Chapter 51

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"Okay, here's your room." Katherine spoke as she walked into the bedroom.

"Whoa. This is one room?"

"Yes. You have your own bathroom and your closet is over there. We took the examples you gave the detective to decorate it for you, but we can add or change anything you want."

"Wow....thanks."

"Of course. We want you to feel comfortable." Jenny slowly moved around the room and gently touched everything.

"This is all for me?"

"Yes." She moved further into the room and touched the freshly made, queen sized, canopy bed. "Now the bed isn't brand new. It used to be Janet's, but we had it refurbished and restrained and got a new box spring and mattress for you." Jenny reached further onto the bed before standing back up. Shifting her focus, she looked at the closet and made her way over. She grabbed the double doors and stepped inside.

"Oh my....." Jenny looked around the closet and saw rows of clothes, shoes and several other things. "These aren't..."

"This was me and Janet's idea. Since everything was raised from your house, we couldn't get your clothes and stuff. So we got you some new stuff."

"I...why?"

"We know this process is hard for you and we just want you to be comfortable."

"But after everything that happened. After everything I've done, why?" Katherine walked closer to her.
"Janet has forgiven you. She says that your intentions are good and that's good enough for us."

"Really?" Katherine nodded. "I never expected her to forgive me."

"Why?" Jenny sat down on a bench that was in the closet.

"I mean, I was horrible to her. I made fun of her, was rude to her, fought with her, made her want to kill herself and..."

"Wait. What?" Jenny sighed.

"Janet tried to kill herself once. I overheard Gil and Tina talking about it. That's how I learned that it was because of what I had done for her. I beat myself up so much after she left the school. I wanted to apologize but never got the opportunity then my mother pulled me into all of this terrible business that she came up with and....." Jenny sighed. "I just never....I never fixed myself." Katherine's next to her.

"So....what caused the change?"

"Gabrielle." Katherine looked at Jenny. "When I found out that she was Janet's daughter, I knew things had gone too far. I wanted to take her back the first day I found out but Jenna wouldn't take her eyes off of me. So I just held her and made sure no one hurt her. In those moments, I thought about how she didn't know me. She didn't know my past or my mistakes. Sometimes she would smile when she saw me and it made me......hurt because I wasn't a good person. She just didn't know that. It made me want to be a better person though."

"That's good."

"When I finally had the opportunity, Daniel and I dropped her at the closest person we could find that knew you guys."

"Diana."

"Yeah. We just wanted to get her back to Janet. We found out how distraught she and Toni was and I just made us disgusted with Jenna. After that, I never went back."

"Really?"

"Well, technically, I went back under the premise that I was going to do things for them but I only went for info to give to Bishop."

"Where have you been staying then? I know you weren't at home." Jenny looked down. "Were you on the streets?" She nodded.

"I just couldn't be there. Not after that. Janet didn't deserve what Jenna was doing." Katherine felt an urge to ask what everyone had been wondering, but worried that it was the wrong time. "It's just so stupid too."

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