Epilogue ( 2)

His small legs ran at full speed.

Eager to see her smiling face since morning.

The big door was pushed open by his small body and he frantically searched for the eyes that resembled his.

There she sat with her back turned towards him, 

The windows giving her a full view of the beautiful garden below.

"Mommy!! I am home!!"

The wheelchair turned around on hearing his little voice.

Before she could use her hands to move her wheelchair towards him.

He had already covered the distance between them.

Engulfing her in a hug, he inhaled her blossom fragrance and smiled in her arms.

She kissed his forehead to only have her eyes to drift towards the wound at the corner of his lip.

"Ethan, you are bleeding..oh my god what happened love?"

She asked cupping his face in her hands while assessing the wound with her thumb.

"Nothing maa just that Charlie again...he said ...he was going to say you are crippled...I