Jack talked while they were hugging, “Do you want to sleep in my apartment instead? Just for tonight.”
She said “Not here. It’s unsettling. Not anywhere near. He might hurt you too if he comes back.”
Jack smiled knowing that Alice was concerned about him. Alice is slowly going back to her sentimentalist self.
He replied, “Then shall we go somewhere else?”
She pulled back and looked at him, “But it’s near 6 already.”
He shrugged while shaking his head, “And what about the sunrise?”
“We have work.”
“And who are you with by the way?”
Alice smiled for the first time again. She said “Alright, Mr. President.”
He gazed at her smiling face like he missed it his entire life.
“I missed you, Alice.”
Jack was upfront about what he felt. Alice loves that about him.
She felt that the terrors
