ALICE
"Oh, Alice! You have no idea how happy we are to hear you're safe! You never go a day without calling, so we immediately knew something was wrong!"
"I'm fine now, Mom," I assured her as I stretched myself out on my bed. "I'm just glad that, you know, we're all setting our differences aside here."
Mom sighed and I almost regretted saying this. Maybe I should have just acted like nothing was amiss. But I'd always been someone who wanted everything to be clear. Conversations, relationships, job responsibilities...
The exception was Theodore Linden-Hawthorne.
I had no f*****g clue what we were doing, and I was glad (and relieved) that I made the decision to leave him in the past. It was a very near past, but with each passing day, Helsinki would disappear into the depths of my mind
