<"I did.">  She replied simply, walking with the crowd heading back out to their vehicles to drive home.  That was the whole thing, wasn't it?  She didn't make her living reviewing these, deciding if they were award worthy or not...all she had to do was decide if she liked it.<br/><br/><"I know, but...">  Musubi paused for a moment.  <"I could have done<em>something</em>.  Thrown a fit or started deliberately failing in school until they put me back in or something like that.  I know my parents didn't give me a choice, but there's some part of me that can't help but feel like that had to have been at least something I could have tried, even if it didn't work.">