Right. So this was the part where she was supposed to explain what had happened without actually explaining what had happened. Alice wasn't great at lying, so she knew she'd have to tell the truth... stretched a little.
"The other day when we ran into Rob, he wasn't just an ex-boyfriend. He kind of..." She sighed. "I moved to a completely different city because of him, let's put it that way. A lot of... really bad things happened there, and I panicked a little, I guess, seeing him again."