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Sydney heard a car door slam and an engine start up. Francie was leaving for the restaurant again.

As soon as she heard the car leave, Sydney let out a piercing scream.

"I can't believe this! What am I going to do? What should I do?"

Sydney decided to go for a run to try and clear her head.

After she had been running for a while she found herself running past the man that played the homeless guy.

Pausing for a moment to catch her breath, Sydney contemplated whether she wanted to see her mother or not.

"Plus, what if I run into Vaughn?" Sydney thought.

But, the need to see her mother quickly outweighed her concern over possibly seeing Vaughn.

Turning around, Sydney jogged back to the man and dropped a coin in his cup.

A few minutes later, Sydney took a deep breath and headed down the hall to her mothers cell.

She hadn't seen Vaughn at all.

"Hey mom."

Irina looked up at her and smiled. "Hello Sydney. Is something wrong? You look a bit upset."

"I'm fine. Well, actually I'm a bit confused and a tad bit upset" Sydney said.

Irina's brow wrinkled almost imperceptibly.

"What's wrong?" Irina asked, concern lacing the inquiry.

Sydney sighed, and inched as close to the glass pane as she could get. "Vaughn made me a pie and carved into the bottom of the tin, there was a coded message."

Irina quirked an eyebrow. "And?"

"Well it said" here Sydney squirmed uncomfortably.

Irina continued to stare at her.

"It said 'that he loved me,'" this she whispered.

Irina again just stared at her.

"Mom!"

"What Sydney? What did you want me to say?" Irina asked.

"I don't know. I need advice," Sydney answered.

Irina looked down at the ground. When she looked back up, she looked a little sad.

"Sydney, the only advice I feel free to give you is that, Regret is a hard thing to live with." The pain of past decisions was evident in her eyes.

Sydney gulped. "Thank you, mom."

Then she turned and left.

Sydney had the day off from Sd-6, but she had a meeting with Vaughn that afternoon.

That made her extremely nervous. "But" she reasoned, "he won't know if I've finished the pie or not."

For hours, Sydney just sat on the sofa, in her sunroom, sipping tea and thinking about how she wanted to handle the situation.

Finally, after hours of deliberation she made a decision.

Grinning, she grabbed her keys and headed for the store.

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