Tabitha Collins is a sixteen year old girl with long black hair with a pink dyed side fringe, spider bite lip piercings, a double right eyebrow piercing and a septum piercing. Her mind was reeling from the information that had been released by Leo Varadkar that afternoon. They weren't allowed out? No, that just won't work. I need to see the gang. She groaned and gripped her hair, after another moment, she took her phone out and sent a message asking her group chat what would be happening.

The response was instantaneous, several notifications began to fill the silent room. All were unsure. Tabitha looked around her room and ran to her chester drawers to rummage through her underwear drawer. 'Crap! I'm nearly out of my stash' She thought to herself, then sighed in frustration as her mother Sophie called her downstairs for dinner.

As she entered the kitchen clad in her pink shorts and black string top, her mother smiled and asked her to set the table. Once she was finished, Tabitha sat down at the table and turned to her mother with a curious expression. "Mam? How long do you think this lockdown will last?" She asked, twirling her fringe around her index finger.

"I dunno Tabs sorry, but I'm sure it won't be too bad! We'll be able to catch up on some good old family bonding now that we'll be constantly with each other!" Sophie grinned happily at the thought of spending time with her family. "Don't worry about your friends! I'm sure you can video call them on your phone or something right?" To Tabitha's misfortune, her mother skipped forward to hug her from behind.

She scowled and shook her off when she heard her dad come come in. "Of course she can Soph, technology has developed so far since we were young!" He chuckled softly and kissed Sophie before sitting down across from Tabitha. "So, movie night tonight?" He suggested with a wiggle of his eyebrows.

Tabitha rolled her eyes, she was familiar with her dad's antiques and knew not to comment. "Might as well considering there's not much else to do." She muttered letting the strand of hair fall from her finger and place her chin on her chin turning her head towards the window.

Sophie's grin grew larger at the mention of a movie night. "Definitely! Alex, do you do want to head over to the shop and grab some munchies after dinner?" She asked while she served everyone's dinner to them.

Alex nodded, taking a bite of his food after Sophie sat down. "Of course, what would you like me to get? Tab, do you want anything in particular?"

Tabitha stayed silent for a few minutes thinking and eventually nodded. "Um ye, can you get me Chocolate Mooju, a bottle of Fanta, and a six pack of popcorn?" She replied then went back to eating her food. 'It's been a while since I've had Mooju! I can't wait!" She thought to herself giddily, her mouth watering at the idea of the flavour exploding in her mouth as she drank the cool liquid.

"Oh! Could you pick up a large packet of Starburst?" Sophie requested looking at her husband with the best puppy dog eyes she could muster. "Of course." Was the reply, and he turned back to Tabitha with a slight frown on his face as he took notice of her spider-bite piercings. "Tabitha, did we not tell you to take your lip piercings out at dinner time?" He asked her with a sigh.

Tabitha couldn't stop the glare she gave her dad. "You did, I just chose to ignore you, I told you I wasn't taking them out just because you want me too." She bit out coldly, she was protective of her piercings. "Once all of this over, I'm getting my tongue pierced, you can't stop me."

Sophie looked at the two and rolled her eyes. "Don't speak to your father that way Tab, we only ask, because it looks much more presentable." She explained gently. "We know that you like to wear them, just not at dinner ok?"

The teenager thought for a moment. 'Hmm that's an alright compromise, but I don't want to have to take them out...' Once done contemplating, she let out a sigh of defeat. "Fine, but only at dinner." The parents smiled at her reply. "Good, now that, that's settled, we can continue our dinner in peace."

The family nodded and began to eat the food in front of them talking casually about what they were going to watch that night and how various friends and family were getting on. Their dogs, Diesel and Duke popped their heads in once or twice in search of some food, but got sent away after being told not to beg.

After dinner, Tabitha left to go to the park since it was only just getting dark, and the dogs needed to be walked. Once she reached the park, she sat down at a bench and threw a ball for the dogs to race after and began to text her friends and told them where she was in hopes someone would come out and talk to her.

After a while, the dogs lay at her feet panting in exhaustion after chasing the balls for a while. Just as Tabitha was about to get up and leave, her friend Jason appeared with his Husky Rocky in a black t-shirt and jeans. His brown hair shining in the setting sun's rays. He bent down to ruffle Diesel and Duke's ears when he got close enough. "So what's up?" He asked casually, sitting down next to her. "You told us where you were for a reason right?"

The black haired girl nodded. "Yep! I just want to know what Cat's gonna' be doing about our drugs." She replied in a hushed tone, so no one else in the park would hear them.

"Ahhh that." he chuckled, shaking his fringe out of his eyes. "I don't know yet, I'm sure she'll figure something out." He slung an arm around her shoulders comfortingly. "What has you out and about at this hour?" He asked with a raised brow.

Tabitha leaned into his embrace with a sigh. "I just wanted to get some air and walk the dogs to be perfectly honest, my parents were bitching about my piercings, so I decided to get some air before I'm forced to endure a shitty movie night with 'em." She mumbled quietly watching the three dogs run around and chase each other.

"Well you already know, you're welcome in my place anytime. Lockdown or not." He shrugged a bit. "My ma won't care, so just let me know, and I'll come 'round and pick you up on the bike ok?" Tabitha let out a large grin at that and hugged him tighter for a moment. "I gotta get going or they'll be wondering where I am. Bye Jay!" She waved her farewell and whistled for Diesel and Duke to follow.

Once home, the ravenette raced upstairs to get out of her leather jacket and black jeans, in order to get back into her black top and pink shorts. When that was done, she quickly began dividing her 'stash' into separate groups, in order to space out how long they'd last. Tabitha groaned hearing her mother call her down. She looked to the dogs she had on her bed and smiled at them. "Ready to go back down boys?" She asked and made her way downstairs to the living room where her parents were waiting.

The first movie they decided to watch was the comedy 'A Parent Trap'. Sophie and Alex on one couch, and Tabitha with the dogs on the other. It was a night of laughs and chatter, but Tabitha couldn't help but think it was stupid and wanted to go back up to her room so she could read her books and blast her music so she could forget she existed in a world where she had to interact with her parents and others.

After a few hours of movies, Tabitha got up from the couch and headed up to her own room after wishing her parents a good night. As soon as she opened her bedroom door, she dropped on to her bed like a log, Diesel padded in next to Duke, kicking the door closed as they leaped up next to her and the two curled up into her. The tired teen just chuckled and shifted so they could lay on either side of her.

A few moments of comfortable silents later, Tabita went to pick her phone up and took it off charge, when she turned it on, she immediately saw that Catherine had texted the group chat saying that they were to meet up at the park at 2am Saturday night to discuss what they were going to do. The girl couldn't help but feel relieved at the contents of the message and ruffled the dogs ears affectionately.