How else could I explain knowing nothing of any relatives, and I had never noticed this until just now. It was like a curtain being drawn back and rev...aling the truth to me but why now, I wondered?”All of these thoughts had my head in a spin, and I found it difficult to get to sleep after going to bed with all of this on my mind. I finally did manage to drift off after much tossing and turning.That night, I dreamed again about the Guardian. Again, I was walking through the mist and suddenly. You didn't steal this car did you?" No, it's mine and I am 22 years old. What are you doing hitchhiking down Imperial?" Actually I was trying to get home from the beach. I'm too young to drive."We drove for a couple of minutes and I could see the planes coming in for a landing at LAX. I also noted that there were cigarette butts in her ashtray. "Doris, can I bum a cigarette off of you?" How old are you?" Fourteen?"A little young for smoking aren't you?" OK, geeze. It wasn't like I asked you for. When we are around our parents, they usually like us to speak in English, but when we are alone, we speak in French and a tiny bit of English."What do you mean?" I mean like, what if they have learned things already that we haven't? And what if we are not popular?" I wouldn't worry about those things Adrienne, okay?" I loop the elastic around the end of the braid."I think that wherever we go, we will still be popular," I start in on the second braid."You really think so?" Definitely."We sit. But one thing she did know was that she shouldn’t keep Ma’am waiting for her answer. “Yes Ma’am” was Louise’s simple answer. Louise had decided there and then that she would not do anything to enrage Ellie again. She would learn her place and she would do her best to keep Ellie happy. Not that she didn’t want the punishment, but because she wanted to prove to Ellie that she could be a good girl and earn her rights. Like Ellie, she was starting to grow into her role and saw it as an honour to.