Chapter 26: Lost Child

I got frozen the moment my eyes landed on my mother’s pair of blue eyes. It was filled with worries, guilts and vulnerability. My heart began to shatter into fragment as I roamed my eyes around her body, back to her face. My mother changed a lot which made me want to cry my hearts out. She changed without my watch and I know I am one of the reasons why she became like this. I have been so selfish.

Damn. Why the heck did I cut the ties between us before? My mom looks so weak and restless. I could feel it. She don’t deserve this. I gulped, trying to control my tears.

But it started to pool from my eyes without me knowing when she stepped her feet towards my direction with a slow motion. Good thing, Tangerine held her arm to support her since I could see that my mom is now too weak to handle it alone.

“Mom...” I uttered upon cracking my voice in a whisper. I gulped countless of times upon thinking the first thing I want to say from everything I have experience without them. Every sing