Anna drove through the highway. She kept making huge mistakes as she drove back to her beloved hometown, she nearly hit a few other drivers. Though Anna was definitely not fit to be driving right now, she just needed to be back in the place where there were no monsters. A place where she felt welcome, like she belonged.

A road sign alerted to Anna that she was going to be in Lorvale in 10 miles. Anna knew exactly where her first stop was going to be. The place she had spent nearly her whole life in, her home. She did not care that her parents didn't want her there. She didn't care if she was risking being kidnapped there. She just needed to be home right now, with her human family.

She arrived at her home. She didn't need a GPS to find it. She knew exactly where it was. Anna stepped out of her home and she realized she was knee-deep in uncut grass. The whole yard was unkept and looked as though a tornado hit it. Since when did her mom allow the yard to get this bad? Her mom had severe OCD, if she saw the slightest spot on the kitchen counter she went absolutely ballistic. Anna placed her key into the loc. And was surprised to see that the door was unlocked already, which was a good thing considering the fact that Anna's key no longer fit into the lock. Her parents must have changed all the locks! Anna couldn't believe that her paranoid mother was letting the door stay unlocked.

She opened the door, and saw that the house was filled with boxes that were filled to the brim with old family junk. Most of the furniture was gone and Anna was taken aback by the rotten, musky stench that filled the house. The floor, the blinds, the boxes and every corner and crevice in her home was covered in a thick layer of dust. After just a few minutes in the home, Anna's throat and inner lungs felt like they were coated with dust. Anna could hardly breathe. She tried her very best to persevere though, she wanted to find out what the hell was going on, and who could blame her?

Anna went up to her brother's room. As she walked up the creaky stairs, she prayed that their smiling faces would be up there waiting for her. She called out her brother's names.

"David? Eli? You home?" she called up the stairway. She heard no response, and a lump began to form in her throat.

She stepped into their room cautiously. She was shocked by what she saw. The top bunk of their metal bunk bed had fallen out of it's secure hinges. It lay diagonal to the floor on top of the bottom bunk. The beds were stripped, and the baseball themed sheets were piled on to the dirty, grey, apple-juice stained carpet. All of the drawers and the closet doors were wide open and completely empty.

"What?" Anna said to the room. She backed out of the room, and fell on her ass once she stepped out. For a moment, she just let herself lay on the carpet as she sobbed into it. She then grabbed a stair railing and hoisted herself up. She went over other parents room in a blur. This was like some kind of night mare. Anna pinched herself a few times, delivering the pinch harder each time. She had no success, this was all completely real. The doors of the master bedroom were swing wide open, and her parents bedroom looked much worse. The ground was covered in a layer of papers and old little bits and bobs from throughout the years. Anna was now terrified, what was going on?

She ran downstairs, and she tripped and flew down the last eight steps. She forgot all about those blasted steps, she always freaking tripped on them! Once she toppled her way down to the bottom, she got up and dashed outside, even though her entire body was aching due to the fall.

As she was making her way through the unruly, uncut grass, she saw her old neighbor, Mr. Smith, watering his plants. He saw the distraught young lady with tears soaking her face, he wondered what she was doing in his old neighbor's home.

"Whats wrong dear?" the elderly man asked, wondering what could possibly have made this lovely young lady so upset.

"Where's my family?" she sobbed.

Mr. Smith looked confused. "Are you talking about the Cooks? Do you mean Lisa and Steve?"

Anna nodded her head.

"They moved out a few months ago honey," he explained to her.

"WHAT?" Anna shouted at him.

"Are you a cousin or something?" he asked.

Anna shook her head. Poor old man, he must've been developing Alzheimer's. "I'm their daughter, remember me?"

The man looked confused at first, and then a bit alarmed. He dropped the hose he was holding, the hose danced all over the ground and water flew everywhere.

He backed away from Anna. "They never had a daughter, they had two sons but no daughter. Who are you?" he asked nervously.

"Come on! I used to be over at your place all the time, you used to give me advice and tell stories and-"

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" his old shrill voice cried out to her, "I DON'T KNOW YOU!"

Anna moved closer to him in a desperate attempt to get him to recognize her.

"Just get away from me please!" he begged her. He cowered on to the grass holding his arms over his face, as though he were trying to protect himself from her.

Around 10 feet away, Anna heard the creaking of a knob being turned. The hose then stopped dancing around all over the place, and it then fell still and limp. Anna and Mr. Jackson were soaked from head to toe in water, and Anna's shins were already developing bruises as a result of the hose hitting them so many times. Anna looked beside her and saw Mrs. Jackson storming towards her.

"Get away from my husband!" she ordered Anna.

"What?! No, I'm just Anna! Listen, Mr. Jackson didn't recognize me, I think he has Alzheimer's or something. You need to get him help. Come on, don't tell me you can't remember me either! Me and my brothers used to constantly come over here, we were good friends!" Anna was nearly blue in the face trying her very hardest to explain.

Mrs. Jackson then cowered behind her husband of 50 years. Anna then realized, Mrs. Jackson didn't remember her either! How could they forget about her? And why are they still living at home if they both have Alzheimer's? Why hasn't anybody noticed and sent them to a care home?

Anna eased herself away from the geriatric couple. She wasn't going to try and explain who she was anymore, it was obviously no use. She got in her car and sped off. She had almost no control of the steering wheel due to her clammy, trembling, sweat-soaked hands. She wondered; why was every visit back to Lorvale so weird? This was her home, why does it almost seem as though she never existed there? Why were strange things happening to her every single time she stepped foot into the town?

The Jacksons had always been so sharp. They could remember exact times, details, and dates of things perfectly. The two of them were geniuses with flawless memory. Anna would have never thought that they would develop Alzheimer's.

Anna drive to the local park. She got out of her car, that she miraculously didn't crash, and walked on over to the playground. Seeing all of the joyful, innocent children playing reminded her of the good old days, back to when she didn't even know monsters existed. Anna wished things were that simple again, she envied those children playing without a care in the world.

Across the park, a familiar figure was sitting on a bench, reading a book. Anna squinted her eyes at the blonde figure, and saw that it was her old friend, Katelyn! Anna and Katelyn were good friends before Anna had to pack up her bags and leave to go to New Salem. Katelyn had always been there for her whenever times were rough, and times were definitely rough for Anna right now! Anna ran over to her gleefully.

"Katelyn! Long time, no see!" Anna exclaimed as she approached her old friend. Anna held out her arms, expecting a hug. Katelyn looked confused and also a bit creeped out.

Katelyn looked up from her book with an eyebrow raised. "Hi?"

"Hey remember me? We went to school together?" Anna reminded her.

"No? What classes did we have together?" Katelyn responded.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no! Don't tell me she doesn't remember me either!" Anna shouted to herself inside of her head.

On the outside, Anna tried to play it cool. Anna had no idea what was going on, whether there was some kind of cruel plot that the town people devised together, or maybe aliens had gotten everybody in Lorvale to forget about her. Anna had no idea, but she decided that playing it cool was the safest thing she could do right now.

"Oh, I guess you don't remember me. Not a lot of people do, I'm very quiet," Anna said.

Katelyn nodded her head, no longer creeped out by Anna.

"So, did the town ever find out what happened to those three girls?" Anna asked Katelyn.

"Katelyn raised her eyebrows. "What girls?"

"The three girls who went missing! Don't you remember? It was all over the news! It's why I moved out of town."

"No? What girls went missing?"

"Adriana Berger, Sophia Harper and Veronica Grant! How could you forget about them?" Anna asked Katelyn, outraged.

"What? They never went missing! They're fine! See, one of them is over there," Katelyn explained, pointing a finger to Sophia on the swing set, who was pushing her little brother.

Anna's eyes widened. "WHAT THE FUCK?"

"Huh?" a confused Katelyn replied.

"There's no way she wouldn't remember me, no way!" Anna thought to herself, with her hands now trembling. Katelyn was looking up at her with alert, wide eyes; she was frightened and confused at this point.

Katelyn began to react the same way and his wife did. She started to slowly back away from Anna, instructing her to get away from her.

It was now nearly evening. Anna took out her keys and got in her car again. She drove to her old school. Anna went through an unlocked door, and she tiptoed down the hallway to the room that held all of the school records. Anna didn't bother trying to pick the lock, and she kicked open the cheap door. The life Anna once knew was being crushed right before her eyes.

Something was wrong. Something was seriously very, very wrong. Was Anna going mad? Had she ever even existed here? There was one place that could confirm this.

Anna stormed into the records office. She opened the drawers and found the "Junior" section of the files. She looked through the "C" names in the filing cabinet. Cook was a relatively common last name, there were about four other unrelated students in her school. She saw Tristan Cook, Shelby Cook, Leanna Cook and Marie Cook, but no Anna.

Anna's heart started to beat out of her chest once she realized that she wasn't on there. She searched through the "A" section hoping that maybe the office people made a mistake, but there was still no sign of her.

Anna would have looked through all of the drawers if she had the time, but the moment she heard high heels clacking in the hallway outside, she hid in the corner holding her breath. Once the high heels had walked away, Anna panicked and ran out of her old high school.

"What?" Anna screamed as she ran out at lighting speed.

She hopped into her Ford Focus and sped back to Bloodgood's house, her chest tight and she let out heavy breaths between her clenched teeth. She broke the door hinge going in, it was as though her confusion and anger had given her immense strength.

Abbey wasn't home, she was out on the search for Anna. Bloodgood had stayed though. Bloodgood some how just knew that Anna would come back to her, searching for answers.

The incident with Anna during the fight with Clawdeen had spread throughout New Salem like wildfire. The monster-filled town was absolutely terrified about Anna being gone, they had no idea what else she would do, what she was capable of.

Anna saw Bloodgood sitting on the couch, with puffy, pink, bloodshot eyes. Anna stormed towards her in a rage. Before Anna had the chance to scream at her, demanding answers, Bloodgood told her exactly what she needed to hear

"Anna, we have been hiding something from you," Bloodgood said, guilty.

"Please, just tell me everything!" Anna pleaded.

"Yes of course Anna, here sit down. There is going to be a lot to explain..."