Alice should have known this was a mistake the moment they pulled into the street, and memories she had tried so hard to suppress all came bubbling back up without warning. Walking hand in hand with her dad as he dropped her and Alice off at school. Her and her brother playing catch, their mother telling them to stay off the main road.
Cai must have noticed her odd behaviour so he grabbed her leg that she was currently bounding, while biting her lip. “Tell me about the house, if you still have access, why live in the apartments?”
“We pay someone to keep the house clean and tidy,” she said, looking at the street. That streetlight was still broken, and the corner shop at the end still had the graffiti painted on the beige bricks, though it had become very washed out with age. “We, I, didn
