Luckily all the girls next classes were right around the lunch room. Linda and Marissa both had science next and Amanda and Mary had Language arts and lastly Lizzy had Math with a whole bunch of kids that she didn't know and really she had too much on her mind so she went to the nurse to see if she was allowed to go home. She wound up having a fever of 102.7. She called her mom and asked her to come and pick her up. Her mom said she was too busy to leave her work and told Lizzy that she needed to call her father. When she called her father he didn't answer but she had left a message. The nurse had told her to back to class and that she did. Ten minutes later Lizzy and Amanda were called down to the office. When those two girls got down there Mary, Marissa, and Linda were already down in the deans office. Lizzy and Amanda just looked at each other and sat down in the set of seats furthest from Linda, Marissa and Mary. Marissa stood up and claimed that she needed to go to the bathroom but really she just wanted to torture her sister and her new friend. When Marissa got to the bathroom she whipped out her phone and started texting Linda and Mary The principal had to call Marissa back down to the office so that the girls can be in a meeting at the same time so they could get to class without missing that much. She never came to the office so the other girls were dismissed from the office. Five minutes later Marissa returned to the office, and claimed she got lost. The secretary asked her how could she get lost when she has been at the school for seven years. Linda ran down to the office after receiving a text message from Marissa asking for help with the people in the office. The principal asked Linda why she was there and then told her to please go back to class. In the meantime Lizzy's father had called back and said he was on his way to pick her up. Lizzy wasn't even back at math class when she was called down to go to the nurse to go home. When she saw her father he didn't look too happy. "Daddy what's wrong, why do you look unhappy and depressed?" Lizzy asked her father. "I will tell you when we get in the car just hurry up I thought you were sick." he replied. Lizzy was getting kind of scared when he responded with that and the tone of his voice wasn't pleasing either. When they got back to the car he had told her that the reason why he wasn't happy and why he didn't come earlier was because he was a meeting with his boss and since he had to leave the meeting he got fired. She just looked at him in awe and kept telling her how sorry she was. Then he told her that he got a new job at the school. She just looked out the window the rest of the way home. He asked her what was bothering her and she told him that he might have made a bad decision working at the school. He responded with a stern "Why I found a higher paying job then I have ever had before." She responded him by telling him that since no one likes her it will give her a less possibility with a parent working at the school. When she finished her little rant he pulled into there drive way. She noticed something else that was wrong. There was a car in their drive way but it wasn't her mothers. When Lizzy got in the house she was very surprised to see her older brother was home from his part time job after high school with mom. Their mom (Mrs. Strait) was walking with crutches and she had a bright orange cast on her left foot. Lizzy's older brother Brendan started talking "I got a call from mom when I was at work. She was crying really hard and screaming it took 5 minutes for her to calm down. She had told me she was in a car accident and at that moment my jaw just dropped. I asked her were she was and thankfully she wasn't far from were I work so I drove on over there and there were cop cars and ambulances all over. Then I saw her car and I ran over to it and just started crying until one of the paramedics came over to my side and he said that the driver of that vehicle was rushed to the hospital. So I got directions to the hospital and when I got there she was waiting in the area were outpatients wait. I ran over to her and I was so happy that she was ok, so then I drove her home." While Mr. Strait was listening to his son he was helping his wife get to the couch so she could rest. Then Brendan continued " Before I left work I picked something up for you Lizzy, go look in your room." Lizzy ran to her room and screamed. Right on her bed was a cage with a tiny new born kitten. Brendan went to her room and there mother and father stayed in the living room. "Do you like it?" Brendan asked his little sister. "LIke it I love it!" she replied. The young kitten is a female and Lizzy decided to name her Marshmallow. Right when she let Marshmallow out of her cage the doorbell rang. Brendan ran to see who it was and it was their next door neighbor. For some reason the girl asked if this was Lizzy Strait's house, and Brendan said ya. Then she asked if he could get her for her and he said ya sure wait on the couch please. Brendan got Lizzy and she ran out in the living room.