“Mother, I’m not going” Amber’s mother’s pupils dilated and she tried to open her mouth but she quickly shut it again and Amber knew exactly what that meant.
“Mother something came up” she told her mother, who switched her attention from her luggage to Amber.
“I won’t ask you about what came up, if that’s what you think I will do”
“Mother I have to be somewhere, urgently”
“Are you’re being serious Amber. I understand Scarlet not wanting to go but you— I honestly did not expect that to come from you. What is it then, because I’m sure it’s not a life and death situation”
Those words from her mother cut her like a knife, not because her mother was disappointed in her but mainly because this trip was a life and death situation for her and she could not even tell the ones close to her tha
