Melanie’s POV
I stared at, Alice expecting her to react to what I just said but she gave me nothing. Only took a sip of her tea and stared into space.
“You’re not saying anything, Alice. That’s scary,” I said.
“I don’t know what you want me to say,” she replied.
“Just say something, anything apart from this silence would be great,” I begged.
“I’m trying to figure out why you would look so sad about the prospect of seeing your family,” she said. “Don’t you want to see them?”
“Of course I want to see them,” I replied.
“Then I don’t see what the problem is. You should be happy.”
“I guess it’s pretty obvious what the problem is,” I said.
Alice stared at me with a blank expression on her face.
“I can’t go for obvious reasons,” I said waving a hand around the house.
“Because of, Mr.
