Drabble Challenge #2: "Balance", Life's Ups and Downs

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Title: Life’s Ups and Downs
Author: dancingdragon3
Length: 399 words
Rating/Genre: PG, general
Characters: Martha Jones and her mother, Francine
Summary: Set while Martha is still in undergrad. She and her mother are having a row over Martha’s lifestyle.

Martha was sitting at her parent’s kitchen table listening to yet another lecture on how she was wasting her youth. Already fed up, she wanted to go back to her dorm and read Harry Potter, but her mother was on a tear.