Cole's POV
Arriving home I find my parents already outside waiting for me.
Their faces not filled with smiles as they should be after a years-long holiday but looking down trodden, glum.
"Hey Mum.... hey dad" I greet as I embrace each of them, as my forehead presses against theirs for the first time in over a year.
I didn't know, didn't allow myself to feel how much I have missed them until now.
More concerned with keeping them in the dark than realizing just how much I have pushed them away these last years.
Getting them to delay or just cancel visits, under the guise of being busy or wanting them to enjoy their well-earned retirement when, in all honesty, it was to keep them from finding out, to keep the current look I can't bare from their faces, their eyes.
"Where is she?" I as
