day, the room filled with chatter about what everyone was wearing and what way they were doing their hair.

I walked over to my friends who were standing in a huddle, and explained to them why I wasn’t allowed. We sat for a while and tried to figure out ways of how I could convince her to let me go, but nothing was going ...

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