"No I've never really met Alice before? I might have occasionally run into her due to your father, but yeah, no."

Diana's hum echoed long and soft throughout the house; her face, truly showing that she was thinking long and hard about whether or not she and Alice met with each other.

"It's really tragic what happened to her," Diana sighed, "But whatever the case is, and no matter how much of a bitch I might sound I am truly glad you're here with us, Riley. You're my son and nothing would change that."

"Hm," Riley only nodded as he drank the glass of milk that Diana got for him. Diana also prepared a glass of water for Megawoman, completely forgetting that she was actually unconscious.

"Why are you even believing the stories of the people from prison?" Diana's tone then slightly changed as she shook her head, "They are in prison because they are bad people who made the wrong choices, Riley. And most of them would lie just to get what they want. Ugh, I swear. Do you know how many months it took me to finally be able to sleep at least an hour when they placed you in that horrible place?"

"When did you meet father?"

"We actually knew each other back when we were just about your age," Diana once again answered Riley's question without any hesitation, "We weren't really that close since, well Bernard has always been Bernard. He always lived in a different world."

Diana took a sip of her coffee as she stared at the table; her eyes, almost glimmering,

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