Alicia smiled. It was nice to kind of relate to someone in some ways. Sam already felt like the brotherly type. Maybe this place wouldn't be so bad after all. There didn't seem to be any infected here, so it had one thing going for it already.
"I get that." Alicia nodded. "I think if I didn't know they loved me it would feel worse too. I just...he was always disappearing. Days and weeks at a time. When he was gone, that's all Mom focused on." She shrugged. "It doesn't matter anymore. I'm here, they're...wherever. I just have to hope they're okay. And that, like you said, they might find me." She took a deep breath, pressing her lips together. She hoped wherever they were, they were alive still. She couldn't bear that thought. They might be jerks most of the time, but Alicia had already lost Matt, she couldn't bear the thought of losing her family too.
"I could definitely use a distraction." Alicia smiled up at the much taller Sam. "It never hurts to read up, study, figure out what we're dealing with, right? So, yeah, I think I will take you up on that." She was happy that in this place, it seemed like she'd already made one friend. Maybe things would work out after all. She couldn't worry about her family, she had to hold on to her hope that hey were okay. She just needed to keep that hope and make sure now, in this weird, new place, that she too was okay.