"I'm not sure I would be as happy here if you weren't here," Alice agreed. "I... we're odd, we've always been that way," she offered. "So someone who understands is not only new but very pleasant." Lizzie was the only one in their family who really understood, who at least tried to understand, for as odd as Alice could sometimes be.

"I haven't really made very close friends here," but then, she had only been here for two weeks, what was to be expected?