Oh no! It was almost like she blamed me for her sister's death. She never said so, but she did tell me, often and loudly, what an ass I was being abou... the whole thing. Looking back, I can see that she was right, but at the time, I felt like the most put upon girl in the universe.So what changed my outlook? Did I suddenly have an epiphany and realize that it was my own behavior that was causing all my problems? Well, yes, but not in the way you would expect...There was one girl at school - a. After her first cup of tea, she refreshed it and went to the verandah, with Clarice diary, and began reading again. She went back and reread various accounts of the visits the girl had received from the evil women bent on having her join them and become a servant of the Master, and of the night the ‘ogre’ creatures had found her looking in the chamber window. She hoped this would give her some idea of what to expect and that she might be better able to prepare to protect herself. Chapter 34. Some of the details have been changed to protect the guilty.In my first job after college, I lived in a far suburb of a major city. There wasn't much to do in my town so I often traveled to the city for fun. On one particular weekend, my company had a work function in the city. My roommate and I decided to make it a weekend and to get a room in the city. A lot of my coworkers had the same idea and decided to take their wives for weekends in the city (I imagine an "away game" for sexy time). My. Instead, she stared intently out the window.The words had worked precisely as Sarah had told her they would. It had taken time, but her resistance had finally been worn away to nothing. There was a heavy feeling of inevitability inside her belly. She had strived against it and been defeated. She knew what she needed to do. She watched as Caity’s car returned from the school run. After a minute of listening to the thumping of her heart, Abbey stood up.She was visibly shaking by the time Caity.