Creeping through no man's land

[ACJ]

I've just spoken to D18. She has been ringing me fairly frequently so I thought I'd better try and beat her to it this time and save her some money. When we last spoke on Monday she told me she was coming home on Friday. She even offered to babysit for me after I told her to let me know for definate as I'd been invited out by a friend. I foolishly accepted the invite. This evening D18 has decided that she isn't now coming home until Saturday. It's because her car is at her BFs house (she can't park it at uni) and as he doesn't finish work until 6pm it would be late before she was able to come home. Sensible I know I'm just disappointed. To add insult to injury she then informed me that she will be coming home next week as well as it is her BFs birthday and his mother lives nearby but before I could get excited she told me she wouldn't be around much as she would be spending all her time with him. I fully understand it from her POV, she is young, but from my POV I haven't seen her for a month and her BF has seen her at least every weekend since she went away as he only lives about 40 mins from the uni she is attending.

It's at times like this that I really envy H and OW and the freedom they have. They haven't altered their lifestyle one bit since S16 went to live with them. As far as they are concerned there is no need, he is 16, he doesn't need 'parents' around.