[Center]Clinic (Physical Health) - Ground Floor, Residential Building
1:35 PM Hope Daly (Andrew Rhodes) [/center]

Hope sniffled noisily as she stopped her tears, nodding in agreement. She took a few deep, albeit difficult, breaths and wiped her eyes. "The reason I came hear was closer to what I told you than you would expect. It was financial stress that drove me away from home, but it was my fault." Her voice grew shrill at the end of the sentence, trying hard not to continue crying. "I was diagnosed with chronic leukemia a week after I turned fifteen... My parents started to fight and they were scared... My brother said he was going to drop out of college to get a job and help pay for treatments... I couldn't let them suffer on my behalf..." Hope voice wavered as she told them. 

She waited for them to get angry, to tell her she had to leave. It was hard to tell them. She was scared.and didn't know the consequences of her telling them now. Hopes hands were shaking and she had her hands tightly balled around her jacket, eyes squeezed shut. She just knew that she was going to have to leave...