EIGHTEEN

Half of her soul has been wishing she was lying but now, hearing her mother's voice, she braced herself and stepped into the living room, "mom, dad, I wasn't expecting to see you" she acted surprised as she walked up to them and hugged them each "what are you doing here?"

"We missed you" Mirabelle smiled, "since you didn't want to come see us, we decided to come see you! It's been six months Olive, don't you miss us?"

"I do, a lot but you know why I left. I'm afraid of hallucinating him" she sighed "I know it's not a good excuse, I'm sorry mom, I will try to visit from now on."

"Don't worry dear, we will do something about it" Malcolm smiled, "you can't run away from home forever. Although your mom and I are getting used to his loss but for your sake, we can always move."

"Dad, you don't have to do that."

"Yes I do, if we want our daughter to come home then we have to take some measures and we understand dear, you too were too close, it's not unreasonable if you choos