"WHERE have you been?" Margaret gritted her teeth as she asked the young lady who just entered their house. She even made sure that her husband was already asleep so he would not know that their daughter came out.

"Not now, Ma!" Janice was tired.

"I am still talking to you so don't you dare turn your back on me!" Margaret rebuked her daughter in a low voice, she would not like noise to wake her husband up.

Janice stopped taking steps and faced her mother. She looks annoyed. "I'm big enough, so I don't need to have your and dad's permission before I am able to do what I...