It has been a very long weekend for Angela. A weekend in which she bounces from sleep to insomnia, works on cleaning her room, and organizes her make-up work…the tons of it she’d done over nine months at Milliways ( Read more... )

Angela goes upstairs after leaving her Dad, and dials Jeananne’s number on her cellphone ( Read more... )

It had been a rather restless night for Angela, though she didn't make a sound when the nightmares inevitably came. When she'd told them about the assault, her parents had encouraged her to tell the police. "We'll call them in the morning," Dad had said. "They'll come here and take your statement, and then they can try to look for him ( Read more... )

It’s hours before Angela’s mom and dad get home, and she’s sitting at the kitchen table with her progress reports, waiting for them.

And it’s hours before everything is out (well, not everything, but about the progress reports and the attack-those they can know about) and the crying stops ( Read more... )

Angela walks into her living room, planting her black combat boots on the pale plush carpeting, and looks around the silent house as if she’d just come in from another planet.

No one home. Cautiously, she walks forward, looking around. Everything looks exactly the same, and then she hurries to the mantle where the family picture is.

Mom, Dad, ( Read more... )

Angela had felt funny about having someone else draw a bath for her. She was sure the other girl had wondered at her reluctance to ask when she finally did ( Read more... )

In the brush, by the river, it's very quiet but for the sound of the water and the occasional bird ( Read more... )

Angela tried to wait for Melou to get back from training, but with the horseback riding and swimming the day before, she was terribly hungry ( Read more... )

Angela had wakened when Melou got up to go to his training, and mumbled a sleepy greeting to him, and he'd kissed her before he left the room ( Read more... )

Angela is in the cabin alone, her grandfather having gone out to the bar for a while. She had thought about going, but decided against it ( Read more... )