We return to my mother’s house late, Ryker dropping me off and asking me to apologise to my mum again for him as he’s just not able to face coming back inside.
I slip in through the front door, inching into the living room, to find only my mother there. My brother and his family have already left which I had already gathered from his missing SUV out front. As I enter the room, my mother glances up at me from the black and white Christmas film she is watching on the tv. She smiles warmly at me, ‘I put your dinner in the refrigerator Elijahberry’ she tells me, ‘do you want it now?’
My stomach rumbles obnoxiously, making her chuckle as she pauses the television and pushes to her feet.
‘I’ll warm it up for you’ she tells me, as I quickly try to stop her.
‘It’s OK mum, I can do it, you’ve b
