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Snape'sGirlThru&Thru 
Vashti had a feeling that she knew how Louisa wanted to end that sentence but decided not to push her to keep going. As it turned out, Louisa didn't need any prodding to continue. Vashti's expression hardened. "My parents do care, and they don't 'make me go along with' anything," she said coolly, talking normally now, no longer caring about keeping her voice down. She also no longer cared about trying to separate her parents with verb tenses. As far as she was concerned, her dad was still here, if not physically, and she was going to talk about him as if he was, especially now, when Louisa was accusing both him and her mum of things that they didn't do.
Louisa sighed when Vashti answered rather defensively. She shot a look at her friend before answering, "
Well not all of us are that lucky." Wasn't Vashti's father dead, anyways? Why did she refer to him as well? Louisa thought better of commenting on that. She didn't want to hurt her friend despite the anger she was feeling, "
Listen, I don't care if you think I'm a troubled child or whatever. I've heard that a lot and from almost every person I try to talk to but when I say I don't trust others to care for me enough, it means I have my absolute reasons." She sternly looked at her, sooner or later she was going to tell Vashti that so might as well do it while other people were asleep. It gave the speech the right spirit.