Alicia

Time check - 10pm. Ash isn't home yet.

I toss and turn on the bed trying to catch some sleep. My body is fagged out but my mind is alert. I relive the details of the day, hoping it will enable me better understand what happened at the induction ceremony and why Stalker guy lied to me.

No matter how hard I try, I'm not able to wrap my head around why.

Time check - 11pm. Ash is still not back and I'm not even close to feeling sleepy. I pace the length and breadth of his room almost twenty times, hoping the exercise would tire me out.

Unfortunately,...