Chapter 375She stared back.Waiting for the painful truth that she couldn’t escape from…………And finally…….I whispered…"...twenty years."Nothing happened.Nothing at all.She just stared at me.Blankly.No expression.No reaction.No movement.She froze for what felt like eternity……….Then………"...WHAT????????"The word barely left her lips.Like her mind had heard me...But refused to understand it.I sat frozen beside her.Mom stared at me.Still waiting.Still expecting me to correct myself.To laugh.To say I was joking.To say:No, Mom, I meant twenty days.Or twenty weeks.Or anything except…………..TWENTY WHOLE YEARS………."...Elena."Her voice was quiet now.Dangerously quiet."Don't joke like that."My chest tightened.Because she really believed I was joking.She had to.Who would believe that they had slept through twenty years of life?Who could accept something like that in seconds?"Mom..."I reached for her hand slowly.She pulled it back.Not harshly.Not angrily.Just..
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