"That's not what she means. She knows that you'll take care of me." She said this with a smile, but groaned at his rather corny, a bit dark jokes. "He writes thrillers, and horror stories. He recently had a few of them published in some magazine, so he's doing alright financially."
A moment of silence, and Alessa let out a sigh. She was now worried about certain things, but at this moment she didn't even know how to sort them out. "I'm pretty sure Lisa hates me now." She swallowed the lump that was forming, and talked once more. "I should have been only happy about my mom disappearing, or maybe I should have been like I was back at home. I never talked to anyone. There was no point in it."