After sammy's death Tara and Kat had gone to the farm together, Tara had also invited Christian despite everything that had taken place between them, because of the promise they had made to not let anything in between them and also because she knew that they needed each other.
Christian didn't keep in touch the whole summer which was starting to worry Tara but she tried to convince herself by thinking that he was with his dad and they had a lot to talkbabout and also about both the promises that he had made. The end of summer was approaching and she couldn't take it all anymore. There was no Sammy , her time with Kat was great but at some point they both knew that the group of best friends was incomplete without Sammy , Ben and her had mutually broken up because of both lack of communication and also lack of interest in each other, there was painful silence from Christian, Abigail was suffering through therapy the whole summer and Ethan had thrown himself into his work. So Tara finally Decided that she would be going to the academy for her last year a week earlier than required and Kat had decided to go and visit Ethan.
Tara arrived exactly a week and a half earlier at the academy after dropping Kat at her home from where she would go to meet Ethan. Ms Raine was not the least surprised to see Tara early, it was as if she was expecting Tara to be there early. Tara was alone at the academy so Ms Raine gave Tara a simple two hours lesson in the morning and the rest of the was entitled to her to spend in any way she wanted. She had nothing to but dance all day. Only after two days it became a boring monotonous routine where she aould take her lesson in the morning then rmtake a break then plunge herself into ballet again for the whole day occasionally eating something in between.
Anyone with eyes could see that she was hurting and was alone.