MSN interruptions

I was on MSN chatting to a couple of friends when Parveen suddenly came on line. I usually keep my status to ‘appear offline’ to avoid my family on MSN, as the kids always tell their mums (my sisters) that i'm online, which usually results in my being questioned about one thing or another.
Parveen said my father wanted to know where I was and the usual crap, they’re your parents, they just want to be there for you. She said I didn't know what it was like to be a parent and how hard it is when your child won't listen to you.

My reaction to sudden interference from my family is interesting, to the say the least. It's like someone who is allergic to nuts and accidentally eats one - the allergic reaction sets in immediately (I assume, as i'm not allergic to nuts). I was sat on the balcony, enjoying the sun, chatting happily to my friends, when just a few lines from Sameena appear on my screen and screw up all my thoughts, taking me from normality to fear of reading the next line which appears on my MSN screen.

I got upset quickly, probably because she caught me by surprise and because the conversation inevitably came back to my parents being upset and me being the bad daughter, not doing what she's told. I tried to tell her that my parents tell her one thing, saying they just want to amke amends withy me but are completely the opposite in their attitude towards me - in that they just tell em what to do and are not very nice.

My father no longer wanted to give me money for a deposit on a flat because he didn't know for sure that I wasn't going to run off with someone in the future. That means be with someone they don’t approve of. Apparently, if he gave me the money, everyone (the family) would know about it and he'd be even more embarrassed when I inevitably disgraced them again.

It was Parveen's next words which really pissed me off. Apparently Sameena had told Parveen I have a boyfriend in Spain! At this point I almost lost the plot....

At Christmas time , when I'd visited from Spain, one of my male friends, David from Spain had been in London for a day and had asked me to show him around. Of course I did so. I'd considered pretending he was a girl to Sameena at the time, as i'd been staying at her house and had said I was going to show him around, because I wanted to avoid the inevitable questions, but then thought, why should I? He was just a friend and there seemed to be no point. Besides, they know I have male friends.

But apparently it did matter. I couldn't believe it, it's seems that when my sisters have nothing else to talk about, they resort to speculation. This can cost me dearly, because if Sameena mentions it to my parents, then i'm under fire. If I had a boyfriend, or ten boyfriends for that matter, whose business is it? In my family, everyones, it seems.  Parveen even tried to justify it, saying, well when everyone's lying about things, we get all confused, but I said, this is just making things up! If David was a boyfriend, I  wouldn't have mentioned him at all, I would've made up some other excuse for going out all day.

At least it's been a good reminder that I can never truly be honest about my life with my sisters, because they'll always draw their own (incorrect) conclusions from what I say and land me with more problems, where I end up having to explain myself even more, creating more tangles of lies and cover ups, over something so innocent and simple.