Pages 251 - 277 Summary

Lia is stunned and terrified when she walks back out the waiting room of Dr. Parker's office. Cassie is gone, and Jennifer has not yet arrived to pick her up. Lia sits, watching the snow in the parking lot for nearly an hour, but there is no sign of Jennifer. Lia calls a cab and pays him extra to drive her to the pizza place and then to the motel where Elijah works. She begs Elijah to let her inside, and he finally relents. She tells him everything: she's been kicked out of her father's house, her mother is crazy, she's being haunted by Cassie's ghost, and her doctor wants to lock her up in the nuthouse. She's just emptied out her bank account and she wants to runaway with him to Mississippi. As she's ranting to him, she passes out...