"Stop! NOW!", Lauren said to her mother, racing in to find that her mother had her right claw in beneath her friends skin.
"Oh please darling, it's not like she's going to remember a thing", her mother replied, sinking even deeper.
"She's my best friend, mother!"
"Not for long."
"I swear if you lay one more claw into her, I will never forgive you!"
Her mother resistantly let go and Lauren caugth her bleeding friend in her arms. As lauren sat there trying to pressurise her friend's wounds and making sure she would not remember, she held her friends hand and she began to sing, comforting her, " Lay hear my darling, just shut your eyes, midnight is coming as you go to sleep. When I come and get you, we wont be near, you'll be up in the garden of eve, so please just come with me and I'll make sure you go to sleep, run now, run while you can dance. Before... the end of the end" Lauren remembers her father singing that to her as a child after her mother had beaten her. She missed her father. It was tought growing up without him. As soon as she turned 17 she made a promise to herself, to leave this horrid place and never come back.
