Changed forever
Even though it was a small moment in time, it changed Cindy forever. She would never be the same person after that night and she would have trouble sleeping for months afterwards. Her parents upgraded security around their house to ensure that something like this would never happen again to them.
But it wasn’t enough to make Cindy forget or move on. The damage had been done and now it was just a question of how this was going to affect her for the rest of her life. She wouldn’t talk about it after some time went on, so everyone just thought it was over with, but it wasn’t.