Jess keeps finding herself drawn to the woods, even though she is supposed to be in her elementary school class instead. Changes at home mean the woods begin to call to her in an even louder way. What happens one day when the bus leaves before she gets to the end of the lane?
"We mustn't tame each other," she said. "You are a wild thing. And I too am a wild thing. But of a different sort."
She left the apple there at the place in time where they had been in the same world, and she began her walk home.