St. Mary's Catholic School for Girls

[Oath]

Return - Monday, July 28'th

A solitary lightning bolt struck in the distance, grey occuli stared through 80% tint windows as the countryside passed by slowly, a collection of trees here, a meadow there, a collection of cows in a pasture. Scene by scene passed by slowly as the constant drum of rain on the fiberglass body of the police vehicle sent Jamie Barker to and fro in her trance like state, caught halfway between the living world and the make believe haphazard collection of thoughts and emotions she kept close to keep her sane in the Juvenile Detention Institution she had been sentenced to for Three years.

An image of her classmate Terry flashed before her, an able bodied hallucination sitting right beside her in the physically vacant back seat of the authoritarian vehicle, hands secured behind her back by a pair of metallic cuffs " Hey... You're almost there, just hold on. " the young woman's voice rung clear, though what followed for Jamie was hardly routine. As she gazed at the fabricated form of Terry the peripherals of Jamie's vision grew haggard and uninformed before darkness engulfed her vision and mind, the smell of sunflowers drifting into her nostrils as the last registered article of the physical world before she drifted into the world of dreams.

Several hours later the rubber tires of her escort came to a halt on a soft white pea gravel road in front of the boarding school known as St. Mary's Catholic School for girls, and the 40 so year old officer stepped out of the driver side seat of the vehicle, two swift footfalls brought him to the back doors of his service vehicle, he opened the door swiftly as the downpour around the school had the man wishing to move on as swiftly as possible. It was a 3 hour ride from here to the station, and he didn't want to sit in the vehicle the entire ride soaked. A bangle of keys was quickly produced and one selected, then intricately slipped into each cuff and turned, releasing the shackles on Jamie's wrists, leaving her free to roam her domain.

She stood silently as the patrol vehicle pulled off and drove into the distance, observing the school and taking in her surroundings. "... Home " was all the girl whispered before she slugged her way through the muddy ground, black boots falling and rising with squishing noise in every footfall as she navigated her way to female dormitories, back to her old home.[/b]