The closer she got to what essentially was Derrick the stranger it appeared to get. Finally she reached what she knew was him, unlike before there was... no chaos, no Derrick nothing. Strange she thought the last time there had at least been a trace of him, now it was almost as if all that was him was erased. Sure there were a lot older memories but nothing newer than ten to fifteen years ago. Painstakingly Shelby started to look everywhere for even a hint of Derrick. Sighing after a while she sat. Moments later someone was banging at my door. Gee, I wonder who? Tina moved to answer it but I waved her off and went myself. I opened it to find an angry Sunita. ‘You have some nerve!’ she yelled. ‘Excuse me?’ ‘I’ve had to listen to your noises all night and you bang on the wall when you hear me?’ ‘Just you?’ I asked. ‘You weren’t with your husband?’ She opened her mouth but didn’t know what to say to that. Finally she asked, ‘What is it to you?’ ‘I just think it’s a shame that you’ve got no. "Julie sat up and cried out, "Mom, this isn't fair. How come you never told me? How come I never got a chance. I'll bet you I can do it as good as Marcie does. Wanna see?" You're not a cheerleader, yet, Julie. When you get on a squad, I'll do the same for you. In the mean time, I'll give you the opportunity to show what you can do. Don't worry about that. For now, you sit back and watch - watch and learn."With that, Jan addressed the audience and reached for her top button, saying, "Let's get. The kid’s correctional complex is a bit of a hybrid of juvenile detention, secure psychiatric child criminal inpatient care facility, and restricted access child protective services for children who committed a crime without a safe place to live. The kids here today fall into the latter category. That includes the girl who killed her father in self-defense when she was ten. I talked at length with the guards explicitly assigned to her. She has a solid head on her shoulders. She refused all pain.
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