How It All Began: Chapter 19

 Adrienne dried her hair with a dull expression in front of the mirror. Her thoughts were spilling over the capacity of her brain. Is Jinx OK? Has Ria figured out a plan on how to approach the Council? Is that what I'm supposed to do? Should we just walk through the doors? Should I just skip school and spend time with Dad? Should me and Ria think about this with Jinx and talk it over? Should we tell Lucy and Dad? Where has Ria been? She didn't call me yesterday and I didn't see her after lunch. I know it was last week, and he said he was just kidding, but is Jinx still thinking about leaving Asfiria? He can't! He'll just kill himself! Ugh. People are stupid. Things are stupid. EVERYTHING IS STUPID. She was really just sick of everything and only wanted for her family to live in peace and for them to all have at least semi-normal lives. She slammed her bathroom door and stomped into her room and laid in bed while blasting music as loud as her earphones would allow before she went deaf. She saw a shadow at her window and she paused her MP3 player to look out the window. There wasn't anything there but.... I could've sworn something moved out here. She sighed, It's probably just a tree.

How It All Began: Chapter 18

 Jinx stared down at his bedroom floor. He'd been sitting there for quite some time, just trying to come up with a way to help Adrienne. Oh, and Ria! Yupp, her too... why do they have to be so impossibly set in their ways? Then he remembered Adrienne's fierce determination when she finally saw how Ria was right. We will approach the council she'd said in anger, we will get our family back together!  He sighed and laid back so he was on the bed. Well, someone's got to make sure they don't kill themselves. He got up and walked out the door.

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 Ria was talking to herself as she always did, when she bumped into Ryan Barbotti and his posse. "Oh, Hello Ryan." she smiled politely.
 "'Sup, Sweet-cheeks?" he replied with a cruel smile.
 She forced a smile,"Nothing much, now if you'll excuse me...."
 "Where you goin'?" said Mitchell, the first guy in Ryan's posse.
 "I really must be going...."
 Ryan's eyes flashed with anticipation,"So soon?" She tried to push past him, but he just grabbed her arm and pulled her tightly to him,"The party's just starting, babe."
 "Let me go, Ryan!" she shouted as she squirmed in his grasp.