I woke up to my mom dragging her fingers across my hair and gripping the points before she twirled them around her finger. “Oh scarlet”, She said in a soft whisper with her voice betraying her and cracking under the pressure of speaking. “Mom?” I looked at her worried. She barely cried in front of me and always appeared strong and put together. Her tears dropped on my shoulder. It had confirmed my suspicions. I sat up in my bed and saw it was still dark outside. I wrapped my arms around my mom and felt her cries jerking through her body. “I’m sorry Scarlet.” She cried out and pulled me into a hug so tight my eyes felt as if they would pop out of my head from the pressure. “For what?”. She pushed me away placing her hands on either side of my shoulders, squeezing and massaging them.
“Your
