"Hello! Anybody home?" Valerie called from the doorway when she entered the house. There was a strange kind of silence there.
"Aniya! Are you back?" She called again, "Alaric!"
Shouldn't Aniya be home by now? She thought in irritation and went to the kitchen.
Oh, so she returned and must be sleeping in her room now. Thank God the kitchen is clean.
But where is Alaric?
She went to her bedroom, thinking that Alaric must have passed out after getting drunk but there he was sitting in the bed sucking something in his mouth.
"Alaric! Why didn't you respond to me, honey?" she went to him and leaned down to kiss him, but he turned away his face to avoid the kiss.
Valerie stood there in confusion, "What's the matter?" she ran a slow gaze around and found an ice tray on the nightstand.
