Movements to her left startled Pearl awake and her first instinct, after the disaster that had become her life, was to lash out to defend herself.
"Careful," hissed Sofia as she easily caught her leg and held it in place, "before you give me a reason to snap one of your pretty bones," she ended with a small laugh, flinging the appendage aside.
Pearl tucked her knees into her chest, wondering, yet again, why she was associating with the clearly deranged woman.
The contents of her box Everest had brought were scattered on her bed, Sofia's manicured hands rifling through the various keepsakes.
She felt a sudden flash of possessiveness and began gathering the assortment of random objects up.
"What are you doing? And why are you in my room at," she glanced at the alarm clock on her nightst
