Lexi stared silently at the ceiling as she lay in bed, phone to her ear, waiting for the person at the other end to speak as she held her breath.
"Hello, dear." The soft, hesitant voice of a woman came through the receiver, and Lexi finally let go of her breath, suddenly unnerved, a situation that had happened one too many times every time she spoke to her mum.
"Mum."
An awkward pause from the other end. "How have you been doing?"
"Fine."
An even much longer pause ended with a long sigh before her mother spoke again. "Dear, I miss you."
Lexi swallowed hard, but the act did nothing to dislodge the ball of emotion in her throat. "Mum, we spoke last week."
"It's not that. I miss how the two of us used to be. How you always came to me so we could talk about nothing and everything. I w
