Mum was... Bad, to put it nicely. She looks like she has lost weight, her cheeks sunken, underneath her eyes dark circles, and her hair a mess.
"Oh, sweetie, thank you so much for stopping by. Happy birthday." she exhales and hugs me tightly, not letting me go for quite a few moments. She needs this, and so do I.
Axel squeezes my hand in his and I squeeze it back, telling him that I'm okay. Wolfie cries a bit from the ground and he takes it in his arms.
"Oh, would you look at that! Did you get a puppy?" she says, excited.
