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made her take a step back. Looking at him closer, he looked strange, like the skin around his neck was too tight and the frame made of bone had been stuffed into a body that wasn’t his. Popping her head sideways as she studied him, he noticed her strange glances and gave her a strange glance himself.
                  “Dawn, can’t you smell it? She’s already marked.” A pleasant feminine voice came floating out of the darkness. From behind one of the plastic sheets that made up one of the greenhouse walls stepped the attractive red haired girl from earlier. Following closely behind her was the other boy, the boy who drew Norah’s attentions the most. “The scent seems to be from one of the elders, although I’m not sure which one. You’re bound to get slaughtered if you play cat and mouse with her.” The pleasant voice belonging to the girl was riddled with an accent Norah couldn’t place. It sounded like a fake Hollywood Russian accent to her ears.
                  “No fair. What’s she doing here then? There aren’t any elders in San Marcos. There aren’t any others besides us either.” The boy called Dawn reached up to touch Norah’s hair but she danced out of reach, skirting passed him and weirded out by his entire demeanor. “Come on and play with me little Rabbit.” He laughed before imitating her giggle from earlier. When Norah glanced at the other boy, a faint hint of disgust flashed in his expression. Both the other boy and the girl followed her eyes but they missed seeing it and Norah gave the boy a questioning look that he didn’t return. He seemed to be ignoring her completely.
                  Weirded out by all three of them, Norah left without saying a word, happy when none of them followed her or tried to stop her. She thought she saw Dawn inch slowly towards her but a warning look from the girl made him stop and pout. She glanced back at the group only once as she neared the next set of stairs that would take her out of view. All three of them stood there looking at her with various expressions etched out in their faces. When she was out of sight, Norah took off in a sprint, moving as fast as she could, noticing how hard her little heart was beating. When she reached her car out of breathe from running the half-mile back to her car, Norah climbed in and locked the doors before the feeling of relief actually hit her. She had to wait for her heart to calm down and it hurt her lungs to breathe as the air pumped in and out.
     
     
    Norah didn’t want to make any hasty claims about what the event she’d just partaken in meant but her mind still created a fantasy of a serial killer family. She didn’t feel like she had much in common with those three people anymore. She was horrified with herself that she’d thought her fashion aesthetics meant a whole lot when it came to personality. How dumb could she be?
    Heading for home, finally ready to be showered and in her bed, Norah drove carefully back in dead silence. She didn’t want to listen to any music, focusing solely on the road. It was a curious thing that she could see the moon and the stars now but the haunting giggle that Dawn had copied from her resounded in her head repeatedly.
    It took Norah until 3 a.m. to fall asleep, just like she’d predicted earlier in the night but for completely different reasons. The difference was she couldn’t stop thinking about the meaning of her night. What had she almost fallen victim to? Were they trying to rob her? Were they just crazy people and off their medications? She didn’t understand the things they mentioned and the thing that worried her the most was the marking they mentioned. Despite whether they were crazy or not, they had deemed she had a marking on her. How and why would she be marked? What did the marking mean? Was it a visible marking? Norah checked herself all over for one with a mirror before she went to sleep and didn’t see anything out