All Elektra wanted was tell her family about what happened. But she couldn't. Her mother was already angry at her for looking bad. She hadn't even said how worried she was or anything. It was as if she hadn't even noticed her own daughter was gone.

Elektra went into the bathroom and turned the shower on. Before undressing herself she looked at herself in the mirror. Didn't her mother see she was in pain? Was she blind?

Elektra undressed herself and stepped into the shower. When the warm water landed on her head and eventually the rest of her body she realised how much she was in need of a shower. She closed her eyes and enjoyed it before she started washing herself. She felt incredibly dirty. Not just for sleeping on the street, but the blood on her and the thought the of the possibility that Anthony had done something horrible to her made her feel gross.

"Mandy, come out of there right now."

Elektra opened her eyes. She had only been in there for a few minutes.

"Coming." She replied.

She got out of the shower, toweled herself dry and put on the clean clothes she had deposited on the closed toilet seat. She looked at herself again. The blood was off her face, but she still looked awful. She thought she looked like a corpse. A corpse with a black eye. Elektra sighed. She had to go downstairs anyway.

"Mandy, since when has it become appropriate to take a shower without asking?" Marilyn asked as soon as Elektra entered the living room.

"I'm sorry, but I..."

"No excuses."

"Mum, I was so tired, I've been..."

"No excuses." Bernard said, repeating Marilyn.

"Mum, dad. We have to talk." Elektra said.

"No, we've done enough talking for today. You go to your room until you've learned how to behave yourself." Bernard said as he stood up to escort Elektra out of the living room.

Elektra dodged him and said: "No! It's like you haven't even noticed I was gone! I've had a horrible time out there!"

"Well, that was totally your fault, wasn't it, Mand?" Marilyn asked. "You were the one who left, weren't you?"

"Yes, I was! But that was because you wanted to punish me for being..."

"Not now, Mandy."

"For being a lesbian!"

Marilyn stood up.

"NOW YOU TO YOUR ROOM! HAVEN'T I TOLD YOU I DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS NONSENSE EVER AGAIN?" She shouted.

Elektra wanted to stay cool and act as if she didn't care, but she couldn't do that anymore. She already was so upset... She couldn't hold back her tears any longer. She started crying.

"Don't cry, Mandy, you were the one who started all this." Bernard said.

"Wha-what did I d-do?" Elektra sobbed.

"You're trying to bring us down! How dare you, Mandy, how dare you." Marilyn said.

Bernard put his arm around Marilyn.

"You've really disappointed us, Mandy." Bernard said. "Your mother has been really upset about the things you've been up to."

"What things?" Elektra asked.

"Well... You know. You spending your time with homosexuals. We don't want you to get involved in those things anymore." He replied.

"What?!" Elektra exclaimed. "I'm not! You totally misunderstood it! I am a homosexual myself. I'm gay. But I don't want to talk about that anymore, I..."

"Good." Bernard said.

"Dad, I wanted to..."

"No, you've said enough. We're not talking about that anymore and you're not thinking about that anymore."

"Dad, I..."

"What did your father say?" Marilyn asked.

"Mum, I really want to tell you..."

"Mandy..."

"You weren't worried at all, were you?" Elektra asked as she walked away.

"When?" Bernard asked.

Elektra came back and answered: "When? I've been away for over 24 hours!"

"We assumed you were with those homosexualists." Marilyn said. "That's why we were so upset! We thought you had become one of them. At least, that's what I thought you were trying to say yesterday."

"Oh my god... You're so ignorant! I've never... But still, that's not what I wanted to say! Mum, dad, some lad I met yesterday..."

"See! I told you you would find the man of your dreams one day." Marilyn smiled.

"No! That man, he has like really... I don't know how to tell you actually. I feel awful though."

"You're in love, aren't you? My little Mandy, in love!"

"Mum! Please let me finish! I'm not in love!"

Marilyn in Bernard started laughing. Elektra couldn't believe it. They laughed at her. After the nightmare she had been through. Elektra started crying again.

"What is it, Mandy?" Bernard asked.

"Why don't you ever listen to me?!" Elektra cried. "This is serious! I can never talk to anyone! Never! Why can't you just let me finish."

"Come on, Mand, don't cry. You're upsetting your mother."

"I'm upsetting her?!" Elektra shouted.

"You're going to far this time, you're going way too far young lady."

Bernard walked over to Elektra, took her by the arm and tried to drag her out of the room. Elektra started screaming. I felt just like yesterday, when Anthony tried to do the same. Again, Elektra's body refused to resist itself. However, her screaming made Bernard let go.

"What's wrong with you?! Why are you always like this? Why can't you be like your sister? We're ashamed of you! You know, Mandy, we would have all been better of if you had never been born!" Bernard shouted at his daughter.

Elektra had been insulted loads and loads of time by her parents. But this time it was as if her heart stopped beating. She knew she wasn't wanted. She knew it. She slowly walked out of the room and dissolved into tears. She agreed with her parents. It would have even been better for herself if she had never been born.