"Even if I choose to stay, I will only embrace this love alone." ~Helena.
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Lena was considering. For the past few days, she had been burdened by this thought, until it seemed as if the universe answered with a phone call from her mother.
"Are you okay, dear? "Your voice sounds so weak," she said after hearing Lena's greeting.
Lena truly couldn't work there anymore. Not because the income wasn't sufficient, but because the situation was no longer the same.
"I'm well, Mom. How are you and Dad? My siblings?"
"They're well too. Dad is the same. His condition goes up and down."
Lena took a deep breath. Her prolonged silence heightened her mother's instincts.
"Is there something wrong?"
"Mom..." she called, but before she could say anything, Lena's eyes stung. She always tried to be s
