After seeing Adam and her mother, she started pacing in her room talking to herself once again, "Oh what am I going to do? Amy why do you have to be so stubborn? Ok, Ok, calm down Amy, calm down. You can't make it seem like you actually care if he punishes you or not! Just calm down, oh calm nothin, I'm scared out of my witts. Oh man, what am I going to do, think Amy, think. Ok I can tell him I want to apologize, not to him of course, maybe he'll let me go down and apologize, maybe Joe's right, if I apologize maybe he won't punish me as much. Ok right now I'm just going to sit down on my bed, relax, and act like nothing is wrong. Yeah that'll work, or will it? Maybe I should just-" someone knocked on the door, Amy froze in her tracks.

"Who is it?" She asked meekly, then thought to herself 'Amy you know who it is why would you ask such a dumb thing?'

"It's Adam, I want to talk to you." Adam said trying to sound calm.

"Come in," Amy said with a smart alek tone.

Adam came in the room, Amy was sitting on her bed with her arms crossed, and a scowl on her face. He sat down on her bed and asked, "Do want to tell me something?"

"Why? Hasn't the rest of them already told you everything?" Amy sounding irratated.

"Yes they've given me a side of the story, but I want to hear it from you." Adam said.

"Why? Don't you trust them?" Amy said with a smirk.

Adam stood up, "Alright, enough of this, I'm trying not to lose my patience with you, but it is diminishing very fast. I suggest you drop the attitude, which is what got you here in the first place, and start being respectful."

Amy tried to still look like she was tough, but that too was diminishing fast, she finally spoke up, "I disobeyed you, okay? Happy? I want to go down, and apologize to my mother, and to Hopsing."

"This is the last time I'm going to tell you to drop the attitude... Good, Joe said he thought you really were sorry for the way you treated them, I am going to allow you to go down stairs, and apologize to them, and then I want you back upstairs as soon as they accept. Understand?" Adam said sternly.

"You're not going to spank me?" She said trying not to act sarcastic.

"Yes I am, you disobeyed me, and I told you the consequences, but I'm not going to spank you right now. Right now I want you to go downstairs and apologize to Hopsing and your mother, like you wanted to do. Like I said before after you apologize, and they accept, I want you to come back upstairs, WITHOUT me having to tell you to come back up. If I have to tell you to come up, then your going to be in more trouble. Understand?" Adam said looking directly into her glaring eyes.

"Yes, I understand." She said in a hateful tone, and got off the bed. SMACK! She turned around and looked at Adam, "What was that for?"

"I told you to drop the attitude." Adam said glaring back at her.

They walked out the door, and down the stairs with her head drooping. Adam went and sat down next to Elizabeth Amy followed behind him and stood in front of her mother and said, "Mama, I'm sorry I said I hated you, I don't hate you. Even though you didn't listen to me about Mr. Adam," she said in a mocking tone, and then felt another SMACK! She looked over at him as he said, "I told you drop the attitude, your in no position to be a smart alek."

She looked back at her mother using one of her hands to rub out the sting, "I'm sorry, Mama, Please forgive me?"

"I forgive you sweetheart," Elizabeth said while gently stroking her daughters cheek.

She then started to walk into the kitchen, with her head drooping, she ran into Ben, "Oh, sorry Sir,"

"It's alright honey," Ben said stepping aside and patting her shoulder.

She walked into the kitchen Hopsing was cutting up some vegetables she thought to herself 'Oh great he's got a knife'. She then said "Hopsing can I talk to you for a second?"

"You Missy supposed to be in room, I get spoon." Hopsing said turning around to pick up the spoon.

"NO, NO, NO, Adam's home, he said I could come down, honest." She said frantically.

"Mr. Adam home, well ok? What you need?" Hopsing said putting the spoon back down on the counter.

"I'm sorry I was so rude earlier, and that I almost got you in trouble with Adam. Please forgive me?" She said looking down embarassed.

"I forgive, just don't do again. Okay?" Hopsing said smiling at her.

"Okay, I mean yes Sir, thank you." She said smiling back.

She walked back in the living room and said to Adam, "Okay, I'm going back to my room now. WITHOUT... being told." She said emphasizing the word without, and running up the stairs, barely missing Adam's grasp.

"That young lady just keeps digging herself deeper, and deeper-" Adam said shaking his head.

"Oh come on Adam, you just have to give her some time. She really is a sweet girl. She just doesn't like you," Joe said with a smirk.

"JOE-," Adam started to say angrily.

"Now Adam, you need to calm down. Joe's right, although he's not saying it the way he should..." Ben said glaring at his youngest son, "she seems to be really polite to everyone, except you. That's just something you're going to have to deal with. She will be more respectful to you in time, but you have to be patient, I know it's hard, but I know you can do it."

"I just want to get through to her that I really do care about her, but if I'm going to calm down, Joe.." Adam said walking over to his brother, "I don't want to hear another word out of you, got it?"

Joe acted like he zipped his lips, locked them, and through away the key.

"Good," Adam said smirking at his brother.

Upstairs in her bedroom, "Amy why are you being so stupid? You're just digging yourself in deeper, what is wrong with you? Oh man, this spanking is gonna hurt! What am I gonna do? I gotta think of something. What should I do, what should I do-" she stopped talking, as she saw the window, then started talking to herself again, "No I can't. He'd find me, and then I wouldn't be able to sit for a month of Sundays. Maybe I can get away with it, at least he can't call me a liar, I did say I was going to runaway. But what if he did catch me? Oh make up your mind Amy. You gotta go now if you're going to do it." Amy opened up the window, crawled out and climbed down the side of the house, and took off towards the woods.