CHAPTER 18: SICK BED

“Mother, mother!” Leonardo burst into his parent’s Dallas home, panicked as he looked around for his mother. He quickly ran up the stairs taking on three steps at a time until he got to his parents room. He stopped, unlocked the door as slowly as he could, anticipating the worst to come of this day.

Leonardo unlocked the door, walked into the room and just as he turned his head, on the king sized bed laid his mother. She was asleep with two nurses tending to her. This scene replayed in his head a million times. Many times growing up he had seen his mother in her bed, sick.

Her habit had nearly killed her not once but at least four times and it seemed as though every time that she got sick, the more she was determined to spiral out of control.

“Mother” Leonardo whispered, fearing the thought of walking towards his mother. Seeing her weak in bed afar, was far worse than Leonardo walking close to his mother.

“Signora Carin