rain's arrival.

[lydia rain davis]

Rain was grateful that no one was in the girls' room. She hated it when people saw her crying. Sure, she could huddle in a corner within a crowded room, cover her face with a bit of her hair, and cry silently. But when someone noticed her tears, she would burst out into loud sobs, taking forever to stop. But, luckily, no one was there at that moment, and Rain prayed that no one walked in to see her in such a pitiful state. She'd threw the covers off the bed and her bags across the room to get some rage out, knocking over other people's things in the process. Her young, tear-stained face was pressed against her pillow, muffling the sound of her painful cries. A depressing sight, indeed.
I'm not fucking crazy! She kept repeating the words over and over again in her head, as if trying to convince herself that they were true. Back home Leon had told her she was a Supernatural, and at the time, she fully believed him. Yet now, she was having her doubts. Leon could really just be a hallucination, right? Hallucinations could make a stories, right? ...

"Leon... how come I can see you but no one else can?"
It was a question she'd been wanting to ask her friend for a long time, but she was always hesitated to ask, afraid of his answer.
She remember he smiled at her. A teasing, amused smile that made her glare at him. "I wondered when you would ask that," he had said. His smile went away, and his face back serious. "You're a Supernatural."
He had said the words clearly, but Rain didn't think she'd heard him right. "A what?"
"A Su-per-nat-u-ral." He had repeated, more slowly that time. "It means you have powers."
Rain had raised her eyebrows at him, surprised at his answer, but pleased at it. "O... k... My power is... seeing imaginary people, then?"
Leon shook his head in response. "Not exactly. They're not imaginary people. They're ghosts."
Ghosts? She remembered being skeptical. But... it made sense, Rain had thought. "How do you know I'm a Supernatural?"
He had paused that time, as if thinking about whether or not to tell her. "Because... I used to be one, too."

Leon...
A nurse had given Rain a series of pills as soon as she arrived. It took some convincing to make her swallow them. Rain hated putting something so unnatural into her body, to have to depend on drugs. Once Rain had taken them, however, the Lyle House seemed to loose some of its population. In other words, Rain wasn't seeing any hallucinations. It was nice, in a way, to know that everyone she saw was real. Yet at the same time, she missed seeing Leon. He was the closest thing to a friend she had, after all. And she knew he had followed her there. She even asked him to, right before she left home. Unwillingly... Rain added. ... UGH! Why am I here?! I'm not fucking crazy!
Rain screamed into her pillow.

[emma marie van bruhnt]

Emma walked up the stairs towards the girls rooms, hearing a muffled scream as she reached the top of the staircase. The nurses had told her there was a new girl that would be staying with them and that it would be a good idea to welcome her. Good idea from what the nurses think. Emma never welcomed anyone, but after a scolding by one of the nurses she had finally decided it was better to just do what she was told than end up with twice as much chores as usual.

She entered her room and found a few of the other girls possessions laying on the floor. Among her own was her note book with a few of the hidden loose papers that were inside scattered on the floor. She smiled too herself, she really needed to start putting less important things on the large bedroom vanity the nurses had aloud the girls to buy a few years ago but only as long as they shared it. The girls in the other house had gotten a stereo system.

Emma straightened her face as she looked to the girl who was, no surprise, crying on her bed. Almost everyone had cried when they got here, even Emma. Though Emma sometimes even cries during the scene where Chance had "gotten hit" by the truck in Homeward Bound and she has seen it several times.

"You know it's okay to cry and get it out of your system but after today the Nurses start to stop giving you sympathy." She sat down on her own bed trying to remember her own first day here. All she could remember is that she had locked herself in here until the Nurses made her come out for dinner. After that she had tripped down the stairs and burst out laughing. Falling a lot of times made her at least giggle. She did do it a lot.

"I cried when I first got here too, I even locked myself in." She pointed to the door. "We keep the key in the lock. It's much easier and the Nurses don't realize it's just sitting there," She smiled at the girl hoping to make her feel better, and thought that telling her how she had tripped down the stairs had actually made her feel better. Emma decided to hold of mentioning that for now. Maybe she wouldn't even need to mention it.

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[lydia rain davis]

Rain went silent as she heard the door opening, not bothering to raise her head and see who had entered. She thought maybe it was one of the nurses, trying to drug her again. Or one of the other girls, stopping by the room to get something. Rain suddenly felt a bit guilty for throwing the other's things around during her tantrum. Maybe they wouldn't say anything about it, though.
Well, whoever it was, Rain hoped that they hadn't heard her cries. Hopefully they would ignore her, leave just as inconspicuously as they came. Her hopes were shattered, however, when the girl spoke. "You know it's okay to cry and get it out of your system," she said, "but after today the Nurses start to stop giving you sympathy." Rain knew she was right, but she probably would have been done crying by the next day, anyway.
Hesitantly, Rain sat upright and turned toward the girl. She was pretty, Rain noticed, and for a moment Rain was self-concious of her own appearance. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying, and she wished she could comb her hair out. Rubbing some of the wetness fom her cheek, Rain couldn't help but smile when the girl said they she had locked herself in the room on her first day. "Wish I had thought of that," Rain muttered. "... How long have you been here, for?" she asked slowly, almost afraid of the answer. If Rain was going to be there was a while, she wanted to know what her chances were of getting out soon.

[emma marie van bruhnt]

Emma appreciated the smile she got from the girl after telling her she had locked herself in the room. It made her feel like she was helping the girl get through her first day at Lyle House so that it wouldn't be too wicked and horrible. Though this place really wasn't at all as bad as one would feel. Most of the kids didn't even seem mentally ill....but that could be from the medication they had to take every day. It could not too.....

She shook her head and went to answer the girls question. "Well...almost four years." Emma realized that her words might scare the girl and quickly added, " But I'm probably the longest they've kept in a while. Most people get out after a year and a half or so. Or if the medication doesn't work they get transfered to who knows where." Again she realized that her last few words were a bit frightening. "But of course that rarely ever happens. And being here for as long as I have isn't even that bad. My vacations are so much longer than everyone else's. Dr. Davidoff loves....the councilor....not so much."

She thought about her last few words. She could tell she definitely was liked Dr. Davidoff versus many of the other patients at Lyle House she was pretty much the only one who got to go home for about a month though she believed there were a few others. mostly the ones who had been stuck here for a while. But she was turning eighteen soon. Didn't that mean she gets to choose what goes on with her? There was also the fact that the councilor really disliked Emma. He was always mean and skeptical, always expecting lies. She had lied quite a few times, and gave him attitude sometimes but weren't councilors supposed to be neutral? Even if this one was a doctor as well.

"But anyways, what's your name?" She looked at the girl and gave a warm smile as she waited for her reply. The girl could probably use a friend, though whether or not Emma was planning on getting too close as friend was undecided. She didn't want one or the other to feel bad if one left.

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[lydia rain davis]

Rain grimanced at the girl's answer. Four years? If Rain ended up there that long, maybe she actually would end up going crazy. Even being a year and a half seemed unbearable. A year of my life, wasted on this damn place, Rain thought gravely. She didn't worry about being sent to who-knows-where. The medication was most definitely working, though she did wonder briefly where such patients were sent to. Perhaps it was a different, more advanced institution, one where the kids were put through various tests and observed more closely. Maybe they locked the patients in padded rooms and left them in there for weeks, like Rain had saw on television once. Maybe they even tortured them. She shuddered slightly at the thought.
Rain couldn't help but snicker a bit as the girl told her that being there for four years wasn't "that bad," and then felt a litle envious that her vactions were long. Rain vaguely remember that the nurses had said if she behaved herself then she would be able to go home for a week at a time every few months-- or something like that. She hadn't really payed attention to the the nurse when she told her of the rules and such, too busy with thinking of ways to break them. She ultimately decided against it, though. Rain had never been much of a troublemaker before, and raising hell in a mental institution wasn't the smartest thing to do. What if they thought her unstable and sent her somewhere worse? Yeah, bad idea.
"Oh, I'm Rain, she stated, weakly returning the girl's smile. Rain realized that she needed an actual friend, if she was going to make it through her stay here. This girl had been nice enough to welcome Rain, after all. Then again, she could have been put up to it by, oh, the nurses or someone. Nevertheless, this girl seemed like someone Rain could have a potential friendship with.