As parents, the idea that our teenage children might experiment with drugs is enough to make our blood run cold.
And while we do our utmost to advise and guide, we all know we can only do so much... as one mother thought she discovered when her 16-year-old daughter underwent a drug test at her high school.
Officials at the time asserted that Rachel Gelmis had tested positive for numerous illegal drugs including heroin, meth, pot and cocaine.
Except they were wrong.
"I was freaking out!" Rachel told BuzzFeed. "I was so scared. I kept racking my brain for a reason that I might have tested positive for everything, and I had no idea.”
After being forced to choose between rehab options with her parents, the school eventually realised their mistake and admitted they had completely misread the teen's results.
That time my mom genuinely believed I was doing every drug at once bc my idiot school misread my drug test pic.twitter.com/VNJQJqXzXY
— rachel (@whxsper) September 24, 2016
So, Rachel's mam did what any upstanding mother would do in that instance - she poured her heart out through the medium of baking.
In other words, she apologised with the help of a lot of blue icing.
And in a throwback move this week, Rachel decided to share an image of the dessert with social media users, writing: "That time my mom genuinely believed I was doing every drug at once bc my idiot school misread my drug test."
Thankfully for Rachel and her mum, the experience did much to strengthen their bond and four years on, they can actually laugh about it.
