Nina I returned to my room, still aggravated that my mother had suddenly shown up unannounced. After months of hardly speaking to me, she comes all this way just over a scraped knee? I felt as though there was something else she wasn’t telling me, but I had too much on my mind to care at the moment. Sighing, I steeled my nerves and gathered my things to make my way across campus toward the chemistry lab. Despite how uncomfortable my mother made me, I had a lab report to finish. If I was lucky and worked efficiently enough, I could possibly finish my lab assignment and get home before midnight; with everything going on lately, I had fallen far behind on my assignments, which was completely out of character for me. Talking to my mother and hearing her nonchalant attitude toward Taylor’s ch