Jenn and Tanya crossed the academy grounds in silence. The cool wind brushed passed Jenn's bare knees and she pulled her jacket around her shoulders and wished that she had chosen something warmer than the skirt and blouse, but did not wish to return to the dorm to change. She shoved her hands in her pockets, grocery bags around her wrists, and shivered against the cold. "Are you alright?" Tanya fretted over the way her friend was acting. "I'm fine!" Jenn snapped, "Will people stop asking me that." She growled, irritated by being asked the same question over and over again. She saw Tanya's face grew long and wished she could take back her words, "I'm sorry." She apologized with a sigh of dismay, "I don't know what is wrong with me, maybe it's my period." "Must be a killer." Tanya remarked even more concerned at this news, "You've never snapped at people during your period before." "You remember what I was like during my period?" Jenn asked, intrigued and panicked that her friends would keep such a close eye on her mood. Tanya blushed, "Well, we were roomies for several years after all." She explained simply, hoping that would be the end of that subject. There were a lot of things she knew about Jenn that she did not wish to admit aloud. "Years?" Jenn was startled by this information. "Wait... when did we move here? Yesterday you said that we were sort of out-patient at this school years ago." Tanya let out a sign, "You still don't remember, huh?" She inquired. "I thought it was coming back to you in the woods? "Things are still in pieces," Jenn explained dismally, "The dates and places are still messed up for the most part." She admitted sheepishly. "It was not this school that we were out-patients at." Tanya corrected, "It was another place. We all met there, May, you and me. I don't remember much about it other then it being a hellish place that parents sent their kids when they could not deal with their problems." "I never realized I had any problems until I woke up here." Jenn remarked with a glance at her wrists. "I think that school caused us most of our problems." Tanya stated dryly, "I wish I knew where my parents were so I could thank them for messing my mind up." She said angrily. "So how did we end up here then?" Jenn asked glancing up at the school as they walked around the massive structure, "You would think that we'd all be sent to some kind of insane asylum or something and not a private school like this." Tanya simply shrugged, "I do not know what we are doing here." She confessed, "But I'd rather be here then some asylum." She noted with a shudder, "I find this place is more like an orphanage of sorts, but I never see any adults around. You came here a long time ago. I remember that you disappeared soon after your mother's death and I thought I would never see you again until I was sent here a year later. I was happy to see you were living here as well and since we'd known each other for so long they allowed us to room together." She explained in one breath. "May arrived much later and was rather upset to have missed so many years of your life." "So I have been here since I was eleven?" Jenn remarked aloud, "That would make me....?" She tried to add up the years in her mind. "Seventeen." Tanya answered, not even surprised that Jenn would be asking a question about her own age. "Seventeen?!?" Jenn blinked and tried to figure out the math in her head, "How is that possible? Where did the passed year go? She was almost certain that she was younger then that, "Did I dream about being younger? I remember my sixteenth birthday, but not my seventeenth." "Time can get warped in a dream." Tanya returned, "You have only been missing for a few months and yet I bet it feels like a lot longer." She glanced at Jenn's wrists, "Do you remember what happened yet?" She inquired nodding down. Jenn shook her head knowing exactly what the girl was talking about, "I only remember a lot of blood and something to do with a library." She explained softly. "I still remember hearing about you cutting yourself. You walked out of the doctors office without Amy being aware before I could visit you." Tanya commented in astonishment, "Everyone at the school was searching everywhere for you. How did you get stuck in a dream? Kris thinks you entered the woods. Do you think that is where we ended up yesterday?" Again Jenn shook her head, "No idea." however the woods suddenly seemed the most plausible answer to her whereabouts the past while. The other day they had only been in the woods a few hours and yet not even an hour had passed at the school. She milled this over as they approached the Eastern Dorms, "Well here we go." Jenn stated with a deep breath and proceed to enter the building. ***** To be Continued . . .
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