It had been a few weeks since Alex had that talk with Dr. Cullen and he told her she was getting better. Since she was, she no longer had to take so many tablets, only her sleeping pills which everyone had to take. She had gotten better at handling her temper and her low days. Dr. Cullen left a day before, they got a new doctor in which she had to see soon. If that doctor saw the change in her behaviour and that her mental health was getting better then she would be free to go.

Lisa came back and she tried to get Alex to escape again but she said no. She didn't want to go back down that road, She wanted to get out and people wouldn't go after her.

"Alexandria?" The new doctor called for her and she got up and walked to his office. The doctor looked up and smiled, motioning her to go in and sit down. She did so and looked at his name plate, 'Dr. Smyth.' Dr. Smyth sat down and smiled at her, "So, Alexandria.."

As the doctor went on asking her stuff and her giving him the answers he smiled, "I guess it is time that you left. You have made amazing progress. You will be able to leave tomorrow morning." Alex nodded and smiled, getting up and leaving to her room where she packed all her stuff up. That day she spent most of her time packing, reading or talking with Kristen.

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Alex took the sleeping pills at ten o'clock, hoping to get a good nights sleep before leaving in the morning, but that wasn't to happen. She woke up and looked at her clock, '2:30 AM'. She groaned and looked at Kristen's bed which was empty. She got up and sneaked her way down to the music room, She had to find Kristen as her journal was missing and she knew that Kristen had something to do with it. Alex walked down into the halls that were no longer being used and she heard Lisa's voice.

"Lisa?" She called, she heard her talking and laughing. "LISA?" She started running, coming to the end of the corridor and found her, Kristen, Torch, Cynthia and Janet.

"Oh, here's something about you Kristen." Lisa read from Alex's diary.

"Lisa, stop."

She didn't and carried on, "'Amy seems to enjoy her illness. She enjoys being a liar, and it's to be expected. Most pathological liars love to lie but I believe that Amy lies just to get attention. I believe that because she enjoys her illness so much that she lies just to have the illness.'" After she read it, Alex realised it was a bit harsh.

Kristen stepped up and got in Alex's face, "I can't believe you would write something like that! My father is the head of the C.I.A and he could have you dead in minutes." She seemed to have forgotten that Alex knew her father was Billy Black and in a wheel chair. She let it go as Lisa moved onto talk about Torch.

Alex screamed and lunged at Lisa but she read the part about Torch and moved onto her but she tried to grab the book but she moved it out of her way, "You wrote something about me?" This is it, She knew that Lisa would be mad about what she wrote so she turned and ran.

"Alex! Get back here! You stayed as I read everyone else's, why won't you stay and let me read the part about me?"

"Leave me alone!" Alex kept running, she didn't care if it was cowardly. Lisa could kill her by just her words and she could get worse. She ran after Alex finally backing her up to a wall.

"Now..." She started reading the part about her, which was all true. "'Lisa has everyone wrapped around her little finger and she loves the attention, but when things don't go her way, she rebels against them. Like a spoilt brat. She moans that her brother doesn't talk to her but can you blame him? She's a nightmare, she only cares about herself and I feel sorry for her. Her parent's hated her or possibly more frightened of her as are many people. And her brother pretends she's dead because he is afraid of what she would do if she was around him and his family.'" It read and Lisa looked at the author, "Is this what you think?" Alex started shaking and shrugged but she pulled her hair and slammed her head into the wall, "IS THIS WHAT YOU THINK?" She screamed at her.

Alex weakly nodded. Lisa laughed again, "If you know so much about me then why does no body care about me? Why do they act like I'm not here. Why does my family think I am dead?"

Alex didn't answer.

"WELL?!" She yelled.

She had to tell her the truth, she needed to here it, "Because you're dead already, Lisa." Alex said, weakly, "You're dead on the inside so it's easy for people to pretend you're really dead." Lisa just stared at her, "You take pride in your illness and so you'll never get better. You'll never know what real freedom tastes like because you're the weak one. You'll never really get better unless you admit to your problem." Alex said.

She listened as Alex went on and on, saying more than she did and Lisa started crying. Alex didn't think it possible for her to cry but she did.

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The next morning, after they were found, Lisa was strapped to a bed and Alex went to see her before she left. After Lisa smacked her head to the wall it had started to bleed and she had to get butterfly stitches but she didn't mind. She hoped that after she said what she said, Lisa would get better. And she said that to her when she visited her before painting her nails. Lisa smiled as Alex did then she hugged her after.

Alex left her there and hugged Kristen and Torch and finally Dr. Val. She smiled at her and took her out to her dad's police cruiser and he smiled at his daughter. Alex waved to Dr. Val and all the girls that were looking out the window then she got in the passenger seat and smiled, 'This is it,' She thought, 'This is freedom.' She sighed and started talking to her dad about everything.