Annika felt relief wash over her. She had been so worried that Michael wouldn't let her stay with them. Truth be told, she couldn't stomach going back to the place she'd been calling 'home'. Sooner or later, she'd have to. The people who adopted her had no other children, and Annika would have to go and clear out the house of their belongings.<br/>Her mother had left her everything.<br/><br/>"That's great!" She said, perhaps sounding a bit<em>too</em>happy in her attempt to mask her sudden sadness. "What do you think about that, Josh?" She asked, reaching for his hand to give it a squeeze.<br/><br/>Even if he couldn't, or wouldn't, respond, she'd keep speaking to him.<br/>Who knows? Maybe it'd help.