32: Alice’s POV

~Five Days Ago~

I heard my phone buzzing beside me on the couch causing me to wake up from the short lived nap I had taken. I had hardly slept in the past month and it was really starting to catch up to me. I looked down at the caller ID and my heart stopped, it was my mother. She had never called unless it was important since I moved away which had my nerves on end from the moment I saw my phone light up.

I shakily answered and put it to my ear "Hello?"

"Hello," her familiarly haunting voice rang through the speaker "I've got some bad news."

"What happened?" I questioned hoping she'd get right to the point

"Your brother, he escaped." She breathed out

~Present~

"So how have you been?" She whispered in my ear as we laid cuddled up on the couch

I sighed "I've had a lot going on."

"Want to talk about it?" She asked looking over at me w