** Wednesday March 19th, 2036**
-elies pov-
After taking some blood and her sending off the prescription to the pharmacy we leave the office and I know that when we get into the car my mom is going to yell at me.
When we get in the car, I can't even look at my mom. "What were you thinking Elliana Alwyn! Having sex without a condom. For god's sake what is going on with you" she yells at me, and I guess I deserve that with the stupid decision I made.
"Mom I'm sorry. I didn't think... I didn't think I could get an STD" I tell her honestly. "Then why did you do this? Do you even realize how dangerous it can be to get an STD" she continues to yell.
"Some of my friends where saying how it felt different and I wanted to feel what it was like" I tell her and keep looking everywhere but at her. I get why she is mad, but I just wanted to know what people were talking about. Clearly it was a mistake though.
"so when your friends do stupid things you have to do it too?" she says, and I bite my lip "no"
-taylors pov-
I can't believe she did this. It's bad enough that she is sexually active, but now she decides to take off the condom just to feel what it's like. This is so irresponsible, and I can't believe she did this.
"Please don't tell dad" she mutters and I roll my eyes "of course I'm going to tell your dad. First of all, he would know when he looked at the insurance forms. But you are sick, and I don't keep that from your father" I yell at her.
Of course I'm going to tell joe. Usually, I don't tell things she tells me to joe, but this is different. I could never keep illness away from him because this means that we need to have yet another conversation about safe sex.
"And I need to call Viviane, because she needs to know that Alex needs to get tested" I tell her, and her eyes widen when she looks at me and she asks me to please not do that. "of course I have to call. I can't trust you right now, I need to know that they get him tested so he could get treated as well. This was reckless Elliana and I'm furious" I tell her.
An STD is serious and if it's not treated it can have long term impact on your health. So I need to call his mom to make sure she gets all the information and not just what teenagers decide to tell her.
"This is breaking my trust Elliana, you promised to be responsible. So now the bedroom door stays open again, and he is not allowed to be at the house when an adult isn't at the house. You need to earn back those privileges" I tell her, and she leans against the seat.
"Mom please. I know that I made a mistake, but don't take those things away. I'm happy, don't you want me to be happy" she argues but I sigh. "of course I want you to be happy. But you did something reckless that broke our trust. I know that it's impossible to be the pantie police, but now we need to try because you can't be responsible with it. I'm not allowing him to stay at the house when its only you there anymore"
Being the pantie police is completely impossible, and I know that. But when she can't be responsible, I need to try because this is potentially dangerous. Situations like this is things I feared when she started to be intimate, but I've tried to understand where she is coming from. Neither me or joe are happy that she has decided that she wanted to explore this side of herself, but at least we have had an open conversation with her and talking a lot about safe sex. That's really all we can do, talk about safe sex. But now I need to put my foot down.
"Mom I didn't mean to break your trust. I'm really sorry. But please" she says and starts to cry. I want to cave and tell her that it's okay, but I can't do that. She needs to take consequences of her own actions, and that's how it is when you make bad decisions.
"no Elliana" I tell her firmly. This on top of everything else going on in our lives at the moment it's just one more thing on the top of everything else. It's exhausting and I wish that she would just act like the responsible Elliana I know. This is so unlike her, and I don't know how to discipline her because we haven't had to do this before.
We get home and joe is on his way home after trading places with selena. I don't want to tell him about this in front of kenzie or in a hospital because I have a feeling joe will yell too. But before he gets home, I call Viviane, Alex's mom.
"Hi Viviane, how are you?" I say when she picks up. "hi Taylor. I'm good, how are you?"
"i'm fine. But I'm calling because our children decided to have sex without a condom and now Ellie has gonorrhea, so Alex needs to be tested too" I tell her and there is a long pause. "I can't believe these kids. We have talked with him so much about how important condoms is" she says and is clearly just as mad as me.
"Apparently the bacteria that causes gonorrhea is something a person could naturally have and when you have unprotected sex it could transfer to the partner. So chances are he is asymptomatic I think if I understood the doctors correct" I tell her, and she says that she is going to take him to the doctor tomorrow morning so he can get cheeked out as well. "so Ellie has to go on two weeks of antibiotics. But I don't know how you are feeling but I'm furious"
"I am just as mad. I can't believe these kids. Now it's about how to handle this" she says and sigh. "Yes. I told Ellie that there are no more closed doors, and she isn't allowed to have him over if she is home alone anymore. I know that this won't prevent them from doing stuff other places, but what they did is reckless, and I need to try something"
She agrees and is doing the same for Alex. Alex and Ellie broke our trust and it's going to take time to earn that back. Thankfully I've become good friends with his mom, and we have an open dialogue about our children's relationship. It's not that we interfere with what they are doing much, but it's important for both of us that we have an open dialogue. It makes both his parents and us more comfortable knowing that we have a dialogue so we can better protect and support our children.
"Then I will implement the same things here. I completely agree and I will have a painfully long conversation with him about safe sex" she says and now I get an idea. "How about we meet up after they are done at dance and do it together. Make it clear that if they are going to make bad sexual decisions they need to sit and listen to us talk about safe sex" I suggest, and she agrees so after they are done at dance, they will come over here and we can talk.
**
Joe comes home after trading places with Selena, and I call Ellie down to the living room where joe and I are waiting for her. "Now Ellie. Tell your dad what is going on" I tell her. This is her mistake, and she needs to tell him herself.
There is a long pause "Elliana you need to tell him" I demand of her, and she bites her lip. "i... I have gonorrhea" she mumbles, and joes' eyes widen. "You have what" he yells at her and she flinches because of how loud he is being.
"How the hell did you get that?" he yells, and she can't look at either one of us "I... we had... we didn't use a condom" she says, and her face is turning red with embarrassment. Clearly, she realizes she made a mistake.
"Why did you do that. This is not okay Elliana Alwyn. I'm so disappointed in you" he continues to yell at her. "Because people told me about how it felt different. And we wanted to try" she confesses honestly at least. She isn't a liar at least, she doesn't lie.
"so just because your friends do stupid things you need to do them too? So if they are jumping out of a window you need to do it too? This is just an excuse Elliana. And now you have an STD. Does this mean that you are having sex with other people or is he cleating on you" he says, and I explain how she can get an STD without either one of those things happening. I hope he isn't cleating on her but if he isn't this is the explanation.
"You are being reckless Elliana and I don't know how to even... you are so clever, but you made a stupid and reckless decision. You're obviously grounded" he says and throw his hands out in frustration. "No visitors for a week, only school, dance and then being at home in your room" I hadn't even thought about grounding her, but that's a good idea. She has never been grounded before, so this is something new.
"i'm sorry dad. I... I didn't think something like this could happen. It was stupid and I know that. I will never do it again" she says with tears flowing down her face. Clearly, she feels really bad about what she did, but we can't have and baby her every time she does something wrong but start crying. Even though we hate seeing her cry she needs to take consequences of her own actions. If we don't discipline her, she will probably do it again because it didn't have consequences.
**
After dance Alex and Viviane comes over to the house. I was meant to be at the hospital with kenzie tonight, but we decided that I should be home and take this conversation with the teenagers and Viviane. Aurora is in the other room with Lauren and Abigail. I've already told her what is going on and she is going to have a conversation with Lauren because we both have a feeling that she is doing this too.
"you two decided to have unprotected sex and now see what has happened. STDs are serious things and can have long term effects. You can even get sterile and not be able to have children one day. How could you two be this reckless" I start and see how uncomfortable both Alex and Ellie are as they sit on the couch and look everywhere but at us.
"And we need to ask. Do either one of you have any other sexual partners? Because if you, do we need to contact them because they could get seriously ill" I tell them, and they both shake their heads. "No, just one another" Alex mumbles.
"i'm sorry. We made a mistake. It was stupid and reckless, and we are never going to do that again" Ellie says, and they intertwine their fingers clearly trying to comfort one another in this awkward situation.
Viviane pulls out a condom "you know what this is. A condom. Never have sex without it or you can end up in this situation again. No glove, no love. Unprotected sex is not okay. I assume you know to use one of these or do I need to get out a cucumber to show you" she says and raise an eyebrow at them.
"We know how to use them mom" Alex tells her "Clearly you forgot if you decided to not put a condom on your penis Alex. Most likely you are the carrier of this, the asymptomatic one, and you gave her an STD. This is not okay alexander turner. Do you even know what gonorrhea looks like? It itches really bad, she can bleed a bit, there is discharge leaking out of her cervix. STDs are no joke alexander" she yells at him, and he scrunches his nose when his mom tells her what it is like.
"And you Elliana. Never have sex with someone who doesn't put on a condom. You need to say no. It's your responsibility too that you don't have sex without one. It's your choice if you want that penis inside of you, and clearly you made the wrong decision her. It wasn't fun laying on that table and have the gynecologist looking inside your vagina, was it? No. And this will happen again if you decide to be reckless and have unprotected sex again"
My goal right now is to make them as uncomfortable as I possibly can, so they really get some awkwardness out of their stupid decision, and Viviane is absolutely in on this too. We don't want our kids to do stupid things like this because it can cause serious consequences. We don't want them to have sex at all really, and we have talked about that, but if they are going to do it, they need to at least not be stupid about it.
I pull up my phone and decide to show them some pictures. "This is what it looks like inside a vagina infected with gonorrhea" I tell them and then I show them pictures of what It would look like on a penis, in a mouth and in the eyes. Its horrifying pictures but I found them on a medical site to make sure that they knew exactly what was going on. Both of them look like they want to throw up, which means my plan of making them as uncomfortable as possible is working.
"Are you two going to be stupid enough to have unprotected sex again?" his mom says and both of them shake their heads. "We made a mistake. And we are really sorry" Ellie says and is on the verge of tears. Clearly, she feels bad, and I feel bad that she is almost in tears, but this conversation is important. We can't let them get off easily with this, it's that serious.
"No more closed doors, no more being at each other's houses without an adult in the house. You two have broken our trust and need to earn it back. None of us want you to be having sex at all, but we at least expect you to be safe when you do it. You have condoms, we know that you are capable of getting them if you don't ask us for them yourself, so there is no excuse to not use a condom. Birth control only protect against pregnancy, not STDs" I tell them sternly. If they want those privileges back, they need to earn them. We can't let them get off without some consequences because this is serious.
I know that Ellie has a lot going on and on her mind these days, but that doesn't give her a free pass to keep making bad decisions. Thankfully she is going back to therapy next week, that's when her therapist finally had an opening when we called after she got drunk. She needs some tools to deal with what's going on, especially after the drinking thing. She isn't acting like herself, and we want her to work on that. It's not that we are excusing her behavior with the fact that she is having a hard time, but that doesn't mean she doesn't need help with it. She hasn't been talking with joe or me about what is going on, so she needs to go to her therapist.
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