” Alexis said to herself enjoying the solitude of the empty room “I have the showers all to myself.”Removing her lab clothing Alexis paused to e...amine herself in the full length mirror attached to the end of one of the banks of lockers. Long hair coming down to the middle of her back helped to frame her heart shaped face and deep green eyes peeked out from between the lenses of a slim pair of rimless glasses, her skin was a soft white which was smooth and free of blemishes, years of constant. "Hi Arnie, what did they have to say this time, something good I hope." Arnie grins as Sara hugs him and kisses him on the cheek, "Hey babe, they said they found a little improvement in the nerves in her right leg and told her the usual, don't give up hope. She's back in the bedroom, kinda down in the dumps, go on back." Sara pours two cups of coffee and winks at him, "I'll pour some coffee in her and she'll feel better." She walks back to the bedroom and sits the coffee on the nightstand, sits. She clutched her jacket close as the cold breeze picked up. She only had what she was wearing, plus a small backpack of useless bits and pieces. She hadn't intended to run away, or even, take a bail out leap from a moving car. She'd just reached her breaking point. Her father didn't even bother to turn around for her. His tail lights were already dim in the distance as she picked herself off the ground.Now, as her fury settled, she began to feel the cold night. The trees groaning under their. She swallowed it and cleaned her lips and chin with the palm of her hand."That's quick," she said.Alec didn't answer. He just lay panting."Are you all right?" she asked after a minute."Oh God," he sighed; his voice still trembled. Juliana sank back on her pillow, staring up into the darkness."Is that ... is that what you do for the money?" he asked. She chuckled."If that was all I do, I'd have to stay for another year," she said. He didn't answer for a bit. Then he said:"But you are back now,.