Young Alice Pov
*warning, not detailed s****l content, abusive content, traumatic scene*
I was fifteen the summer my little sister died, she was ten. I had no friends to try and talk to me, everyone at school treated me like I was invisible and I was glad about that. Gemma was popular in her school, which didn’t surprise me. She was like the sun, bright and shining, always smiling and free.
She had to tell her classmates we were going on vacation for the summer so they didn’t try and come around the house. It was an unspoken rule, Gemma was to be quiet as a mouse at home. I hadn’t heard daddy talk about her or ask about her in over a year now, so it was safe to think he actually forgot all about her now. I moved Gemma to the basement one day when daddy was out, set up a bed and a tv do
