was sixteen, dark haired, pretty with soft brown eyes
and a dimple in her right cheek. She liked to walk on
her toes and said she was once taking ballet lessons." "Another lie, no doubt," Mindy muttered. "She swore it was tru
e of course, like her
swearing to anything meant anything." Gia said. "but I
had no other way to determine anything about her, not
even her age."
-Didn't you ask her why she was here? What
she had done?" Robin asked.
"No." "No?"
"I didn't have to ask. She told me right away.
She said she was here because she had trouble
following rules. She claimed she just forgot all the
time. She made it sound so innocent."
"What rules?" I asked,
"Any rules. She said she just forgot and didn't
mean to hurt anyone's feelings. She proved that by
ignoring the rules here. She talked without permission
when she first arrived and it did them no good to
scream at her or punish her.
"She just looked at them with that same sweet
smile on her face, making the buddies feel like they
were the ones who were to be pitied.
"She never blamed anyone for anything no
matter how cruel they were to her, including her
monster of a mother."
"Did you try to get her to stop thinking like
that?" Teal asked.
"Of course. I tried to get her to see how stupid
she was being by forgiving them or understanding