Alice

CHAPTER 12

"OK and they will come here to meet her but she wouldn't be comfortable with it" Elijah says

"Yes we will inform them that she is shy or that she doesn't speak to new people" I say

"Okay" they agree

"Then lets call nono " Elijah says

I pick up my phone preparing myself to call nono though I might be mafia don but he is a scary man if he gets upset or angry though I never saw him angry at family but I didn't even see him smile. 

I ring nono and wait, after five rings he answers the phone

"Hello nono" I say

"hello Ace, why are you calling me this late?" he asks

"I wanted to tell you something" I say

"Yes child tell me what is it? Is there any problem? " he ask

"IwantedtosaythatAliceisback" I say in one go

"Come again"

"I wanted to say that....-" I took a long break

"Say what boy you are making me angry now." he says calmly

"Alice is back nono" I say 

"Alice as in my grand daughter? " he asks

"yes nono" I say

"When and how did you find her" he asks

"Who are you talking to at this time Stephen" Nona asks nono

"Its Ace, he-" He was cut off by nona 

"Ace? IS everything alright with my grandchildren?" she asks worriedly

"Yes Sarah everything is fine, but he said something, wait let me put it on speaker" he says

"Hello nona" I say

"Hello my child how are you is everything fine?" she says

"Yes Nona I wanted to tell you that we found Alice" I say

"WHATT" she says her voice was implying she was crying

"Yes we found her a few weeks back " I say waiting for their reaction

"Weeks? you have found her 'a few weeks back' and you are telling us now? "

"We wanted to give her time to adjust "  I say

"Time to adjust is fine but she could atleast meet us and how many weeks are we talking about now?" he asks

"8 weeks " I say

"Unbelievable, you just kept her away from me for 2 long months" he says

"Yes nono but we had a reason" I say

"What might be this reason now?" he asks anger clear in his voice

"She doesn't remember anything" I say

"If she doesn't remember we will introduce ourselves how dare you hide her from us" he asks

"She doesn't remember anything at all not just you and me" I say remembering how we found her

"What are you talking about?" nona asks

"I don't have an answer to this we don't know much as of now" I say

"what do you mean Ace and we all are coming tomorrow to meet her" he says 

"I can't explain it over the phone. But I don't think she will be comfortable if she meets all of you" 

"What do you mean she won't be comfortable?" nono asks 

"She doesn't speak to new people and she gets uncomfortable around new people" I say trying to explain him

"We will figure it out tomorrow we will come till 6 in the evening" he says

"Ok "

"Goodnight nono and nona" 

"Goodnight Ace" 

He hangs up

"You handled it quiet well Ace I thought he would kill us but he was only a bit angry" Arthur says

"Yes we will see tomorrow if he is only a bit angry or if he will kill us" I say

"We need to give a heads up to Stella" Alex says

"Yes tomorrow at breakfast I will tell her" I say 

"Now lets go to sleep we have a long day tomorrow  good night" Elijah says

NOAH ROMANO(POV)

*While the big brother was talking to nono and nona*

I wanted to check on Alice so I went to Alex's room I slowly open the door to see that Alex wasn't here and Alice was sweating and squirming 

She was having a nightmare 

We couldn't know when she has nightmares there is no sound as if she is happily sleeping that is one of the reason that we decided that she will sleep with one of us. To know and prevent it from happening.

I was trying to wake her up but she wouldn't wake up, she starts crying but she doesn't open her eyes.

She jolts awake and looks around when she looks at me she starts crying again

"Alice its me Noah" I say and she jumps on me and hugs me 

"I-i" she tries to say but stop 

"If you want to tell me I will listen if you don't want to tell me its fine I will be there for you either way" I say

"I want to tell you but I want you to promise me that you wont tell anything to anyone" she says

"Okay " I say

"I had a flash back of when I was locked up but it was a different one this time " she says looks at me and continues

"It was a different man I don't know him I never saw him but I know his voice and his scent " she says

"It was related to Steve Romano.... I don't want to say anything else" she says

I tighten my hold on her at our fathers name seeing her panic attack it must be something bad I don't want to ask any questions and make her feel uncomfortable.

"Lets go to my room" I suggest waiting for her reply she looks at me nods 

"ok" 

I leave a message in the chat group 'Alice and I are sleeping in my room tonight' 

We go to my room and lay down on the bed and hug each other and sleep