"Mom, what's going on? Why are you acting like this?"
"Why am I acting like what? Look at how crazy you make me. You're my only child, and I worry about you."
"Only child, what about Sarah?"
"Sarah who?" her mother asked. "Is that one of your friends? Have you been drinking, or using drugs? Let me smell your breath..."
Jennifer looked at her mother, utterly confused and terrified.