Divorce was only a dream. Her parents would never take her in if she went that route, and she wasn't dumb enough to assume that she would instantly adapt to living on the streets. And what of their children? Surely not in her custody.

While she didn't really want to talk about it in general, it would be unfair not to. "Hugo... he announced to me that he planned to move us to America if our status didn't show signs of rising soon." Whether he had even mentioned that to anyone else in the family, she wasn't sure. She hadn't really heard too much after she had started, as the saying goes, seeing red.