My best friend was helping with the school theatre production, and I decided to hang out with her after school. My dad is on a business trip and so its just me and my stepmother. I figure I probably had to contact her about it but, didn't, for whatever reason. Probably thought she wouldn't allow me to, but I also don't have my own phone. When I show up back home after dark, all the doors are locked, and I have to knock on the back window to be let in. She's icy but I don't remember if she chewed me out or not. I had to turn in all my electronics every night, ipod DS etc. This time they're gone come morning. "Oh, this is my punishment for last night" is my logic, and I carry on my day.

I go to my friend's house on this day, and while we're having a good time she gets a call from my stepmom. I go back home. She wordlessly gives me her phone. My dad's on the other line. Amongst other things, he asks how I expect to get away with hanging out when I was grounded. I didn't know I was grounded, but apparently it was on me for not figuring that out when my electronics went missing. He asks me to not make so much trouble for his wife while he was away. This conversation all took place while I sat at the top of the basement steps