She always felt it was a woman's choice to decide what to do with a pregnancy, but the women told her otherwise. They said it was wrong to kill and in...ocent child no matter what the circumstances were. She felt good having friends so she joined them. Week after week, she'd take a day off from her library job to go protest with the women of her church.There were a few clinics in the city they lived. It wasn't a huge city but it was big enough for three high schools, four libraries, two movie. What have you unearthed inside of me? Clutched close to you, I feel my body collect the energy it needs to make it through the day you will leave. I soak it up, like its some kind of d**g, and I can't get enough. I stare at your face, hoping that I can memorize its shape, the colors, every single hue.. Maybe, just maybe, I can call upon them, after you are through with our latest rendezvous and feel not so alone. The addict, grasping at crumbs of her only smack.. The scabs all healed, now. Where were you?" Well, I, we..." said Lisa.Jane shook her head. "Trina went to the hospital." Trina?" said her mother. "Who's Trina?" Trina Chang," said Lisa. "Arie's sister. She's a sophomore." Why'd she go to the hospital," her mother asked."She, um." Lisa hesitated, once again nervous. "She tried to kill herself." What!" said Megan Myers."Mom," Jane said, cutting off the explosion. "Arie is clinically depressed. So is Trina. Haven't you ever felt like things were hopeless, that you were. ‘Staircase?’ he asked, catching her eye. ‘I don’t know,’ she answered meekly. ‘I only saw the elevator the two times they took me to my father. The rest of the time they kept me…locked up.’ Her last words were accompanied by a shudder. He had to wonder what they’d done to her while she was ‘locked up’. The disgust on her face was evidence enough that it hadn’t been pleasant. ‘Over here,’ Olan said. Niko was the first to reach the indicated door. Brick shambled up behind them to peer through a.