“Mom I am home.” Sam called out for his mother the moment he stepped into in café they had on ground floor where he found his mother preparing an order as usual. He smiled a little before making his way to the counter.
“Oh, hey sweetie you are back from school.” His mother spoke with a warm smile on her lips which was so infectious that Sam couldn’t help it but mirror her sweet gesture.
There are not many people who see this side of him, the soft side unlike the cold exterior that he would put out most of the times mostly as self defense mechanism. And if he were to count people who gets to see him like this- it will be his mother and sister only. Sure, his relatives from his mother’s side too but they weren’t much around as they live in different cities.
“Did you have lunch mom?” he a
