I needed to go over to 'Search Hall' and get signed out by one of the 'special' counselors before I could leave the campus. They wouldn't approve me l...aving, not until Hans got there and told them it was a critical family emergency, and that my mother's life was threatened.As soon as I got home, Gerta told me that Elena was in with my mother, helping to clean her up from an accident. I'm sure the accident was probably her urinating or defecating on herself. In her deepest stages, she was near. Jack was interested. If I’d waited a few months I was sure this wouldn’t have happened, but I decided that he was going to be my rebound. I was selfish. Jack got up, dressed himself and slammed the door on his way out, and who could blame him. I certainly couldn’t. I couldn’t sleep that night. The whole of the days events raced around my head and although I had left the office earlier on vacation I didn’t know now if I would have a job to go back to. How could I have been so stupid, in the. It barely overlapped one side once he pulled the camera side down to where he wanted it, but it was enough.His phone sounded off, and Brian pulled it out to see a text that read, “What’s up?”He grinned and sighed. The text was from his oldest friend, Heaven. Though she went by her middle name - Anne - he thought her given name suited her far better, and it was how he thought of her. Ever since she’d broken up with her boyfriend, Heaven had been spending a lot of time with him. It was always. “We’ve been friends a long time.”“And that other girl, Brenda was her name, right,” Belle asked. “Have you known her long too?”“Actually, Mary Ann and I just met her a few weeks ago at a club,” Rachel said, bringing her glass up to enjoy more of the wine. “We all just seemed to hit it off and became almost instant friends.”“I see,” Belle said while Rachel took her drink. “Was that at “Cherry Pie” or another club?”Caught in mid swallow, it was all Rachel could do not to spit out the wine in her.