29. Meghan

My mom was slummed on a chair in the living room facing the ceiling when I got back that evening. Her eyes were shut so I made to quietly retire to my room.

‘Meghan’.

There is a way a parent calls one’s name that sends off a clear message of trouble.

‘Yes mom’.

She rose from her seat and met me by the stairs.

‘Mom is everything okay?’ I inquired

‘You had no right’. She began           

         

‘What?’

‘You had no right to keep the truth away from me. Why didn’t you tell the shameless gold digger was back in town?’

‘Mom’.

‘Let me speak’. She hissed out

‘Those girls are my kids too and they are all Sam has. Imagine what he’d go through if he lost them. Magdalene has to understand that she has no power over any member of this family and we won’t all abandon each other like she did but keeping secrets like that, it makes us look