Stephanie is left alone for days, her parents don't answer their phones, and Angelina never returns. Who does Stephanie see each time she looks out the window waiting for their return?

Stephanie’s “days blend lifelessly together” (15) as she lives alone in her abandoned house. She vows that she “won’t just be left here” (15) or “forgotten” (15) but cannot make contact with any family or friends. Mostly, Stephanie tells herself not to “worry about where they are, what happened,” (16) but sometimes, she panics and looks for them out the window.. Every time she looks, the man with the scar is “always there… sitting on the grass by the bristly hedge” (17).