Isabel was greeted by at the San by a large lady, caring for a sick boy. ‘Come in dear, take a seat and I’ll see you in a couple of minutes.’ She was smiling and her voice was friendly and welcoming, her big eyes glowing. Isabel sat down and waited patiently. Soon enough, the kind lady came and sat down beside Isabel. ‘Now, my dear, what can I do for you?’ Isabel politely asked for some painkillers. ‘Certainly, now what would you like them for?’ Isabel thought quickly and stumbled over her words. ‘Um…I have a headache.’ The Nurse frowned with pity and handed her two round pills and a glass of water. Isabel thanked the Nurse and left, and the Nurse watched her go with a puzzled look on her face.
The girl walked around for a little while and then settled herself down in an empty classroom. She must have sat there for almost an hour, looking around the dark room, fascinated and then leaving so suddenly and so discreetly that you wouldn’t have even known she was there in the first place.
This carried on for a week and more and more teachers were beginning to notice this peculiar child. It was the main gossip around the school and some of the pupils would go out of their way to see Isabel. The funny thing was that she didn’t seem to notice that people were constantly watching her, she just took it in her stride. No one knew why Isabel had come to the school but they all just put up with it until someone- no one knew who- called the police.
There was an awful lot of commotion over Isabel- she was now known as ‘The Intruder’- and it all seemed a bit too much- just silly and pathetic. People making a fuss over nothing- that’s what everyone said. But sometime later, maybe a couple of days or so, the police had been investigating and had reported her missing.
The police found her three weeks later in a bush, in the middle of the countryside, shivering and crying, almost dead.
No one found out where the girl had come from, but she was put into a Mental Asylum soon after she was found. There had been rumours that she had escaped from there before, but no one knew, and no one would find out. It would always remain a mystery.
