Allisa was nosy!

Ill admit the first time she did it, it was a little weird. She didnt even know him then, she had only met him once when he drove her home, and she just invites herself into his house and starts looking around. I think its the whole project thing her Mum mentions: Ellisa loves fixing people, she knew she wanted to help/fix Ryan so she wanted to push herself into his life. I guess she figured he wouldnt invite her in himself, he thinks everyone hates him, so she did it for him. The second time makes a little more sense: she had got to know him by then, spent more time at his house etc. I dont know about you, but there have been many times Ive been round a friends house when Ive had a wander around the house - not snooping into personal stuff, just being nosy and waiting for my friends to wake up haha, Im a morning person - and its felt completely natural. I think it depends on the perspective. She had just seen some people trying to burn down his house, maybe she thought the noise was someone trying to do something else, or maybe she thought they had locked someone downstairs. I dont know about you, but if I was in that situation I would probably think it was the 'bullies' too.


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If you dont stand for something, you'll fall for anything :/

Most people do casually snoop when they're left alone in someone else's house. Several reasons: lack of anything else to do while waiting, searching for conversation-starters, or just plain interest in the person.

People have different levels of what counts as acceptable and not acceptable snooping. Most would consider anything in plain sight OK but don't open any drawers, doors, etc. She looked in the trash, I guess, because she was using the trash bin, and it's second nature to look where you're putting things, like to make sure garbage doesn't spill to the side or something.

Despite horror movie wisdom, hearing noises and checking on them is usually more practical than calling 911 every time you hear a scratch and finding out you've summoned the cops because of mice or a tree branch scraping on the window.

I would agree that Elissa is on the nosier side of the human spectrum of nosiness.

She was very nosy, but the trash thing is different. She only went through the trash because she suspected that the girl being held in the locked room wasn't Carrie Anne (because the girl's colored contact lens, which Carrie Anne wouldn't have, came out and stuck to Elissa's hand). So she went through the trash to try to find proof whether Ryan was really caring for his sister or whether he was a kidnapper.

Yeah I thought that was a bit unnatural of her, at her age, to be snooping around like she did, at least on her first visit. That's something that maybe an 8-year old would do. WTF?