Summary

Chapter 15

Carmen, when she exits the house storms off into the woods behind. She paces for a while, hoping that her father will come after her and she can tell him what is on her mind. But he doesn’t. After a couple of hours she makes her way back to the house, concerned that maybe her father might have called the police. To her dismay, when she gets closer to the house she sees that all of her father’s new family are sitting around the kitchen table having dinner, as if nothing has happened at all. Impulsively she picks up a rock from the ground and pitches it through the window.

Carmen sees her father’s horrified face before she turns and runs away. She knows that she will never fit in with this group of people. She runs back into...