“Protest all you like, young lady,” her mother said as she blocked the pouting teenage girl holding the poster board sign from going out the front door, “but you are not going to join that protest! I appreciate that you care about the issue, but you’re too young and I don’t want you getting into trouble if things turn bad! Now go to your room! Find a safer, more peaceful way to protest, if you like.”
This post is part of the Tuesday Use It In A Sentence prompt, “protest”:
Jeanne Owens, author 