*Lounge room – Tiff arrives home upset and tries to avoid her mum seeing her. *

MUM: Tiffany, is that you? You’re home early…. Is everything ok?

TIFF: Hi mum… um yeah, we just had a study lesson so I thought I would just come home early.

MUM: But I thought you had netball after school today?

TIFF: I do, I mean I did but I don’t really feel well so I just came home.

MUM: Oh, sweetheart, are you ok? You have missed a lot of netball lately, as well as school. You are going to fail if you keep missing days. Are you sure you don’t want me to ring the doctors?

TIFF: No! No, I’ll be ok. I’m sure it’s just been one of those flu things that are going around.

MUM: What for three months? Tiff this has been going on since the start of the year.

TIFF: Mum, I’m fine. Get off my back, will