Come Home
What happened? Did something happen between you and Samael?”, she asks in a worried tone that reminds me of my mother. For the first time in a long time, I think of my mother. I always thought she was perfect until I grew up to realize she always said what she thought I wanted to hear. “Nothing happened”, I say as convincingly as I can as I begin to migrate from the backyard to inside the house through the kitchen. Coyote is seated on the kitchen counter watching me cautiously. “Then why did you leave?”, she pauses then adds; “Did you go home?”, she asks in a hushed tone. Although I did tell Trinity that I was from Uptown and that my parents still resided there, I never explicitly admitted that I ran away. Despite me never admitting it, I know she has a hunch that that was the case. “
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