***Serena*** I walk tentatively down the staircase, thankfully feeling more human now that the nausea had mostly worn off. I was clean and clothed, even though I was dressed like cheap trash. I felt like it too, having no underwear underneath. Kate emerges from a long corridor just as I step off the bottom step, carrying a newspaper. She laughs at me as she looks me up and down in the garish outfit. "Wow...if only your posh prince could see you now, dressed like a common ho," she says scathingly. "Well, you bought it and if I recall correctly, you loved it for a time," I reply as I glare at her. She dismissively gestures for me to follow her down the corridor. I wish more than ever that I wasn't trapped here with the worst kind of people as I walk behind her. Kate turns off through

