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The long night passed over slowly and the very next morning after the sun rose over the horizon, the little black alarm clock beside the girl's bed chimed 7:00 am. She stirred weakly under her covers and groaned. She did not like the morning hours and wished she could just stay in bed but she knew better than to hope for that. After hitting the snooze button once, a brisk knock on the bedroom door sounded and the girl's mother poked her head into the room and smiled cheerily.
"Morning, Y/N, did you sleep well last night?"
Y/N sat up in bed and looked tiredly at her mother before responding to her with a shrug. Her mother frowned, "Did you have the bad dream, again?" She asked and Y/N nodded.
With a hopeful look on her face, the mother slipped into the room and sat down on her daughter's bedside to look Y/N in the eye. "Do you think maybe now you can tell me what it's about?"
Y/N, clearly annoyed by her mother's request, rolled her eyes, and sighed loudly, flipping her bed covers off of her to get out of bed and go brush her teeth. Her mother frowned again before making another attempt to get her daughter to open up. "I'm just trying to help you, honey, I only want what's best!" The mother implored, but Y/N quickly disappeared into the bathroom and shut the door.
The mother, now bursting into tears, got up off of her child's bed and headed slowly down the stairs like an injured creature and then went straight into the living room and over to the phone. Picking it up, she dialed a number. "Yes, hello, is this the secretary for the office of Dr. Gilbert? ... Yes, this is Ms. Blackthorn, I have decided to go ahead with his suggestion. I just don't know what else to do. She still never talks to me, she had turned up 18 and I'm ran out of options. As much as it pains me, I'd be willing to go ahead and bring Y/N in later today and have him evaluate her if there's an opening available today....Ok, that's perfect, thank you, we will be there."
She then hung up the phone with a loud click and sobbed slinking down to the floor.
Unbeknownst to little Y/N, a very different day was set into motion and it would soon change her life completely.