Disclaimer: I own nothing. All characters belong to Mattel. I am merely playing around with headcannon and what if scenarios while sleep deprived. I am making nothing from writing this.

Toralei sighed as she glanced down at the assignment that had been given to the class. How can I write about something that I don't have? She wondered as she closed her eyes, trying to keep herself from thinking about it. I can just skip the stupid essay, what's one zero going to do for my final grade? She wondered as she fell back onto the bed. I guess I could always write about being taken in but then that would just cause more drama than it would be worth...Heck, I don't even know what our relationship could be called...I mean, she obviously doesn't treat me like a daughter.

Sighing the ginger-furred werecat turned her attention back toward the paper, closing her eyes as she thought back to the night that she and the twins had been discovered. She could remember the cold rain, how the normies had chased them out of the human part of town as the rain pelted against them, mixing with the blood that had stained her face from the rip on her ear.

I wonder what she really thought when she ran into us...Was it pity since we were all a mess? Sympathy? She thought sadly as she glanced down at the paper once again. Don't think about it Toralei, don't think about how safe you felt that night, don't think about how warm it was when she was holding you that night...How it felt knowing that for once you didn't have to rely on just yourself to be strong for everyone else.

Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of someone entering her dorm room, causing her to look up only to see Howleen standing there with a concerned look on her face.

"I have been knocking for like three minutes straight. Are you okay Toralei?" the younger werewolf asked, causing the fifteen-year-old to sigh.

"Not really...I have a lot on my mind." Toralei confessed as she drew her knees to her chest "Purrsephone and Meowlody have already left for spring break... the thing is...I don't know if I can go home for break."

Howleen's ears perked up at this.

"Why not? I'm sure your parents must miss you since you live here in the dorms." the freshman asked, earning a glare from the werecat who glanced away almost instantly, ears drooping.

"I don't have a family okay? Not really." she confessed, glancing toward the window as she continued "There's a reason that everyone seems to think that Meowlody and Purrsephone are my sisters...It's because there for a while...we were the only thing each other had. It wasn't long after we were taken in off the streets that they got adopted by a family of shapeshifters but as usual...I was stuck alone. Just so happens that our rescuer didn't have the heart to kick me out...It's been three years and literally, nothing has changed. You have no idea how lucky you are to have a family as large as yours."

Howleen could barely believe what she was being told. Toralei rarely told her anything that could be considered a secret, yet here she was telling her something that Howleen was sure only a few people at monster high knew.

"why don't you just tell your foster parents how you feel?" she suggested although she instantly regretted it as Toralei seemed to look even more depressed.

"I know how it would go okay? I would be told how family doesn't always have to be traditional yet every single time I want to go home for the weekend I can't because keeping me has got to be this huge stupid secret that no one can know about. Like is reputation so important or am I that unlikable?" She said, her voice lowering to a whisper on the last part.

I haven't even done anything to her that would make her want me out of her hair...I mean...I know I'll be alone again after graduation but I would like to at least know what it felt like to have somewhere to turn when things got bad. Her mind raced as a stray tear ran down her cheek.

"Excuse me, I gotta go." Toralei stated before rushing off, shifting halfway down the hall as she made her way out of the school.

"What the fang is wrong with her?" Howleen nearly jumped out of her skin when she heard her sister's voice from the hall, though she quickly shook it off.

"Don't worry about it. I don't think you would believe me if I told you."

Meanwhile, Toralei had stopped on a hill outside of campus, shifting back into her humanoid form as she glanced up at the sky. Why am I so pathetic? I never needed anyone...I made sure that the ghouls had food and shelter, I made sure that the normies didn't end up injuring either of them...I should be able to spend break alone...even if most monsters spend spring break celebrating their own holidays with their family.

Taking out her phone she timidly typed out the words:

Is it safe for me to come home? I kinda want to spend the holiday with you.

Re-reading them she hissed, erasing the last part of the message until it only said:

Can I come home for break?

"She won't care what I want anyway...Whoever does? I'm just everyone's problem."