The Other Sister Page #4

- You're too kind.

- The youth orchestra, the theatre, the library.

- Wow.

- And today your mother's gonna get some recognition, which she deserves.

My job to introduce the head

of our Sutter Hills City Council...

- Drew Edison. - Excuse

me. - Oh, sure. Of course.

Good afternoon,

ladies and gentlemen.

There are so many people

to thank for this wonderful shelter.

- Hello, puppy. - And they

used every... - Carla, please.

- Fund-raising device known to man...

- Hello, puppy.

From a, a bake sale in my mother...

Pucky Ryan's... garden.

Carla, please don't do that.

Please. You're disrupting.

- ... country club.

- Woof!

- Woof! Woof!

- Carla.

Elizabeth. Elizabeth,

your daughter is barking.

- Carla!

- Woof!

- Elizabeth, now they're all barking.

- I know.

- Carla, dear. Carla. Carla!

- Oh, I'll quiet them, Mom. They like me.

- Carla, Carla!

- Hello, puppies. I'll teach you how to behave, little puppies.

Stay! No, go, go, go.

- No!

- Come back in the cage. Come on.

Behave! Mom!

It was so embarrassing, Radley.

I feel like... I feel like I try

all these things, and nothing works.

I've been doing my best to have fun with

her, but I don't know what fun for her is.

And she won't even tell me.

Honestly, I just want to quit.

Mrs Tate! Mrs Tate!

Carla's run away!

When the police picked her up,

she gave them another name...

and listed this as her home address,

so they threw her back here.

- Here's the police report.

- Did she really say that I'm smothering her?

In so many words. Yeah.

Do you want to read the police report?

I just want you to know that I don't

understand any of this, not for one second.

I give her love, I protect her, I teach

her, and suddenly that's smothering.

Those are her words,

not mine, Mrs Tate.

Did she tell you that I took her to the

pet shelter so she could possibly get a job?

Yes, and we agreed it ended badly.

Could you... Could you not?

- That's a hand-carved Indian relic.

- I'm sorry.

I also enrolled her in

a calligraphy class, an origami class.

- And I, I even got her into that...

- She doesn't want to do those things.

They... They don't interest her.

They don't work for her.

- Maybe Carla doesn't know what works for her.

- And you do.

I think so. I'm her mother.

That's why she tried to hitchhike

over 200 miles to get back here?

- Would she do that again?

- I believe she will, yes.

If things continue at home the way

they've been going, yes, absolutely yes.

And we were lucky this time.

She came back here.

A lot of kids run away,

we never hear from them again.

This is a girl who is determined

to push the edge of the envelope.

And I, for one,

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