Of Love and Footprints

Are you coming with us tonight, Tina? Gema asked. I don't even know how to answer that one. A simple question now has totally left me speechless. It's as if my life and my whole being had never existed. I was sitting on my desk, but my mind brings me back to that place and scene again. I couldn't help myself anymore, so I let my emotions drive me to despair. "I miss you, Mom..." As I shudder on my desk, tears running down my cheeks uncontrollably. Suddenly, I felt a warm touch on my shoulder. "Hey, love you don't have to deal with this alone. Come here, you have both of my shoulders to cry on. Please..." Gema, my bestfriend cooed. I have always been an independent woman until I lost my Mom just a month ago... "Mom, why didn't you tell me that you went to Dr. Andrews last weekend?" Am I not supposed to accompany you, now? I thought we were a team." I was fiddling through the mails from the Dr. Andrews laboratory when Mom walked in front of me and snatched them away. "Mom..." I hugged her tightly from behind "you know I love you. Please just tell me everything's fine." Mom turned around to face me with stern eyes. "I am dying." Just as she spat the last word, I clutched my chest as she held me tightly in her arms and cried. She cried so hard, I can barely muster a word to comfort her as I was in utter shock and disbelief. My mom dying? There was always this moment in our lives when news hit us up so bad we wished we live in oblivion. But we don't and it sucks. One month later... One cup of creamy vanilla milk, please with salted caramel frappe, and two pieces of bagels. Thank you. I was about to take out my card when someone from behind me coughed as if to get my attention. So I looked back and saw the most obnoxious person I have ever known---Derrick. He was wearing a white shirt and dark gray suit and pants. On his chest pocket is his company ID with his charming yet annoying smile plastered on the face I had longed wished to break. How did he manage to be on the side of the law? He, the infamous king of bullies and crap? Did he pull some strings to be on the top?I wasn't judging but I know he was not that cI'd be damned! "So if it wasn't Tina from my