Constance questions why she seems different then her family and local commune. To escape these guilty feelings she has of not fitting in, she writes in her notebook.
One day when she walks with her family through the forest, she sees a tall man with dark, tanned skin and red eyes watch them. Left alone at a pinic table, he introduces himself before knocking Constance out and returing her to the real world from which she was kidnapped from when she was young. Will she notice the warning signs about her past and local commune or go back to the normal world? 

Warning Signs Are Useless

The door creaked open and the person coming in slammed half of their body against the door. The groan on the door hinge and the loud thud it made on the wall when the door ferociously collided with the old teal paint that was slowly chipping was a dead giveaway. The sound echoed through the whole room. My senses must have been heightened because when that door slammed open, the vibrations bounced off of me, I could feel the door from here. I could feel their eyes from here too. 


They knew I was here too. The grasp that they had on the door was released immediately after the door slam. It was a tactic, they were checking the room and now they're on alert and searching. 


Chapter Nine