Chapter 187: A Guilty Call

RILEY   The house felt like it was closing in on me, not just that, it also seemed that the walls were  getting smaller  with every breath I took.   At first, being here with my real mama and papa and brother had felt like a dream, one that I didn't want to wake up from because I had wished for this moment and it didn't disappoint-- they were so much nicer than I'd expected, and they were also gentle and patient with me even when I didn't understand things or said the wrong words that seem to hurt them or make them angry but not at me.   But now I felt trapped between two different worlds, with every passing day and nobody would give me straight answers about the most important question of all: where was Mama Sophia?   Everyone kept telling me she was "on a trip" and that she "wouldn't be coming back," but what did that even mean? They didn't explain it well and they sounded so confident about it. Was it bad news for me? Had she decided to abandon me completely after seeing that I was