Bell stood outside her mother's house, waiting for her to come to the door. She knocked again, desperately, hoping for a reply, but there was none. She checked outside of the house to see if there were any notes left for her, but to her suprise, there was nothing. Where could her mother be?
Anyway, since she had nowhere to go, she decided to go to town. It was a good time to go there anyway, since there wouldn't be too much traffic, and she did have some money to buy something...