Lori shrugged at Lucille's question, keeping her own council for a few moments.  It was as she had expected.  The school would be full of over achievers, girls who actually wanted to be here, academics... not that she wasn't bright, but, as she had been told all too often, she was lazy and undisciplined when it came to school...<br/><br/>"My parents wanted to get me away from 'a bad crowd', send me somewhere where i'd be forced to 'achieve my potential'.  So, pretty much, they're living out their dreams by torturing me and exiling me from my friends...."<br/><br/>She didn't mean it to come out so bitter, but there it was.  First day of school and already she missed her little gang.  Sending off e-mails and having phone chats just wasn't the same as being there.  Already she was feeling lonely.