This morning grandma stopped me in the kitchen and talked to me. She told me that Jackie needs to stop back-chatting to her parents because she's making them upset with the constant arguing. Of course the real reason she wanted to talk to me was because she wanted to tell me about Jackie's mum. She said that her mum was feeling sick and she was crying because she was upset about Bec.

Apparently Bec hasn't been going to school lately, and there's been worries that she might be kicked out of the school if she doesn't attend. The last school she went to apparently complained a lot of her, and that's why she had to switch schools.

And her mum has been so upset about this because she doesn't know what to do and she got sick, and Queenie told me that her mum went to the place she works, the chemist, to get medicine and she was crying there as well. Poor Queenie didn't know what to do...

But anyway, Jackie told me that her mum and her got into another argument, so my grandma said to ask her to stop back-chatting to her parents because she's adding to the stress that they're already under. And I, being the defensive one, argued Jackie's position, saying that it was her brother that really caused it, but grandma, who looked to be near tears, said that it shouldn't matter who caused it...you should just tolerate it anyway.

For some reason I felt like she was making a dig at me as well, when she said that parents work hard, and it's not like they can kick you out of the house because they'd worry about you, and blah blah...but yes...

Anyway, Jackie, just for now, until things get better between your parents and Bec...I don't know how long that will take..but just hold your tongue..I know you don't like them yelling and lecturing you when you don't deserve it, but sometimes parents are wrong, and when they realise, they're too proud and stubborn to admit it. And they're usually wrong...idiots.

Anyway just hold your tongue for now. One day they'll realise they've wronged you.