“Why on earth would she do that?” his father asked. Paul reluctantly explained and his father was livid. “All the money we’ve spent on DriNites and all the worry your mother’s been through thinking you’re still wetting the bed at your age!”
Peter’s prediction was right. Both Mel and Audrey were in big trouble. Not for their lesbian affair or for drinking alcohol, they’re both 16 and therefore above the age of consent. But they are in trouble but for getting drunk whilst in charge of ‘children’, for sleeping in Audrey’s parents’ bed and for the years of blackmail and abuse they’ve subjected their younger brothers to.