"Its not a joke, man. You know how she likes to wander off." Freddie said to Cook, he was feeling frustrated because nobody cared for her the way he did.
"I don't know what to tell ya man, she's gone and we're better off without her." Cook refused to cave, he had closed the book on Effy a long time ago so he could move on and carry on living. To Cook's mind, Freddie was in denial about everything that happened.

Once Freddie had found out what had actually happened with Katie and Effy in the woods, he tried to find Effy to make things right. He was too late, her room was empty and her parents said she left with Tony to get away, though they weren't sure what from or where they had gone to. Freddie started feeling sick to his stomach, remembering all the horrible things he'd said to her before she left. That was the last time he saw her, no hug goodbye or even a kiss on the cheek, just him telling her what a messed up and selfish person she was. It had been 3 months since then, every day he wished more that he'd held her tight and kept her safe.

Effy was falling in and out of consciousness, making it very hard to discern between her reality and dreams. She was sure she saw very large bears or dogs trying to come towards her, but they were held back by pale monsters with red eyes. Effy wanted to run away from all of them, she felt so afraid and fragile, worse than she had felt after slitting her wrists a few months before and waking up...alive. Though Edward had never said anything about her scars, he was a very observant being and so she doubted that he'd missed those details so deeply etched into her pale skin. Edward was a vampire, so he must know what its like to feel dead on the inside and to be apart from the world's ways, maybe he understood her better than Freddie could, or even better than Tony does. But, wait, Edward didn't understand...they had fought about all of it before she ran off into the forest, and got into this mess of torture. She was trying really hard to remember what exactly had happened and if it actually happened outside of her subconscious or not, but all she could recall were bits and pieces.

She started to dream again, a typical fairy tale theme: Edward had come, shining brightly, to save her. His facial expression turned to one of shock and fear as he saw her, everything started happening really fast - he picked her up and starting flying or running through the forest. She blanked out for a while, only to open her eyes to the sight of paramedics and an ER...somehow this seemed real. She started fading into the darkness, hearing a faint voice that sounded like Edward's, pleading to her, "Please Effy! Please don't fade away! I love you, I really fucking love you..."