Disclaimey: ya know the rest. By the way, in just about every chapter there's a song or two, and so far none of them have been by me. But there will be some by me in here. Beware. Not in this chapter. This one contains a song by Matchbox 20.

I'm watching Rat Race. YAY!

/ Devi sat down on her bed when she got home from Eat Or Die. She'd been sure Nny was going to try & kill her, but she'd been wrong. He'd eaten, gotten up to leave, and then glanced at her nervously on his way out the door. She'd been so anxious when she'd seen him passing that she's bitten her hand open. She sighed. The blood flow had stopped by now, but it had been a stupid thing to do in any case. She looked out the window. Maybe she would go and see her dad. She had nothing better to do. He life was experiencing a painful low.

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Devi threw some things into a suitcase. She'd decided she was going to visit her father after all. What could it hurt? After all, he'd moved to Montana. She'd never been there. Some town called Billings. She finished packing. She had little she cared about enough to bring along. It was a spur of the moment decision to go visit. She wasn't sure if her father would disown her or not, because of what she had become (which was absolutely nothing), but she missed family. Maybe her sister & brother would be there. She hadn't seen them in many, many years. She put on her coat and scribbled a note to whoever might stop by (most probably Tenna),

'Gone to visit my Dad in Billings Montana, Tenn. See ya in a few days or whenever I get back. Bye!

-Devi'

Devi taped it to her door on the way out and got into her car when she got out of the apartment building. She turned on the radio and started to sing along with it as she drove off. All she had for guidance was a road map (ooh, wow), and her desire to have a change from the ordinary. Song after song passed, and she continued singing along even after her throat began to hurt,

She kept driving forward, hoping to see something new on the horizon, hoping whatever she might find wherever she went would be better than what she knew now, hoping something would bring her to life...