"Oh, you came!" Mom squealed like a little girl when as I walk inside the door of the apartment she shared with Crystal.
I feel her arms wrap around me but I don't return the hug. I haven't seen my mother in roughly eight months since she'd gone to rehab. Even when I moved back here in Sunview I didn't try to look for her even though I had Crystal's number.
Truth was, I didn't want to. As far as I'm concerned, my mother was living her own life away from me and I'm okay with that.
Until Crystal called a few days after my move to ask what was going on. Apparently, a guy called at the rehab she worked at to ask if my mother had seen me. I don't doubt it was Elio.
I told Crystal I left Ridgewood Bay, but that was all. Crystal and I were the ones who spoke. Not my mother.
So imagine my sur
