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Adrienne rocked herself on the floor of the shower. She didn't care that it was consider a gross thing to do. She was crying, because she couldn't get Rachel's face out of her head. She should hate Rachel. It was Rachel's fault she was here.

Adrienne thoughts were interrupted by Sophie. "Adrienne are you all right?" she asked.

"I'm fine," Adrienne said, she tired to hide the fact that she was crying.

"You don't sound fine. We need to talk, and then Peter wants to see you," Sophie told her.

"I'm not done with my shower," Adrienne responded.

"You have five minutes," Sophie told her.

Adrienne heard Sophie walk out of the bathroom She wiped her face and rinsed it the flowing water. She then turned the water off and grabbed her towel. She pulled on her pajama pants, they were her favorite ones, blue Paul Frank monkey pants.

Two minutes later, Adrienne appeared in front of Sophie.

"Adrienne you already know Peter is concerned about your eating, so why did you skip dinner?" Sophie asked.

"This has nothing to do with dinner," Adrienne said coldly.

"What is this about than?" Sophie asked.

"I miss," Adrienne paused, "everyone." Tears began to pour down Adrienne's cheeks. Sophie caressed her hair and let her cry.

After a few minutes, Sophie said, "We need to go talk with Peter now."

Adrienne followed her outside and to the office.

"I'm going to talk with him alone first, you can wait right here," Sophie said pointing to a chair.

"Can I have some water?" Adrienne asked.

"Yes, I'll go find you some," Sophie told her. She returned minutes later with a bottle of water, and she handed it to Adrienne.

Sophie went inside the office, leaving Adrienne alone.

"Where is Adrienne?" were the first words out of Peter's mouth.

"She is waiting outside the door," Sophie told him.

"Why?" Peter asked.

"Because I need to talk with you," Sophie said. "When I went to get her, she was crying. I think she is homesick."

"Homesick huh? How do we cure that one?" Peter asked.

"I don't think there is a cure. It is just going to take a little time," Sophie answered. "That's all I wanted to tell you, I'll get Adrienne."

Adrienne walked in front of Sophie. Sophie said, "I need to get ready for group."

"We have another one?" Adrienne questioned.

"Yes," Sophie said with a smile, before she closed the door, leaving Adrienne and Peter alone.

"You can sit anywhere you want," Peter told her.

"I'd rather stand," she mumbled.

"I'd rather you sat," Peter told her.

She picked the chair farthest away from Peter.

"First I want to apologize to you for putting you on the spot like I did at group today. I shouldn't have done it," he said.

She sat there, with no expression on her face.

"But I need to ask you if you have a problem," Peter told her.

"I don't," Adrienne said.

"Then why weren't you at dinner? Meals aren't optional," he demanded.

"I didn't want to go," she said. There was no trace of defiance in her voice, she was just being honest.

"From what I read in your record, you do an awful lot of what you want," Peter commented.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Adrienne asked.

"It means you ran way several times, you disappeared for a month, you barley attended class, need I go on?" Peter questioned.

"No, I understand what you see," She said.

"What do I see, that you don't?" He asked.

"No, it's what I see that you don't," Adrienne told him.

"And what is that?" Peter questioned.

"Well I didn't run away, I just didn't want to stay in a house with my stepmom," she replied, "I was at my friend's house. They could have come and gotten me whenever they wanted to, but they didn't."

"You were at your friend's house for a month?" Peter asked.

"No," she said.

"Then where were you?" he asked.

"That is none of your business," Adrienne answered.

"I don't think I'm going to get anywhere tonight, and you need to go to group," Peter told her. "Let's go, I'm walking you there."

"Fine," Adrienne said, she was back to having no expression.

They walked in silence. When they arrived, Sophie greeted them, "I'm glad you came. We're finished, but Adrienne why don't you tell everyone a little about yourself."

"Okay, my name is Adrienne Price, I'm from Alabama," Adrienne stopped, because some of the cliffhangers were giving her questionable looks.

"What?" she asked them.

"It's just you don't talk like a." Scott started to say.

"Hick," Shelby added.

"Thank you," Adrienne said dryly.

"You can continue," Sophie told her.

"I'm here because my dad and stepmom made me come. The only thing I hate more than school is this place," she said sweetly. "Okay, Adrienne that's enough for today," Sophie said. "You guys are dismissed, lights out in 20 minutes."



***The whole shower thing reminds of what I did at band camp. I skipped the mandatory dinner almost every single night and took a 45-minute shower. One time the rest of my fellow dinner skippers were caught by a chaperone, but the chaperone had no clue that I was in the shower hehe (my friends didn't rat me out), sneaky me. ***