After hours of screaming, Her voice was raw and still no one came. She closed her eyes and could feel herself breaking inside, like a thousand shards of glass, stabbing her mind and body. "Was this death?" , She wondered. She closed her eyes and only wished that she wasn't so alone and afraid, that there would be some reprieve.

"It's alright, I'm here"

She opened her eyes and there was no one there, but still the voice kept on.

"I'm here, I'm inside, I'm a piece of you. I'm hurting too; we are here for each other."

She smiled and began to talk with the voice in her head until sunrise, when the first car passed the wreck and came to her rescue.

Emily came into the dorm room and closed the door. Tori was sitting at her desk, typing furiously at her computer.

"Hey Emily!" said Tori with a smile.

"Hey Tori" said Emily, forlornly.

"What's wrong?" said Tori, "you don't sound good; is something wrong?"

Emily sighed. She didn't want to have this conversation, but it had to happen, before anything got out of hand.

"Tori, we need to talk" Emily pulled up her chair next to Tori's. Tori powered-down her computer and turned to face Emily. "Tori, we both know that we are in a delicate situation."

"What?" Tori said, a confused look on her face.

Emily began: "Tori, only here, on holy ground, like this school, can the things in our minds be real. You know that, right? You remember, we've talked about this before."

Tori nodded "Yeah, that's why we decided to go here, so you wouldn't be a voice in my head anymore, you'd be real; I wrote your admission stuff and found a fake family in California and-"

Emily took Tori by the hand "Tori, no, you're confused again; I'm the one who decided to come here and made an application for you."

Tori shook her head. "No, Emily, I have a boyfriend who moved here with me-

Emily tried to be patient and looked Tori in the eyes. "Tori, he's my boyfriend and you just get the memory of your dates from me; you came from my mind during the accident, remember?"

Tori kept shaking her head, getting upset, standing up, pacing. "No, that's not right-you came from me, remember? I was upside-down and so afraid and I needed someone there to be brave-

Emily stood up and grabbed Tori, spinning her around "No, I was hanging there, hurt and alone and I needed someone to comfort me-"

Both girls stopped suddenly. They suddenly held each other and began to cry.