“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
"So," the woman with pale blue eyes she saw earlier that day spoke as she took a piece of sushi from the plate with her chopsticks, "You must be the hungry friend I've heard so much about from these two."
Michelle nodded in embarrassment, "Uh, yes ma'am."
"And she called me ma'am too," the lady giggled like a teenage girl as though a compliment was uncommon to her ears whilst she put food on Michelle's plate, "You should just call me mom."
"Mom?" Michelle queried with a tilted head.
"Mom?" Jesslyn joined in the confusion and halted mid-way from taking sushi with her right hand.
"Mom," Athena spoke with a bit of vex at the way her mother was behaving, "Please stop bein
