Lake:
My excitement couldn't be contained. I could not believe my eyes. I was staring at my mother's face, the woman I thought I would never see again. I could almost see myself holding her, going on my knees and apologizing to her. For everything I had ever done, all the wrong words I had said to her, for judging her without knowing her side of the story. Hell! I even asked her to disappear, I told her she was dead to me. I knew I could never take those words back, I could not go back in time and slap myself to my senses, because if I could, I would have.
"Thank you, thank you very much." Was all I managed to say. I turned to Kenji who was staring at me with a broad smile on his face. I could tell he was equally happy I was willing to find my mother, he was the one who had tried to br
