Read Ursula’s Girls :: Chapter Three Page Four

Rabbit and I aren't close like we used to be. She spends her days studying—she was always a good student—and now she quickly rises to the top student in the school. After our morning prayers one day Father Urselle announces this in front of the whole convent and gives her a metal to wear, which she happily pins to her dress above her heart. She smiles widely to the room as he pats her on the back—too widely, she is not Rabbit when she stands beside him.

Doll and I become friends, but we are more like castaways, stranded with each other in the wake of our loneliness.

One night in the dorm Rabbit approaches Paris and asks her for permission to go down to the cafeteria.

"What for?" Paris asks, she had been playing hide and seek with Violet and Lilly but she stops to look Rabbit in the eye.

I watch as Rabbit brushes the hair away from her forehead. Her back hunches forward, like she's trying to hide. "I just have to go," she insists. "Do you think they'll let me in this late at night?" Her voice takes on a strange edge.