"Because I don't know anyone here and everything is scary and I can't even look at the only person who has come to talk to me all day, and I miss my friends and my school and my parents and my own kitchen. I had to get a job to buy the food and the clothing and didn't have enough for shoes and all my shoes are at home because I came here in my nightgown," she said with a small hiccup, the napkin now in her lapo being twisted up as she cried. "and I thought if I could just make a few new friends then maybe this place wouldn't be so scary. And my brother is here but he ran off somewhere and I haven't even seen him since yesterday...."
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