Roland had suspected enough that after everything he had said, he knew that Avery was just going to fill in everything he said to her with nothing but depressive statements of pessimism and doubt. It seemed as if he almost gave into it himself at first when all of this had started, but he knew that he would have to work his way around all the negativity and focus on how to solve her problem on her abusive father. She then began to droop and sit before him stating on how she feels trapped in a dark hole that she feels her father had made, saying that she wishes every day that her father would become his old self again. She then looked at him, a look he hasn’t seen on her face before that he didn’t know what to make of it. He felt as if she was just crying for help inside herself, but didn’t know what exactly to do and seemed as if nothing would ever work to make things better.

[i]“Hmmm…..”[/i] said Roland to himself as he kneeled down to where Avery was sitting in front of him. Instead of going on about convincing her on how he will help her, he stayed quiet for a minute just to think while he looked at the floor instead of looking straight at her, for he knows she will just look at him awkwardly. He began to think on what she had said earlier, like on how her father was still her legal guardian and how she couldn’t leave until she at least 18 and not a minor anymore. He could probably find a solution out of those examples and put them intact for planning on how to get Avery away from her father, or at least for the time being. Just then, he noticed that Avery was playing with her hair somewhat, although it didn’t look conditioned very well, he decided to stop planning to himself for a minute to make his attention back to her.

Roland grinned at her before he could make her an offering on something that she probably needed as of now. [i]“I tell you what. Why don’t you head back into our bathroom and take a bath, just to….you know….clear your mind and relax for a bit.”[/i] Roland then pulled himself back up onto his feet and wiped the dirt from the floor on his knees. [i]“I’ll be in here cleaning up our mess while you do so, okay?”[/i]