Please R&R, sorry for the long delay.
Anna wakes up a few nights later in a cold sweat, she climbs out of bed slowly and goes into the bathroom. "Ugh" She looks disgusted at the sight of herself. Her hair was straggly, her eyes bloodshot, her skin was pale. She grabs a sweatshirt and pulls in on then goes out into the cold night.
The air sliced through her but it felt good, she took a seat on a table and leaned her head over till it was leaning on her knees. A burning sensation comes up her throat and she suddenly threw up.
"Great." She pushes her hair back, and spits trying to rid her mouth of the taste.
After a while she gets up and goes back to bed.
"Morning" Jules says to Auggie as he sits down at the table.
"Hey" Auggie looks over at Anna "She all right?"
Jules shrugs "Not really."
"Hey Anna" Auggie calls her
Anna looks up from her plate and glances at him, she smiles slightly "Hey Auggie."
"You ok?"
"Been better." Anna replies looking back at her plate, pushing the food around.
"You better eat, I heard we were taking our second take at the hike today." Jules advises
"I'm not hungry really." Anna sits back looking around.
Ezra come and takes a seat "All right, it's official, we're leaving after breakfast."
"Great, there's nothing I enjoy more." Daisy comments taking a bite.
Scott walks in and stands at the edge of the table. "Anna can you come with me a minute? I need to talk to you." He asks his hands in his pockets.
Anna nods and follows him into the hall and leans against the wall silently
"You don't look so great" Scott comments
"You didn't ask me to come talk to you to tell me that." Anna replies
"I know, I was going to tell you that this is the hardest part. But if you really don't feel that good I'd tell Peter or Sophie so you can stay behind and rest."
"No, I'm going to go." Anna answers "But thanks."
"Yea well it'll be all right. You go on the hike, we come back you do some work make some progress your parents come down you have a meeting. Then you stay and you're thrilled they're gone." Scott smiles "This place becomes your home and your family after a while."
"I don't have to have meetings with my parents." Anna tells him
"I know they suck at first, they usually always do. But everyone has to, it's part of the rehab."
Anna pauses "Yea…. I'll meet you back there I have to go to the bathroom."
"OK, see you in there." Scott smiles and kisses her softly on the cheek and walks away.
Anna goes down the hall and stops at the doorway to Peter's office and tries the knob. It's open so she softly opens the door, goes in and shuts the door behind her. She walks over to the file cabinet but it's locked, the computer is on so she sits down in front of that instead.
She starts typing and searching for her file. She pulls it up and reads it carefully. Everything was exactly like Peter had said except for one thing at the bottom, it read: No parental conferences—by request of parents.
Anna stares at the screen for a minute before shutting down all of the screens and leaving.
Anna joins the girls in their room and packs quickly
"You're a pro at packing now." Daisy smiles jokingly
Anna smiles back weakly but keeps going.
"Are you all right?" Jules asks sitting on Anna's bed
"I'm fine, I still feel a little sick." Anna explains
"Come on girls, we want to get an early start." Sophie knocks on the door walking in "Anna?"
"What's up?" Anna looks at her
"How are you feeling? You don't look so great." Sophie asks kindly
"I'll live" Anna zips up her bag "I'm ready."
"All right, you two hurry up we'll meet you outside." Sophie tells Jules and Daisy
Five minutes later everyone is outside ready to go.
"Let's get going, I want to get to the campsite before dark." Peter announces starting to walk.
"You look angry." Scott comments to Anna, they're bringing up the rear
"I don't have any reason to be so why would I be?" Anna asks
"Is the detoxification really bad?" Scott questions
"I can handle it." Anna replies
"If you want to talk, just tell me all right?"
Anna's face softens "Yea."
"This is it for today." Peter announces to the cliffhangers when they reach the campsite. "We made good time it's just starting to get dark. Auggie and Ezra you two start setting up camp, Daisy and Anna go collect some fire wood, Scott and Jules help out wherever you can."
When they are done with their chores they take a seat, everyone is present except for Daisy and Anna who went back to get a little extra wood.
"Want to tell me what's on your mind?" Daisy asks as they pick their way through the woods
"Nothing." Anna replies distantly
"Right. You can tell me."
"So what happens after we go back?" Anna asks picking up a stick
"Nervous?" Daisy teases "It's nothing really, we go and talk about whatever Peter decides to talk about….."
"Oh." Anna says sitting on a log making it look like she is looking for more wood
"Anything else?"
"I found out something, I'm not really sure what to make of it though." Anna explains "I really hate my life."
"Don't we all feel like that from time to time." Daisy sympathizes sitting down next to her.
"I feel like that all the time. I can't go back into the past and redo it. I don't have the chance."
"Yea but you have the chance to change now, if you want to." Daisy adds
"I'm not really sure if I want to. Before I knew what I was had and what was going on. Now I don't know where I'll end up, who I am, who my friends are, who to trust or not to trust." Anna looks unnerved
Daisy laughs "Welcome to horizon. Come on let's get back before they come out searching for us, they might think you fell off another cliff."
"Funny." Anna snaps jokingly
"Nice of the two of you to join us." Auggie jokes as they take a seat around the fire.
"Yea I think we have enough wood to last us a few nights." Sophie jokes
"Don't give her any ideas." Scott groans
"So why the delay?" Peter asks knowingly
Anna glances at Daisy. "I just wanted to feel like I was just alone for a while kind of like free." Daisy speaks up silencing Anna
"Why's that?" Peter asks Daisy
Daisy shrugs "Just needed to take a break I guess"
"Daisy-"
"It was my fault we took so long." Anna breaks in nervously
Peter and Sophie shift their glances over to Anna "How come?" Sophie inquires
"I wasn't smoking or anything like that." Anna says defensively
"No one's accusing you of anything." Peter replies "Just tell us what's on your mind."
"Uh……you told me no parental meetings were necessary, but that's not true. I mentioned it to Scott and he had said it was mandatory. I was kind of surprised since you said differently." Anna looks at Peter "So I checked it out… on your computer. The one thing they forgot to add onto my transcript is computer genius."
Sophie looks at Peter, he rubs his chin slightly perturbed "Why don't you all turn in early, Anna stay behind." He finally says.
Anna waits shifting her weight nervously while everyone goes into their tents. Finally it's just Sophie, Peter and Anna left standing.
"Anna take a seat." Peter gestures "I was wrong to mislead you. You're right the parental conferences are mandatory but at your parents request-"
"They just wanted me out of their lives they don't care if I ever go back. Scott told me sometime that it becomes home here and that kids have trouble leaving. I didn't really believe it though. I do now. It becomes home because the parents don't want their kids back so they stick around as long as possible."
"That's not the case" Sophie tells her "Your parents weren't ready to be parents, they had you when they were teenagers themselves. They weren't ready for the world and they still aren't."
"I'm still the one who gets screwed over it the end." Anna replies "I can change but my parents wont, so after this all I have is myself and whatever I can do in life. There's nothing to go home to because there's no home to go home to." Anna tells them "I will work to fix myself, but that's it."
"Anna-"
"I don't want to be a screw up forever, I can do this though." Anna stands up her hands in her pockets.
"Your family may come around, we can try to get them to. We can - I can talk to them" Peter tells her
"Do what you want, but if they don't want a part of me I don't want anything to do with them." Anna says and goes into her tent.
"That was harsh." Sophie glances at Peter
"Harsh words from a hurt girl." Peter replies "Her parents would rather sign her over legally to us then to have anything to do with her. It makes me wonder…."
"How little do they care? And what has she done so horribly that they don't care." Sophie says softly more to herself then to him.
More to come, please R&R thanks
Anna wakes up a few nights later in a cold sweat, she climbs out of bed slowly and goes into the bathroom. "Ugh" She looks disgusted at the sight of herself. Her hair was straggly, her eyes bloodshot, her skin was pale. She grabs a sweatshirt and pulls in on then goes out into the cold night.
The air sliced through her but it felt good, she took a seat on a table and leaned her head over till it was leaning on her knees. A burning sensation comes up her throat and she suddenly threw up.
"Great." She pushes her hair back, and spits trying to rid her mouth of the taste.
After a while she gets up and goes back to bed.
"Morning" Jules says to Auggie as he sits down at the table.
"Hey" Auggie looks over at Anna "She all right?"
Jules shrugs "Not really."
"Hey Anna" Auggie calls her
Anna looks up from her plate and glances at him, she smiles slightly "Hey Auggie."
"You ok?"
"Been better." Anna replies looking back at her plate, pushing the food around.
"You better eat, I heard we were taking our second take at the hike today." Jules advises
"I'm not hungry really." Anna sits back looking around.
Ezra come and takes a seat "All right, it's official, we're leaving after breakfast."
"Great, there's nothing I enjoy more." Daisy comments taking a bite.
Scott walks in and stands at the edge of the table. "Anna can you come with me a minute? I need to talk to you." He asks his hands in his pockets.
Anna nods and follows him into the hall and leans against the wall silently
"You don't look so great" Scott comments
"You didn't ask me to come talk to you to tell me that." Anna replies
"I know, I was going to tell you that this is the hardest part. But if you really don't feel that good I'd tell Peter or Sophie so you can stay behind and rest."
"No, I'm going to go." Anna answers "But thanks."
"Yea well it'll be all right. You go on the hike, we come back you do some work make some progress your parents come down you have a meeting. Then you stay and you're thrilled they're gone." Scott smiles "This place becomes your home and your family after a while."
"I don't have to have meetings with my parents." Anna tells him
"I know they suck at first, they usually always do. But everyone has to, it's part of the rehab."
Anna pauses "Yea…. I'll meet you back there I have to go to the bathroom."
"OK, see you in there." Scott smiles and kisses her softly on the cheek and walks away.
Anna goes down the hall and stops at the doorway to Peter's office and tries the knob. It's open so she softly opens the door, goes in and shuts the door behind her. She walks over to the file cabinet but it's locked, the computer is on so she sits down in front of that instead.
She starts typing and searching for her file. She pulls it up and reads it carefully. Everything was exactly like Peter had said except for one thing at the bottom, it read: No parental conferences—by request of parents.
Anna stares at the screen for a minute before shutting down all of the screens and leaving.
Anna joins the girls in their room and packs quickly
"You're a pro at packing now." Daisy smiles jokingly
Anna smiles back weakly but keeps going.
"Are you all right?" Jules asks sitting on Anna's bed
"I'm fine, I still feel a little sick." Anna explains
"Come on girls, we want to get an early start." Sophie knocks on the door walking in "Anna?"
"What's up?" Anna looks at her
"How are you feeling? You don't look so great." Sophie asks kindly
"I'll live" Anna zips up her bag "I'm ready."
"All right, you two hurry up we'll meet you outside." Sophie tells Jules and Daisy
Five minutes later everyone is outside ready to go.
"Let's get going, I want to get to the campsite before dark." Peter announces starting to walk.
"You look angry." Scott comments to Anna, they're bringing up the rear
"I don't have any reason to be so why would I be?" Anna asks
"Is the detoxification really bad?" Scott questions
"I can handle it." Anna replies
"If you want to talk, just tell me all right?"
Anna's face softens "Yea."
"This is it for today." Peter announces to the cliffhangers when they reach the campsite. "We made good time it's just starting to get dark. Auggie and Ezra you two start setting up camp, Daisy and Anna go collect some fire wood, Scott and Jules help out wherever you can."
When they are done with their chores they take a seat, everyone is present except for Daisy and Anna who went back to get a little extra wood.
"Want to tell me what's on your mind?" Daisy asks as they pick their way through the woods
"Nothing." Anna replies distantly
"Right. You can tell me."
"So what happens after we go back?" Anna asks picking up a stick
"Nervous?" Daisy teases "It's nothing really, we go and talk about whatever Peter decides to talk about….."
"Oh." Anna says sitting on a log making it look like she is looking for more wood
"Anything else?"
"I found out something, I'm not really sure what to make of it though." Anna explains "I really hate my life."
"Don't we all feel like that from time to time." Daisy sympathizes sitting down next to her.
"I feel like that all the time. I can't go back into the past and redo it. I don't have the chance."
"Yea but you have the chance to change now, if you want to." Daisy adds
"I'm not really sure if I want to. Before I knew what I was had and what was going on. Now I don't know where I'll end up, who I am, who my friends are, who to trust or not to trust." Anna looks unnerved
Daisy laughs "Welcome to horizon. Come on let's get back before they come out searching for us, they might think you fell off another cliff."
"Funny." Anna snaps jokingly
"Nice of the two of you to join us." Auggie jokes as they take a seat around the fire.
"Yea I think we have enough wood to last us a few nights." Sophie jokes
"Don't give her any ideas." Scott groans
"So why the delay?" Peter asks knowingly
Anna glances at Daisy. "I just wanted to feel like I was just alone for a while kind of like free." Daisy speaks up silencing Anna
"Why's that?" Peter asks Daisy
Daisy shrugs "Just needed to take a break I guess"
"Daisy-"
"It was my fault we took so long." Anna breaks in nervously
Peter and Sophie shift their glances over to Anna "How come?" Sophie inquires
"I wasn't smoking or anything like that." Anna says defensively
"No one's accusing you of anything." Peter replies "Just tell us what's on your mind."
"Uh……you told me no parental meetings were necessary, but that's not true. I mentioned it to Scott and he had said it was mandatory. I was kind of surprised since you said differently." Anna looks at Peter "So I checked it out… on your computer. The one thing they forgot to add onto my transcript is computer genius."
Sophie looks at Peter, he rubs his chin slightly perturbed "Why don't you all turn in early, Anna stay behind." He finally says.
Anna waits shifting her weight nervously while everyone goes into their tents. Finally it's just Sophie, Peter and Anna left standing.
"Anna take a seat." Peter gestures "I was wrong to mislead you. You're right the parental conferences are mandatory but at your parents request-"
"They just wanted me out of their lives they don't care if I ever go back. Scott told me sometime that it becomes home here and that kids have trouble leaving. I didn't really believe it though. I do now. It becomes home because the parents don't want their kids back so they stick around as long as possible."
"That's not the case" Sophie tells her "Your parents weren't ready to be parents, they had you when they were teenagers themselves. They weren't ready for the world and they still aren't."
"I'm still the one who gets screwed over it the end." Anna replies "I can change but my parents wont, so after this all I have is myself and whatever I can do in life. There's nothing to go home to because there's no home to go home to." Anna tells them "I will work to fix myself, but that's it."
"Anna-"
"I don't want to be a screw up forever, I can do this though." Anna stands up her hands in her pockets.
"Your family may come around, we can try to get them to. We can - I can talk to them" Peter tells her
"Do what you want, but if they don't want a part of me I don't want anything to do with them." Anna says and goes into her tent.
"That was harsh." Sophie glances at Peter
"Harsh words from a hurt girl." Peter replies "Her parents would rather sign her over legally to us then to have anything to do with her. It makes me wonder…."
"How little do they care? And what has she done so horribly that they don't care." Sophie says softly more to herself then to him.
More to come, please R&R thanks