Hope shrugged, looking disaffected. It was an expression she had put a lot of practice into because it wasn't really in her nature to be that way. Her family was full of moody tornadoes that ripped through the lives of others like they didn't even matter. Hope had that same anger and passion inside of her but she buried it deep until it became too much to take and would finally explode.
"I don't know yet. My dad's a lot easier to deal with here. Back home he was a total freak. He hardly let me leave the house." Hope smirked mischievously. "It only made me get really good at sneaking out. Still, he freaked about school, wanted to send a bodyguard with me like a bodyguard can protect me more than I can. I didn't want to be that girl at school anymore so I decided just to do my own thing."
High school was embarrassing enough. She went to the fanciest private school money could buy in New Orleans and that wasn't good or secure enough for her paranoid father.
"He's not so uptight here. I guess because he already has a baby version of me to raise the way he wants." Hope shrugged. It bugged her at first but now she could see all the positives in being the girl from the future and not that little baby in that crib. Now she might actually be a fully independent woman.