Hermione went and sat in her room for days after her mother left. She kept on re-living that night over and over. Why did her mom leave her with her father? What happened to they where still in love and they didn't want to lose each other? Was everything she knew a lie now? She knew that her life wasn't perfect but it couldn't have been so bad that her mother would leave her alone with her father. She loved her mother so much; she would have preferred to live with her instead of her dad.

There was a small knock at Hermione's window, when she looked over she saw Jesse sitting on the tree limb outside. Hermione walked over to the window and opened it. Jesse looked at her and asked if he could come in. She stood aside and let him climb into her room.

"Where have you been? No one has seen or heard from you in the past couple of days," Jessie asked. Hermione looked at the ground as tears started to flood her eyes.

"My mom left. I can't bring myself to leave the house right now. I just want her back," Hermione said as she walked over to her bed and sat down. Jesse gave Hermione a sad look and just kind of stood in front of the window.

"It's not your fault. They where having problem and maybe it was probably the only way to fix it," Jesse said trying to comfort Hermione, but doing a poor job at it. Hermione didn't respond to his comment. Jesse walked over and sat next to her.

"Keep your head up. It will get better. Maybe not right away but eventually it will." Hermione wiped away a tear that was falling and tried to hide her emotions from Jesse.

"I'm sorry; I don't want you to see me like this. Not a lot of people have seen my cry lately," Hermione said. Jesse smiled at her and wiped away one of her tears.

"Don't be. It shows that you have a humane side of you," Jesse said with a little smile. Jesse was moving into kiss Hermione but she backed away from him. He looked at her with wondering eyes.

Hermione looked at the ground and then at Jesse, "Don't take it personally; I just don't want to get involved any more than I already am. I don't even know how much longer I will be in this house." Jesse looked at Hermione with a kind of hurt expression. He stood up and walked toward the window.

"Why would you leave," He asked. Hermione looked at Jesse and wished she had never said that she may leave. "I don't know, I have no where to go but I don't want to live with my dad. But I will have to deal with."

Jesse looked at Hermione and took a step out of the window. "Come with me. I want to show you something," He said holding out a hand. Hermione walked over to the window, took his hand, and then they where gone. The next thing Hermione knew she was standing in an ally with a bunch of teenagers who looked like they where lost or just plain ran away from home.

There was a teenage girl sitting on a street curb with a bundle of clothes in her arms. When Hermione was about a foot away from her she realized that the bundle of clothes was really a baby. The girl was holding it and cooing it telling it that everything would be alright and that they would find somewhere to live soon. When the girl looked up, Hermione saw that her eyes where blood shot. Hermione guessed that it was from crying.

"Excuse me, but do you have a couple of dollars that you can lend out so I can get food for my baby," The girl asked Hermione. Hermione dug into her pocket and found the largest bill she could, it was a twenty. "Get you something to eat too, Sweaty," Hermione said. The girl gave Hermione the biggest smile that she had seen in a long time.

Jesse looked at Hermione and smiled, "Most people wouldn't have done that," He said. "I'm not most people and I'm pretty sure that she just wants to find some food for her baby." Hermione took a seat on the curb and looked up at Jesse.

"Why did you bring me here," She asked. Jesse looked around him. All the kids there where on their own with no one to help them, they where on their own and they didn't want to go to an orphanage or no one would take a second to remember the lost ones.

"You need to see that if you left that house this is most likely where you would end up. Most of the people here are run a ways. They don't have anyone to turn to anymore. You don't have it so bad, you could be like one of them, lost and alone," Jesse said. Hermione looked at all of the teenagers there and she regretted ever thinking that she would leave her dad. She needed him and as much as she hated it, he needed her too.

"Can we go now," Hermione asked. Being there was depressing and she just wanted to get away. Jesse took her hand and the last thing that Hermione remembered was looking into Jesse's green eyes.

Hermione woke up in her room all alone. She could smell her dad cooking something downstairs and she decided to get up and go say hi to him.

On her way downstairs she could here talking in the kitchen. She couldn't make out the voices just yet, but she kept on going, when she got in the kitchen she saw her dad and Jesse sitting at the kitchen table talking like they where old friends. Jesse looked up and smiled at her. Her dad looked up and gave her an even bigger smile.

"GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE," her dad screamed at her. Hermione gave him a big smile and said good morning back. It had been a long time since she had seen her dad smile. For the first time in a couple of days Hermione thought to herself that maybe everything would be alright. It would never be the same as it used to be, but it would be ok.