Mom, I Won’t Be a Burden Anymore
I was born with a genetic disorder. My father left as soon as he found out, and my illness quickly drained all my mother’s savings.
To afford my treatment, she moved me from one stranger’s home to another, until she chose to have a child for money. After giving birth to a baby boy and receiving twelve thousand dollars, she was about to leave, but the man asked her to stay. He promised to raise me as his own and cover my medical expenses.
She agreed. They married soon after.
She told me I would always be the one she loved most. To prove it, she rarely held my brother and almost never smiled at him.
Until the day he accidentally swallowed my medicine.
As she frantically tried to save him, she broke down and screamed at me, “Why are you still alive?”
I watched them rush to the hospital.
Then I went back to my room, picked up the scattered pills, and swallowed them all.
Mom, I wouldn't be a burden to you anymore.