As expected, it was her big "running away" episode. Now fifteen, she appeared on the screen packing her bags. She has also written a note that day--a note to her mother. Typical Mimi- underneath everything, no matter how rebellious she appeared, she just wanted to be found.
"I have to leave. I'll be okay. Love, Mimi" That's what she had written. Then she had left. The tunnel screen still showed her packing, but Mimi's mind wandered.
She had fled to her current boyfriend's apartment. She knew this would be one of the first places her mom would look (if she looked), but Mimi had nowhere else to go. And she almost wanted to be found.
Mrs. Marquez was worried, but decided it would be best not to force her daughter to come home. She knew that Mimi was independent and would able to make it on her own. She sent her own note to where she correctly guessed Mimi had gone. "Maybe you can come home when you're ready. I love you." Mrs. Marquez hoped that this would let Mimi know that she cared. Her biggest fear was that Mimi would end up just like she used to be. She knew that she would never be able to bear seeing Mimi like that.
When Mimi received her mother's note, however, her eyes had filled with tears. "Maybe" she could come home? Her mother hadn't said that she wanted Mimi to come home, and she didn't seem to be the least bit worried. She hadn't come to retrieve her daughter. Oh well, she, Mimi, didn't need family--she had always been fine on her own.
Screen Mimi slammed the front door of her stepfather's house (never had she referred to it as her house) shut and the scene ended. The square moved forward. What would she be forced to remember next?
