Stay with me…
When the sisters left the motel room the others were standing around waiting, Jennie wondered if they ever slept, and they left together for the diner they had visited yesterday. Their group held two guys, Denver and Pete, and two other women, Charlotte and Hannah, all in their 20s to 30s, so in theory they should have made quite a noisy little group. But the others didn't seem to talk to each other unless there was something they needed to decide on together. Then they would state their opinions on the matter, or rather the reasons why they should choose a certain path. And they never, ever argued about anything, they always agreed. Those were only some of the things that made Jennie's alarm bells ring and she couldn't understand why her sister didn't see it.
The others took it in turns to talk to Mary and be friendly, but they didn't talk to each other. Neither did they talk to her but that could be because they sensed her withdrawal from them. Still, the normal behaviour would have been to try and drag her out of her shell. But there wasn't anything normal about them. She walked just behind her sister, not wanting to take her eyes off her for a second.
When they walked into the diner she noticed two good looking guys over by the corner, eating pie, and couldn't help but smile. It was early for pie. Then she noticed the blonde woman standing next to them. She was smiling too, so tenderly that it nearly brought tears to Jennie's eyes, her complete focus on the two young men. Strangely though they didn't seem to take any notice of her. As if the woman felt Jennie's eyes upon her she raised her head and looked straight at Jennie and nodded. A friendly greeting, comforting in some way and curiously knowing. Jennie smiled again and nodded back and then took her seat. When she looked back the woman had left.
