Venus
I knocked on the door. “Micah?” No answer. I tried again but the same result. “Micah, you can’t do this forever,” I told him. Although I knew I had no place to say that to him.
Micah just lost his mother.
He lost Clara.
I lost her.
We all lost her.
Even though Clara was not my biological mother – she was like my own. And I’d lost three mothers in my life. My real mother, my aunt who took care of me like I was her own, and then my mother-in-law. What a f****d-up life I had.
And Micah surely was mourning now. Even though they had a rough start because all he thought in his life was Clara abandoned him – she did not. And she had shown to her children, even to Ali, that she was a different person. Now, she was gone. I couldn’t hold back my tears every time I remembered her. On h
