I am so sorry this is taking forever. For those of you who care, I'm editing The Outcasts and I'm finding more and more things that are just unrealistic. And pathetic. Charlie is not a pathetic person. She lives a normal life even though she's been through crap. I have so many friends just like her. I have friends who have lived through nightmares and still whistle while they walk. They smile and ask how my day's been. So yes, she is a loner but not in the totally secluded sense. She goes to school, she talks to people. She just prefers a good book to explaining herself to idiots. That's how I see her. And that's how I want to portray her. I sincerely apologize because that is not what I have been doing. I'm working on fixing that :)