SEQ CHAPTER \h \r 1Jesse Tuck emerged from the forest looking exactly as he did 86 years ago. Everything about him was the same, especially his love for Winifred Foster. And on this sunny autumn day, he had come back, just as he promised, to take Winnie with him so they could be together at last.
Jesse scanned the scene before him. The Fosters' mansion looked very different indeed. He barely recognized it. He walked up to the front door but hesitated to ring the doorbell.
"What if she didn't drink the water?" He thought to himself. "No, she had to have drunk it. She did say she wanted to be with me."
Jesse rang the doorbell anyway. The door was opened by a tall lady in a red business suit.
"Good morning. I'm looking for Winifred Foster. Does she live here?" Jesse said brightly
The lady just glared at him and suddenly laughed.
"Winifred Foster?" The lady laughed while pointing to a moldy gravestone beside the woods. "She disappeared 86 years ago. Of course she's not buried there, but she must be dead now."
Before Jesse could reply, the extremely rude woman had shut the door in his face, still laughing. Jesse stood there for a moment, not sure what to make of the situation. He walked down the front steps and to the old gravestone. He could just make out the words carved on it
In loving memory of Winifred Foster
Disappeared on the 25 of August 1914
Jesse finished reading as tears welled up in his deep brown eyes.
"I'll never find her now," he whispered to himself. "I've been searching for so long."
But what he didn't know is that someone was watching the tears, one by one, roll down his soft cheeks.